These are real people working in real environmental jobs, imparting the benefits of their wealth of knowledge and experience of what it’s like to work in their area of expertise. They constitute a valuable insight into the experience of others working in your area of interest. One thing is clear throughout these profiles – there is no set route to any particular career. If you want a job in the environment industry, you will have to be prepared to work for it! 

Click the links below to view their case studies:

Bob Harris – Head of National Groundwater and contaminated Land Centre, Environment Agency

David Acres – Generation Environment Manager, EDF Energy

Dr David Santillo – Senior Scientist, Greenpeace Research Laboratories, Greenpeace International

Grahame Newman (MSc, FCIWEM, C Env) – Programme Manager, Water Framework Directive, British Waterways

Julia Powell (née Pinnington)

Dr Keith Hendry – Managing Director & Principal Fish Biologist, APEM Ltd

Liz Lake (Dip LA, FLI, Chartered Landscape Architect) – Director, Liz Lake Associates

Margaret Feneley - Conservation Officer, English Nature

Mark Brumwell – Partner, Head of the Environment Group, Dundas & Wilson LLP

Mark Haslam - Area Environment Manager, Environment Agency

Professor Simon Pollard – Head of Sustainable Systems, Cranfield University

Richard Crowder – Halcrow

Richard Wardle, Graduate Environmental Scientist, Bullen Consultants Ltd

Rob Flitter – Chief Engineer/Office Leader, Black & Veatch

Tracey Smith – Monitoring and Data Officer (Environmental Protection), Environment Agency