A highly versatile, motivated and Security Cleared (SC) Mechanical Design (Industrial Design) and Project Engineer with 29 years’ contracting experience in a broad range of sectors: Aero, Defence, Electronics packaging, Auto, FMCG Factory Plant, Nuclear, Subsea Oil/Gas, Offshore Wind Turbines, Marine, and Subsea Telecoms. Delivered many innovative ‘First of a Kind’ / ‘Clean sheet’ designs.

• ‘Senior’ level experience using broad skills spanning Concept Design and FEED, Detailed Design (hands-on use of 3D/2D CAD) project document approval, calculations, authoring specifications for capital equipment, method statements, procedures, material selection, creating BoMs on SAP, overseeing ‘First Build’ of prototypes, and design verification / substantiation work.

• Self-starter, deadline-focussed, with a ‘can do’ approach. An innovative and engineering mind-set with attention to detail. A clear communicator, both written and verbally. Diligent, adaptable and organized. Retained on contracts for broad knowledge and versatility to bridge skills gaps in engineering teams. Substantial portfolio is available on request, or on-line at www.tim-mcdermott.co.uk

KEY ACHIEVEMENTS

Implemented 3D CAD Design in 3 companies saving £400k and 4 months on a nuclear decommissioning project with Magnox Ltd. Cameron Subsea, and Robdale were the other 2. The benefits were seen to:

1. 1. transform the level of team and stakeholder interpretation of proposed design concepts right from the start by using the 3D CAD images as a powerful communication tool for ideas and progress reporting.

   2. maximise the value of 3D data by enabling collaborative working with internal and external parties,

   3. optimise progress by using the early phase 3D CAD data and maturing it further to deliver all subsequent project Drawings, GAs, BoMs and use 3D CAD images within procedure docs to improve their useability.

Appointed as the configuration item owner (CIO) for a significant upgrade to an essential but aging helicopter mounted Radar scanner head. Key qualification documents and 3D design definition updates allowed the unit to be better placed to meet its updated primary design requirements. (Thales)

Many ‘First of a Kind’ designs:-

• A purge trolley and wet waste transfer system. (Magnox.)

• Wind turbine crane and ergonomic access. (NEG Micon.)

• Cigarette production tray handling machine. (Molins.)

• Food wrapping machine customisation. Mars.)

• Paper reel wrapping machine upgrade. (Robdale.)

• Wing-pod directional radar head. (Marconi.)

Promoted to become SAP business process owner, driving project from concept to delivery, implementing SAP’s PLM module: defining functionality, refining processes, and training 60% of the department personnel for 2 UK sites. (Meggit)

Created a 3D AutoCAD tutorial website and achieved excellent Google results on merit – several entries on first page without resorting to ‘paid-for’ search results! A decision analysis website (for assessing complex choices options) also created.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

GENERAL INFORMATION

FREELANCE CONTRACTING
(Trading as 3D Cadcea Ltd since 1994)

Senior Mechanical, Design, & Project Engineering Contractor / Consultant.

Thrives on variety and challenge, having successfully undertaken some “first of a kind” and tough briefs in multidisciplinary design projects, across a variety of engineering assignments and industry sectors.

Design projects typically comprise: lifespan durations from concept to installation, design specifications for complex projects, vendor identification & interfacing, design reviews, use of collaborative working tools such as Navisworks, and full involvement in all areas of projects such as: project enablers phase, planning, design (FEED, concept and detail), development, testing, validation / substantiation, installation up to initial system operations for commissioning, and Operation and Maintenance documentation with 3D CAD image content.

Day to day duties typically involve: Document authoring and peer reviewing, technical queries, concessions and BoM updates typically with document control workflow, or ERP software. Previous roles summary is below giving breadth and depth of experience – See www.tim-mcdermott.co.uk for Details and Portfolio images.

EDUCATION:   B Eng. (Hons.) Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Kingston Polytechnic.

PERSONAL:     Married. No dependents. British. Full driving License & own car.

INTERESTS:     Gardening, DIY, dog walking in Surrey hills with my wife. Motor sport, kart racing, and wanting to design and build a track-day kit car, having restored a 1970 Triumph Vitesse. Built own computer as a student.

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CLIENT AND ROLES SUMMARY 

Thales ISR (2^nd time) Senior Mechanical & Design Engineer. SC Cleared.  (Current Role)

Sector: Defence Electronics – Radar system for a Navy Helicopter based on aircraft carriers. (Project CrowsNest)

To provide technical support to air-conditioning equipment vendor for the qualification, verification, validation and substantiation phases for a Helicopter Radar project using IBM Rational DOORs & Teamcentre apps.

Costain / AWE Senior Mechanical Design Engineer. SC Cleared.  (2020 – 6 Mths)

Sector: Nuclear defence and civils. (A hydraulics system into a new factory building.)

Technical Query Responder for 17 tonne Hydraulic driven Cargo Doors to connect 12 HPU circuits to span 30m to the doors for their 3-way sealing circuits. Giving design for manufacture guidance to the vendor.

Worked with: ‘Point Cloud’ laser survey data, P&ID diagrams, Navisworks, and created a system specific Flow losses calcs spreadsheet. Detail design completed. (Staffing during covid impacted the duration of this role.)

Thales ISR Senior Mechanical & Design Engineer. SC Cleared.  (2020 – 31 Mths)

Sector: Defence Electronics Packaging – Aero Radar in a Naval (salt) environment. (Project Crows Nest.)

Complex Radar scanner head electro-mechanical upgrades and new vendor technical mentoring for supplying a dedicated aircon unit to cool Radar electronics on a Navy vessel Helicopter.

Worked with: Design substantiation using DOORS s/w. Environmental qualification test procedures to DEF STAN 00-35. Technical queries / concessions. Helicopter ground support eqpt concepts and rapid prototype parts. Teamcentre PLM, and PTC CREO 3D Cad. Authoring ‘Compatibility Analysis & Analogy’ documents.

Magnox Ltd (2nd time) Snr. Mechanical Design & Project Engineer. Base vetted.  (2017 – 35 Mths)

Sector: Nuclear Decommissioning. Handling Equipment for Wet Waste.

Plant room equipment, pipe and cable layouts for a wet waste vacuum drying process and a resin retrieval system (including a steel balcony at 20m height) for radiological intermediate level wastes – ILW.

Did a Transfer skid concept and ‘first of a kind’ purge trolly for Hydrogen removal from DCICs and buckling calcs for tall pipe supports.

Worked with Nuclear site licensing and safety cases. Regs compliances CE-Marking, CDM, ATEX, PSSR / PED. Implemented and used AutoDesk Inventor 3D CAD. BS 8888. Sub-Contractor management. ASME B31.3 piping. BIM level 2. Double containment. Risk assessments.

Subsea Riser Products Ltd (SRP) Senior Mechanical Engineer.  (2014 – 3 Mths)

Sector: Energy. Offshore Oil and Gas subsea risers.

FEED and Detail design of Workover Risers (IWOCS) with pressures to 15k PSI.

Work comprised: 1/ doing a gap analysis between Well Intervention Standards API RP 17G with ISO 13628-7 and 2/ doing an API RP 17N compliant FMECA study of Riser’s lifetime risks. Contract cancelled due to oil price crash.

Magnox Ltd Snr. Mechanical Project Engineer. Base vetted security check.  (2014 – 6 Mths)

Sector: Nuclear decommissioning radiological intermediate level wet waste – ILWW.

To supply design scopes, process definition, and plant layout for safe handling of waste for a £5m ‘sludge heel’ retrieval system from tanks to DCIC containers.

Worked to identify Stakeholder needs, concept design / functional spec, and Optioneering within the safety case constraints & Construction Design Management (CDM) regs. Ended due to stakeholder’s tenure expiry.

Cameron (2^nd time) Process Systems Mechanical Equipment Engineer.  (2013 – 18 Mths)

Sector: Energy. Oil & Gas process plant at BACTON. A £10m Mono Ethylene Glycol (MEG) rejuvenation project.

Specified and selected high value static and rotating equipment items – 2 centrifuges at £125k each, and a £450k Filter Press. Included vessel specification for a flash separator & Electrostatic protection for large plastic tanks. Created tendering specs, Technical Requisitions, Bid evaluations & Technical queries.

Work also comprised: Centrifuge Pipework resonance (16Hz) calcs and protection. Risk assessments. Using 3D CAD. Decision matrix. P&ID and PFD schematics. SIL Rating ‘Notified Body’ Document drafted. Navisworks. Codes & Standards – CE Marking, ATEX, PED, API, ANSI, ASME, BS-EN, and ISO.

Contributed to the offshore LAGGAN-TORMORE project.

Meggitt Sensing Systems Business Process Owner for SAP PLM Module.  (2011 – 17 Mths)

Sector: Aeronautics components Company ERP (SAP PLM) upgrade for 2 UK sites of a FTSE 100 Co. 

Promoted from a backfill engineering role to the PLM Business Process owner for an ERP Software upgrade from Man-Man to SAP. Specified and implement the SAP PLM module for Material Master + BoM’s + Doc Management + Change Management ECN’s.

Fitted the existing Business Processes to the new Global SAP Template (46 Sites) by gap analysis of the SAP solution and supporting its evolution with additional features defined to SAP coders to fill process shortfalls.

