As a director at PEMCAS, Kevin leads the Mechanical, Electrical and Process (MEP) Group within the organisation. He joined us over 16 years ago after spending a number of years working with Intel. Kevin has in-depth experience working on a number of projects within the food and beverage, pharmaceutical, and educational sectors. His clients include Brown Forman (Slane Distillery) Dew Valley Foods, SAFC and Shannon Development. He applies a lean design approach to a range of process and utilities design and delivery including; dry goods & milling, brewing & fermentation, distilling, blending, filling, bottling, packaging, CIP, ATEX Assessments, HAZOP Analysis & others.

“I joined PEMCAS in 1999 helping clients to meet Y2K risks in preparation for the new millennium. A very unusual start indeed! Over the years I spent a good deal of time working with pharmaceutical companies in commissioning and qualification functions on behalf of PEMCAS, naturally progressing to an M & E department that I currently lead. I started in  electrical design and slowly developed an interest in mechanical design to become a more rounded M&E Engineer. I specialise in UPS system design for pharmaceutical and critical infrastructure sectors. Where my core focus was and is with electrical design till this day, I also oversee the process development side of the company as well. Clients would describe me as a respectful, informative safe pair of hands. 

Now I help clients develop their projects while meeting their specifications from ideas, putting it down on paper so to speak. I am committed to managing my team in a way that allows them to reach their full potential, and keeping them challenged brings the best results to our clients. My mantra is to keep it simple, it is sometimes easy to get caught up in issues and problems, a simple step back sometimes makes it much easier to identify the route to victory.  It is easy to become good at what you do when you repeat the same thing day in and day out, but only with new challenges can you progress as a professional.

One of the most memorable projects of my career was the Slane Whiskey distillery, it was great to be responsible for reviving a name that is so embedded in Irish culture. Working on such a delicate historic site bringing all up from ruins while shoehorning state of the art distilling equipment into protected structure was a phenomenal experience. I believe that to be a good engineer, one needs a good work ethic and good attention to detail, talent alone will only get you so far. A bit of patience, cool head, and willingness to roll up the sleeves and work on the small stuff is what matters.”