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Name
Jane Atkinson
Title
Executive Director Engineering and Automation for Bilfinger UK Ltd
Bio
Jane Atkinson is Executive Director Engineering and Automation for Bilfinger UK Ltd. She is responsible for all of the engineering design, technical, fabrication, automation and digitalisation services to the UK’s major blue chip companies.
She began her career in 1990 with British Steel where she has managed all of the major production units including several plants in Alabama, USA. During this period she became the first woman in the World to manage the Casthouse of a Blast Furnace and the second woman in the World to manage Coke Ovens. Jane then moved into power generation as Senior Vice President of all Sembcorp UK’s assets on Wilton International site.
After 19 years in Plant operations, she then moved to Cape PLC, now Altrad the largest industrial service provider in the UK. Whilst at Cape, Jane was Statutory Director and responsible for global delivery of all of Cape Specialist Services including Motherwell Bridge Tanks, Gasholders and Heat Exchangers, York Linings and Cape Chemical and Environmental Cleaning. Following acquisition in late 2017 of Cape Industrial Services Ltd, Jane was asked to lead and manage the transformation project to create the UK largest industrial service provider; Altrad Services UK. During this period she was accountable for the success of the merger of Cape, Hertel and NSG, ensuring no disruption to the day-to-day businesses and to create a £600m turnover organisation.
Jane has won several awards most notably the UK’s No. 1 Most Influential Woman in Engineering in the UK 2019. She has also won the CBI First Woman Award in Manufacturing and the prestigious Stephenson’s Award for inspiring young people in science and engineering. Awarded Fellowship of the Royal Academy of Engineering for outstanding contribution to engineering in the Steel Industry, she was the youngest Fellow in the Academy for many years. Jane was awarded the Freedom of the City of London in 2013, which led her to become a Liveryman for The Worshipful Company of Engineers. Jane is an active Trustee and Chair of the UK Board of the Institution of Chemical Engineers. She is a Governor of Teesside University and an Advisory Board Member of the National Science Museum in London.
She began her career in 1990 with British Steel where she has managed all of the major production units including several plants in Alabama, USA. During this period she became the first woman in the World to manage the Casthouse of a Blast Furnace and the second woman in the World to manage Coke Ovens. Jane then moved into power generation as Senior Vice President of all Sembcorp UK’s assets on Wilton International site.
After 19 years in Plant operations, she then moved to Cape PLC, now Altrad the largest industrial service provider in the UK. Whilst at Cape, Jane was Statutory Director and responsible for global delivery of all of Cape Specialist Services including Motherwell Bridge Tanks, Gasholders and Heat Exchangers, York Linings and Cape Chemical and Environmental Cleaning. Following acquisition in late 2017 of Cape Industrial Services Ltd, Jane was asked to lead and manage the transformation project to create the UK largest industrial service provider; Altrad Services UK. During this period she was accountable for the success of the merger of Cape, Hertel and NSG, ensuring no disruption to the day-to-day businesses and to create a £600m turnover organisation.
Jane has won several awards most notably the UK’s No. 1 Most Influential Woman in Engineering in the UK 2019. She has also won the CBI First Woman Award in Manufacturing and the prestigious Stephenson’s Award for inspiring young people in science and engineering. Awarded Fellowship of the Royal Academy of Engineering for outstanding contribution to engineering in the Steel Industry, she was the youngest Fellow in the Academy for many years. Jane was awarded the Freedom of the City of London in 2013, which led her to become a Liveryman for The Worshipful Company of Engineers. Jane is an active Trustee and Chair of the UK Board of the Institution of Chemical Engineers. She is a Governor of Teesside University and an Advisory Board Member of the National Science Museum in London.
