Our People
Our core principles of customer focus, creativity, collaboration, and excellence guide everything we do.
At Aurora Environmental, our directors provide the leadership that drives our commitment to sustainable and responsible environmental solutions. They ensure our team stays focused on delivering practical, high-quality outcomes that align with our purpose of advocating for the efficient and safe use of the Earth’s resources. Through their guidance, we maintain a clear direction and a strong foundation for our team’s growth and success.
Paul Zuvela
Managing Director/Principal Scientist – EIA
Paul’s expertise is in EIA across various sectors including land development, infrastructure and mining. He has a thorough understanding of issues related to managing flora, vegetation, fauna, wetlands, drainage, coastal and riverine environments, as well as statutory obligations and approvals processes.
Renee Rattray
Director/General Manager
Renee is responsible for day-to-day operations of Aurora Environmental and has been an integral member of the business since its inception in 2011. She is an inquisitive and adaptive problem solver with proven skills in delivering operational outcomes.
Brad Dermody
Technical Director/DWER Accredited Contaminated Sites Auditor
Brad applies his broad technical skills and experience to provide risk-based, cost effective and tailored solutions to contaminated site assessment, remediation and management projects. Brad is also a WA DWER Accredited Contaminated Site Auditor.
Greg Milner
Director/Principal Scientist – Contaminated Land
Greg has worked in most fields of the environmental sector with a primary focus on site contamination assessment and remediation. His competency, cooperative approach and ability to form productive working relationships are valued by clients. His particular experience is within brownfields projects.
Stephen Patmore
Director/Contaminated Sites Manager
Stephen has been working as an environmental consultant specialising in contaminated sites since 2011 and has been with Aurora Environmental since 2016 and currently manages our Contaminated Sites team. Stephen has a specific interest in being able to identify and pragmatically address environmental risks for clients whilst being mindful of financial / commercial and legal liabilities when developing outcomes-based project strategies.
Bryony Frith
Director/Office Manager
Bryony has numerous years’ experience in business administration, project management and leadership. She has a passion for identifying processes which enable efficiency and simplicity whilst maintaining a high standard of quality output and delivering optimum level support.
Mark Shepherd
Director/Special Projects Manager
Mark is the founder of Aurora Environmental who specialises in Intractable Waste and Karst Management. He is now the Special Projects Manager and is focussed on expanding our Radiation Consulting services
Melanie Price
Director (Albany)/Principal Scientist - EIA
Melanie has extensive experience in strategic environmental planning for natural resource management, including risk assessment related to climate change, impact assessment for development, and facilitating community consultation.
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