Engineer Project Manager

Curriculum Vitae for Christopher John Kitchen

Address * ******* ****, *****.

LS9 7BY

Date of Birth 25/10/1965

Marital Status Single

Driving license Full no endorsements

Telephone +44-771-*******

Education Years Qualifications

University of Bradford 1994-1996 B.Eng (Hons)

Leeds Metropolitan University 1992-1994 HND C.E

Studies

University of Leeds 2002- 2003 ICE

Contract Law &

Procedures Course

(completed

course - No exam)

Professional Qualifications

Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers 2003

Engineering Council (Chartered Engineer) 2003

Employment History

CJK Construction Services ltd 2007 - to date

I provide consultancy and site support services through my limited company

trading as CJK Construction Services Ltd. I have undertaken services for

both public and privately owned companies including Morgan Ashurst, Roger

Bullivant, R.F Maude, Leeds City Council and Jacobs Engineering UK.

Leeds City Council: The assessment of open water courses and

conduits/Culverts and Bridges to determine their hydraulic capacity using

the Culvert Design Guide. Capacity assessments of council owned wastewater

pumping stations.

My contract with Jacobs started in 2008 and I have been with Jacobs for the

last 4 years at Principal Engineer/Technical Lead. I provide specialist

services under contract with regard to Water Engineering (Wastewater),

Drainage (Infrastructure and non infrastructure), Flood Engineering and

Land Drainage.

The role included the following;

. Infrastructure and non infrastructure design for both foul and surface

water drainage systems in schools, council owned farms and NYCC

highways depots.

. Land drainage design for various school playing fields and surface

water runoff from power station spoil heaps.

. Drainage design for commercial, industrial, domestic and agricultural

drainage systems.

. Flood and drainage issue investigations to complete the scoping

reports, outline design, detailed design, initial cost estimate,

tender packages, site supervision and close out of the scheme

. Technical lead on drainage restoration schemes, flood schemes

involving dams and working closely with QCE Reservoir Panel Engineers

and open watercourse restoration for ditches, streams and river

channels.

As part of Jacobs I was seconded in to the Anglian Water Alliance

supervising multi-disciplinary teams and providing technical experience and

design experience to the less experienced members of the team to ensure

cost effective, robust efficient designed schemes for wastewater treatment.

MOTT mACDONALD 2006 - 2007 (may)

I was last employed by Mott MacDonald working within the joint Venture of

MMB. The joint venture is Mott MacDonald who formed a company with

J.N.Bentley a contractor in Yorkshire, currently under Contract with

Yorkshire Water Services to provide engineering expertise.

. Role Project Leader delivering schemes from inception to site and in

some instances providing the site supervision.

. Hydraulic Design.

. Structural Design under supervision of a senior structural engineer.

. Flood investigations.

. Formation of works packages for site.

. Identifying issues and generating the works brief on wastewater

systems - infrastructure and non- infrastructure

carl bro group 2005 - 2006

I was Principal Engineer in the Building Drainage Section of the Leeds

office. I have responsibility for the supervision of the building drainage

design team, financial control of budgets, Quality Assurance and the

checking of all work before issue.

. Tendering for works.

. Contract development.

. Specification and Tender Documents.

. Work undertaken for local authorities Defense Estates, Local

Regeneration and Redevelopment Agencies, Private Developers and

Primary Care Trusts.

KBR International Inc. 2005 - 2005

Client: Tengizchevroil (Chevron Texaco) Value: $25m

Lead Civil Engineer for infrastructure projects associated with a major

Oilfield located in Kazakhstan. My role includes conceptual designs and

managing the projects through to the Client supervised construction. At

this stage my role then alters to provide Field Technical Support to

clarify and/or amend the accepted design.

The Project Management role includes the cost monitoring in house,

production of all Material Requests including Quality checks on materials

supplied, production of the Scope of the Works etc, preliminary data

collecting, supervision of interdisciplinary designs and third party design

all in accordance with the relevant SNiP codes.

My responsibilities also included the management on behalf of KBR for

obtaining the Construction License from the Kazakh Government.

