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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.

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.
 

John Gallagher - Head of Commercial

John has 30 years experience in the commercial field.

He started his career as a Senior Quantity Surveyor, and has worked on various road, rail, power station and water treatment projects in the UK and overseas.

He became a commercial management in 1995 and has had commercial responsibility for multi-million pound projects all over the world, including coal and nuclear power stations, as well as a number of different roles for Network Rail.

John is married. His personal interests include running, walking and fishing.

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 20 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 and transition to site licence company. As head of the director’s support office, he is responsible for business improvement, socio-economic support and communications.

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

Kenny Ferrera - Head of Programme Management

Kenny Ferrera (CH2M HILL) has 35 years experience in the nuclear industry, mainly in the US at Rocky Flats, but most recently at AWE Aldermaston.

He has had a variety of management roles in processing, engineering, manufacturing, general management and for six years managed decommissioning projects, prior to working at AWE.

While at Rocky Flats during the operational years, he was responsible as the manager of Manufacturing Process Development for the development and support of processes such as casting, forming, welding and assembly of nuclear and non-nuclear components.

During the decommissioning and demolition of Rocky Flats, he was responsible for removal of the contaminated residue material and weapons grade plutonium. He also was one of the managers responsible for the decommissioning and demolition of a plutonium recovery facility on site.

Kenny is from Louisville, Colorado. He is married to Carol, and they have six children and seven grandchildren.

Mick Fitt - Head of Major Project, New Build

Mick Fitt (AMEC) graduated in 1979 with a BSC Hons in Mechanical Engineering.

He has over 28 years experience in the Canadian nuclear industry, much of it at the Bruce and Pickering nuclear plants in Ontario, and also Point Lepreau in New Brunswick.

He has managed portfolios of multi-million pound projects covering nuclear, non-nuclear and infrastructure development.

Mick currently lives in Winborne, Dorset, with his wife Helen and younger children. He also has grown up children living in Vancouver and Toronto back in Canada. His hobbies include golf and fell walking.