Water professionals become Chartered Environmentalists

Five water industry professionals have recently become Chartered Environmentalists through the Institute of Water.

The Chartered Environmentalist qualification is now the recognised standard of excellence for environmental practitioners. To be awarded the status practitioners must be able to demonstrate competence against key criteria including the ability to analyse and evaluate problems from an environmental perspective and being able to demonstrate leadership in sustainable management.

Jeanne Golay, head of regulatory policy, office of utility regulation in Guernsey, Jane Jackson, education manager, Northern Ireland Water, James Mitchell, asset data cleansing validator, Northumbrian Water, Stuart Tilley, senior engineer, Northumbrian Water and Jacky Atkinson, inspector, DWI, are the latest Institute of Water members to have successfully been registered as Chartered Environmentalists.

Jane Jackson joined Northern Ireland Water in 2007 as environmental education manager. She said: “Chartership is recognition that I am a competent professional and a member of the respected body of Chartered Environmentalists. It gives colleagues an indication of the level of my knowledge in sustainability and environmental issues. It adds kudos to my position in a small department in a field which is mainly technical and scientific. I am delighted to have achieved this recognition.”

Stuart Tilley is currently a project manager for Northumbrian Water’s 15 year Trunk Mains Network programme. Whilst the main drivers for this cleaning and refurbishment programme are to improve drinking water quality and service, NWL are taking the opportunity to optimise the networks in a more strategic, long-​term, operationally efficient and sustainable way.

Tilley said: “Applying to become Chartered provided an opportunity to reflect on my career to date, in terms of providing water and waste water infrastructure, and how it measured up to the aims of improving environmental conditions, social impact and sustainability. I was pleasantly surprised that these aims were already embedded in my daily working life.”

Source: Institute of Water

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