
John Lawson
Environmental Engineer
Engineering cleaner water, air and land
Environmental engineer with ten years designing and delivering environmental and remediation solutions for projects across Leeds. Engineers the systems and solutions that protect the environment — water and wastewater treatment, contamination remediation, and environmental compliance on development and industrial projects. Led the design of a wastewater treatment upgrade that met discharge standards and cut a client's environmental risk. Performs environmental assessments and design calculations, designs treatment and remediation systems, manages permits and compliance, and supports construction. Strong on both the technical engineering and the regulatory and sustainability sides the role demands. Methodical, rigorous and genuinely motivated by the work. Looking for an environmental-engineer role with a consultancy, contractor or utility delivering serious environmental work.
Leeds Environmental Consulting - Leeds, UK
Environmental Engineer April 2014 to Present 12 years & 4 months
Led the design of a wastewater treatment upgrade that met discharge standards and cut environmental risk.
Perform all the environmental assessments, all the design calculations and all the treatment-system design work.
Design all the remediation solutions for the contaminated land and all of the industrial sites.
Manage all the permits, the compliance and the sustainability across all of the development projects.
Support the construction and the commissioning and resolve all the environmental issues out on site.
Yorkshire Environmental Services - Leeds, UK
Graduate Environmental Engineer August 2011 to March 2014 2 years & 8 months
Assisted with the treatment design and the compliance work on the projects.
Learned the treatment design, the remediation and the environmental codes there.
Gained the chartered status and then moved into an environmental-engineer role.
Yorkshire Environmental Services - Leeds, UK
Environmental Technician June 2009 to July 2011 2 years & 2 months
Learned the assessments, the data and environmental practice on the job.
Built up the technical grounding that good environmental engineering is built on.
Then earned the move into a graduate environmental-engineer role from there.
University of Leeds
BEng (Hons) Environmental Engineering (September 2007 to June 2011)
IChemE / SocEnv
Chartered Environmentalist & Treatment Design Certification (January 2014 to June 2015)
Treatment upgrade delivered
Engineering for the environment
Industrial Effluent Plant Design
Environmental Engineer (January 2018 to June 2019)
Contaminated Land Remediation
Environmental Engineer (January 2020 to October 2020)
Chartered Environmentalist
IChemE / SocEnv (June 2015 to Present)
Water Treatment & Contaminated Land
CIWEM (April 2019 to Present)
- Water & Wastewater Treatment
- Environmental Assessment
- Remediation Design
- Treatment System Design
- Environmental Compliance
- Permits & Regulation
- Design Calculations
- Sustainability
- Construction Support
- Contamination Management