Andrew Thompson AMIChemE is our newest recruit and our youngest member of the team at Haden Freeman. Andrew achieved a 2:1 Bachelor's Degree in Chemical Engineering from University of Chester in 2020, then a Postgraduate Diploma in Advanced Chemical Engineering from The University of Manchester in 2021.
Andrew worked within the pharmaceutical sector for two years, where I gained experience in sterile operations before joining Haden Freeman as a Process Engineer. He is working alongside some of our experienced members in process department. He has been able to seek advice and a great amount of knowledge when learning new processes in across the different sectors.
Here is what Andrew has to say about his time with us so far …
I have enjoyed working already on a wide range of projects, developing my skills and experience. This includes with pressure relief calculations, scoping out suppliers, validation tasks, and recently contributing to process scaledown.
For one of my projects, I spent 4 months working on a nuclear licensed site for a company who specialise in international waste management. During this time, I was entrusted with writing up the work instructions for the plant process. This was a new process, still awaiting commissioning, and therefore a lot of stages were still under review during the write-up. I found this project to be a great opportunity to broaden my understanding of plant equipment, operations and apply my previous experience working in operations, as the work instructions were intended for the plant operators specifically.
I am looking forward to continuing my development and contributing to more engineering projects that have a significant impact. My goal is to achieve IChemE chartership, and I believe this broad range of experience I am gaining at Haden Freeman will be instrumental in achieving this milestone.
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