For this post, I'm handing over to Ryan Marsden - Ryan works for BP Azerbaijan - Global Projects Organisation (GPO) and recently became Chartered. Below, Ryan tells us his story.
My name is Ryan Marsden, I am proud to call myself a Chartered engineer with the IET.
After completing a Computer Aided Engineering (Mechanical) BSc degree at the Anglia Ruskin university I gained a full scholarship to study Engineering management (Masters of Research) at Cranfield university. On completing my master’s degree, I joined Bechtel on their graduate development program. Bechtel is an international engineering and construction company which is still owned by the Bechtel family from its beginnings in 1898. What drew me to Bechtel and a career in major projects is the potential of international travel and the ability to work on a variety of different projects types. My first international assignment with Bechtel as a Cost engineer was on the Angola LNG project, based in the north of Angola on the month of the Congo river.
After leaving Bechet I joined BP’s upstream projects within the Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey business group as a Cost Engineering Team Lead. I have been a BP expat working in Azerbaijan since 2014, during this time I have worked on a number of projects including offshore construction, subsea, vessel upgrades and onshore pipelines.
My recently awarded chartership with the IET is the culmination of over 10 years of engineering experience working within multiple engineering teams and on a variety of diverse major projects. What links each of my projects together is my commitment to learn on the job and further deepen my understanding of Engineering and its importance to major projects. Utilizing my engineering experience, I can make a difference to the safe, quality and reliable build within the approved budget. There is no doubt that within the industry the Chartered engineer status is still the pinnacle of one’s engineering career and is recognized by management as an industry standard of excellence within one’s engineering field.
I would encourage anyone that has thought about Chartership to meet with an IET Chartership advisor and develop a plan to help them achieve their Chartered engineer status.
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