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Jane Atkinson

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Jane Victoria Atkinson CBE FREng is Executive Director of Engineering and Automation at Bilfinger UK.[1]

Education

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Atkinson studied chemical engineering at Loughborough University,[2][3] and in 2011 she received an honorary doctorate in business administration from Teesside University.[2]

Career

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Her career began as a sponsored engineering student with British Steel in 1990.[3] On completion of her first degree she worked as a technical advisor at the Teesside blast furnace before moving into operations, becoming the first woman in the world to manage a blast furnace in 2004 – the Corus cast house at Redcar.[1][3] She was later the second woman in the world to manage a coke oven.[1][3]

During her time in the steel industry she managed many major production units and spent five years with the company in Alabama in the USA.[1][4]

She later became Senior Vice President Utilities Operations at SembCorp Utilities UK.[5] Moving to Cape plc in 2014[2] she was eventually responsible for its merger with Hertel and NSG to create Altrad.[1] She moved to Bilfinger in 2019.[1]

Honours

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The CBI honoured her as Britain’s top female engineer in 2007 and in 2010 she became the youngest woman Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.[1] [6] In 2019 she was recognised as the first of the 100 top women leaders in engineering in the UK.[7] [8] She is also a Fellow of IChemE and has chartered and designated European Engineer status.[4]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g "Jane Atkinson". www.inclusiveboards.co.uk. InclusiveBoards. 22 October 2019. Retrieved 8 November 2019.
  2. ^ a b c "Our Alumni: Dr. Jane Atkinson". www.lboro.ac.uk. Loughborough University. Retrieved 8 November 2019.
  3. ^ a b c d "Jane Atkinson: Engineering's leading lady". www.thejournal.co.uk. 26 June 2013. Archived from the original on 26 August 2016. Retrieved 8 November 2019.
  4. ^ a b SembCorp News Archived 11 September 2016 at the Wayback Machine Major University Honour for Jane
  5. ^ SembCorp Homepage Archived 13 September 2018 at the Wayback Machine SembCorp
  6. ^ Ingenia - Profile Jane Atkinson FREng
  7. ^ "Women in Business". www.ft.com. Financial Times. 17 October 2019. Retrieved 8 November 2019.
  8. ^ "Women in Engineering". www.inclusiveboards.co.uk. InclusiveBoards. 22 October 2019. Retrieved 8 November 2019.