Jon Bennetts

Jon Bennetts

Turbine Engineer

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Project Manager at Auckland Transport

  • Education

    • Loughborough University

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      MSc Renewable Energy Distinction
    • University of Surrey

      1993 - 1997
      BEng Electronics & Electrical Engineering
    • Loughborough University

      2001 - 2002
      Masters of Science Renewable Energy Systems Distinction

      Course covered all energy sources including biomass, PV, solar heating, wind and grid integration.Thesis was focused on connecting a 3 phase, 22kW wnid turbine to a single phase grid network.

  • Experience

    • Renewable Energy Systems

      Jan 2006 - Sept 2008
      Turbine Engineer

      Member of the Turbine Engineering Team, which acted as the point contact between all turbine manufacturers and the rest of the company working from early development through to Take Over the working wind farms.

    • Mighty River Power

      Sept 2008 - Oct 2014
      Senior Engineer

      Member of the Wind Development Team, covering most aspects of wind farm development with a core role of layout design, managing consults, project economics and managing the monitoring programme and data analysis. Fully trained in both WindPro, Windfarmer, WAsP and instigated the use of Windographer at MRP.

    • Auckland Transport

      Sept 2014 - now
      Project Manager

      Project Manager of the Pakuranga and Ti Rakau road sections of the AMETI project from preliminary design through to notification and preparation for consent hearings. AMETI is AT’s second largest capital project at $1.4bn. The role required the creation of a team of internal specialists and external consultants as part of a multi-contract project. I lead the team and took ownership of the project to direct energy into the core design issues to reduce unnecessary spend and to speed up the design process. Show less

  • Licenses & Certifications

    • PRINCE2® 2017 Practitioner

      PRINCE2.com