NG Bailey

David Hurcomb, Chief Executive Officer, has announced that he will be retiring in May after 14 years in his position. He will be succeeded by Jonathan Stockton who has held numerous senior positions in the company including Chief Financial Officer and Group Director of Strategy and Performance.

Turner & Townsend

Have appointed three new Directors to its Energy and Natural Resources team. Faye Banks joins as Director of Transmission and Distribution, she leaves Vital Energi Utilities where she was Director Energy & Asset Management.

Andrew Baker joins as the Europe Lead for Energy and Natural Resources. He was previously Executive Vice President for Doris Group’s renewable business line.

Mark Savage, who has been at the company for nearly 20 years, will be the new Sector Lead for Nuclear and Head of Programme Services. Savage was previously Director of Major Projects and Physical Infrastructure.

Transport for London

Glynn Barton, interim Chief Operating Officer and Director of Buses, has announced he will be leaving the company to become Chief Operations Officer of Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole (BCP) council.

Steer

Stephen Wainwright has been appointed as the new Managing Director of its UK transportation and economic development business. Wainwright has been with Steer for over twenty years and has been serving in this role on an interim basis for the past six months.

Network Rail

Have appointed Jason Hamilton as the new Route Director on its North and East route. Hamilton succeeds Matt Rice, who is leaving the organisation after four and a half years as Route Director to join train operator Northern.

High Speed Rail Group

Dyan Perry (nee Crowther) has been appointed as the Group’s new Chair. Perry has a wealth of experience having been Chief Executive of HS1 and Chief Operating Officer of Govia Thameslink Railway.

National Gas

Simon O’Connor joins as the Contracts Director for the Construction team for the new National Gas business. Simon joins from Lower Thames Crossing where he was Head of Commercial.

National Highways

Tony Slater Managing Director of the Smart Motorway Programme Alliance is stepping down to take up a new job elsewhere in the industry. He has yet to announce where he is moving to

Aggregate Industries

Ian Dean has been appointed as Managing Director- Concrete Products having previously held the position as Managing Director- Landscape & Building Products at Marshalls plc.

Mayor Brown Ltd

Dr Colin Black has been appointed as Director. He joins from AECOM where he was previously Head of Strategy and Growth, Transportation ESG Lead.

John F Hunt

Have appointed Darren Potter as the new Operations Director. Potter joins from Balfour Beatty where he was also Operations Director.

Liverpool City Region Combined Authority

Have appointed Jamie Ross to the new created role of Director of Transport. He joins internally from his previous position as Interim Director of Rail.

Holtec

Have announced the appointment of Baroness Brown Julia King as its new Senior Advisor, UK. King is currently Chair of the Climate Change Committee’s Adaption Committee, Frontier IP and is a Non-Executive Director of Ørsted and Cres Power.

Sellar

Owen Dannatt has left his role as Chief Operating Officer. Dannatt has been with the company since 2019 and was working on the Paddington Square Development.

AtkinsRéalis

Have announced the appointment of Philip Hoare as the newly created role of Chief Operating Officer. Hoare moves internally from his role as President, Engineering Services.

Richard Robinson, previously Chief Executive officer, UK & Europe, is now President for the United Kingdom & Ireland.

They have also announced the appointment of Christine Healy as the new President for Asia, Middle East and Australia (AMEA). Healy joins from TotalEnergies where she was Senior Vice President.

Department for Transport

Have announced the appointment of Alex Hynes as the new Director General, Rail Services. Hynes joins on a two-year secondment from his position as Managing Director of Scotland’s Railway.

Rock Rail Group

Have announced that Charles Johnson-Ferguson has been appointed as the new Chief Financial Officer. He joins from PwC, having been at the company for 27 years, where he was most recently Partner, Corporate Finance and most recently leader of PwC’s UK Transport & Logistics division.

Balfour Beatty plc

Tony Wilson has been appointed as the new Managing Director for Balfour Beatty Transmission and Distribution. Wilson joined Balfour Beatty in 2021 as Utilities Director for Balfour Beatty VINCI’s HS2 Area North Project, leading the delivery of all utility works. Last year he joined the Power T&D business as Chief Operations Director.

