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Following a career as Engineer, Manager and Leader at BNFL (20 years) and then AWE (17 years), Bruce is now retired. His career frequently required appropriate integration of Design Intent performance (Reliability and Quality); Legal Compliance and Licensing (development and meeting Safety Cases).

Relevant Engineering roles held: Facility Design (concept to realisation); performance demonstration via Modelling and Commissioning; Maintenance Optimisation; Engineering Substantiation; independent Corporate Assurance (Third Line of Defence); finally culminating as Technical Advisor to a Director.

Relevant experience includes: Production Operations; enhancing reliability by identifying and delivering Engineering and Human Factors solutions; development and deployment of unified Engineering and HF Deterministic Safety Cases; and Decommissioning of Conventional, Nuclear and Toxic assets.

Pete graduated from Heriot-Watt University in 1987 with a Honours Degree in Mechanical Engineering and with a Masters Degree in Nuclear Science and Technology in 1998 from the Royal Naval College at Greenwich.  From 1987 to 2001 he served as an Engineering Officer in the Submarine Service of the Royal Navy.  Following his time in the Royal Navy Pete embarked on a career as an Engineering Consultant specialising in Nuclear Engineering and Nuclear Safety Assurance.  His consultancy career includes management positions with Babtie, Jacobs Engineering, ABS Consulting, Hydrock NMCL and currently AtkinsRealis.  In these international organisations he has been responsible for business development, recruitment and programme delivery across the civil and defence nuclear industry along with other high hazard and regulated industries in the UK.

Pete is a Fellow of the Institution and a longstanding Board Member and past Chair of the Safety & Reliability Group. More recently he has taken on the role of Trustee at the Hazards Forum on behalf of the IMechE.

Former H M Principal Specialist Inspector of Health and Safety (Mechanical Engineering) at Health and Safety Executive

Vaughan, over a period of twenty years, held senior mechanical engineering positions in Health and Safety Executive. He was a Petroleum Specialist in HSE, Offshore Division, a Principal Specialist Inspector in Railway Division and a Principal Specialist Inspector in Field Operations Division. Vaughan has assessed safety reports or safety cases in all three Divisions for offshore, rail and COMAH activities.

Prior to joining HSE, he was employed by CEGB for ten years in the assessment of nuclear safety reports or cases. Vaughan’s earlier responsibilities, with British Rail, related to all aspects of railway mechanical and electrical engineering and with BOC, low temperature development projects. In addition, with CEGB, he was employed on coal and oil fired power stations and was responsible for conventional plant quality and timely delivery at contractors works.

Dependability Specialist Fellow - Ministry of Defence

Richard has spent the last 30 years working to improve Reliability, Maintainability and Supportability across numerous projects spread across all areas of defence. Outside of the “day job” he has also been a Member of the Council of the Safety and Reliability Society (SaRS) for over 25 years taking various including 9 years as President of the society. He has supported the British Standards Committee for Dependability (DS/1) since 2002, is currently Chair and also worked with International Electrotechnical Commission – Technical Committee 56 (Dependability) developing international standards – most recently he has been Head of the UK Delegation to TC56. He has been the liaison between IMechE SRG and SaRS for 20 years.

Across his roles he has produced numerous papers on various aspects of Defence Reliability and has a particular interested in modelling the Reliability characteristics of complex multi-function platforms and the use of the Dependability Case as a tool to ensure Dependability of assets.

Eur Ing Dr Franceskides is a Chartered Mechanical Engineer, Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and a member of the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine. His current role at the IMechE is Vice Chair of the Reading area and organising team member of the Great Debate 2025. His experience as a forensic engineer has involved the handling of various claims, from pharmaceutical, manufacturing and property damage (contamination) as well as reinstatement, including low value contentious claims to high-value, high-profile matters.

He achieved his MEng in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Liverpool, he then joined Cranfield University and completed an MSc in Forensic Engineering and Science and a PhD in Biomedical and Biomechanical Engineering. He is experienced in Defence and Civilian industries with predominant focus in health, manufacturing, motorsport, marine and aerospace; where he has carried out component analysis and testing, rig design, build and commissioning studies as well as being engaged in change management and continuous improvement but also recovery and remediation activities.

HSE Senior Manager at Transport for London

Leading Consultant, BMT

James is a Chartered Engineer with a 1st Class honours degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Sheffield. Since graduating, James has over 13 years’ professional experience with a major focus on technical consulting within UK Defence.

