Management team
Our executive management team bring together many years of experience from a range of projects, both in the nuclear industry and from elsewhere. All members of the executive team are well placed to bring innovation and success to Magnox North.
Magnox North Ltd
Neil Baldwin, Managing Director
Chapelcross
Dave Wilson, Chapelcross Site Director
Born in 1967, Dave has an Honours Degree in Civil Engineering from The University of Strathclyde (Glasgow). He is now Member of the Institute of Civil Engineers, a Chartered Engineer and a Member of the Association of Project Managers.
Dave joined BNFL in 1989 based at Sellafield as a Management Trainee. In his early career had spells in the Engineering Department, Design Office and the Construction Group whilst progressing through the Management Trainee Programme and attaining Chartered status. Dave went on to manage the Building and Engineering Services Department where he had accountability for a number of significant high profile infrastructure improvement and decommissioning projects.
Dave moved to Chapelcross in November 2005 where held posts as Transition Manger and Project Delivery Manager before taking up the post of Deputy Site Director in May 2006. Having been brought up close to Chapelcross, Dave is committed to maintaining the support of the local community whilst progressing through the decommissioning programme for the Site. Married with two children Dave's interests include golf, reading and landscaping his garden.
Hunterston A
Peter Roach, Hunterston A Site Director
Peter became Site Director at Hunterston A in July 2005. With 35 years in the nuclear industry, 16 years with UKAEA and 19 years with BNFL, Peter worked at most nuclear sites in the UK including Capenhust where he was head of site. Previous roles at Capenhurst included responsibilities for decommissioning, storage and human resources.
Peter started working life as a time served electrical and instrumentation apprentice at Risley as a draughtsman then trained as an electrical engineer. He has experienced a broad variety of roles in the nuclear industry giving a well rounded and balanced background.
Peter lives with his wife Val and has 3 children and 2 grand-children. He likes to spend a lot of his spare time with his family and their pets. Peter is also a very keen golfer.
Oldbury
Joe Lamonby, Oldbury Site Director
After completing a degree in mechanical engineering at Manchester University, Joe joined the CEGB in 1977 as a graduate trainee based at the National Technical Training Centre at Hams Hall.
In 1979, he moved to the operations department of Tilbury B power station. He has spent 19 years working in various nuclear stations, including Hartlepool, Oldbury Training Centre and Sizewell B. He also has experience of the nuclear industry in the US, where he spent a year with Westinghouse. In August 2000 he became Station Manager at Hinkley Point A moving from Dungeness A where he had been Production Manager.
Trawsfynydd
Phil Sprague, Trawsfynydd Site Director
Phil brings to the job nearly 25 years experience of engineering and technology in the power industry. He first visited Trawsfynydd when he worked on the Reactor Pressure Vessel (RPV) safety case in the 1990’s.
He joined the Central Electricity Generating Board in 1983 at the south-east region Scientific Services laboratories in Gravesend and was involved with measuring and controlling air pollution from fossil-fired power stations. In 1986 he moved to the north-west Scientific Services Department at Wythenshawe and worked on the boiler rig, carrying out research and corrosion studies on Wylfa and on AGRs, and it was at this time that he worked on the RPV safety case for Trawsfynydd.
In 1994 Phil went to Berkeley and continued to work on engineering projects at sites such as the Dungeness B superheater header project and Magnox RPV safety cases. Subsequently, as head of Remote Operations, he was involved in the pressure insulation project at Hinkley and numerous other sites in reactor inspection and repair projects that the team were running.
He spent the next six years as manager of the Littlebrook site, during which time he managed the design and construction of the header restraints at Wylfa. He came to know Wylfa even better after being appointed customer project manager for the new Reactor Services organisation, when he was transferred to the site and took responsibility for running the projects there, including the long term and periodic safety reviews. He then moved to Oldbury as decommissioning manager, later becoming business manager and – most recently – head of the Project Delivery Organisation (PDO).
Phil is the junior head coach at Dursley Rugby Club near Gloucester and he coaches the under 15 side.
Wylfa
Nick Gore, Wylfa Site Director
Nick, who grew up Criccieth in North Wales, started his career as an apprentice at Trawsfynydd Site in 1971 (which is operated by Magnox North and is currently in the process of being decommissioned) and worked in a variety of roles before becoming the Site Director at Dungeness nuclear power station in Kent. Nick oversaw the end of generation at the site in 2006 and since then has occupied the pivotal role in Magnox North, overseeing compliance with the industry’s regulators. Nick's role as Wylfa Site Director commenced on November 9th 2009.
