A career Engineer and Project Management professional within the UK water sector, and an experienced Projects Director with a proven track record in project execution and with 42 years broad experience including Project / Contract Management, Bid Management, Tendering, Process design.
Experienced in end to end project management, partnership / JV / Consortium contract teams, turnkey and specialized contract works, design & costing, planning requirements, contract and commercial management / reporting, construction and commissioning activities across all disciplines, staff recruitment / development, and adherence to prevailing construction health and safety legislation.
Outside of work I have been an enthusiastic volunteer within the local community, being active as a long standing member / Treasurer of the Village Hall, a Parish Councillor, and member of a community planning action group.
Overview
42
42
years of professional experience
3
3
years of post-secondary education
Work history
Snr Project Manager
WES Ltd
Basingstoke, Hants
01.2021 - Current
Responsible for delivery of water industry projects [specialist field of chemical dosing systems] from award through Completion, including design, procurement, manufacturing and site construction support, customer satisfaction and ultimately the P/L performance against business targets. Project value £150K to £1M
Providing project based strategic business support to the Capital Projects Director
Mentoring graduate engineers on introduction to a projects environment
Projects Director
Veolia Water Technologies
Birmingham, West Midlands
12.2007 - 11.2020
Responsible to the MD for delivery of specialist technology based projects within the UK Water Division: Design & Build and Engineered Systems business areas of the Company, managing a team of Project Managers/Engineers. Customers were both UK Water Companies and their Tier 1 framework contractors.
Responsible for the management of construction sites with a team of Site Managers / Supervisors, and Commissioning engineers. Worked closely with the Company H&S Manager to ensure the highest level of Safety standards were achieved.
Responsible for financial performance across all projects, conducting internal monthly project reviews and working closely with the CFO's to agree consolidated out-turns.
Responsible for staff recruitment consistent with project delivery needs, and personal development.
Provide leadership and strategic direction to the wider Projects team, and to ensure contract obligations were respected whilst identifying & controlling business risk.
Provided close support to Business Development and Proposals teams by direct Client liaison, bid preparation / commentary, staff & site cost allocation, bid presentations and contract negotiation.
Worked with the QA team during merger of two business streams to refresh & align working procedures for project & site management, and the approach to formal close out reviews of completed projects.
Senior Process Engineer
McDowells Consultancy [part of Southern Water]
Crawley, West Sussex
11.2005 - 10.2006
Responsible to the Associate of the Process Stream as Project Manager for a number of water treatment schemes through their feasibility study to point of contract placement.
Proposals Engineer
ECL (process subsidiary of MJ Gleeson)
Salisbury, Wiltshire
10.1996 - 12.1997
Responsible, as part of the appraisals team, for design and tendering for 8 no. municipal wastewater sludge treatment schemes, value £2.5 to £20M.
Project Manager
Energy & Waste Systems [part of Blue Circle]
Westbury, Wiltshire
03.1987 - 11.1995
A specialist process contractor within the field of UK municipal wastewater & sludge treatment technologies and contracting.
I held a variety of posts with the company through various acquisitions including Project Manager, Process Manager and Process Development Manager.
Senior Process Engineer
Hawker Siddely Water Engineering
Wokingham
01.1982 - 03.1987
A specialist process contractor in the UK municipal water and wastewater treatment sector
Initially a process / proposals engineer, then Senior Process Engineer for wastewater treatment plant design
Gained site experience for site testing of company aeration systems portfolio
Member of Chapmanslade Village Hall since 2006 and Treasurer from 2007
Member of Village steering group reporting into the Parish Council for overseeing development / implementation of the local plan that was prepared from a community consultation process in 2018 / 2019