Thomas Basham

What’s your job title?
Site Technician / Supervisor

What sort of duties do you have at work?
Looking after the Hunterston test site and the Prototype FastRig wing for duration of the land based tests

What has your career path looked like until now?
Varied from land surveying into hospitality, with qualifying as commercial captain

What’s your secret to making progress each day?
To have a plan of what small goals need to be achieved for each day

What motivates you at work?
To be able to have completed as many tasks / projects as possible during that day

What makes SGS different from other places you’ve worked for?
Having a small team and working remotely and being involved with a new technology at trials phase

Who inspires you?
People like Sir Edmund Hilary and Sir Peter Blake, for their leadership and adventurous spirit, as well as their selflessness in the work they carried out after their fame

What kind of music do you like?
Rock and Country

What’s the best book you’ve read recently?
Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari

What’s your favourite food?
Cheeseburger and fries with an ice-cold glass of coke

When you were a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up?
Fire fighter

What’s your favourite thing to do on a weekend?
Long walk with my girlfriend and the dog

What’s your favourite season and why?
Summer BBQ time