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About Gareth Mews
Gareth Mews is a leader and operations specialist, who has experience working on large scale geotechnical ground investigations throughout the UK and Australia. He is a Chartered Manager experienced in performance analysis, change management, strategic planning and continuous business improvement. He also has a strong safety focus and chairs the Safety Steering Group that is responsible for improving health & safety (H&S) culture within the business unit.
As Senior Operations Manager, Gareth has responsibility for the parts of the business delivering drilling services, land remediation, surveys and geophysics.
Gareth has acted as project lead on several R&D ventures including industry firsts, such as the Transducer Packer Slave Reeler system and the wireline HPD testing unit. He has also led the development of several H&S innovations that have been the recipient of industry awards.
Gareth founded, launched and manages the SOCOTEC Drilling Academy, which is the only contractor-owned award centre in the UK, delivering Level 2 & 3 diplomas in Land Drilling. He also sits on the British Drilling Association Training and Education committee.
Professional Experience
WITH THE COMPANY SINCE 2015 | OVER 12 YEARS IN THE INDUSTRY
Gareth has been UK Senior Operations Manager at SOCOTEC UK since 2022. Prior to Gareth’s current position, he was UK Resources Manager from 2015 to 2022. Gareth has previously worked for companies such as Coffey Geotechnics PTY (Australia) and WYG Group.
Qualifications
Education
University of Wolverhampton – BSc (Hons) Physical Geography (1998 - 2001)
Professional Licences and Certification
CMI Chartered Manager - Member of the Chartered Management Institute (2022)
QCF Level 4 Certificate in Internal Quality Assurance (2020)
NEBOSH General Certificate (2023)
Kelvin TOP-SET Incident Investigation (2021)
Energy & Utility Skills – Approved Trainer (National Water Hygiene) (2021)
CITB SMSTS (2020 - refreshed)
CSCS – Site Manager – Black Card (2020 - renewed)