Our Team
The four working roles that take a mini-hydro scheme from first site survey to commissioning.
How the work is divided
A mini-hydro project depends on a small group of specialists who hand work to one another in a fixed order. Each role below owns a stage of the process, keeps its own records, and signs off its results before the next stage begins.
Roles are described by function. The photographs show the working environment for each role, not individual staff profiles.
Site Survey Lead
Measures flow, head and channel geometry over a full seasonal cycle.
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The survey lead records daily flow levels, checks gauge readings against long-term rainfall data, and produces the flow duration curve that sets the design flow. Every later calculation depends on this record, so the lead reviews each dataset before it leaves the site.
- Flow duration curve and design flow
- Gross head measurement with surveyed levels
- Written survey report for the permit file
Civil Works Coordinator
Plans and supervises the intake, weir, channel and powerhouse foundations.
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The coordinator turns the survey outputs into a construction sequence, schedules groundworks around river conditions, and checks concrete and steelwork against the drawings. Works are inspected at each pour so that defects are found while they are still cheap to fix.
- Intake and screen layout
- Pipeline or channel alignment
- Inspection and hold-point records
Electrical and Controls Engineer
Specifies the generator, governor, control panel and grid connection.
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The engineer matches the turbine type to the measured head and flow, then designs the protection and synchronising arrangement that the grid operator requires. Commissioning tests are written before installation so that each function can be checked against a clear pass criterion.
- Turbine and generator matching
- Protection and grid connection design
- Commissioning test schedule
Permitting and Community Liaison
Manages licences, environmental returns and contact with neighbours and landowners.
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This role prepares the abstraction and impoundment applications, tracks conditions set by the regulator, and keeps local landowners informed at each stage. Fish passage and residual flow requirements are agreed here, before any design is frozen.
- Abstraction and planning applications
- Residual flow and fish passage conditions
- Landowner and community updates
Working together
No stage is closed by one role alone. The survey lead, coordinator and engineer each review the others' outputs at a fixed hold point, and the liaison role confirms that permit conditions are reflected in the final design.
Team members are added to this page as roles are filled. Each entry will state the function, the stages covered and the qualifications required for that work.
Contact the project office or read the service stages.