George Schwab Email & Phone Number

Mulgrave, Victoria, Australia

My roles have included (i) 2017 to current: - Working with sewer planning, water planning, and project delivery teams at South East Water to develop concept designs, reference designs and tender documents for D&C tenders. Highlights have included deep sewer concept designs and documents for densely developed inner city areas, as well as branch sewers, sewage pump statons, drinking and non-drinking water trunk mains seriving new PSP areas. These projects have required detailed risk management, construtability, cost estimating, managing land aquisition, hydraulics, various approval processes, technical and risk auditing of D&C design submissions, (ii) 2015 - 2017: - Working with Western Water's planning team to develop capital costs, project prioritization for its capital works program and preparing feasibility design briefs.

Melbourne, Australia

I was team leader for the Process & Water Design Team and the Pipeline Design Team in Melbourne, responsible for serving government water businesses and water industry construction contractors.Key team roles were the financial management, team performance, technical leadership and quality management. Key personal roles were project management and technical delivery to achieve project profit and quality targets. Highlights were: 1. Poowong, Loch, Nyora Sewerage Schemes - I was engaged as a strategic wastewater planner to join a consortium of water industry leaders to advice on industry practices, develop practical solutions and provided whole of life cost estimates. The advisory successfully led to substantial cost and risk savings and permitted project to proceed to construction.2. Design manager for South East Recycled Water Alliance (SERWA) which successfully delivered seven wastewater treatment projects over five years. I was responsible for financial management technical leadership of Class A recycled water treatment plants at Pakenham and Somers and a new SBR sewage treatment plant at Somers. I also undertook civil, hydraulic & piping design, management of overall delivery and was responsible for responding to RFIs during construction phase.

Melbourne, Australia

I was a senior team leader responsible for the technical leadership of work teams delivering water and wastewater design services. This role was highlighted by my role in the Mangawhai EcoCare sewerage scheme that delivered a town sewerage scheme under a DBO delivery mechanism. I was responsible for technical development of the project, community consultation, stakeholder consultation, securing regulatory approvals, resolving objecting submissions to the planning approval process. During construction, I was retained on site to provide quality oversight and provide design services to extend the coverage of the scheme.

Melbourne, Australia

I was responsible for the delivery of design consultancy services, technical leadership of the infrastructure design team and project and design management of water / wastewater projects. A particular emphasis was on leading the design of sixteen sewerage schemes for rural townships throughout Victoria. During this period my skills in technical delivery and design management were recognised through achieving significant volume of repeat work. My roles included planning, design, community consultation, stakeholder management and contract superintendent.

Berwick, Australia

My duties included design, tendering and construction management of sewer and water reticulation projects for new estates, water and sewer network modelling and the delivery of structural designs for domestic builders.