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Kevin M CV
1. Kevin Manson
CURRICULUM VITAE
NATIONALITY
British
QUALIFICATIONS
NVQ Level 3 in Nuclear Decommissioning - Supervision ( 2009)
NEBOSH Construction (2009)
IOSH Managing Safely (BNFL) Construction (2008) (12 day)
NEBOSH Level 3 in Occupational Health and Safety (2008)
NEBOSH General (2008)
IOSH Managing Safely (2005) (5 day)
O grades in Woodwork, Metalwork, Modern Studies, Arithmetic & Engineering drawing
City & Guilds in Carpentry and Joinery
City & Guilds in Communication
KEY SKILLS
Classified Worker
SC cleared
Radiological Material Controller
Radiation Protection Supervisor (2013)
British Red Cross First Aider (2013) (3 day)
Manual Handling
PVC suit trained
Pressurised Air Line Suit
Overhead crane operator
Rigging & lifting ( basic slinging )
Abrasive wheels
Forward Control Point Liaison Officer
Powered respirator ( Proflow & Sari )
Confined Spaces Trained
Safe Work in Confined Spaces Permit Issuer
Work Permit Issuer
BA trained (GE Healthcare)
Building controller
PASMA scaffolding
MEWP trained
IPAF 3b (cherry picker)
Harness trained
ECITB Supervisory qualified
ECITB SMSTS ( Site Mangers Safety Training Scheme ) (2013)
PROFILE
13 year’s experience in the Decommissioning Nuclear field.
Appointed RPS (Radiation Protection Supervisor) & RMC ( Radioactive Materials Controller)
NEBOSH General & NEBOSH Construction
2. CURRENT POSITION
Site Supervisor - Studsvik UK
Working on various site projects around the country
EXPERIENCE
August 2013 – Present
Berkely Nuclear Plant : the installation of new ventilation system in the AWVR building
May 2013 – July 2013
Tioxcide Chemical Plant (Hartlepool): the site removal of redundant radioactive iron ore filter
cloth’s (Radon contamination) from the Chemical Plant Complex.
Oct 2012-May 2013
Berkeley Nuclear Plant: The Removal of 15 redundant heat exchangers (Boilers) each weighing
approx. 300t each.
April 2012 – Oct 2012
Studsvik UK Metal Recycling Facility (Workington);
Updating COSHH paperwork and the Health & Safety files for the day to day production of the
Recycling Facility.
March 2011 – April 2012
GE Healthcare (Cardiff): Decommissioning redundant labs, full strip out including all the fume
hoods and ventilation systems. Also the removal of all RP1,CD1 & RP2 effluent pipework from the
GE Healthcare building. (Including writing the decommissioning methodology for the project).
LLWR (Drigg): Writing Decommissioning Methodology for removing 3 Forklifts from the Active
Magazine buildings for LLWR.
Sept 2010- March 2011
NDSL (Dounreay)
D1204 : The removal of High contaminated Trough liners & redundant services from the cell faces in
airline suits.
D2670: Working in the Redundant Labs removing Alpha contaminated materials (off scale) from the
redundant Lab Glove box’s. (Airline suits)
Aug 2009 - Aug 2010
Mitsui Babcock Engineering (Dounreay)
D2900:Size reduction of redundant PunNit Flasks, Moducon entries wearing airline suits to size
reduce highly contaminated waste and materials, on a regular basis.
March 2007 – Aug 2009
Site Supervisor for Studsvik UK Limited
Sellafield Nuclear Site; Supervising personal and work at the BNFL Sellafield Nuclear Site in
building D204 building.
Also Based at Devonport Naval Base processing waste stream documents for the removal of the
Submarine Nuclear Reactors from the SRC.
2002 – Feb 2007
Decommissioning Charge hand for
Mitsui Babcock Engineering
Based at Dounreay Nuclear Power Plant
D1217: Working with machical manipulators within the cave facility, size reducing highly radioactive
waste items, also weekly removal of broken/ redundant manipulators, Moducon entries wearing
airline suits to size reduce highly contaminated waste and materials, on a regular basis.
DMTR: Camera and radiation survey in a reactor vessel (first in UK) and also assisting (German)
Studsvik Engineers in the first successful dry coring of a nuclear reactor. RPS for this building, and
the other outlying buildings.
D1313: Decontaminate the walls and floors of the building.
D8550: Redundant criticality building, airline suite entries to decontaminate the fuel preparation
Room, Alpha (Plutonium).
3. D1254: Decontaminate the floor and walls, where highly enriched Uranium was stored.
D1200 Labs: Decommissioning redundant laboratory glove boxes, where there was Alpha, Beta and
Gamma radiation present.
Cementation Building: High contaminated particles was pumped out of a drain and cemented into ‘c'
bins.
SILO: Risk Assessments and Method Statements, Permit to work Issuer and RPS for
Decommissioning of the large Silo building.
1984 – 2002 Joiner/Carpenter
Various companies
Time served joiner and carpenter.