Jennifer Maher has been named as one of the top 50 women in engineering
Sellafield engineers, Jennifer Maher and Jennifer Humphries have extra reasons to celebrate this Women in Engineering Day having been named in the Women in Engineering Society’s Top Women in Engineering Awards.
Following in the footsteps of the first Women in Engineering Society Secretary, Dame Caroline Haslett, who set the standard for the three-pin safety plug to protect children from electric shocks, the awards this year were given to women who are protecting the public through their work, often unseen and unknown.
Jennifer Maher is one of our principal mechanical engineers as part of the team who are working to empty one of our highest nuclear hazards, the Pile Fuel Cladding Silo, and was named as one of the ‘Top 50 Women in Engineering’.
Up against women from across the UK in all sectors, Jennifer’s winning nomination stood out as it demonstrated the resilience, attention to detail and high safety standards expected of a leader and role model for women in engineering.
Jennifer Humphries, one of our radiation protection advisors was shortlisted to the top 100 engineers. She is also President of the Society for Radiological Protection, a post she took up earlier this year.