EEMUA is pleased to announce that the winner of its Early Years Industry Award 2024 is Joseph Flynn, an electrical, control and instrumentation (EC&I) technician at Syngenta.
The award recognises the efforts of new starters within the engineering field in EEMUA member companies, demonstrating their communication skills, engineering application and leadership in their specialism. The EEMUA Awards Committee were impressed with Joseph’s entry where he demonstrated great achievement and innovation making good use of relevant guidance and available materials to propose and implement a company project that assists with preparing and training early entry engineers for working in potentially explosive atmospheres. The result is a thoroughly practical contribution to better in-house training.
Winners of EEMUA Awards 2024: (l-r) Katherine Asvegren, Joseph Flynn, Adam Potter
On receiving the award, Joseph said: “Understanding and utilising the skillsets of employees inside our organisations allows for better collaboration, innovation and teamwork to drive us closer to our goals. I’m very pleased with the outcome of this project and look forward to the following stages of its development and integration within the company.”
In recognition of the high quality of entries to the Early Years Industry Award, ‘runners-up’ prizes are presented to Kirsty Pratt, Graduate Wells Engineer at Harbour Energy and Taliya Mammadhasanzada, Process Engineer at BP. Also shortlisted for the award were Amanda Dixon, Developing Engineer at Sellafield Ltd and Promise Ahante, Associate Product Engineering Manager at BP.
EEMUA is also pleased to announce that the recipient of this year’s Stuart Turner Award is Katherine Asvegren, Senior Pressure Systems Engineer at SSE Thermal and that Adam Potter, Managing Director of Axiom, receives the EEMUA Associate Contributor of the Year Award.
The Stuart Turner Award honours the memory of Stuart Turner, an enthusiastic advocate for all things EEMUA, by recognising an employee of a member organisation who has made a significant contribution to the work of EEMUA. Katherine impressed the Awards Committee with her continued involvement across a range of EEMUA activities and significant contributions over many years. This has included active involvement within committees, chairing the Piping Systems and Pressure Vessels Committee for the last three years, being actively involved in several working groups, speaking at EEMUA events and representing EEMUA as a speaker at other events, and her work for the EEMUA Mechanical Integrity Practitioner Certificate (MIPC) course both as an assessor and content developer.
The Associate Contributor of the Year Award mirrors the Stuart Turner Award by celebrating EEMUA Associate employees who give their expertise to play a part in the Association’s work. Since Axiom became an Associate in 2017, Adam has been committed in his support of EEMUA events and contributing to EEMUA activities, most recently as a member of the working group authoring new guidance (future release) on metallic storage tanks.
The achievements of all the nominees and winners were celebrated at the EEMUA Annual Dinner held in Chester on 20 November.
