Paul Wright MEnvSc.BSc.ADipMet.
Principal Environmental Consultant.
An experienced business professional and consultant, with 40 years operations and leadership experience in the Australian manufacturing and heavy industrial sectors. Specialising in energy and environmental project management, with expertise in contaminated land management; industrial resource efficiency and utilisation; and the development and implementation of environmental strategy and business plans. Recognised expertise in communications and liaison with Federal and State governments and regulators on energy and environmental policy development, regulatory affairs and funding opportunities.
Recent achievements include: -
Principal Environmental Consultant.
An experienced business professional and consultant, with 40 years operations and leadership experience in the Australian manufacturing and heavy industrial sectors. Specialising in energy and environmental project management, with expertise in contaminated land management; industrial resource efficiency and utilisation; and the development and implementation of environmental strategy and business plans. Recognised expertise in communications and liaison with Federal and State governments and regulators on energy and environmental policy development, regulatory affairs and funding opportunities.
Recent achievements include: -
- Project Manager for major industrial client, assessing energy sourcing strategies, renewable energy investment options, and energy policy development in response to increasing energy security and affordability issues in the NEM, and the government’s energy policy development arising from the Finkel Review and the Energy Security Board’s proposed National Energy Guarantee.
- Environmental Workstream Leader for a major Australasian M&A project, involving the assessment of operational and legacy environmental risks associated with the target business’ footprint, covering over 100 mining and industrial sites across Australia and SE Asia. Workstream findings forming an essential part of the project’s overall due diligence requirements.
- Support to a community scale renewable energy start-up business, advising on the conversion of engineering detail into concise project description and essential documentation for use in project funding and investor activities.
- Technical lead on the environmental due diligence process on three major business and facility acquisition projects involving the assessment of the suitability and requirements for the management of over 40 commercial and industrial sites across all of Australia’s environmental jurisdictions.
- Designed and implemented systems and methodologies for undertaking in-house preliminary environmental site assessments to characterise the contaminated land risk of over 170 sites in 17 countries allowing the development of a complete risk profile of an organisation’s operations.
- Project managed a broad range of Phase 1 and Phase 2 site assessments; detailed site characterisation; remediation options and environmental management plans for seven high risk industrial sites across several Australian jurisdictions, including the technical lead in regulator and stakeholder engagement.
- Negotiated a reasonable science based approach to assessing and managing an asbestos contaminated site with the Regulators within the environment of emotive, regional community outrage issues.
- Provided advice to business leaders on the risks and implications of Australia’s current carbon and energy policies, including modelling and cost analysis.
- Lead author and co-author of over 30 industry submissions to Federal and State Governments in response to environmental policy proposals and development, and represented industry clients on a number of Technical and Stakeholder Working Groups for the development of the Government’s Emissions Reduction Fund.
- Designed and implemented a major corporation’s energy efficiency program – key features include utilisation of existing business systems and the broad engagement of all employees to deliver high value energy savings and hundreds of projects over the first three years of implementation.
- Identified and project managed government funding and grant applications under the NSW Energy Savings Scheme, the Federal Emissions Reduction Fund, and the NSW Environmental Trust.
