Vince is a Chartered Engineer, and a Fellow of IOM3. He started his career with the NCB as an electrical apprentice in 1980, progressing to holding senior managerial positions at several large mines in the Midlands.

He joined the Health and Safety Executive in 2008, as a HM Principal Regulatory Specialist Inspector in Mines. The Mines Inspectorate regulates a range of major hazard sectors in and outside of the extractive industries.

Vince is fully committed to the advancement of engineering, science, education, training, and competence of those involved in the sectors he regulates.

He remains passionate about developing engineers of the future, many of the apprentices he mentored now hold senior engineering posts. He also introduced the first women electrical apprentice into deep coal mining.

He is committed to sharing best practice and equipping engineers to deal with challenges, having chaired stakeholder committees, including the Engineering Liaison, NTLC SMIM and the MIME annual safety seminar.