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 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 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.
Dr Alexander Rodionov
Water and Wastewater and Process Engineer
Alexander is a water professional with 30+ years of experience in designing domestic and industrial water and wastewater treatment plants. Alexander has a background in chemical engineering and resource recovery and has been responsible for implementing several 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.