Drax Group operations director Peter Emery

Peter Emery
Executive Group Operations Director, Drax Group PLC

Education

1973 - 1980 - Altrincham Grammar School for Boys
1980 - 1981 - Pre-University Work Experience – Johannesburg Consolidated Investment Co (Coal/Gold/Uranium/Platinum/Antinomy Mining)
1981 - 1984 - University of Nottingham BSc (Hons) Mining Engineering 1^st Class

Career

1984 -2004 – Esso Petroleum Company Limited / ExxonMobil

1984 -1991 - Industrial Sales, Strategic Planning, Distribution Operations (Plant Manager, Avonmouth & Terminal Manager, Purfleet)
1991 -1992 - Exxon Company International, New Jersey USA, Downstream Marketing Capital Budget Coordinator (Far East then Global)
1992 -2004 - Fawley Refinery, Leadership Positions in Zonal Operations, Refinery Maintenance Manager, Refinery Operations Manager responsible for all refinery operations and member of the ExxonMobil European Leadership Team for Refining & Supply

2004-2015 - Drax Power/Drax Group PLC

2004 - 2005 - Drax Power Ltd, Production Director and member of the Executive Team which floated Drax on the LSE (Dec 2005)
2005 - 2015 - Drax Group PLC, Executive Production Director responsible for all plant operations, security, project execution and the development of CCS
2009 - Elected Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (FIMMM)
2015 - Present - Drax Group PLC, Executive Group Operations Director responsible for all Group Operations, Strategic Projects, IT and Human Resources