marie upton

This role mainly involved organising all aspects of national and international business travel. I was also actively involved in carrying out health and safety workplace inspections and I contributed significantly to the development and execution of an annual EHS improvement plan.

An exciting aspect of this job was the opportunity to establish a new planning methodology. A key achievement was to devise a mechanism to control and monitor the progress of a planning team's efforts. My duties included the validation of job logic disgrams and their input into a mainframe relational database. From this I produced various planning reports.

My first experience on a chemical process plant was as a technical clerk within an engineering maintenance team. This involved the administration of the computer-based maintenance management system and the ISO 9002 document control system. I was also responsible for carrying out plant area inductions.

My initial role with ICI was in a scretarial position in which I carried out the full range of secretarial functions. This gave me the opportunity to become familiar with a wide variety of computer applications. I also handled a great deal of confidential material.

I worked with a team of engineering services personnel responsible for the construction and maintenance of fully-functional miniature petrochemical process plants used to develop new process technologies for licensing. The key elements of this role are listed below. The administration of computerised maintenance management systems used to maintain an accurate register of experimental and building assets. Managing schedules and generating work orders for the inspection and testing of critical assets in accordance with statutory guidelines. Co-ordinating the timely calibration and repair of portable instrumentation devices via external vendors followed by re-issue to users. Providing administrative assistance to a team of busy secretarial staff (from February 2016). This also included responsibility for part of the site emergency fire procedure.

* I worked in a small, multi-functional R&D centre with associated laboratory and semi-technical facilities. The key elements of this short-term contract are listed below. * Sole accountability for the management of IT assets and liaison with the building landlord on * facility maintenance issues. * Generating purchase requisitions in response to group needs, securing management approval * and tracking orders including receipting. * Maintaining accurate, fully up-to-date compliance training records. This necessitated a proactive * approach to ensure that each employee met all established deadlines. * Organising national and international business travel and providing a rapid response service to * address changing circumstances encountered during travel. * Booking on and off-site meeting venues, arranging catering and providing visitor assistance and * greeting.

* I worked in one of three major locations that provides IT services to the Huntsman Corporation, globally. The key elements of this role are listed below. * Reviewing IT systems to ensure that change management processes and security configurations * complied with the requirements of Sarbanes-Oxley legislation. This also involved the progression * of appropriate action for anomalous events. * Providing administrative services to a group of specialist contract personnel seconded to the * department. This included processing timesheets and expense claims as well as liaising with the * purchasing department and external agencies. * Sourcing and purchasing goods and services and tracking delivery. Processing parked and * blocked invoices and assisting the accounts department to resolve invoice-related queries. * Maintaining departmental expenditure records of key items and producing monthly cost reports.

* I worked with a team of engineering design personnel responsible for modifications and improvements to existing petrochemical speciality and surfactants plants. The key elements of this role are listed below. * Generating purchase requisitions for the procurement of materials and services. * Producing monthly cost reports for both committed and invoiced costs and collating data to assist with the control of capital expenditure for projects. * Managing a complex document control system for the traceability of project data to assist with the control of capital expenditure for projects. * Responsible for all project administration and secretarial services for an engineering design team.

* I was part of an organisation which managed the planning and execution of selected major maintenance events on high hazard chemical plants. The key elements of this role are listed below. * Developing work lists and technical specifications. * Managing a system for the retention of overhaul data and facilitating its maximum re-use. * Responsible for an electronic database used to produce documentation for major overhauls. * Implementing and operating document control and traceability systems. * Identifying and managing the logistics associated with staging major overhauls. * Producing risk assessments and conducting weekly health and safety audits. * Delivering daily tool box talks to overhaul contractors.