OUR PEOPLE
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Andrew Haywood
Andrew is our Sales Manager for our Water Utility customers. He has over 25 years’ experience within the water industry and is qualified to BSc(Hons) level in Applied Chemistry, and is a Post Graduate level in management studies. Recent projects...
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Becky Belton
Becky is an Account Manager at WPL for the Diamond and HiPAF range, she has worked at WPL for 13 years and has an NVQ in customer service.
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Dominic Hamblin
Dominic has 21 years’ experience in the wastewater treatment industry, having worked in the sector his entire career, including as a member of a British Water technical forum and a university lecturer.
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Rosy Hewett
Rosy joins us as Credit Control and Finance Assistant, having gained her finance experience from her last two roles within local companies and achieving her AAT Level 2 and 3 accounting qualifications. Rosy is now working towards achieving her AAT...
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Simon Kimber
Simon is our Sales and Marketing Director and brings 25 years experience in the wastewater treatment industry, having worked in this sector his entire career. He also holds an Honours Degree in Biological Science from Portsmouth University. He began...
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Andrew Baird
Andrew is WPL’s Technical Director. Andrew has worked for WPL since 2006 and has nearly 30 years’ experience in the water and wastewater treatment industry. Andrew has a background in traditional engineering and technical business development and...
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Daniel Hunt
Previous to joining WPL in September 2013 as Project Manager, Dan successfully delivered a number of projects in the engineering sector. Having done Project Management for 5 years and qualified as a Project Management Professional, Dan has worked for...
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Kevin Lovell
Kevin is our Product Supervisor working at WPL for 13 years. He achieved an HND in Motor Vehicle Engineering and Management at college and continues to develop his professional skills at WPL.
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Adam Parmenter
As WPL’s Industrial Sales Manager Adam works closely with our industrial clients to ensure their onsite effluent treatment processes meet full environmental compliance.
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Tom Chatterton
Tom is WPL's Engineering Manager, having started working with the company in early 2015. Tom holds a BSC in Product Design from the University of Bournemouth and continued on from here to work for an injection moulding firm, as Development Engineer....
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Razvan Toader
Razvan is our Process Design Engineer. Razvan graduated from university in Romania with a degree in Civil Construction Engineering. He has a background of over 12 years in construction engineering and is highly proficient with AutoCAD...
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Andy Langley
Andy has worked for WPL for 10 years having worked in different roles within the company; he began his WPL career on shop floor, following on to Assembly Deputy Manager and then to Laminating Supervisor before landing his current role of...
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Sarah McAdam
Sarah joins WPL, having studied through the chartered Institute of Marketing and in excess of 15 years experience in sales and marketing roles. Sarah brings a wealth of business and consumer sales/account management skills to her current role at WPL...
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Stuart Bailey
Stuart joined WPL 15 years ago, bringing with him 5 years of experience as part of a banking accounts team. He began his career with WPL as Accounts Assistant, moving on to Assistant Management Accountant and then to Managing Accountant before...
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Valentin Fortea
Valentin is our Export Sales Manager, developing our French distribution network for WPL environmental wastewater solutions. He has a BA (Hons) in International Business Management and a Master's degree in Sales Strategy & Marketing. He comes...
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Lee Thurston
Lee is WPL’s highly motivated Operations Manager with a sustained record of achievement and with nearly 30 years of manufacturing and operational experience behind him.
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Gareth Whiteaway
Gareth joined WPL in 2017 as Site Service Coordinator, with a vast range of experience behind him.
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Monica Rodrigues
Monica joined WPL in 2017 as Proposals Engineer with a wealth of knowledge in wastewater treatment.
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Marc Gray
Marc has been a valued member of the WPL team for the past 16 years, currently working as Site Team Leader. He has a professional background in purchase, sales and assembly. Marc also holds many qualifications including 17th edition City &...
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Stuart Stacey
Stuart works for WPL as Assistant Team Leader.
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Ben Dearsley
Ben is an integral part of the WPL team currently working as Assembly Worker.
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Neil Langley
Neil works for WPL as an Assembly Worker.
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Ian Crowe
Ian has 20 years of experience in the wastewater industry, currently working for WPL as Assembly Worker.
