Pamela is a qualified Chemical Engineer with a BEng (Chemical Engineering) Honours degree in Polymer and Chemical Product Design from the University of Pretoria. Pamela has also completed a short course on Process Safety Management presented by IChemE.
She has 8 years of experience in the engineering project environment from idea generation, industry and market research, product design, feasibility studies, environmental impact studies to process and chemical process safety engineering.
Her skills set developed over this career span is summarised below:
Chemical Industry and Market research and analysis including technology analysis and value chain analysis and development.
Product Design and Development, including idea generation, product and market needs and specifications identification, needs analysis and final product development and specification.
Detailed site selection using selection matrices.
Basic chemical engineering package analysis and communication of technical information.
Compilation of basic engineering information and process engineering information.
Assisting in Environmental Impact Assessments (EIA) in the Chemical Industry. Providing relevant and quality information to the specialists.
Chemical Process Safety Engineering inputs in engineering packages, EIAs and MHIs. Hazard identification and analysis. Development of basic emergency response plans.