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PROFESSIONAL RESUME
ROBERT JOHN SLEEMAN
EDUCATION
Brunel University B.Sc with Honours Date Sept 1991- June 1993
Land Investigation and Soils Testing
University of London B.Ed with Honours Date Sept 1984- June1988
Physical Education with Information Technology
Humphry Davy Grammar School Date Sept 1976- June 1984
13 'O' levels 3 'A' levels
CURRENT POSITION: FREELANCE CONSULTANT
SUMMARY
Over 20 years experience in infrastructure related projects including Highways and Geotechnics. Over
recent years Robert has been involved in some of the largest DBFO road schemes and has a broad range
of skills in this field. Key projects include M25 DBFO(£7.6bn), HAGDMS National Update Project, Atlanta
1996 Olympics, Harare 1995 All Africa Games
TECHNICAL SKILLS
• Bid Appraisal
• Team Management Systems (Application and Integration)
• Project Rescue Team Management
• Cross Team Management
• Commercial Management Analysis
• Safety, and Risk Analysis
• Dataroom Management
• Client/Consultancy/Contractor Liaison
• O&M Management
• RE/CQM /CQA Site Management
• Financial Reporting
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WORK RECORD
MID SURVEY LTD MARCH 2015 - PRESENT
CALNE LANDFILL WILTS
CQA Engineer for a gas management project.
SMALLBROOK LTD FEBRUARY 2015 - MARCH 2015
SHAW FARM LANDFILL SWINDON
Resident Engineer for the installation of a new leachate control system on a closed site.
JPCE LTD APRIL 2014 - FEBRUARY 2015
FINMERE LANDFILL OXON
Resident Engineer for the construction of a new landfill cell using clay as a low permeability liner and
30,000 SqM of capping including slope stability remedial work and financial reporting.
SLR CONSULTING SEPTEMBER 2012 - MARCH 2014
Robert was CQA/Resident Engineer for five projects:-
CALNE LFS
Resident Engineer for the capping of three cells with the installation of associated gas infrastructure.
Remedial action on existing side slope to improve stability. Surface water control to link northern quadrant
to containment lagoons.
LEAN LFS
Resident Engineer for the construction of a new cell including the blasting and excavation of 50,000 cubic
metres of rock which was composed of shillet, slate and dolerite, capping and construction of a new haul
road after blasting rendered the original haul road unstable.
BLUE HAZE LFS
CQA for the drilling and installation of a gas collection system.
WAPSEYS WOOD
CQA for drilling, logging to Eurocode 7 and installation of a series of water monitoring wells
PEBSHAM LFS
CQA for 24,000 sqm of permanent capping.
PETER BAXTER ASSOCIATES MARCH 2012 – SEPTEMBER 2012
CQA Engineer for combined leachate gas well infrastructure installations. Slope stability investigation at
Rainham, Pitsea and currently RE for 20,000 sq/m permanent capping installation.
EGNIOL CONSULTING LTD JUNE 2011 – DECEMBER 2011
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Resident Engineer for three sites, Knowl Hill in Berkshire, Blue Haze in Hampshire and Sutton Courtenay
in Oxfordshire. At Knowl Hill the work involved slope stability and side wall construction. Blue Haze works
include the installation of 4.5 km of a gas ring main and associated infrastructure. The works at Sutton
Courtenay was to engineer a stable base for a 12,000sqm building, involving the removal of 300,000 cube
of saturated silt and replacement of this material with engineered fill.
PETER BAXTER ASSOCIATES MARCH 2010 -APRIL 2011
CQA for installation of temporary cap used to prevent excessive rain water catchment affecting the
leachate level in cell at Squabb Wood LFS. CQA for remedial repairs of HDPE capping, leachate control
system, gas well and slope stability at Beddingham LFS. CQA for new cell at Shelford LFS, clay floor and
walls with 2mm HDPE liner, sand protection and tyre bales. DSEAR Auditing for multiple sites. Bid
preparation work.