Additionally, Balfour Beatty have announced that Anne Drinkwater has been appointed as the new Senior Independent Non-Executive Director, succeeding Stephen Billingham. Drinkwater will continue to be Chair of the Remuneration Committee and as a member of the Safety and Sustainability Committee.

Buro Happold

Deepak Chotwani has been appointed Managing Director for India. He moves internally from his previous position as Executive Director, Asia.

SYSTRA

Have appointed David White as Director of Health, Safety, Security and Sustainability. White joins from Galldris Group, where he was Interim Director of Health, Safety, Quality, and Environment.

Associated British Ports (ABP)

Announced the appointment of Francis Paonessa as the new Capital Projects Director. He joins from Thames Water where he has been Capital Projects Director.

Gatwick Airport

Have announced the appointment of Mark Johnson as the new Chief Operating Officer. Johnson joins from AGS airports where he was also Chief Operating Officer for Aberdeen, Glasgow, and Southampton airports.

Skanska

Andrew English returns to the business as Managing Director of Infrastructure. English previously worked at Skanska for almost a decade, including in two Managing Director positions, before moving abroad in 2020. He has most recently been Managing Director for AtkinsRéalis’ transportation division in the UK.

Arup

Loraine Martins OBE has been appointed as Global Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Officer. Martins joins from The Nichols Group where she was Global Director for Diversity and Inclusion.

QTS

Have announced the appointment of Andrew Steel as the new Managing Director. This is an internal move from his role as Operations Director of Civils and Geotechnical.

Porterbrook

Andy Bagguley has been appointed as the new Fleet Services Director. Bagguley joins from East West Rail Company where he was Head of Systems, Rolling Stock.

Wates Group

Have announced that Steffan Battle has been appointed as Managing Director of Wates Construction. This a permanent appointment having been appointed this role on an interim basis since October 2023.

AWE

Have announced that Nick Elliott CB MBE has been appointed as Chief Executive Officer. Elliott led the UK Vaccine Taskforce during the COVID-19 pandemic and before that was Deputy CEO of Defence Equipment & Support (DE&S).

MTR UK

Have announced that Steve Murphy will step down from his position as CEO. Murphy was MTR’s Elizabeth Line’s inaugural Managing Director from 2014 from which he became CEO in 2020.

Sir Robert McAlpine

Have announced the appointment of Neil Martin as its new Chief Executive Officer and will be succeeding Paul Hamer. Martin joins from Lendlease, Europe, where he was also the Chief Executive Officer having been in the company since the 1990’s.

Additionally, Vip Gandhi has announced that he will be joined the company as their new Managing Director of Transport. He joins for Keltbray, where he was Managing Director, Highways & Renewables (Civils).

AECOM

Stephen Kenny joins the consultancy as Project Management Director. He joins form RPS where he has been Director in the consultancy’s Project Management, Cost, & Building unit.

Gordon Lindsay also joins the AECOM team, having been appointed as the company’s Senior Vice President, Civil & Infrastructure. He moves internally from Rail & Transit Lead- Middle East & Africa and Programme Director at NEOM in Saudi Arabia.

Serco

Simon Bailey has started his new position as Managing Director, Transport & Community Services. Simon rejoins Serco from Sodexo, where he was CEO, Home Care, for the UK & Ireland.

Octavius Infrastructure

Have announced three new management positions for their new regional division. These appointments follow the acquisition of Southampton-based R&W Civil Engineering, and its subsequent rebranding as Octavius Regional Civil Engineering, or ORCE.

Chris Ellis will become the new Delivery Director of ORCE, having previously held the position of Operations Manager (Civils) at R&W.

Ben Race has been appointed as Lead Commercial Manager of ORCE, and Matthew Cooper has been appointed Pre-Construction Manager.

Murphy Group

Mark Conway joins as Operations Director. He joins from Morgan Sindall, where he was previously Specialist Operations Director.

Balfour Beatty

Have announced that Gabriel Costigan MBE has been appointed as Non-Executive Director. Gabriel has extensive experience, including 21 years in the Australian Army. In 2017, she joined BAE Systems pls as Chief Executive Officer of BAE Systems- Australia before being appointed the role of Group Managing Director, Business Development, and a member of the Executive Committee.

