Apeksha Patel

Said the following about Jack Slater:

“I would like to nominate Jack Slatter due to reasons below:

Jack Slatter is a key member of AECOM E&P team in Swindon since September 2015. He was selected under the Apprentice Scheme in collaboration with Wiltshire College.

He is very proactive and diligent in delivering work assigned to him. Alongside working on major electrification schemes, Jack Slatter has successfully completed HNC this year with Chippenham College, achieving 4 distinctions in his course work.

He has been playing a very important role as an E&P designer for a wide range of S&C South Alliance projects. S&C South Alliance is a joint venture of COLAS Rail, AECOM and Network Rail for delivering S&C Renewals across the south of England and Wales. This is a 10 year framework worth over £800m.

He has independently delivered Points Heating, Lighting and Signalling Power design on complex S&C sites. He was responsible as Lead Design Engineer for Points Heating design at Patchway and East Ham. The CRE on this job (Gary Withers) has been very impressed by both his electrical knowledge and his pragmatic approach to the design process. He is capable of problem solving and looking for ‘out of the box’ but compliant solutions for his designs. For the projects that he is responsible as Lead Designer, he keeps very good track of his progress against the programme and the budget. Furthermore, he has impressed his lead engineers with his site knowledge, being able to identify components and feeding arrangements to a level which is much higher than an apprentice engineer. He has also been involved with training and providing guidance on various points heating equipment to AECOM graduates, which is worth a big applaud.

Jack has played a key role as Lead Signalling Power Designer on Southampton Freight Lengthening Project, which is due to be installed in February 2018. The project is funded by Freight Liner Ltd and the design cost is worth £1.5M. The scope of signalling power design was driven by the signalling alterations at Redbridge, Maritime and Western Docks. The scope was to redesign two radial feeders that were fed from the substations, design of 26 functional supply points and 2 REBs which distributed power along a 4 mile stretch of railway to provide power to the proposed signalling equipment.

The types of tasks Jack had to undertake was the calculation of the entire system to prove it would function correctly and it was compliant. He developed calculation drawings to present his results from these calculations in two weekly DCI (Design and Construction Interface meetings).

Due to other major schemes being designed at the same time and limited availability of senior engineers, Jack carried out lot of research and reading on the subject to understand the design requirements. He independently represented the design in IDC and DCI meetings. He also played a very key role in the staging proposals for installation and commissioning of signalling equipment and the associated 650V feeders. He has met the relevant CRE’s and 3rd party CRE’s expectation in terms of design deliverables and interface requirements.

Jack is an asset to the company. He will continue to learn and pass his valuable knowledge to others on variety of projects.“