PETER BAXTER ASSOCIATES SEPTEMBER 2009 -DECEMBER 2009
Resident Engineer for an environmentally sensitive well refurbishment project in Canterbury. Went straight
onto next project which was to set up and manage the teams in the UK implementing DSEAR Audits for
Virador Waste Management. Office work included bid appraisal for Veolia Environmental Solutions
contracts for 2011 to 2014. Bid safety was
EGNIOL CONSULTING LTD JUNE 2009 -SEPTEMBER 2009
Resident Engineer and CQA work on various sites in the UK. Each site used clay as a low permeability
liner in conjunction with HDPE plastic. An on site laboratory was used to provide results for moisture and
dry density.
PETER BAXTER ASSOCIATES JANUARY 2009 -MAY 2009
This role included both tender preparation for PBA and bid appraisal work for the end client Virador. The
tender preparation strand involved challenging the assumptions supporting the tender and creating
shadow models to verify alternative strategies. The bid appraisal work was centered on assessing the
value engineering solutions offered by each contractor to create a value for money (VFM) comparison.
SLR CONSULTING SEPTEMBER 2008 -DECEMBER 2008
Robert was involved in resolving Contractor/Client/Environmental Agency issues to ensure that two
different projects were completed on time and within budgetary constraints. On the Isle of Wight this also
included oversight of an archeological site which was being investigated inside the CDM boundary and an
acute flooding problem.
HYDER/HALCROW JOINT VENTURE (HHJV) MAY 2007-AUGUST 2008
Transferred to the new Hyder/Halcrow (in association with Parsons Brinkerhoff) Joint Venture (HHJV
Company). Responsible for updating and validating the M25 DBFO Dataroom, which held over 180,000
documents. Managing the Technical Query process and addressing data gaps as required. Responsible
for preparing the Tender Cost Estimate (TCE) which acted as both a shadow bid and public sector
comparitor. Responsible to ensure that the TCE would be assessed as fit for purpose by an independent
auditing consultancy (EC Harris) which was achieved and a joint report was issued.
Following submission Robert was made responsible for the Robustness of Price Team for Form 32 (RoP)
and Pricing Methodology Team for Form 15, this was made up of both HHJV and EC Harris staff. The role
was to assess the bids to make sure that the prices submitted were adequate to fulfill the tender
requirements and to validate the cost capture principles set out for future works. The team identified
several major issues with all three tenderers and in conjunction with other non-compliancy issues from
other assessment teams led to a re-bid situation. His team redrafted bid forms to ensure greater clarity
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and compliance with the Nicholls report and then assessed the re-bids producing a number of reports and
recommendations. As of August 2008 the final RoP recommendations have not been fully implemented
and the contract is at Preferred Bidder stage. Robert and a colleague from EC Harris were also involved in
contractualising Form 15 into Schedule 7 this entailed meetings with the HA appointed lawyers and the
Preferred Bidder lawyers and team members.
From late June 2008 Robert headed the team investigating Value for Money (VFM) between Advanced
Traffic Management (ATM) and other widening options for the Later Upgraded Sections (LUS) on the M25.
HYDER CONSULTING LTD AUGUST 2005-MAY 2007
Appointed to oversee the final phases of the adoption of NEC3 tender documents for various HA Regional
offices; this role included liaison between partner consultancies, approved contractors and the HA. Moved
internally after completing this project to become team Leader for the M25 DBFO (Design Build Finance
Operate) Data Room project. Robert’s responsibilities included monitoring and supervising engineers who
were extracting information from the many sources for use on an OCD Alchemy database (M25 DBFO
Dataroom). The M25 DBFO Dataroom, as of May 2007 had over 170,000 documents, which was used by
the three tenderers to prepare their bids for the M25 DBFO contract. Each process had to be quality
checked by him before scanning. The M25 DBFO Dataroom was updated monthly. Rob also designed
and implemented an H&S course for manual handling of documents which was adopted by Hyder and ran
courses for other departments in this matter. He was also required to liaise with the three other partner
consultancies Jacobs, Parsons Brinkerhoff and Halcrow. It was also his responsibility to report directly on
behalf of all the consultancies and the current operating company to the Highways Agency (HA). With the
award of the Departments Nominee Consultancy Support contract (DNCS) to the Hyder/Halcrow Joint
Venture (HHJV) the role evolved to also managing the Technical Query Process from tenderers to the HA
and Robert was transferred to the new HHJV Company.
