Rob has a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from The University of Auckland and in the early part of his career gained experience in NZ, Australia and the UK as a fluid power engineer and mechanical engineer designing HVAC systems and bulk material handling equipment. 
 

Rob completed his Masters degree in Fire Engineering in 2016 before becoming a Chartered Professional Engineer (Fire) in 2021. He is a Director of a small engineering consultancy firm in Auckland, where the majority of his time is spent completing fire safety designs.  
 

As well as Fire Engineering, Rob specialises in the design of height safety systems, working with most of the country’s leading suppliers and installers of this equipment. ​​

Joe Bain is one of the founders of the NZSES having served on the committee for many years since the formation of the group. He holds a BE(Hons) and PhD in mechanical engineering from Canterbury University, is a Chartered Professional Engineer, and a Fellow of Engineering New Zealand. Joe’s practice focuses on engineering work governed by the health and safety at work act, and includes machinery safety, mechanical equipment design and certification, and expert witness work. Joe also serves on the committee of the Recreation Safety Engineering technical group, and as the Engineering New Zealand representative to the HASANZ governance group. 

John is an experienced Engineering & Operations Manager, with extensive experience in delivering challenging complex engineering solutions from the front line leading a multi-discipline team of engineers, designers, and trades. John can hit the ground running and manage the teams to deliver projects to tight deadlines in challenging environments.  John is a Certified Machine Safety Expert, Functional Safety Engineer, a member of Engineering New Zealand and the Institute of Engineering and Technology. 

​Dirk is a professor in mechanical engineering at University of Canterbury. He teaches and conducts research in industrial engineering and engineering management (including professional practice). Much of this work is transdisciplinary and integrates across multiple fields, including Industrial engineering research, Manufacturing engineering research, Engineering safety (risk assessment, human factors, occupational biomechanics, disaster analysis, chronic harm, bowtie analysis) and Engineering professional practice. 

Dominique is a chemical engineer with 25 years of experience in industry including international and New Zealand experience. She has worked as the Sn Process Engineer responsible for all technical support to operations (milk collection, utilities, chemical supply, water and wastewater treatment) to the dairy processing plants of Westland Milk Products and establishing the role as Capital Projects Manager for the Westland District Council overseeing the planning and effective execution of almost 100 annual capital projects in the district (supply water, waste water, storm water, roading infrastructure, buildings, parks and recreation facilities, IT and resilience projects). Currently she is working at Apex Water, project managing the design and construction of water and wastewater treatment plants across the country. 

Nicky started a career in Safety and Risk Engineering as a graduate engineer supporting mostly on and offshore oil and gas in the Taranaki region, along with the downstream industries. She’s since worked in manufacturing and electricity distribution, sharing the principals of process safety management and safety in design, before returning to consulting with Worley NZ working as project lead safety and risk engineer, and undertaking consulting work for a range of clients.  

Hamish Glover is an emerging professional engineer based in Christchurch. He completed a BEng (Hons) in Mechtronics from the University of Canterbury in 2021.
Still in the early stages of his career, his current practice is primarily focused in NSSR and machinery safety.  

Lilly is currently a PhD Candidate in the Chemical & Materials Engineering Department at the University of Auckland. Her research interest is in "process safety under digitalisation".
illy obtained a Bachelor’s in Engineering (Hons)(Mech) UoA and had three years of industrial work experience before starting her current doctoral study. 

Paul is currently the Manager for Industrial Safety and OT Cyber Security for SGS ECL. He is a Certified  Functional Safety Expert (CFSE) and an experienced expert in Alarm management and High Performance HMI. Starting his career with his instrumentation trade, followed by a degree in Computer Science Paul has worked at all levels of an organization and through all stages of the Functional Safety and Alarm Management lifecycles. Paul is currently on the ISA 18 (Alarm Management) and ISA 84 (Process Functional Safety) committees where he actively works to help produce the standards and technical reports that guide these activities.