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Mark Revill
Mark works for WPL as Assembly Worker. He previously worked in laminating for both WPL and in his previous roles.
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Laura Eskrett
Laura joined WPL as a marketer in 2018 with several years experience in digital and communications in addition to a BA (hons) in Marketing from The University of Portsmouth.
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Sophie Hall
Sophie joined WPL in 2018 as Operations Administration Assistant with a wealth of operations knowledge and administrative experience behind her.
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Howard Low
Howard joined WPL in September 2018 as Transport and Production Planner with five years experience in the haulage industry and a Business Management degree from Southampton Solent University.
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Nick Webb
Nick joined WPL in 2019 as Purchasing Coordinator with 20 years experience in buying and procurement.
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Tim Gaston
As Managing Director of WCS Environmental Engineering, Tim drives the day-to-day activities and strategic growth of the division, which, since January 2021, has included the WPL brand. Tim has 20 years’ experience in water treatment engineering,...
TESTIMONIALS
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John Marsh Metropolitan Water Director
Finding a cost effective solution for the treatment of wastewater has led Metropolitan to install the on-site WPL Hybrid-SAF™ plant – which meets the entire needs of the Castle Hill development and will be delivered on time and to budget.”
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Adrian Riggs Contract Manager, MJ Abbott
Diamond always meets the schedule for our installation teams. What installers are saying about our 3 to 6 days lead-time for WPL Diamond range.
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Martin Lyons Mitchells & Butlers’s area building manager
The idea of repurposing of WPL’s HiPAF wastewater treatment plant was inspired and is exactly the kind of sustainability initiative we expect from our supply chain partners.
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Peter Murray CBE executive and founding director of YSP
“The new centre is a reflection of our ambition to increase long-term resilience and sustainability by building audiences, further developing our artistic programme, and increasing visitor income."
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Paul Currie Managing Director of The Lakes Distillery
Our distillery is building a reputation as one of the greenest in the world, so it was important for every part of our renovation and building work to be carried out to the highest possible environmental standards.
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Andrew Gulliford Process design engineer
"Wessex Water customers will benefit from the 75% cost saving on this project and the energy efficiencies achieved will help deliver our sustainability target."
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Louise Nethercott Proprietor of Home Farm Holiday Centre
“We are very happy with the WPL system. It performs well, is simple to maintain and has passed all the environmental tests and checks. The nature of our business means we do have big fluctuations in visitor numbers, even more so this year because of Covid-19, and it has continued to provide reliable treatment, with no odour issues. We would certainly continue to recommend WPL technology to other businesses.”
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Peter Joyce Head of Sludge Treatment
"This was a successful project, undertaken to meet regulatory standards for ammonia removal at Cliff Quay Water Recycling Centre WPL’s Hybrid-SAF units play an important part in many of our sites maintaining compliance."
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Richard Smith Process Engineer at Marlow Foods said
Making sure we meet our environmental obligations is very important to us and our world-leading brands and we look forward to working closely with WPL to meet this requirement.”
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Richard Morris Project Manager, Scottish Water
“This is an important scheme which will deliver enhanced ammonia removal at our Ferniegair treatment works. WPL is a framework supplier whose technology will have a key role in the site maintaining compliance.”
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Stuart Evans Sill Project Director
The Sill will be much more than a visitor attraction – it will enable us to reconnect with our landscapes and our heritage. It is important that we seek the highest environmental standards in all our construction and operational activity to minimise disruption to the natural beauty of the area.
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Uzair Osman Contracts Manager
The client, United Utilities, chose the ST1000 modules manufactured by WPL because they wanted units that could be moved from site to site after the Huyton project was completed.
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John Tidy Project Manager
WPL’s bespoke design service and factory-build meant that the onsite installation of the HiPAF® midi only took two days.
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Neil Wilkinson Project manager
The modular nature of WPL’s Hybrid-SAFs gives the wastewater treatment plant managers at Sandbach and Lawton Gate flexibility in terms of operation along with the additional capacity required.
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John Tidy Project Manager
To ensure swift installation it was important that on-site mechanical and electrical work was kept to a minimum. WPL’s bespoke design service and factory-build meant that on-site installation of the HiPAF® midi only took two days.