Daniel Saxon

Working for UK Distribution Network Operators (UK DNO) in an embedded contractor role accounting for £1.5m in asset replacement per annum.
•Responsible for project programming and delivery of a portfolio of asset replacement projects totaling £4m CAPEX spend.
•Primary plant technical appraisal and contract management.
•Liaising with control engineers and site commissioning teams ensuring system outages are achieved and the return to service is suitable.
•Development of construction risk mitigation documentation, identifying required outages on feeders and return to service strategy and cost for 10, 000+ customers to the network under fault conditions.
•Quality maintained through performing factory acceptance, type testing and product quality audits at manufactures facilities across the UK and Europe.
•Responsible for primary protection, control equipment upgrades and EHV cabling management.
•Assigned Principle Designer under CDM, ensuring legislation, welfare and HSE requirements are met.
•Stakeholder engagement and management, including local governing bodies, regulators and private business.
•Costing and Operational appraisal for pipeline CAPEX Projects contributing to pipeline until 2025 on behalf of a UK DNO for reporting to OFGEM.

Working for UK Distribution Network Operators (UK DNO) in an embedded contractor role accounting for £1.5m in asset replacement per annum.

Responsible for project programming and delivery of a portfolio of asset replacement projects totaling £4m CAPEX spend.

Primary plant technical appraisal and contract management.

Liaising with control engineers and site commissioning teams ensuring system outages are achieved and the return to service is suitable.

Development of construction risk mitigation documentation, identifying required outages on feeders and return to service strategy and cost for 10, 000+ customers to the network under fault conditions.

Quality maintained through performing factory acceptance, type testing and product quality audits at manufactures facilities across the UK and Europe.

Responsible for primary protection, control equipment upgrades and EHV cabling management.

Assigned Principle Designer under CDM, ensuring legislation, welfare and HSE requirements are met.

Stakeholder engagement and management, including local governing bodies, regulators and private business.

Costing and Operational appraisal for pipeline CAPEX Projects contributing to pipeline until 2025 on behalf of a UK DNO for reporting to OFGEM.

Ensured full compliance of all technical and quality requirements on multiple Capex projects across a UK DNO network throughout the duration of the project.
•Completing monthly construction site inspections auditing sites on internal and contractor elements.
•Created specification for and procured ancillary plant and protection equipment for multiple major rebuild projects.
•Vendor management of the supply chain ensuring high quality products were delivered on time and on budget.
•Managed the Asbestos program across 30+ sites ensuring all required ACM containment and removals had taken place.
•Managed the Ecology program across 30+ sites ensuring all local and international regulation and legislation was met.
•Risk mitigation and consequence analysis projects performed from both a commercial and technical perspective, such as network faults under outage conditions
•Full contractor and vendor management, ensuring safety, quality, technical and commercial KPIs were met and exceeded.