Paul is Operations Director for SOCOTEC UK's Environmental Consultancy. Paul is responsible for the overall delivery and management of the business areas including P&L responsibility, resource management, technical management and business development across six UK offices.Paul joined SOCOTEC's predecessor company in 2002 as a Principal Scientist prior to progressing to Managing Associate at the beginning of 2005 and Director at the beginning of 2012. Since becoming Operations Director he has implemented a UK wide functional management structure along the lines of the core technical areas of Contaminated Land, Waste Management and Environmental Management.Paul’s career history includes leading and developing major Environmental, Contaminated Land and Reclamation projects involving the application of SOCOTEC's specialist capabilities and the wider SOCOTEC range of services. Paul has extensive experience of contaminated land remediation, site investigation, environmental monitoring, on site chemical analysis, risk assessment, waste management and geotechnical testing. He has delivered and overseen major remediation support projects, produced numerous high quality written reports including qualitative and quantitative risk assessments. Management of large complex projects is an integral part of the Paul's experience and this includes involvement in projects such as the London 2012 Olympic Park Enabling Works, The Avenue Cokeworks, Lambton Cokeworks and the Harwell Western Storage area.Paul also has laboratory analysis experience within the oil, water and contaminated land consultancy industries and continues to apply this experience to date with the development of SOCOTEC's own on site analysis and mobile laboratory capability.