Stantec

Have appointed Dave Calder as the new Regional Growth Leader for the Global Region for Stantec’s Buildings practice. He joins internally, having previously been Vice President/ Sector Leader for Industrial Buildings.

Sellafield Ltd

Richard Lennard has announced his departure as Head of Client, Major Projects. Lennard will be joining the New Hospitals Programme as Executive Commercial Director.

AtkinsRéalis

Have appointed Christine Healy as the new President for Asia, Middle East, & Australia (AMEA). She joins from TotalEnergies, where she has been Senior Vice President since 2021.

KPMG

Lisa Kelvey has been appointed the role of Head of Infrastructure, succeeding Michele Connolly, who is leaving to focus on the Irish practice. Kelvey has been with KPMG for c11 years, having previously been a Partner in Major Projects Advisory. 

National Highways

Have appointed Sir Gareth Rhys Williams as the new Chair of Roads, replacing Dipesh Shah, who stepped down from the role at the end of 2023. Williams joins from the Cabinet Office, where he has been government chief commercial officer for the past eight years.

Additionally, Kirsty Ryan has been appointed as Director of Organisational Development. This is a step-up position from her previous role a Senior Human Resources Business Partner.

Northern

Have appointed Jason Wade as its new Regional Director for the North East. This is an internal move from his current role as Head of Retail Operations.

CrossCountry

Steve Hopkinson has been appointed as Service Delivery Director. He joins from Network Rail, where he was Operations Director, responsible for leading the strategic delivery of infrastructure planning and operations on the East Midlands route.

OPITO

Have announced the appointment of Stephen Marcos Jones as the new Chief Executive Officer. He joins from the Association for Consultancy and Engineering (ACE) where he was Chief Executive Officer.

Buro Happold

Have appointed Deepak Chotwani as the new Regional Managing Director, India. Deepak will assume responsibility for the overall business across the India region, leading strategic growth efforts along with fostering the business and its personnel.

John Sisk & Son Ltd

Have announced the appointment of John Hennessey as the new Regional Director for its Data Centre division. John joins from STACK Infrastructure, a global data centre specialist where he was

Stantec

Have appointed Dave Calder as the new Regional Growth Leader for the Global Region for Stantec’s Buildings practice. He joins internally, having previously been Vice President/ Sector Leader for Industrial Buildings.

Arup

Jeremy Doherty has been appointed as the Edinburgh officer leader. In addition to this role, Jeremy also leads the firm’s Digital Technology, Engineering, Energy, and Environmental Projects.

Mace

Sukhy Duggal has been appointed as Director of Operations. Duggal joins from AtkinsRéalis, where he was Client Director.

Story Contracting

Have appointed Justin Hopkins as Managing Director, Central Region. Hopkins joins from Linbrooke Services where he has been Managing Director of Infrastructure.

Network Rail

Have appointed Robert Cairns as the new Interim Managing Director, Western & Wales. Cairns joined Network Rail in 2015 and has most recently been Capital Delivery Director for the Eastern Region.

Southern Integrated Delivery (SID)

Have announced that Liz Baldwin will leading the Southern Integrated Delivery (SID) alliance within the Southern Renewals Enterprise delivering the £9 billion Major Programme in the South.

BAM UK

Former HS2 Phase 2A Delivery Director, Peter Sollitt, will be joining the company as the new Alliance Managing Director TRU West starting in February.

James Wimpenny, BAM’s UK Construction Chief, has announced that he is retiring. James has been with the contractor since 1985, joining as a Management Trainee and rising through the ranks to become the Chief Executive of Bam Construct six years ago. In the interim Simon Finnie, Executive Director, Ventures, UK and Ireland Division, will take on the additional role of leading the Construction segment while a successor is recruited.

Rider Levett Bucknall (RLB)

Andrew Fettes-Brown joins the RLB Global Board, succeeding Russell Lloyd, RLB UK’s Head of Services. Fettes Brown has been Partner for the London Cost Consultancy business since 2017.

HS2

Have announced that Technical Services Delivery Director, Emma Head, will become the new Chief Railway Officer. This role will oversee and integrate the main work packages on HS2.

They have also announced the appointment of Shira Johnson as the new Chief People Officer. This is a step-up position from her previous role of HR Director.

