Summary
David Trethewey is a retired electrical and project engineer with a decades-long track record delivering process plant design, PLC control systems and major upgrades across mining, quarrying and water/anaerobic digestion sectors. He progressed from an indentured electrical apprenticeship in the china clay industry to leading design and PLC coding for wet process plants, then managed full electrical replacements at quarries and large-scale anaerobic sludge digestion projects. As Project Engineer and later Project Manager through mergers (Purac/Enpure) he led schemes under AWS and SEW frameworks and ran regional offices delivering capital maintenance and UV sterilisation works. Known for combining hands-on electrical design skills with programme and contracts management, he also spent five years as a contracts manager before retiring. An atypical detail: his career blends factory-floor PLC coding experience with strategic delivery of multi-site water treatment contracts, giving him both technical depth and programme-level leadership.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer