Management Team, Consultants: Engineers and Scientists, Water Operations Trainers, Plant Operations, Customer Services Team.
Managing Director & Principal Engineer
(RPEQ)
A third generation water engineer with over 30 years professional experience in water, wastewater and sewage engineering, chemistry, management and quality control, David is a sought-after industry expert.
Regularly called on as an expert witness and to solve environmental problems others have deemed too difficult, David has worked in Australia and the South Pacific’s most isolated, pristine and sensitive environments. He is proud to claim Simmonds & Bristow’s position as the regional and remote water specialist.
Business Development Manager
Gamze is a highly skilled Environmental Engineer and Estimator, leveraging her keen attention to detail and problem-solving abilities to deliver tailored solutions for our clients.
In her current role, Gamze oversees the team of Customer Care Representatives, ensuring they are equipped with the necessary tools and training to provide outstanding service. Her leadership and dedication to continuous improvement play a vital role in driving both team performance and client satisfaction.
Training Manager
Sherelyn is a highly experienced leadership, RTO and administration professional who possess strong communication and rapport building skills. She is passionate about RTO compliance and building high quality relationships with our personnel and clients. She brings over 20 years’ experience working in government and private enterprise, across both domestic and international education, recruitment, administration and operational management. Sherelyn effectively manages the operations of the company’s office and administration team and leads the training administration team to maintain high-quality RTO compliance.
Relief Services Manager
Lorena is a highly experienced leadership, recruitment and administration professional who possess strong communication and rapport building skills. She is passionate about enhancing the talent acquisition process and building high quality relationships with our personnel and clients. Lorena is an experienced project manager and effectively manages client requests for relief services personnel placements as our Relief Services Manager.
Senior Process Engineer
One of the team since 2005, Terry works on all types of water, wastewater and sewage treatment plant designs and systems. He has a deep understanding of the needs of communities and operators where operational and maintenance self-sufficiency is essential. Terry has been the site based commissioning engineer on numerous plants across FNQ and Torres Strait. Terry is an active NATA accredited signatory for ASCE Standard Oxygen Transfer Rate (SOTR) testing.
His process knowledge includes many varieties of activated sludge-based systems such as oxidation ditches, package intermittent aeration systems, sequencing batch reactors, modified Ludzak-Ettinger, plus various other systems such as trickling filters, rotating biological contactors, counter-current aeration towers, membrane treatment systems (Ultra Filtration, Micro Filtration, Reverse Osmosis), chemical dosing systems including disinfection for STP processes, flocculation and coagulation for precipitation of turbidity, iron, etc., for water treatment processes.
Water & Wastewater Engineer
Tian Xie is a versatile engineer with extensive experience in municipal water systems and wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) operations. With over 10 years of hands-on experience, Tian has successfully managed over 20 water engineering projects, including sewage treatment plants, stormwater systems, and drainage projects. He has demonstrated expertise in project management, risk assessment, and remediation control.
Water & Wastewater Engineer
Ross joined Simmonds & Bristow in 2022, providing technical engineering support for clients in a diverse range of water, wastewater and stormwater applications.
Ross’s experience lies in modelling (MEDLI and MUSIC), preparation of technical reports and site-based environmental documents including site-based management plans, irrigation management plans and receiving environment monitoring programs. He supports litigation matters with research, modelling, report writing, and summarization of briefs for matters where the firm acts as an expert witness in water quality, water supply & sewerage, stormwater and environmental impact. Ross also applies his skills to field sampling and testing and takes care of our clients with department liaison.
Lead Water Industry Trainer
Travis has been working as an Environmental Scientist for the past 15 years, and as a Senior Trainer since 2015. He has been responsible for the preparation and delivery of environmental training programs for water industry and treatment operations teams, for a range of different learner levels. He has also provided aircraft types training during his time in the Royal Australian Navy. He is currently involved in the creation of new and improved learner resources for our whole training team to use.
Travis has hands on expertise in both preparing and supporting clients to prepare and implement appropriate Drinking Water Quality Management Plans and Recycled Water Management Plans. Irrigation Management is another topic dear to his heart.
Travis has extensive understanding in environmental and scientific assessment and management. His scope includes; Contamination: modelling, assessment and remediation, Soil assessment and Analysis, Geomorphological Assessment, Soil and Water Assessment and Management plans, Land Zone Assessment, Surface and Groundwater Quality Analyses and Environmental Auditing.
Specialist Water Industry Trainer
Liz joined S&B in 2009 bringing extensive experience in water and waste water operations and laboratory management. She is passionate about passing on her knowledge, skills, tips and tricks collected over her 30 year career. Liz specialises in tertiary training delivery of Cert IV and higher qualifications in Water Operations. She is passionate about passing on her knowledge, skills, tips and tricks collected over her 30 year career. Liz specialises in tertiary training delivery of Cert IV and higher qualifications in Water Operations.
Water Industry Trainer
Gary is a highly motivated professional with proven skills in Water and Sewer asset operation, design, construction & management. He brings his 10 years of experience in water and wastewater treatment systems to Simmonds & Bristow to assist our clients with training. With a focus on the Water & Sewage sectors, Gary is successfully underpinned by his resolute commitment to excellence in safety, quality, innovation and sustainability.
Operations Supervisor & Senior Plant Operator
Steve has been involved in the wastewater industry for 22 years. In this time, he has performed several roles, including 12 years as the Operations Supervisor of the Loganholme sewage treatment plant. As an experienced Treatment Operations Supervisor, Stephen brings a comprehensive set of skills that are valuable to Simmonds & Bristow. In his supervisory role, he honed his abilities in people management and this has provided a firm foundation for his plant operator role. His leadership, people-centric nature, and compassion have afforded him excellent communication skills. He contributes his talents and proficiency in customer service toward the O&M team efforts.
Street Address
6/62 Curzon Street
Tennyson, QLD 4105
Australia
Postal Address
PO Box 849
Archerfield QLD 4108
Australia
Postal Address
PO Box 849
Archerfield QLD 4108
Australia
Email: info@simmondsbristow
Tel: +61 7 3434 3800
Toll Free: 1800 620 690
Fax: +61 7 3434 3899