West Midlands Trains

Andy Boyle has been appointed as Operations Director. He joins from McGinley Support Services, where he held the position of Operations Director- Rail Systems.

South Western Railway

Have announced that Stuart Meek will become the Interim Managing Director as of March. He will be joining this position internally, where he is currently Chief Operating Officer.

Clegg Construction

Michael Sims moves internally to become Managing Director, having previously been the company’s Commercial Director. This change comes with the retirement of Simon Blackburn, who has been with the company for over 20 years.

Galliford Try

Have appointed  Phil Harris as Managing Director of Galliford Try Investments. Phil has been a Director of Galliford Try Investments since 2014.

Connected Places Catapult

Erika Lewis has been appointed as the company’s new Chief Executive Officer. She joins from the AI Safety Summit.

Yorkshire Water

Have announced the appointment of John Thomas as the new Director of Strategy and Regulation. He joins from Rail Partners, where he was Director of Policy.

Laing O’Rourke

Have announced the appointment of Aidan Brannan as the new Alliance General Manager in Perth, Australia. He will be part of the team constructing the new Fremantle Bridge. Brannan joins from Sir Robert McAlpine, where he was Operations Director of Highways.

HS1

Have appointed London City Airport Chief Executive Officer, Robert Sinclair, as their new CEO. He leaves the airport after six years at the helm.

Tilbury Douglas

Have appointed Andrew Bull as the new Managing Director- Infrastructure. Andy joins from ARCADIS, where has been Senior Partner & Major Programme Director since 2018.

MTR Hong Kong

Rohan Perinpanayagam will the join the Corporation as the new General Manager- Lantau (Projects). He brings with him over 30 years of major project and programme management experience from companies such as Bechtel, HS1, Crossrail, Heathrow, TfL, and HS2. He is currently Capital Delivery Director for Wastewater at Southern Water.

Willmott Dixon

Have announced a reshuffle of its main board following the retirement of Executive Chairman, Colin Enticknap. Rick Willmott moves from his current role as Group Chief Executive to become the company’s new Executive Chairman, with Chief Financial Officer Graham Dundas promoted to Chief Executive.

The company’s main board will also include two new additions, with Roger Forsdyke, Chief Operating Officer for Willmott Dixon Interiors, and Chris Tredget, COO for Fortem – the company’s repairs and maintenance company – also joining from the start of January.

Rider Levett Bucknall

Rob Leslie-Carter, previously Global Project Management Skill Leader at Arup, has joined the firm as the new Project Management Partner.

Nuclear Transport Solutions

Have announced that Gottfried Eymer has been appointed as its Managing Director- Rail. He joins from Etihad Rail where he has been CEO of the rail freight business.

Balfour Beatty plc

Louise Colley, Business Development Director, will now lead the Pre-Construction and Estimating functions in addition to her current role.

Additionally, Neil Dalton has joined the company as Defence Work Winning Director. He joins having spent three decades in the Forces, and five years with defence contractors, most recently, the Defence Infrastructure Organisation.

Northern

Matt Rice has been appointed as the new Chief Operating Officer. Matt will be joining from Network Rail, where he was Route Director.

Tilbury Douglas

Have named Phil Shaw as its new Managing Director of its Building North unit. He joins from PLS Environmental Services where he has been Managing Director since 2012.

They have also announced that Martin Horne will be joining as the new Regional Director for the North West, having held the position of Regional Director, Europe, Middle East, and Africa at Trotec Laser since 2019.

Mott MacDonald

Julie Wood has joined Mott MacDonald’s Advisory and Programme Delivery unit as Defence & Energy’s Head of Programme and Project Management. She joins from Arup, where she was a Director and Leader of Major Complex Projects.

Ramboll

Have announced the appointment of Lora Brill as Head of Sustainability for Buildings in the UK. Lora joins from Orchard Street Investment Management where she was Head of ESG and Responsible Investment.       

M Group

M Group Services acquired home decarbonisation firm AgilityEco. They join their existing portfolio of energy service providers, including Morrison Energy Services, Seeka and Callisto.

Last year they also acquired Avonline Networks. The telecom network specialist employ 90 staff across offices in Cardiff and Northumberland.

