Steve Jones rejoined MWH this year as New Zealand’s Operations Manager for the Water and Waste sector. Steve is responsible for ensuring a consistently high standard of work is provided for sector clients by having the right person for the right job delivering high quality work on time and to budget.
Based in MWH’s Auckland office, Steve has over 25 years experience in the water industry. He has extensive experience in all aspects of the water cycle including master planning, feasibility studies, modeling, non revenue water economics, detailed design, operations and utility maintenance.
Originally from Canterbury, England, Steve first joined MWH’s Wellington office in 2005 when he immigrated with his New Zealand wife, Viviene. In 2007 he left to set up a new operation in South Africa for Mouchel before moving to Abu Dhabi as their Operations Director for the Middle East, East Africa and India region. Steve’s Middle East role included a short time acting as Programme Director for the Dubai Waterfront City – a development that was to be twice the size of Hong Kong. Steve said this role posed the rewarding challenges of working in different business cultures and on large IFA and government backed projects. He rejoined MWH earlier this year.
Steve says a particular career highlight was his time on the Resident Engineer’s staff building the Channel Tunnel in the late 1990s. ‘From an engineering perspective this project was very exciting partly because it was fast, big, expensive and high profile, but there were other aspects that are highly relevant to our work here in New Zealand – in particular, having multi-disciplinary staff in high performing teams with clients, contractors and consultants all working towards a common goal. With full commitment on all sides the work is incredibly rewarding. These values are already prized at MWH and I look forward to promoting them further in our water and waste business.’
For more information please contact Steve on 09 580 4508 or stephen.jones@mwhglobal.com
