ABOUT
Steve McElveen
Director and Lead Consultant
Our Lead Consultant, Steve McElveen, has more than 45 years experience in the utility industry. From early beginings as an Electrician, South Wales Electricity provided a wealth of experience in everything from metering and system design through to network maintenance, repair and construction.
The merger with Dwr Cymru Welsh Water brought new challenges, including establishing and managing the Developer Services department, providing a central focus for Developers requiring potable water connections. Transition to an outsourced model led to new commercial opportunities within United Utilities, participating in tenders for, and working on, major term contracts with other utility companies across the UK.
Further Senior Management positions within United Utilities, Wales & West Utilities, Daniel Contractors and Enzen Global paved the way for heading the Major Projects business within SMS Plc. This multi-utility role crystallised the lifetime of experience in the utility sector, with Steve participating in diverse projects such as the EU MAS2TERING SmartGrid project in Europe, Off-Grid connections in Kenya, and Power Security system design for the Telecom service in Bahamas between brokering connection arrangements for residential and commercial developers across the UK.
It is this diverse experience and relationship management we bring to the Developer, in particular Master Developers who require strategic or large capacity connections, diversions or reinforcement to enable their phased development to proceed to time and budget.
Steve holds a Masters in Business Administration, is an Incorporated Engineer, Corporate Member of the IET, Manager Member of IGEM and a Fellow of the Institute of Water.