Role included defining data migration definitions, and authoring then delivering PLM user training.

Cameron Subsea Mechanical EPC Interfaces & Support Engineer.  (2010 – 34 Mths)

Sector: Offshore Oil and Gas. USAN Subsea production system off Nigeria – a £900m and 800mts deep water.

Supported EPC Project team for an oil field of 40+ Xtrees and 8 manifolds in all aspects of the design phase with 3D CAD work, calcs, and documentation. Implemented Autodesk Inventor & Vault 3D CAD early on to enable subsea Oil Field layout, and work with Controls Engineering, ROV intervention studies (for drag loads and installation access,) and Riser group for vessel ‘moon pool’ deck equipment layout studies.

Created (or sourced) all 3D CAD data as it was key to the design direction for drill center and field layouts – cables / umbilicals, manifolds, suction piles, Xtrees, FLETs / PLETs / PLEMs, and pipe connections.

Worked also to: 1/ Devise lifting / handling equipment. 2/ Draft control system P&IDs for drill centres and field.

3/ Do sea Load and weight limit calcs. 4/ Interfacing for some vendor collaboration. 5/ Using SAP for Change control, Item Lists, document + drawing uploads and peer reviewing. 6/ Be the CAD + Vault site administrator.

Interviewed CAD candidates, and did draughting and SAP support for project AKPO too.

Eaton Aerospace Mechanical Design Engineer / Draftsman.  (2007 – 3 Mths)

Sector: Aircraft components manufacturer to complete a 2500 psi Hydraulic Motor for an aircraft Radar unit.

Completing flow chamber design details and drawings pack – a fixed term role for project slippage recovery.

Ultra Electronics Senior Mechanical Design Engineer. SC Cleared.  (2006 – 10 Mths)

Sector: Defence. Fibre optics electronics packaging for an Encrypted Aero comms unit. (Project Watch Keeper)

Electro-Mechanical packaging of a unit for battlefield comms in an Unmanned Airborne Vehicle (UAV.)

Work comprised: Design, (including materials and finishes selections), drawings, parts list BoMs and item procurement. Using PDM / PLM s/w. Design Reviews. MIL-STD-810 environmental qualification. MIL-DTL-38999 connectors. EMC shielding to Tempest levels. Solving complex problems due to chronic lack of space.

Esterline Weston Aerospace Mechanical and Project Engineer.  (2005 – 15 Mths)

Sector: Aero Components and Aircraft equipment Manufacturing Co.

Owner of the mechanical aspects in a small team evolving to maturity an industrial jet engine (Avon) speed sensor concept for detecting engine compressor blades.

Steering the electro-mechanical packaging design and drawings and authoring much of the document pack for substantiation, environmental qualification documentation, and retro-fit procedure.

Work comprised: Engine vibration data collection. Component performance analysis and evolution. Bolting calcs to ensure tightness under vibration. Design refinement by FEA. Material selections compliant to CoSHH. Natural frequencies. Customer telecons. FMEAs and Fault Tree analysis. NPI Gate reviews.

TRW Automotive Mechanical Engineering Design & Draughting.  (2004 – 4 Mths)

Sector: Tier 1 Automotive components design and manufacturer. (Fixed term project recovery role.)

Finish the design and drafting on the smallest electrically driven hydraulic power steering pump in a family of 3. Did the casting and machining drawings for the housing, and GAs for the motor internals and ECU. A fixed term role for project slippage recovery.

NEG Micon Rotors Mechanical Design & Project Engineer.  (2004 – 49 Mths)

Sector: Renewable energy. Onshore and offshore Wind Turbine Hubs (Electric + hydraulic pitching.)

Delivered: 1/ Electrical pitching Hub internal layout designs. 2/ Bespoke handling equipment for turbine maintenance – a ‘first of a kind’ specialised portable hub crane including load calcs. 3/ Solving adverse Ergonomics for entering very large hubs and entering through front nose of hubs.

Undertook: Detail drawings, Bills of Materials, Change control + configuration, order placement, bid evaluation, expediting & progressing deliverables, authoring procedures for FAT tests / Hub ‘First Build’ instructions, etc.

Worked with: Hub castings up to 16 tonnes (3 MW) with M36 bolts for 10 tonne blades. Anti-Vibration Mounts (AVMs) for eqpt at risk from hub flex. Organising 3 workshop staff to do prototype builds. Pro-E CAD design.

Alcatel Submarine Networks Mechanical Design & Project Engineer.  (2000 – 10 Mths)

Sector: Fibre Optic Subsea Telecommunications Electronics Packaging.(Subsea Internet cables.)

Electro-Mechanical packaging of fibre optic electronics for subsea internet signal amplifiers using Pro-E CAD.

