Simon Mortimer Email & Phone Number

Sydney, NSW, AU

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Moved away from a managerial role at my request to re-focus back on technical delivery and delivery team management activities, while continuing to assist management in an ad-hoc advisory type capacity. Involved with delivering a bewildering array of projects in this time. Ranging from providing high-level strategic advice to development agencies operating.

Sydney, Australia

Service Group Manager of a geotechnical group with approx. forty civil-geotechnical designers, analysts, engineering geological, and laboratory staff at that time. Combined a heavy managerial commitment with ongoing project technical roles on overseas and local schemes, while looking after the group's day to day safety, work winning, marketing, commercial.

Leeds, England, United Kingdom

Dropped out of corporate life, which became deeply unpleasant in the aftermath of the 2008 GFC, and developed my own business from numerous contacts established in previous roles. Offered ground risk management, geotechnical design, site design input, claims and litigation assistance on a range of small and large projects. Input ranged from providing site.

Leeds, England, United Kingdom

Quickly promoted from a Senior Design Engineer working on mostly rail design schemes to Associate and ultimately a Group Director responsible for overseeing geotechnical issues for all UK and Ireland geotech related operations at a large UK based consultancy. Provided technical and commercial direction for projects and bids and operations generally as a.

Wakefield, England, United Kingdom

Worked as a Contract Geotechnical Engineer while re-establishing back to the UK. Worked on the design and reporting requirements for numerous water related schemes under a framework agreement and also contributed to a challenging road project in Kingston Jamaica during that time.

Townsville, Brisbane And New Delhi.

Based initially in Townsville, I worked on a large military barracks re-development project (Lavarack Barracks) and several mining and infrastructure projects mostly in an assessment and design capacity before moving to Brisbane for a short period to work on the inner city bypass and several smaller routine design projects. My final project with Maunsel.

Hong Kong SAR

Dropped in at the deep end as a Deputy Project Manager (in reality I did almost everything) to manage a major programme of slope improvements as part of the government funded Landslip Preventative Measures programme taking the project from design through to construction. While still in my twenties I found myself chairing meetings and dealing with contract.

Hong Kong SAR

Hong Kong based working six days a week on ground investigation and construction phases of major infrastructure schemes including the Central Reclamation and the Kowloon Canton Railway scheme. Exposed to heavy civil engineering methods (major reclamations, extensive vibro-flotation treatment, deep excavations, diaphragm walls - and the like). Mostly.

Hong Kong

Answered an ad in the Construction News in the UK, three weeks later I was working in Hong Kong prior to the handover to China in 1997. Amazing experience working for a local Hong Kong Chinese firm using local practices on some very tricky site formation works (high-rise buildings half way up unstable mountains), while a small army of other ex-pats were.

Various - UK

Graduated into a nasty civil engineering recession, but fortunately for me, due to taking a gap year working in a soils and rock lab, I had 'real-world' experience to sell and managed to pick up a good amount of varied freelance work, mostly on old landfill sites i.e. work not many people wanted to do. With no practical experience, most of my Uni.

Leeds, United Kingdom

Laboratory Technician undertaking soils and rock preparation, testing, and results reporting in a busy lab during a gap year from my engineering degree.