Personal Details

Name                                      : John Michael Atkins

Position                                  :  Senior Electrical/Instrumentation Designer

E-Mail                                     : A-R-OMail

Marital Status                        :  Married

Education

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Sept 2002 - Present date

Fluor,Daniel Camberley, Surrey

May 2001 – Present date

AMEC Engineering - Crawley, Sussex

Modification and refurbishment of the oil site for BP Wytch Farm (primarily for their Kimmeridge Site) and Enterprise Oil for their Corrib project (gas receiving terminal) in Eire, and have been fully involved with the production of motor schematic and wiring diagrams, earthing diagrams, overall single line diagrams, MTO and cable schedules, instrument loop diagrams, cable routing diagrams, switchboard schematics, single line and protection diagrams.

Computer drafting was by Autocad R14 & Microstation.

Feb 2000 – May 2001

Jacobs Engineering - Cork, Eire

Design and detailing of a pharmaceutical plant in Singapore for Parke-Davis involving schematic and wiring diagrams from 22kV switchboard schematics, single line and protection diagrams, cable routing diagrams, cable schedules, drawing schedules, to 24v control and instrumentation diagrams and loops. As part of the contract, an overall estimate of the contract was required before the job was started.

Computer drafting was by Autocad R14

April 1999 – Feb 2000

Harland and Wolff - Belfast

Design and detailing of drill ships for Global Marine Drilling Company, involving schematic and wiring diagrams from switchboard schematics to control and instrumentation diagrams and loops.  Site work and troubleshooting was routine.  Computer drafting was by Autocad R14 and Tribon System and also Mars 4.2 cable system.

June 1998 – March 1999

Glaxo Wellcome - Dartford, Kent.

Design and detailing of cable trays for power, control and instrument cables including cable tray layouts, cable routing layouts, layout drawings for gas detectors, fire detectors and lighting layouts. Computer draughting was by Autocad.R13.

Also, updating of single line diagrams, motor control diagrams, loop diagrams and cable scheduling for a reactor building extension.

November 1987 – April 1998

Smithkline/Beecham - Worthing, Sussex.

All aspects of pharmaceutical plant design and modifications, ranging from 11kV H/V electrical distribution diagrams and layouts to instrumentation loop diagrams.  Drawing work involved wiring diagrams, schematic diagrams, cable layouts, instrument and cable scheduling, loop diagrams, engineering line diagrams, P&I.D.s, motor control diagrams, termination layouts and diagrams. 

Although design and draughting was produced on the drawing board, the majority of work was produced from the company CAD computer system (DOGS).  Work also involved site visits and liaison with contractors’ representatives.  Six years experience with Autocad R12/R13.

December 1984 – November 1987

Shell (UK) Expro - St Fergus Gas Plant

Site based construction and engineering project concerned with design and detail of pipeline integrity computer controlled on F.L.A.G.S. pipeline from St. Fergus to Mossmorran.  Instrumentation contract involving the gathering and supplying of information for Matthew Hall in Aberdeen.  Drawing effort included layouts, wiring diagrams, cabling diagrams, cable schedules, P&I.D.s, loop diagrams, interconnection diagrams, instrument index sheets, etc.  Being in charge of the drawing office at St. Fergus meant overseeing a team of designers and tracers involved with all aspects of drawing supervision from allocating sketches to checking the final drawings.

July 1984 – December 1984

John Brown Offshore - Zoetermeer, Holland

Design and detail of Conoco’s Kotter semi-submersible production deck facility concerning cabling diagrams, layouts, cable schedules, cable routing diagrams, schematic diagrams, M.T.O.s etc., providing work for tracers to draw final drawings from sketches.

February 1984 – July 1984

Mobil (Aker Offshore)

Preparing platform instrument and electrical drawings in mark-up form as-builts to be modified on-shore.  This involved working a 2 week on, 2 week off rota.

October 1983 – February 1984

John Wood Group - Aberdeen

Updating of Water Injection Systems, offshore surveys and refurbishment of crane facilities on projects for Shell, Mobil and B.P.

June 1983 – October 1983

Seaforth - Aberdeen

Complete electrical design and draughting programme concerned with a deep sea diving bell and support decompression chamber facility for Megasprom of Russia.

July 1981 – June 1983

C.F. Braun - Alhambra, California

Design of a petro-chemical plant at Texas City, Texas, involving hazardous area classification drawings, main single line protection schematics, general layout and distribution drawings and control and instrumentation schematic diagrams.

March 1981 – July 1981

Scandinavian Offshore - Sanderfjord, Norway

Design for conversion of diving support platform to semi-submersible exploration drilling rig (Treasure Swan), involving motor control schematics, cable routing diagrams, hazardous area classification layout and fire and gas protection schematics and layouts.

June 1980 – February 1981

Monsanto Limited - London

Preparation of schematic, wiring and relay panel interlocking diagrams, checking of instrumentation and process flow diagrams, motor data sheets and package unit specifications for a process plant in Wales.