Founded in 1986 by Chris Jonassen, Jonassen Industrial Projects Ltd (JIPL) has established itself as a leading force in the field of design/project engineering and consulting over the past three decades. Specialising in industrial process and environmental engineering, JIPL has earned a distinguished reputation for its expertise and innovation in these sectors.
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 customers’ 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 customers’ 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.
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, 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.
Nicholas Chang
Project Manager & Senior Design Engineer
Nicholas has extensive experience in long-term, having led full project lifecycles from concept and design through to installation and handover. He has a proven track record in delivering tailored engineering solutions on time and within budget, while upholding high quality and safety standards.
