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Management Profiles

Simon Middlemas – Managing Director

Simon Middlemas spent much of his career in the Royal Navy, working around the country in all Naval bases and serving on the nuclear submarines HMS RENOWN, HMS SPARTAN and HMS SOVEREIGN. With various other appointments including 3 years with Rolls-Royce in Derby, he first came to Caithness in 1999 take up the post of Naval Superintendent at the Naval Reactor Test Establishment at Vulcan, followed by 2 years refitting and refuelling nuclear submarines in Plymouth. He has a degree in electrical engineering and professional qualifications in marine and nuclear engineering.

Simon was appointed Director of Dounreay in February 2007, having been acting Director since August 2006 and, prior to that, Deputy Director. He joined Dounreay in July 2004 as head of New Build projects.

Simon is married to Judith and they have two children. He is the vice president of the Royal British Legion, a fund-raiser for the RNLI, member of the Rotary Club of Thurso and is on the Scrabster Harbour Board of Management. Other interests include skiing, walking, golf, motor-homes and model railways.

Tony Wratten - Deputy Managing Director

Tony Wratten graduated from the University of Bradford with a degree in chemical engineering. After leaving university he worked on the design and commissioning of a range of new plant for the steel and chemical industry.

Tony started working at the Atomic Weapons Establishment at Aldermaston in 1984. In 1991 he transferred to the Department of Energy in London and joined UKAEA at Harwell in 1993 to head the Research, Development and Strategy Department. He moved to Dounreay on a permanent basis in 1998. He held a number of posts managing waste and decommissioning before becoming Head of Assurance in 2006. On the formation of DSRL in 2008 he became Director of Assurance, and Deputy Managing Director in March 2010.

Tony is married to Cathy and has two grown-up children. Outside of work he enjoys anything to do with aviation and is a keen traveller, and an enthusiastic golfer.
 

Alan Scullion – Director of Assurance

Alan Scullion graduated from Strathclyde University with a degree in applied chemistry. He came to site in 1978 to work as a commissioning engineer for new solid waste storage plants.

In the 1980s Alan was an FCA shift manager for 7 years and has subsequently held a variety of commercial and management posts involving waste and fuels operations and strategy. He moved to the Assurance unit in 2006. In 2009 he took over as Major Project unit manager for New Build in a temporary capacity.

Alan lives in Thurso with his partner Deirdre. He is currently President of Ormlie Lodge Club and his hobbies include football (as a spectator).
 

Philip Colville – Company Secretary and Director of Finance

Philip Colville graduated in civil engineering before training as a chartered accountant with Thomson McLintock & Co (now part of KPMG), spending time in their London, Edinburgh and New Zealand offices. He worked with a number of companies in Scotland before spending a year at the London Business School on the Sloan Fellowship Masters course.

In 1991 he entered the public sector working for the NHS, latterly as director of finance and information at Dundee Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. He joined the Highways Agency in England before moving to UKAEA as head of finance at Dounreay in September 2005.

Philip is married to Felicity and has two sons. His interests include golf and the Proms.

Michael Dunnett – Head of Human Resources

Michael Dunnett graduated from Heriot-Watt University with a degree in Mechanical Engineering with Energy Resource Engineering. He joined Dounreay in 1997 as manager of the Dounreay Cementation Plant, having previously worked with UKAEA at Culham as a design engineer. 

Michael spent several years working in a number of operational, waste management and business development roles at Dounreay before being appointed as the site Human Resource Manager in 2006. In 2008 he took over as Head of Human Resources.

Michael is married to Becky and they have two young children. As a former pupil of Thurso High School he retains a keen interest in the local community and as such is an active member and former chairman of Thurso and District Round Table. Other interests are model railways, social history and football, and spending time with his family.
 

Ian Caine - Head of Commercial

Ian has over 35 years experience in the UK nuclear industry after graduating from Edinburgh University in 1974.

He started in overseas sales at Risley prior to several roles at Winfrith, followed by Harwell and Risley, leading to being the Head of Commercial and Financial Services at Winfrith, Harwell and the Windscale site. As part of his later responsibilities, Ian negotiated the initial management and operations contracts with the NDA, covering the Dounreay, Windscale, Harwell and Winfrith sites.

He is married with a daughter and outside of work he enjoys travel, art galleries and antiques.
 

Doug Shanks – Director’s Support Manager

Doug Shanks is a mechanical engineer with a background in providing high technology engineering and project management support to nuclear projects. He worked with Babcock Power, before joining Dounreay over 26 years ago.

Doug has worked on technical and safety-related posts at the Prototype Fast Reactor, held various departmental and project management roles, and latterly was senior project manager for the site reorganisation, transition to site licence company and for the reactors amalgamation project. Currently he is responsible for co-ordinating the multitude of changes going on around the site, and also for the impact of DSRL support to the NDA competition for the site.

Doug is married to Aileen and has three children. In his spare time, he enjoys DIY, fly-fishing and walking the dog.

Paul White - Head of Programme Management

Paul White has been working in decommissioning and environmental restoration of Cold War nuclear legacy sites for over 25 years. He started his career as an associate chemist at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Grand Junction project office in Colorado. Over the next sixteen years, he worked at Rocky Flats in a number of different positions. His career has taken him to Hanford’s Plutonium Finishing Plant and an assignment as a project controls mentor and lead project controls specialist for the reactor defuelling business group at Chaplecross.

Paul has a Degree in Biological and Agricultural Sciences, a Master’s Degree in Environmental Policy and Management and has been certified as a Project Management Professional by the Project Management Institute.

Hobbies include golf, scuba diving, motorcycling and spending time with his wife Tina and their two pug dogs. Paul White has one son, a sergeant in the U.S. Air Force.