
Independent Professional Consulting Engineer
Bath, United Kingdom

Independent Professional Consulting Engineer
Bath, United Kingdom
I specialise in designing wastewater treatment facilities to deal with complex industrial waste streams or municipal wastewater in the UK and overseas. Projects range from small feasibility studies to multi-million pound municipal upgrades.
My secondary speciality is process health and safety. I am a trained HAZOP facilitator and DSEAR assessor (for potentially explosive atmospheres), and train others in both subjects.
Process engineering, design management, HAZOP, DSEAR, feasibility studies, detailed design, technical writing, troubleshooting, industrial effluent, chemical and oil industry.
(Privately Held; Civil Engineering industry)
July 2008 — Present (1 year 5 months)
(Environmental Services industry)
November 2004 — Present (5 years 1 month)
Engineering consultancy and design management services, specialising in water and wastewater treatment, process design, HAZOP, DSEAR and technical writing. Clients are water companies or any other industry dealing with water.
(Environmental Services industry)
September 2005 — June 2008 (2 years 10 months)
(Environmental Services industry)
January 2005 — September 2005 (9 months)
Managing a small team of technical authors, training and administrative staff, I developed more efficient work processes and we succeeded in eliminating a backlog of O&M manuals.
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Utilities industry)
March 1998 — January 2005 (6 years 11 months)
Manager for a team of design engineers, plus a principal design engineer in my own right, specialising in design management of schemes with a value of £10 - 80 million.
(Environmental Services industry)
October 1992 — March 1998 (5 years 6 months)
Process engineer working on water and wastewater treatment solutions for various industries (food, pulp & paper, brewers, chemical, pharmaceutical, oil, defence, etc.) as well as UK and European water companies.
PhD , Nitrification in Trickling Filters , 1989 — 1992
BSc , Biochemistry , 1986 — 1989
1981 — 1986
Fellow of the Chartered Institute for Water and Environmental Management