M. J. CARTER ASSOCIATES LTD JULY 2005-AUGUST 2005
Site Engineer for the construction of the wheel wash, haul road and new cell for Lafarge Ltd. Cost
management, report writing, testing and liaison with the Environmental Agency.
MOUCHEL PARKMAN CONSULTING LTD NOVEMBER 2004-JUNE 2005
M25 Orbital Motorway, Senior GAD (Geotechnical Asset Database) Engineer, managing a team of 10,
comprising 8 Geotechnical engineers investigating all earthworks adjacent to network and 2 support staff.
Role included Health and Safety review of working practices, planning site visits using WHIMS (Web
hosted Highways Information Management System), data collation, review and entering onto HAGDMS
(Highways Agency Geotechnical Data Management System). Checking of data collected through site
visits. Report writing of collated data. Involvement with cost management to ensure effective use of
resources, to ensure economic pricing of variation orders which had extended the job threefold.
Mouchel Parkman CDM Regulation Course, LANTRA Motorway H&S Training , PTS Railway qualified
sponsored by Mouchel Parkman, Arcelor RPS Sheet Piling course
PETER BAXTER ASSOCIATES
FINMERE LANDFILL OXON AUGUST 2004-NOVEMBER 2004
Resident Engineer for the construction of a new landfill cell using clay as a low permeability liner. The
contract had started as a “muck shift” with no supervision and by week 7 was already 4 weeks behind
schedule. Re-organized and supervised contractor’s method of working, kept daily records of all activities
on site, equipment materials used. Organized testing regime, correlated results.
SHELFORD LANDFILL CANTERBURY KENT
CQA Engineer for the construction of new haul road in DBM and wheel wash system. Organized and
supervised testing, reported results.
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ROBERT LONG LTD
EFFORD LANDFILL HAMPSHIRE MAY 2004-AUGUST 2004
Resident Engineer for the construction of two cells, using clay as low permeability liner, and the capping
of two adjoining cells. Supervised daily construction obtained and tested clay samples using core-
cutting methods for moisture, bulk and dry density and permeability, Proctor 4.5 testing. Daily supervision
of the lining works, seam testing, destructive and non-destructive testing.
WEEKS CONSULTING LTD
HYDE FARM BUCKINGHAMSHIRE APRIL 2004-MAY 2004
CQA engineer for restoration of 55,000 sqm of capping using bentonite impregnated Gcell liner
WHITE YOUNG GREEN DEC 2003- MARCH 2004
CQA engineer for the construction of a new cell, where clay was used as a low permeability base, covered
by 2mm HDPE liner: included in the works was the sump placement and leachate drainage blanket.
Supervision of all testing from NDM to Resistivity This site had ongoing issues with the E.A. suffered
serious delay due to the poor weather in the autumn and needed to be bought back to schedule or the
client risked running out of void space. My role was to ensure the contract came in on time as well as
meet the criteria set out in the specification, also to finish off the Q.A. report.
WEEKS CONSULTING LTD APRIL 2003- TO DEC 2003
STAR WORKS KNOWL HILL BERKSHIRE
CQA engineer for construction of a new cell, as work progressed my role evolved to effectively
geotechnical engineer for the construction of the new cell, using clay as a low permeability liner. Capping
and restoring the two adjoining cells using geo-membrane plastics. Provide setting out in conjunction with
Waltons the surveyors using a Total Station EDM. Assisting in the final design of the cell whilst it was
under construction.
Supervised daily construction obtained and tested clay samples using core cutting methods for moisture,
bulk and dry density permeability, samples were also tested with a NDM gauge. This site had problems
with one of the adjoining cells, which had in excess of 8 metres of leachate within it, contaminating the cell
under construction. My role included resolving this issue and incorporating the phased solution into the
CQA plan to the satisfaction of the E.A. and County Council.
Further history provided on request.