Kellogg Brown & Root 2001- 2005

Senior Engineer - K3 Framework Value: 300k (Design Fees)

Lead in a Design Team producing solutions for upgrading CSO structures in

line with current EEC Regulations. My responsibilities included the design

development including the ASB submission for gaining finance for the

schemes, procurement of materials and coordination of disciplines, the

phase 1 program and cost monitoring in house

Engineers Representative (EA framework)

Seconded to the Environment Agency from the Jacobs Babtie/KBR JV to provide

on site supervision of the construction of an Earth Dam and associated

Flood Defense walls in West Auckland.

I also had the responsibility for agreeing the reinstatement schedules with

both householders and Land Agents

Employers Representative (YWS Framework)

Micklefield WwTW (in conjunction with the Highways Agency) Value; 5.5m

Site based Representative overseeing the construction of a new WwTW and the

subsequent demolition of the existing asset. I was responsible for all

construction supervision and design issues between the Client and the

Contractor, quality of workmanship, assessing the monthly valuations,

production of the H&S file and any Third Party Issues.

Driffield WwTW Value; 6m

ECC Site Supervisor for the construction of a 6 Cell BAFF plant, Lamella

Plant and Chemical Dosing system. I was responsible for all supervision

including Civil, Structural, Mechanical and the coordination of the

electrical supervision, the monthly valuations and any Third Party issues.

Solutions Engineer

Feasibility Study - Old Earswick

I was commissioned by YWS to undertake a feasibility study in to a flooding

problem at Old Earswick, near York. My brief was to identify, investigate

and produce a report that included solutions, proposals and indicative

'costing'. The work was carried out using an existing hydraulic model based

on Hydroworks.

Feasibility Study - Esholt WwTW

As part of a proposed program of works for Esholt WwTW, I was charged with

looking at why the measurement flume became non-compliant under high

effluent flow and the extent of the contamination contained within the

residual sludge, which remains in main PST channel. Both of these studies

required extensive investigation to produce the required reports.

M.J.Gleeson Group 1998 - 2001

Sub-Agent Client: United Utilities Value: 6m

I had the role Sub-Agent for the upgrade of the WwTW at Meols (Wirral), in

line with the new regulations on sea outfalls. The plant consisted of

providing and ASP plant. My responsibilities included the coordination and

supervision of the Sub-Contractors, the engineering program, procurement of

materials, initial assessment of Sub-Contract Claims and acting as the

Design Liaison engineer between the Client and our Designer.

Senior Engineer Client: YWS Value: 5m

I was the Senior Engineer supervising the engineering for a total of 26

sites over a 12 month period. I was also involved with the confirmation of

the Clients brief and the development of alternative design proposals by

assisting our Third Party designers. I also had full autonomy on the larger

sites in excess of 250k reporting directly to the Project Manager

Section Engineer Client: United Utilities Value: 6m

This role was undertaken while we were upgrading the WwTW at Fazakerley

(Liverpool) to provide a new 9 cell BAFF plant. I was responsible for the

Client design checks, procurement of materials, organising the Engineering

work and the basic day to ay running including programming of the site. The

role also meant I was given responsibility for the coordination of the sub-

contractors and the monthly assessment of work completed.

Johnston Construction 1996 - 1998

During my employment I had varied roles ranging from Engineer through to

Section Engineer and these were executed on a number of Contracts that were

predominately involved in the Tunneling, Pipe Jacking sectors in addition

to ancillary sectors such as Pipe Laying and Reinforced Concrete

Structures.

Further experience

I have attained considerable experience in the use of computer based

programs such Microsoft Office, AutoCAD, various hydraulic programs, a

number planning packages and a working knowledge of hydroworks.

I am from an Agricultural background, having attained nationally recognized

certificates from Askham Bryan Agricultural College. This experience has

been used to great effect on a number of schemes that have had a

significant agricultural impact for schemes that have been undertaken by

Environmental Agency, NVZ assessments for NYCC, drainage and farm runoff

treatment and watercourse management.

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