Philip JupeWickham, Hampshire

Company Name

Davies Group

Position Held

Engineering Manager

Dates

0000 - Present

Details

Regional Engineering Manager - Davies Group. Oct 2012 - Present Duties and responsibilities : Management of up to 33 professional engineers and surveyors dealing with Perils and Subsidence claims covering the UK. Team Meetings, training, coaching, auditing, appraisals, quality control, complaints and HR issues. Recruitment, restructuring, performance issues and redundancy. Ensuring that the team progress claims efficiently and make the correct engineering and insurance liability decisions. Ensuring staff comply with company philosophies and procedures and that they meet performance targets. Manages own caseload of complex and complaint cases. Referral point for technical queries and concurrence approvals Providing technical and insurance advice and support to Claims Handing office staff.

Position Held

Engineering Manager

Dates

0000 - Present

Details

Regional Engineering Manager - InFront Innovation. Aug 2007 - Oct 2012 Duties and responsibilities : Managing a team of up to 18 subsidence Engineers and Surveyors covering the South of UK. Training, coaching, auditing, appraisals, quality control, complaints and HR issues. Ensuring that the team progress claims efficiently and make the correct engineering and insurance liability decisions. Ensuring staff comply with company philosophies and procedures and that they meet performance and financial targets. Holding regular team meetings and arranging formal training sessions. Providing monthly performance reports to the Engineering Director and agreeing future targets and process improvements. Agreeing technical procedures with other managers throughout the company. Providing feedback to clients via audits and at client meetings. Providing valuable technical advice and assistance to the office-based claims handling staff. Managing my own caseload of complex, high value, VIP and complaint cases.

Company Name

National Design- Cunningham Lindsey

Position Held

Office Manager

Dates

0000 - Present

Details

National Design Office Manager - Cunningham Lindsey Sept 2001 - Aug 2007 . Duties and responsibilities : Management of a design office providing engineering and architectural services to in-house engineers, surveyors and loss adjusters throughout the UK and for private clients. Responsible for providing repair solutions for buildings damaged by subsidence, heave, landslip fire, storm and flood. I managed a team of 12 staff including : Engineers, CAD Technicians and admin staff. Services included calculations, detailed design, drawings, technical advice and statutory approvals. Responsible for developing processes and procedures, product development, programming and allocating work, checking designs, client and contractor relationships, contract documentation, tendering procedures, fee quotations, invoicing, and resolving complaints. Developed partnering agreements with specialist contractors for design and build underpinning schemes, which produced significant time and cost savings. Responsible for the development and implementation of an economic micro piling/stabilisation system. Responsible for audits, recruitment, training, staff appraisals.

Company Name

Cunningham Lindsey Previously Ellis and Buckle

Position Held

Project Manager

Dates

0000 - Present

Details

Project Manager - Cunningham Lindsey Previously Ellis and Buckle . Sept 1996 - Sept 2001 . Duties and responsibilities : Responsible for investigating and resolving subsidence and other perils claims landslip, storm, fire, flood, oil contamination, impact and earthquake . Dealing with all engineering and insurance liability aspects. Duties included assessing damage, engineering diagnosis, compiling reports, site investigations, monitoring, mitigation works, design of remedial repairs, specifications, obtaining tenders, site supervision and contract management. Negotiations with third parties and pursuing financial contributions and recoveries. I handled a large number of claims, reporting to both Insurers and Policy Holders. Managed and provided training/guidance to technician engineers and other technical support staff. Responsible for CDM, Party Wall and Health and Safety matters, checking and approving engineering designs. Provided expert civil and structural engineering advice to other areas of the business including liability, commercial and general loss adjusters. Provided engineering advice and checked structural design calculations for the in-house design office

Position Held

Project Manager/Design Engineer/Resident Site Engineer

Dates

0000 - Present

Details

Project Manager/Design Engineer/Resident Site Engineer - Various Consulting Engineers. Sept 1981 - Aug 1996 Duties and responsibilities : Project Manager and Civil/Structural Engineer for Husband and Co, MFD International Consulting, Kenchington Little and Allott and Lomax. Responsible for preparing and presenting feasibility reports, project planning, design, procurement and supervision of a wide variety of construction projects in the UK and overseas. Structural inspections and reporting, including Britannia Bridge over the Menai Straits, Liberty Building London and various telecommunication structures. Resident Engineer responsible for project management and site supervision of A55 dual carriageway in North Wales. Project Manager for new MOD HQ Command Centre at Salisbury, Heathrow Air Traffic Control Centre, several highway bridge replacements in Oxfordshire and West Sussex, Ringwood sports centre and new church at Weeke. Project management duties included planning and programming, design, negotiating fees and claims, staff resources, progress reporting, managing budget expenditure, monitoring QA procedures, preparing and presenting tenders. Office management including monthly reporting to company directors on work in progress, earnings performance, future staff requirements and marketing prospects. Projects included MOD rationalisation, offices, hotels, sports centres, specialist defence and communications buildings, multi storey car parks, bridges highways, rail and aqueducts , retaining walls, harbours, pontoons, swimming pools and communication towers.