Robbie Dougal, Business Services Graduate, HSEQ

Professional
• I was schooled at Robert Gordon’s College from 1990-2001
• I graduated from RGU with a degree in Business Studies, 2005
• As part of my degree I worked for Edinburgh Technopole, a prominent science park, for a
  year as a Marketing Assistant, 2003-04
• I worked for 3 months, in the summer of 2005, in procurement for Hydrasun before joining
  Subsea 7
• In 2004, I led a team to 2nd prize in the Scottish Institute for Enterprise National Business
  Plan Competition.

Since Joining Subsea 7 in Sept 2005
• I have been working in the HSEQ dept.
• Initially as part of the environmental team, I helped facilitate the ongoing creation of an online
  MSDS database
• I’m now primarily working on the quality side of things with work including supplier audits, audit
  reports, helping determine whether equipment such as ROVs and TMSs conform to national 
  quality and HSE standards.
• Some engineering graduates and myself formed a team and entered the Prospects Cup
  business simulation game and came 4th in the whole of the UK, winning three trophies: the
  Scottish Cup, the Engineering Cup and the University of East Anglia Rosebowl.
 
The Future
• I hope to gain as much experience in the coming years on the Business Graduate
  Programme as possible, finding a department where I can be highly satisfied and highly
  productive; and secure a permanent place within the organisation that is prosperous for both
  myself and the company.
• In the distant future, my main professional goal in life is to own and run my own successful
  business.

Andrew Thom, Associate Contract Specialist

Background
I graduated from Aberdeen Uni with a MA hons Degree in Management Studies.
Set up my own designer clothing website (z2clothing.com) – ran this for 2 years before
selling on.
Worked as an Area Sales Manager for Crombie Office – (16 months – left to join S7)
 
Time with Subsea 7
Joined the BA Graduate program in September 2005.
First placement as part of the above program was into the Contracts Dept.
Been working for the contracts dept on the Venture Project, specifically on the sub contracts. I have been dealing with all the subcontracting needs of the project from sending out the invitations to tender, through the qualification and normalisation stages, to the completion i.e. signing of the contracts, Parent Company Guarantees and Performance Bonds.
 
I have managed 17 subcontracts through to completion in my short time with the venture project – the largest of these being the award of the Towhead fabrication work to Isleburn on the Venture Goosander Project (total award value of £1,200,000)
 
I have also been processing all the service purchase order's and keeping the milestone completion payments schedule up to date for the main Venture Goosander Project.