Derek O’Connor holds both a Master’s Degree in Building Services Engineering from Brunel University and an Honors Degree in Engineering from the University College Northampton. He has over twenty years’ experience within the engineering sector as an engineer and a qualified electrician in various roles. Derek is the Facilities Engineering and Project Manager for Bausch + Lomb Ireland having joined the company in November 2003. His main responsibility’s is the uptime, compliance, expansion projects and energy management for the site. During this period Derek has achieved runner up in the SEAI national energy awards in 2008 in the “large user” category, was the team lead in obtaining ISO50001 accreditation in April 2013 and successfully completed the recent installation of a 3.3MWe CHP for the site in May 2016.