Octavius Infrastructure

Has made several acquisitions this year. They bought London-based specialist rail consultant Navitas Engineering Group. The 30-strong team provides electrical engineering consultancy services to both the railway and electricity industries.

They also bought the assets and most of the contracts of R&W Civil Engineering after it went into administration.

Amey

UK Private Equity firm Buckthorn Partners completed the purchase of Amey from Ferrovial at the beginning of last year.

VINCI Energies

Acquired high voltage overhead line specialist NorPower. This represents Vinci’s second acquisition in Scotland in the past two years, as well as the opening of new design offices in Glasgow.

United Living

Was sold to US-based private equity giant Apollo for an undisclosed figure.

Aggregate Industries

Has bought leading Midlands aggregate concrete block maker Besblock.

FM Conway

Acquired Essex-based Flowline and its 164 employees. Specialist drainage contractor Flowline appointed administrators from PwC in May.

Sweco

Has  boosted its building control business with the acquisition of Ball & Berry. Ball & Berry provides Approved Inspector services to commercial, residential, education, healthcare, hospitality, industrial and leisure sectors.

OCU Group

The parent company of O’Connor Utilities and Instalcom, has acquired London multi-utility contractor Modus Utilities

Mitie Group

Has acquired JCA Engineering, an engineering and fit-out with 180 employees, in a deal worth up to £31.5m.

Severfield

Have bought Dutch steel contractor, Voortman Steel Construction, as it seeks to expand its European operations.

GRS

Construction materials group GRS has acquired ground stabilisation and enabling works contractor Soil Science Ltd.

Kier

Kier bought Buckingham Contracting Group’s rail business for £9.6m. The move saw 180 Buckingham staff move to Kier.

SYSTRA

Acquired two companies dedicated to the design of tunnels and underground structures, Bamser, in Australia and Subterra, in Spain.

Last year, SYSTRA also acquired the Swedish, Danish, and Norwegian entities of Atkins, alongside Rail Systems Australia.

Hitachi Rail

Has been given clearance to proceed with its £1.4bn acquisition of Thales’ Ground Transportation Systems business.

WSP

Has sold a subsidiary of Louis Berger –  Louis Berger Services Inc. (“LBS”) to Versar Inc. a global engineering, environmental, and security services company. 

They also acquired lgt, a Quebec-based building engineering firm and  Calibre an engineering services provider based in Australia.

Transport UK

Abellio completed the divestiture of its UK subsidiary through a management buy-out. Abellio UK’s operations transferred in their entirety to the MBO vehicle, Transport UK Group Ltd.

Egis

Expands in Ireland with acquisition of JB Barry & Partners, a civil engineering firm with headquarters in Dublin.

Galliford Try

Has bought specialist water and energy industry contractor AVRS Systems for £7m.

Mace

Has sold its FM business to a management buyout team. The management buy-out of Mace Operate has been led by the FM arm’s Chief Executive Ross Abbate and Financial Director Chris Bampton alongside Mace Group Deputy Chairman Mark Holmes, who will become Chair of the new standalone firm.

Obelisk

Irish engineering services business, Obelisk announced the acquisition of the telecoms division of Balfour Beatty. The move follows Obelisk’s acquisition by Constructel Visabeira in 2022.

Van Elle

Van Elle Holdings has bought Galliford Try’s specialist piling business Rock & Alluvium.

Mott MacDonald

Completed their acquisition of Engevity, an Australian firm specialising in strategic advisory across the energy, climate and infrastructure sectors.

SGN

Darren Elsom joins as the new Chief Operating Officer. Elsom joins from Cadent where he has been Director of Hydrogen Development & Operations, and before that Director for the Eastern Network.

New Murabba Development Company (NMDC)

Have announced that Michael Dyke has been appointed as Chief Executive Officer. He joins from Balfour Beatty where he has been Chief Executive Officer, HS2 Major Projects.

Thames Water

Have announced that Chris Weston will be joining as the new CEO. Previously CEO of Aggreko and Managing Director at Centrica, Chris succeeds Sarah Bentley, who left the business in June.

John F Hunt

Appoints Simon Hyams as its new Managing Director for the contracting arm of its £80m regeneration business. Hyams joins from Buckingham Group, where he was Managing Director of Major Projects, HS2.

