Our Team
Re-Generate has over 35 team members, principally mechanical engineers but we also have in-house electrical engineering and site fitting/service staff. Our team is widely experienced in specialist maintenance & services, operations, asset management and leading industry Health and Safety systems. Our staff combine many decades of experience across a range of industries including Hydro & Wind Generation, Oil & Gas, Irrigation, Municipal and Water Treatment. Our team includes Chartered Professional Engineer (CPEng) resources.
Company Directors
Senior Leadership Team
Quinton Rowson
Principal Mechanical Engineer
Quinton has more than 19 years experience in engineering over a range of industries. Quinton is a specialist for Fitness for Service assessments (FFS), fracture mechanics, creep/fatigue, stress analysis, FEA, CFD and vibration analysis including work on feasibility, business case development, concept, preliminary and detailed design, manufacture, construction, installation, commissioning, handover, asset management, inspection, repair and derating.
Eric Paquette
Senior Mechanical Engineer
Eric has over 12 years of experience in the hydropower sector and is a registered Professional Engineer in the state of Colorado. He has been involved in all phases of design from concept generation through manufacturing and onsite acceptance testing. Eric has specific expertise in fish exclusion, passage, and handling equipment. He has a broad background in Solidworks, AutoCAD, and is an Autodesk Certified Professional in Inventor.
Chris Hayes (CPEng)
Senior Mechanical Engineer
Chris has over 15 years’ experience as a Mechanical Engineer, primarily on heavy plant and machinery in oil and gas. Chris has had the benefit of being involved in all phases of the project lifecycle, including specification, design, installation, and commissioning, as well as brownfield optimisation and assessment projects. Chris has specific expertise in fitness for service assessment of pressure equipment.
Sean Grayston
Financial & Project Controller
Commercial Engineering Team Leader
Sean has 17 years of experience across a number of business management, analysis, development and project management roles. His education in finance and econometrics focused on business, developmental and public economics. Sean's practical experience includes project management, contract management, business case development, domestic and international procurement, financial analysis, risk/sensitivity analysis and HSEQ system management.
Nick Hills
Senior Mechanical Engineer
Nick has over 15 years experience in complex aerospace design, power generation, repair, and maintenance. As a trained Engineering Officer in the Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF), Nick has extensive leadership and management experience and has been involved in the design and modification of systems, structural repair, airframe fatigue/corrosion management, fatigue testing, 3-D printed titanium fatigue modelling, and life extension/center wing replacement.
Henning Kruger
(CPEng)
Senior Mechanical Engineer
Henning has over 20 years experience as a Mechanical Engineer, with 15 on heavy plant and machinery in oil and gas. He has the benefit of having been involved in all phases of the project lifecycle including: design, installation and commissioning, as well as optimisation projects on brownfield installations. Henning has specific expertise on thermally over-constrained piping on rotating equipment and vessel design.
Project Management Team
The Project Engineering Team provide mechanical & electrical engineering and project management expertise for larger / complex hydro power projects.
Cameron Kay
Senior Mechanical Engineer
Dominic Stulen
Mechanical Engineer
Mikkel Scholer
Senior Engineer/ Project Manager
Yelena Pogrebinskaya
Senior Electrical Engineer
Asset Integrity Team
Specializing in Fitness for Service (FFS) assessment, Risk Based Inspection (RBI), Integrity Operating Windows (IOW), Engineering Critical Assessment (ECA), High Temperature and Creep Assessments, Fracture Mechanics, Failure Analysis, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), Finite Element Analysis (FEA), Dynamic Analysis, Stress Analysis and material testing of critical or damaged engineering assets.
Christiaan Erasmus
Senior Mechanical Engineer
Richard Louks
Mechanical Engineer
Cleo Enslin
Senior Mechanical Engineer
Joseph Jury
Mechanical Engineer
Matt Alemann
Mechanical Engineer
Bradley Boyd
Mechanical Engineer
Christian James
Mechanical Engineer
Jared Brown
Mechanical Engineer
Engineering Design Team
The Engineering Design Team provides innovative, robust designs for a wide range of mechanical, structural, and hydraulic systems. The team employs a variety of analytical and modelling tools to provide high value solutions.
Alistair Rose
Senior Mechanical Engineer
Elliot Wilkins
Mechanical Engineer
Tom Richards
Mechanical Engineer
Levon Stone
Graduate Engineer
Ben Broadfoot
Mechanical Engineer
Engineering Site Services Team
The Engineering Site Services Team are specialists in Condition Assessment, Positive Material Identification (PMI), Precision Measurement using the latest 3D Scanning techniques, Alignment, Repair, Installation, Manufacture, and Procurement of complex mechanical, hydraulic and water systems.
Dean Caseley
Mechanical Technician/Fitter
Sam McArthur
Mechanical Engineer
Ramon Palmer
Mechanical Technician/Fitter
John Newell
Mechanical Technician
Josh Ewing
Mechanical Engineer
Arjun Prakash
Mechanical Technician
Industrial Engineering Team
Chris Naude
Senior Mechanical Engineer
Engineering Energy Team
Gary Fleming
Mechanical Draughtsman
James Krippner
Mechatronics Engineer
Joel Beaty
Mechanical Draughtsman
Angus Morley-Hall
Mechanical Engineer