His experience includes: (1) Working for AgustaWestland as a manufacturing engineer, specialising in repair and overhaul of composite aircraft components; as well as (2) Working with tpgroup as an operational analyst and modeller. James’ long-term role however has been as a consultant with BMT, working in the disciplines of Integrated Logistics Support and Reliability & Maintainability (R&M), applying reliability engineering techniques to support both customers and suppliers across a variety of programmes and domains.

James joined the SRG in 2024 with a desire to develop and maintain awareness of best practices being applied in adjacent industries, and to share knowledge based upon his previous experience. In particular, James has a keen interest and passion in the application of mathematical modelling techniques to analyse complex problems, undertake risk-based analysis, and support project, programme and policy decision making.

Christopher is a master's student in Biomedical Engineering at Imperial College London. He holds a BEng in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Birmingham, where he received the Joseph Thom Carding Memorial Prize for excellence. During his time at ROSEN, he developed asset management solutions for C-suite clients in the energy sector. He has a keen interest in emerging technologies, such as quantum systems and their reliability, and presented a poster at Imperial’s Quantum for Humanity conference in August 2024, engaging in discussions on the future applications of quantum engineering.

He currently serves as the Young Member Representative for the Safety and Reliability Group at the IMechE, ensuring that the perspectives of young engineers are considered in the group's initiatives. In this role, he collaborates with other Young Member boards and panels to promote engagement and knowledge sharing within the engineering community.

Kevin is Chair of the IMechE’s Engineering for Reliability Work Group and Network Rail’s Subject Matter Exert in Design For Reliability. He is an IMechE Fellow who gained his passion for continuous improvement at Ford Motor Company, where he was Quality Supervisor for Dagenham Body and Assembly Plant. His MSc in Advanced Automotive Engineering gained him a patent for an intelligent system which identified squeak and rattle issues using frequency finger-printing in 1996.

As part of Ford’s world class Engineering Quality Improvement Programme, he trained and supported engineers and managers in Total Quality Management tools such as Statistical Process Control, Design of Experiments, Potential Failure Mode and Effects Analysis, Problem Solving, Quality Function Deployment and Robustness. This allowed him to build an extensive portfolio of successful projects, including winning Ford’s prestigious President’s Customer Driven Quality Award twice. Kevin was on the first waves of Ford’s Six Sigma Black Belt and Master Black Belt training and then headed up and deployed Six Sigma into foundries, V-Engine plants, Automatic Transmission Design and Diesel Engineering.

After spending time as the Quality and Reliability Supervisor for European Diesel Engines fitted into Jaguar vehicles, Kevin joined Network Rail to deliver their Maintenance Six Sigma Programme leading to very significant signed-off savings. A role as Reliability Improvement Manager for Signalling, led him to identify the need, write and gain stakeholder approval for Network Rail’s mandated Design for Reliability Standard, integrating reliability tools into the design process. He has briefed and taught this to Network Rail, suppliers and European Infrastructure Management companies. Kevin received a Network Rail Technical Fellowships, for experience and knowledge in the fields of quality and reliability. He won Kepner Tregoe’s combined technologies 2022 Global Excellence Award for his work on Design For Reliability and recognised at the 2022 National Rail Awards for his Outstanding Personal Contribution to Rail. Kevin has written a regular article on reliability for ‘Rail Infrastructure Magazine’ since July 2022.

Rasa Remenyte-Prescott is an Associate Professor in Risk and Reliability Engineering and the Head of Resilience Engineering Research Group at the University of Nottingham. The focus of her research is the development of techniques for risk, reliability and resilience, asset management, maintenance modelling and fault diagnostics, as well as models for the failure and recovery of engineering systems and clinical processes. The research spans across a few industrial sectors, including railway, highway, aerospace and energy. Rasa chairs an ESRA technical committee in the Healthcare and Medical Industry, and regularly participates in ESReDA projects groups in maintenance modelling and resilience. She joined the SRG Board in 2013.

Bob Wilson is a Chartered Mechanical Engineer having served an apprenticeship covering both mechanical and electrical engineering. He was enrolled as a Member of the IMechE in 1971 and a Member of the Chartered Management Institute (formerly BIM/IIM) 1986/7.

His engineering career has included research and development, design, production, application.

Prior to retirement in 2004, he was a Senior R&M Engineer within the Defence Logistics Organisation of the UK MoD. He supported the introduction of the reliability case and also pioneered root cause analysis as part of the MoD reliability tool kit. He is now a general consultant operating under the business name of Tridiam Services including accident investigation and similar activities relating to Safety and Reliability.