Career History
1981 – to date
Technical Director and Commercial Manager, Manderstam International
For examples of most recent work go to completed projects.
1981 – 1984
Project Manager, Head of the Engineering Design Group of industrial and design engineers providing support services for engineering in the manufacturing and process industries. Group provides problem solving ‘think tank’ to overcome production and cost bottlenecks and detailed design and specification of production equipment. Specialisation in flexible manufacturing techniques, ‘Just-in-Time’ work in progress, computer aided design, production machinery design and tooling, Quality Control and Assurance requirements to ISO 9001/2.
29 years experience of project management, mechanical and process design and engineering in the oil/gas, petrochemical, and power industries with the Manderstam Group of Consulting Engineers in Qatar and London offices as senior engineer, project engineer, project manager and then project director of UK office. Responsible for all front end process and mechanical design and the supervision of engineers and draughtsmen. Experience includes mechanical equipment, valve and piping design, and material specifications, procurement, site supervision of installation in oil/gas production and separation units, LNG/LPG/NGL plants, storage and loading facilities and power stations.
UK Ministry of Defence – Royal Ordnance Factory, Leeds (Military Vehicle Production)
Manager CAD/CAM machine tool section, responsible for production programming and IT support for all automated machine tools for machining armoured steel (high nickel alloy steels) and armoured aluminium.
Member of British Standards Institute (BSI) committee on CAD/CAM machine tools.
UK Ministry of Defence – Military Vehicles Engineering Establishment, Chertsey, Surrey
Project Engineer on the research, design and development of the Challenger Main Battle Tank. Work included work on Rolls-Royce diesel engines, cooling systems and fuel systems.
UK Ministry of Defence – Graduate Apprentice
Project Engineer on the research, design and development of the Challenger Main Battle Tank. Work included work on Rolls-Royce diesel engines, cooling systems and fuel systems.
Expert Witness
Manderstam International Group
Mr Lumley is Technical Director at the Manderstam International Group of industrial and process engineers. They supply support services for engineering in the process and metallurgical industries.
The Group provides a problem solving “think tank” to help the clients overcome production and cost bottlenecks, and detailed design and specification of equipment particularly in the oil and gas industries.