Sean Leach Email and Phone Number

Contaminated land specialist, hydrogeologist, geoenvironmental project manager and business developer with over 35 years experience of managing ground risk on large scale civil engineering and regeneration projects. Previous roles include Remediation Manager on a large scale multi end use redevelopment project, Commercial & Contracts Manager for Marriott Drilling Group on a deep drilling project, General Manager of Marriott Geotechnical Drilling Ltd focussing on large scale ground investigation, Pre-construction Project Manager and Business Development Director for a multidisciplinary engineering consultancy (Structural, Civil, Geotechnical and Geo-Environmental Engineering). Key projects include: Commercial & Contracts Manager on a deep drilling and testing project (>1000m) to inform the onward development of the Anglo American potash mine in North Yorkshire. General Manager of the Geotechnical Drilling Division - delivered the drilling, downhole testing and installation packages on the BGS UKGEOS Testing Array in Cheshire, extensive ground investigation, testing and monitoring packages on the HS2 project. Remediation Manager on the Longbridge Redevelopment Scheme (remediation of 425 acres of the former car manufacturing facility to create a new Town Centre and Residential Housing using contamination hotspot removal by excavation, LNAPL removal by free phase skimming and vapour removal using CATOX, groundwater hydraulic control, Material Management Planning and stockpile control to reduce waste and recycle and reuse site won material); Key Defra Estates environmental contact during the Foot and Mouth (FMD) Outbreak seconded to DEFRA’s Emergency Response Team in London to advise on construction, long term environmental management and remediation of animal carcass burial sites during and after the FMD outbreak; Channel Tunnel Rail Link (CTRL HS1) Remediation Manager Section 1 St Pancras to Stratford; Hydrogeologist on the Sellafield Nuclear Waste Repository Deep Hydro-Testing programme; Geotech Engineer for TML on the construction of the Channel Tunnel. Considerable experience working for multi-national clients in the UK, Europe, North Africa, China, South Africa and South America.Environmental evaluation of oil and gas exploration and production (in particular the use and management of Diesel Oil Based Drilling Muds) in Libya and Brasil. Environmental Compliance and Pre-Acquisition Auditing for clients such as Coca Cola, Perkins Engine’s etc in countries such a Belgium, Germany, Sweden, China and South Africa.