Worked with: Very high pressures up to 900 bar due to 9Km deep water (Mariana Trench.) Rapid prototyping with STL files. Injection mouldings. Rubber mouldings. Brackets and chassis. Hydrogen out-gassing. Form-Fit-Function methods for configuration control. Electro-optic schematics. Bore ratio and pressure load calcs.

Litton Marine Mechanical Design Engineer.  (1999 – 23 Mths)

Sector: Marine navigation and Radar for Naval, and large commercial ocean-going vessels.

Detail design, BoMs, manufacturing drawings and GAs using 3D CAD for 1500 units a year production levels.

Work comprised: Heat sinks / heat dissipation. Wave guides. Injection moulded parts. Casting and machining drawings. Rotating booms up to 2m long. Configuration control by Revision levels, not Form -Fit-Function.

Molins Mechanical Design & Project Engineer.  (1997 – 11 Mths)

Sector: FMCG factory plant. Special purpose machinery / factory machinery for cigarette mass production.

Design and draw from scratch using 3D CAD a ‘first of a kind’ cigarette buffer stack machine for high speed (15k / min) cigarette production line machinery.

Work comprised: Concept, detail design, drawing pack, and BoMs created from a requirement spec. Materials and components selection. Motor sizing. Mechanisms. Castings. Guards. Welded frames. Calcs for moments and ‘topple’ accelerations. Logic control diagrams for machine functions. Organised 3 staff for some drawings.

Thompson CSF Mechanical Design Engineer / Draughtsman.  (1996 – 3 Mths)

Sector: Flight simulators / Aero. A slippage recovery role to finish the design and drawings for a sub-frame.

Worked with: Simulator cockpit floor subframe for Joystick loads equipment. Simple calcs. Pro-E 3D CAD. A fixed term role for project slippage recovery.

Applied Materials Mechanical Engineering Design & Draughting.  (1996 – 21 Mths)

Sector: FMCG silicon chip processing machines for computer components (Integrated Circuits) mass production.

Semi-conductor ‘Silicon wafer’ coating machines using a high vacuum particle physics process.

Worked on: Specific requirements adaptations with 3D CAD. Specialised test rig for wafer handling chamber equipment. Specialised Lifting apparatus. Form-Fit-Function methods of configuration control / change control.

Mars Confectionery + Carnaud MB + DEK Mechanical Design & Project Engineering.  (1994 – 13 Mths)

Sector: FMCG food processing factory plant, and special purpose machines for printing PCBs.

Carnaud Metal Box: Jar capping machine concept for chassis frame design from stainless steel pipe.

Mars (9 mths): Modifying a wrapping machine which comprised: Detail design and drawing pack. Quoting costs to client. Assembly instructions. Site survey. Logic diagrams for machine control. Vendor quotes, bid analysis, and order expediting. Organised 2 staff for drawings.

DEK Printing Machines: Test rig design on 3D CAD for a new PCB printing process comprised: Devising a ‘multi-pins’ support method for PCBs while printing. A fixed term role for project slippage recovery.

Chipboards Ltd. Production Supervisor.  (1993 – 9 Mths)

Sector: Personal Computer Manufacturer. Assembly and testing supervisor organising 6 staff to meet build targets.  

Robdale Ltd Mechanical Design & Project Engineer.  (1992 – 11 Mths)

Sector: FMCG Factory Plant / Pulp and Paper handling machinery.

Design upgrade of carbon paper reel (2 tonnes each) wrapping machines to a 2-stage ecological process. Used pneumatics to update 4 identical machines for an international paper company.

Work Comprised: Machine survey. 3D AutoCAD design. Pneumatics specs, symbols, & mechanism design. Logic diagrams for machine control. Organised and trained a colleague in 3D methods for doing the drawings.

Marconi Command & Control Mechanical Design Engineer.  (1991 – 18 Mths)

Sector: Defence electronics packaging for Aero Radar.

Electro-mechanical packaging radar components and an adjustable directional mechanism in to a wing-pod for combat simulation purposes. First of a kind ‘clean sheet’ design on 3D CAD from a Design Spec document.

Work comprised: Complex problem solving for flexi items in a tiny space to pass vibration tests. Heat dissipation. Cantilever resonance calcs. Aircraft C of G limits. BS 308 and BS 5750. Department liaison. Design reviews.

Airmat Ltd Project & Design Engineer.  (1990 – 26 Mths)

Sector: FMCG Plant. Printing industry waste handling, often in to New Build factories.

Design of paper trim waste handling systems and ductwork with integration to printed media mass production machines for a vacuum conveying systems Company.

Work comprised: 2D drawings. Specifying reverse jet filters, 90kW cutter fans and Ductwork. 3m high steel platform frames. Customer and supplier liaison. Site surveys. Expediting.