Jonassen Industrial Projects Ltd (JIPL) was founded by Chris Jonassen in 1986.  More than 30 years later, JIPL has made a name for itself as leading design/project engineers and consultants specialising in industrial process and environmental engineering.

As a team of project management and design engineers, JIPL is a specialist resource for clients who need ideas customised into sensible, effective solutions. We’re flexible – we can provide complete turnkey design-build services, or we can focus specifically on one or two aspects of the project, working alongside other contractors, and specialists to meet our customer’s needs.

JIPL takes pride in our ability to listen to customers, cross-transfer technologies and ideas, and provide innovative, practical and effective engineering solutions that meet our customer’s needs.

What Our Customers say about us

Mel Laird Branch Manager of Metalcraft says:

we wanted to work with a company that had a good reputation and the best industry know-how – which is what led us to JIPL. Chris and his team met with us and understood what we were wanting to achieve with the new oven presently and going forward. The project went smoothly and met our scope and timing frames.

Our Team

Chris Jonassen

Engineering Director / Senior Project Manager

 Chris has over 30 years of experience in environmental and project engineering and is passionate about providing quality engineering and technology solutions.  His expertise is broad and established nationally and internationally. Chris says his work is primarily project engineering – clients come to him with a problem and he solves it.

“If you are going to do it, do it once and do it right — our solutions must provide better business with long term positive outcomes”… is his business ethic.

Simon Nowlan

Engineering  Manager

Simon is an experienced process engineering manager with a Bachelor of Engineering focused on Manufacturing Engineering and Management from the University of Nottingham. Simon is skilled in Project Management, Product Management, Business Process, Value stream mapping, Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA), VA/VE, and Six Sigma. 

Simon has the skills and ability to lead teams and manage projects.  With Simon’s energy and experience, he can manage any challenging situation, is resourceful on-site, and delivers on time, on budget, and to client satisfaction.

Genevieve Lynch

Marketing Manager

Genevieve has a BA Honours degree. She leads our marketing activity bringing with her a wealth of experience based on working and living in the UK and South Africa and NZ where she has been based for the last 20 years. Her key area of focus is on marketing, as well as highlighting new technologies and new ideas.

Dr Alexander Rodionov

Water and Wastewater and Process Engineer

Alexander is a water professional with 30+ years of experience in the design of domestic and industrial water and wastewater treatment plants. Alexander has a background in chemical engineering and resource recovery and has been responsible for implementing a number of significant environmental projects in New Zealand and worldwide. He has also reviewed and provided recommendations for more than 20 different wastewater treatment systems worldwide.

Alexander’s highly diverse skills and interests make him an expert in environmental and chemical engineering, analytical and water chemistry, and resource recovery.
These combined with his passion for continuous innovation have helped Alexander to perfect his own unique and resourceful approach to problem-solving which works, irrespective of the area of application. His specific strength lies in the ability to troubleshoot processes with the help of his mobile laboratory and generate cost-efficient and practical solutions turning waste into profit.

Vitul Raj

Mechanical, Design and Project Engineer

Vitul Raj is a mechanical engineer with over 8 years of hands-on R&D experience in a variety of fields.

Vitul’s work history includes working as a Fisher & Paykel Healthcare process engineer. He is a skilled user of Solidworks, AutoCAD, MEP, Product design, Testing, CNC machining (Haas), 3D Printing, and Pneumatic and Hydraulic systems.

Vitul has the necessary skills to master all the new cutting-edge technologies, and the design capabilities and engineering experience to offer a wide range of innovative and productive solutions.

Brandon Mander

Mechanical and Design Engineer

Brandon has graduated as a Mechanical Engineer from Auckland University. He is a skilled user of AutoCAD and SolidWorks and has a keen interest in Robotics.

Brandon has considerable technical and practical skills and is a talented mechanical engineer. He is currently commissioning an industrial effluent treatment plant.

Brandon has undertaken several wastewater treatment trials for a number of companies – conducting ‘laboratory-type’ test work on various different effluents, to determine the technical parameters necessary to condition the sludge for effective de-watering.