Cheshire (EU.UK.CHS)

In 1999 Paul moved to Bechtel Telecoms as the Principal Planner. He was Responsible for Planning and Cost Control during design, construction and installation of one of the first Pan-European high speed broadband links. This was a 7800 km broadband ring linking the over 20 major cities in Europe including London Paris Brussels Berlin and Amsterdam. It included developing IT facilities in each major city, prefabricated booster stations at 50K intervals and 10 lanes of cable duct and high speed fibre optic including 2 sub sea crossings.

Employed by Project Services Group as the Project Control Section Manager responsible for a specific part of the BNFL Engineering business including Thorp, Magnox, MOX & Transport. Duties include overall responsibility of ensuring a team of 16 people provided the depth of cost engineering & planning services required by various project managers within BNFL.

Paul was employed by Project control department as Project Control Lead, first for Waste Water Maintenance group & then moved to UID group. Paul was responsible for a team of 5 project planners, using P3E handling 160 projects covering UIDS on approx 900 sites for United Utilities AMP3 programme. Total value of the UID works £630M.

Paul was employed By Faithful & Gould at BNFL to develop a portfolio of projects in P3 with a view to transition to P3E being handled by the Change Management dept at Sellafield. Responsibilities included standardising a suite of existing and new schedules, development of standard programme templates, new coding structures, and global reports to allow a move from a Project Control to a Programme Control environment. He left when the position of Planning Manager for MWH was offered to him.