Control room officer at Navigator Terminals, Nicola Briggs, talks about her experience as a woman in tanks Before accidentally entering the storage terminals industry around 13 years ago, Navigator Terminals control room officer, Nicola Briggs, was a mobile hairdresser. She recalls that whilst trying to set up her salon she saw an advert to work on a weighbridge. ‘I didn’t tell my dad, who was the operations manager at the time, as I did not want to use his influence,’ she says. ‘I was then offered the position, so had to come clean to him!’ After working there for six […]
Women in Tanks: Catherine Dix
February 21, 2024
Head of mechanical and structures at Technodyne, Catherine Dix, tells Tank Storage Magazine about solving real world problems in her engineering role Catherine Dix, head of mechanical and structures at Technodyne, joined the industry when she was studying for her PhD at the University of Southampton, UK. ‘I wanted to get out of academia and work in the industrial world. I wanted to use my engineering and computational skills,’ Dix says. Dix wanted to be in a real-world setting, solving real-world problems. She came across smaller, local company, Technodyne and applied. ‘This was something completely different but great. I was […]
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