Erica Gaffney
Project Manager
Phone:
+44 (0)1900 822 458 (Office)
+44 (0)7728 981 308 (Direct)
Address:
12 Market Place, Cockermouth,
Cumberland, CA13 9NQ, UK
Key areas of expertise:
Project management and coordination
Stakeholder engagement and management
Training coordination and management
Office management and administration
Certifications:
ILMC3 Communication, ILMC3 Leadership, ILMC3 Project Management, ITTI Language Teacher
A Bit About Me
Erica is a dedicated professional with the drive and skill set to excel in a challenging environment.
A versatile and results-driven Operations Manager, with more than 30 years of experience in operations, business development, office management, problem solving and logistics, combined with tactical project management. She is highly skilled in stakeholder relations, networking, collaborating and negotiating with clients and colleagues to achieve business objectives.
Critical thinking skills and the ability to adapt to ever-changing and challenging environments give Erica the ability to work in a multitude of different industries. She has significant experience in juggling multiple responsibilities and priorities and in supervising teams to ensure smooth running of business operations.
Recent Assignments
November 2024 - March 2025
February 2024 - November 2024
January 2023 - February 2024
Sub-Project Manager, Sellafield Decommissioning Nuclear Waste Partnership (DNWP), UK. Erica moved from IDP to support the mobilisation and transition of the new Decommissioning Nuclear Waste Partnership (DNWP). As Sub-Project Manager, Erica provides support to the Mobilisation and Transition Lead, Lead Project Manager and Project team. Erica’s primary responsibility is the training workstream in the Mobilisation and Transition programme. She is tasked to work the Sellafield enterprise and current framework training partners to understand the requirements for a successful and speedy mobilisation and transition to business as usual. Other key activities delivered by Erica to date include coordination of the project initialisation readiness assessment; collating success criteria from all workstream leads; creation of high-level accommodation strategy; supporting DNWP make versus buy strategy.
Sub-Project Manager, Sellafield Infrastructure Delivery Partnership (IDP), UK.
Erica was commissioned by Sellafield to support support the IDP Project Management workstream for the planning, mobilisation and transition phases of the upcoming Sellafield Infrastructure Delivery Partnership (IDP). Erica’s role was to support the IDP Project Manager with programme planning, scheduling and co-ordination of all phases of the project, from pre-contract, mobilisation, transition through to business as usual. Erica's
main duties were to efficiently and effectively plan and manage the Mobilisation & Transition schedule (reviewing and monitoring workstream leads’ key planning activities to ensure project progress while identifying any risks relating to schedule delay); develop and proactively manage the project risk register; produce key documentation for the project management workstream and deputies for the Project Manager when required.
Sub-project Manager, Sellafield Infrastructure Strategic Alliance (ISA), UK. Erica worked alongside the Head of Business Operations to support various key activities for the Business Operations function with a focus on ISA exiting successfully. These included: Supporting the Project Team for ISA Exit Strategy with the development and project management of the Exit and Transition Business Operations Forward plan; monitoring the workstream’s actions, activities and tasks and supporting workstream leads;
supporting the successful deployment of the Safran Risk Manager Project, being responsible for the co-ordination of the project team and Board’s actions and tasks and documenting and managing risks; supporting the development of Business Operations workstream KPIs..
Testimonial
"I just wanted to say a huge thank you for all of the excellent work and support you have given us on DNWP over the last few months. You have been an absolute superstar and moved us forwards so much, particularly in terms of the training, accommodation and readiness assessment work. You’ve developed some great relationships with the different stakeholders and have put us in a really good place to move forwards from. It’s been an absolute pleasure working with you."
Marie Hayward
Sellafield DNWP Mobilisation & Transition Lead, 2025
