Janice is a chartered engineer, who began her career as the first female apprentice at a Glasgow shipyard and advanced through engineering and project management roles.

Over 23 years at Foster Wheeler, Janice led large-scale projects across oil & gas, LNG, mining, and petrochemical sectors in UK, India, and South Africa. She later headed Project Management at BG Group and, after its acquisition by Shell, joined Network Rail to manage projects within a £2.5bn investment programme. From 2017 until April 2022, she served as Director of Global Capital Projects at Johnson Matthey.

Janice also served five years as a Non-Executive Director at the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).

Janice is a non-executive director at National Energy System Operator Limited, the organisation which brings together eight activities required to deliver the plans, markets and operations of the energy system of today and the future.