1. ALEXANDER MURRAY
Professional Profile
Qualified Chartered Engineer with a wide range of experience in engineering and project/programme management.
Open-minded and lateral thinker, approaching issues presented to me in a highly creative, innovative and inclusive
manner. Self-motivated, highly organised and approachable individual, who is fully committed to any task I
undertake. I integrate into any situation, adapting quickly and modifying my approach to establish and maintain
excellent working relationships with clients and colleagues.
Key Skills
Project Management & Budget Responsibility
• Responsible for seeking and identifying capital expenditure opportunities for a variety of large to medium
projects. Executed all aspects of the projects from planning, scheduling, resourcing and monitoring, to the
preparation of budgets, cost control, quality, risk and change management documentation across multi-
utility sites;
• Sucessfully completed and managed a £1million capital expenditure equipment upgrade resulting in increased
capacity and capability within a variety of engineering areas;
• Financially responsible for monitoring and reporting the spend of £1.2million annual departmental budget to
the Finance Director with personal responsibility for a range of plant and equipment valued up to £4million;
• Entrepreneurial and commercially aware, responsible for delivering a variety of engineering products tailored
to suit market and client demands. Currently responsible for a commercial target of £2million.
Leadership
• Extremely experienced team builder, able to motivate and provide direction and leadership for teams,
especially during times of change. Recently was integral during a number of restructuring initiatives resulting
in the effective implementation of change management strategies, leading the team through the process
successfully, effectively and in a transparent way;
• Currently responsible for the recruitment and development of 34 multi-disciplined employees. Ensuring
Continuous Professional Development (CPD) needs are met, ensuring their skills are up to date and relevant
through 1-1 objective setting, performance appraisals and development planning;
• Through daily briefings co-ordinated the activities of maintenance technicians, providing clear and concise
direction on planned and unplanned work, ensuring all maintenance activities comply with current Health &
Safety regulations. Ensured correct analysis of defect trends of all machinery;
• Mess President responsible to the Commanding Officer for the conduct and safety of 120 on-board
personnel.
Team Working
• Able to communicate and build relationships on a number of levels and interact positively and work effectively
with others. Aware of the needs of others and adapt my style to manage different people;
• Strong influencing and negotiating skills enables me to work productively with key stakeholders allowing me to
develop and maintain long lasting, value add relationships to benefit all parties;
• Through open discussion continually prioritising and planning working activities to meet individual, team and
departmental objectives; anticipating resources required delivering tasks; able to adapt if circumstances
change. Through effective delegation checking completion of activities and progress on projects, aware of
deadlines and develop appropriate action plans if required.
Technical Skills
• Head of Department in the Royal Navy, comprising 10 skilled/semi-skilled technicians, where team
organisation and the ability to make rapid decisions in a fast moving environment and good person
management were of paramount importance;
• Senior Engineer advising staff on a range of complex engineering issues. Responsible for planning,
monitoring and corrective maintenance with extensive experience in planning de-commission, test and re-
commissioning high integrity, high-energy systems, liaising with third parties and client representatives to
effect system readiness of plant and systems;
• Senior technical specialist responsible for: high integrity, high energy systems e.g. hydraulics, air and the
control & instrumentation systems. Controlled and maintained electrical components and instrumentation of a
marine nuclear steam plant. Operated the High and Low voltage electrical distribution systems throughout a
submarine. Operated steam turbines and auxiliary systems, such as feed distillation, air conditioning plants
and lubricating oil systems. Control Operator – responsible for the safe control of primary and secondary
reactor shut-down systems;
• Controlled the permit to work system ensuring all integrity standards and procedures were followed carrying
out audits ensuring compliance. Liaised with internal and external bodies to affect the repair and maintenance
of equipment under my control advising on all technical matters to contractors and dockyard personnel.
Quality
• Continually reviewing and analysing statistical information (KPIs), enabling teams to develop action plans and
benchmark performance against national standards; applying feedback to improve performance and the
overall efficiency of the team;
2. ALEXANDER MURRAY
• Initiated a review of the in-house Quality Assurance systems, resulting in the development and
implementation of a number of new processes. This has resulted in a 5% annual increase per year against
set Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s);
• Experienced Team leader taking the lead in the “Total Preventative Maintenance” “Lean & Six Sigma” team
approach within NEC. Identified through analysis of shift expenditure a cost saving in time and parts usage,
resulting in £500K saving per year for the department.
Health & Safety & Environmental
• Chair for all Health & Safety matters within the department. Reporting to senior managers on issues arising
within a variety of engineering areas. Responsible for ensuring Risk Assessments, First Aiders/Fire Marshal
Records etc. are maintained and fully compliant within current legislation;
• Responsible for the supervision and co-ordination the work of external sub-contractors, ensuring they have
the relevant training tickets/qualifications, and are competent in all matters relating to health and safety
while on site and understand safe systems of work including safe-to-work/permit-to-work authorisation.
Communication and IT Skills
• Highly experienced in communicating across a number of diverse teams resulting in motivated and informed
teams, ensuring they perform and achieve delivery through cost control, efficiency and quality improvements;
• Excellent written, verbal and presentation skills. Able to express my views openly and able to sell ideas and
solutions that benefit all parties using persuasive and active communication;
• Able to ask appropriate questions, adjusting my style and language when required to meet the needs of
others. Providing constructive feedback to others and open to receiving feedback;
• Highly experienced in using a variety of Microsoft Office software and planning software tools, resulting in
increased efficiency in resource deployment and utilisation across a range of disciplines within a number of
departments;
• As Technical Shift Leader at NEC was responsible for the regular reporting on the progress of work,
producing daily briefings to senior staff production staff in the UK and Japan on issues relating to production
downtime identifying solutions to issues impacting production down-time.
Career Experience
• Dec 2006 to Present: Engineering Manager – Mechanical, Electrical, Fabrication & Welding
and Automotive Engineering, Fife College (formally Carnegie & Lauder
College)
• Nov 2003 – Dec 2006: Engineering & Apprentice Training Manager, Institute of Applied
Technology
• Jan 2001 - Nov 2003: Lecturer in Mechatronics, Lauder College
• July 1998 – Dec 2000: Technical Shift Leader, NEC Livingston
• May 1984 – June 1998: Chief Petty Officer Marine Engineering Artificer, Royal Navy
Qualfications
• January 2012 Elected Fellow - Institute of Mechanical Engineers
• June 2009 Institute of Management Level 5 Qualification
• June 2006 Elected Chartered Member - Engineering Council
• June 2003 Awarded Teacher Qualification in Further Education
• Sept 2001 D32 & D33 Assessor Verifier Awards Gained
• June 2000 Bachelor of Engineering (Hons) - Mechanical & Electronic Systems,
Glasgow Caledonian University
• September 1998 Elected Member - Institute of Incorporate Executive Engineers
• April 1998 Diploma in Engineering Management - University of Greenwich
• June 1996 HNC Electronics & Electrical Engineering
• December 1987 BTEC, City & Guilds Diploma in Engineering
Training
• Oct 2014 Institute Of Occupational Safety and Health - Managing Safely
• May 2014 Renewable UK Working at Heights qualification
• May 2005 - Present Senior External Verifier with SQA for Mechanical Engineering
References available on request