CPC

Have appointed Helen Downey as the new Regional Projects Director for Ireland. Helen joins with over 25 years’ consultancy experience across numerous industries including: rail, utilities, and aviation.

Mace

Christina Brown has been appointed as the new Global HR Director for Mace Consult. She joins from Balfour Beatty where she was HR Director for the UK Construction Services division.

Transport for London

Have appointed Claire Mann as Chief Operating Officer. She returns to TfL from South Western Railway, where she has been Managing Director since 2021.

Foresight Group

Have appointed Nathan Wakefield as the new Head of Portfolio. Nathan joins from Equitix, where he was Managing Director of Asset Management.

Dragados SA

Javier Teulón Ramirez has moved internally to become the new Director for High-Tech Projects at Dragados (ACS Group). He has been Managing Director, UK & Ireland for nearly 10 years.

Network Rail

Have appointed Robert Cairns as Interim Managing Director for Wales and Western. He has most recently been Capital Delivery Director for the Eastern region and succeeds Michelle Handforth who resigned last month.

They have also announced the appointment of Mark Goodall as its new Route Director for the Wessex Route. He joins from CrossCountry Trains, where he was Service Delivery Director.

BakerHicks

Samer Ali has moved internally to take up the position of Transportation Director. He has been Highways Sector Director since January 2022.

WSP

Have announced the appointment of Paul Reilly as the new Deputy Chief Executive. He moves internally from his current role as Managing Director, Planning & Advisory at WSP. Paul will report to Mark Naysmith, Regional Chief Executive for Europe, Middle East, and Africa.

CILT(UK)

Paul Adams has been appointed as CEO. Paul has over 20 years of global leadership experience and has held the position of National Director for 2 years at the Institute of Directors.

JPG Group

Have appointed Liam Bower as a new board Director as part of their business and succession planning strategy. He joins from MJMC Consulting where he was previously Director.

Ramboll

Patrick Folley joins as Head of Aviation, UK from Jacobs where he was Director of Operations for Aviation.

Turner & Townsend

Have appointed Qian Li as the new Director and Head of Carbon Accounting in line with its sustainability practices. Li was previously Associate in greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) accounting and embodied carbon at Cundall.

Simon Earles also joins the company as Project Director within their sustainability team. He most recently worked as Planning and Sustainability Director at Bristol Airport.

Siemens Mobility

Syeda Ghufran joins as the new Director of Asset Management and Assurance for Customer Services. She joins from Hitachi Rail, where she was a Fleet Engineering Director for the UK and OS&M.

Chiltern Railways

Have announced three new members to the Executive Team:

Tony Baxter has joined as Operations Director, he joins from Northern Trains, where he was the Regional Director for Yorkshire and Humber.

Tim Sayer has been appointed as Engineering and Safety Director. He was previously at Chiltern between 2006-2009 and has most recently been UK Fleet Director at Abellio.

Andrew Camp is now the permanent Commercial & Customer Strategy Director, having previously been appointed on a job-share basis.

Balfour Beatty

Lucy Jones will be joining the UK Construction Services business as HR Director. She moves from Balfour Beatty Vinci where she has been HR Director since 2021.

The Euston Partnership

Have appointed John Reed as the new Managing Director. He joins from the GBRTT, where he was the Regional Design Lead.

M Group Services

Iain Sutherland has been appointed Managing Director, Water Division. He joins from Balfour Beatty, where he has been Highways Director for the past 7 years.

Costain

Have announced the appointment of Jonathan Willcock as its new Managing Director for the Transportation Division. He joins from Skanska, where for the last three years he has been Managing Director for the UK’s Infrastructure Division.

Network Rail

Lucy McAuliffe joins Network Rail as the new permanent Sussex Route Director. Lucy has been in the role in an interim capacity since last December, following two years as the Southern region’s Stations and Security Director.

Balfour Beatty

Nigel Russell has been appointed the role of Chief Executive Officer, HS2 Major Projects. He moves internally from his current role as Project Director of Balfour Beatty VINCI SYSTRA’s HS2 Old Oak Common station project. He replaces Michael Dyke who is leaving Balfour Beatty to take up a role in Saudi Arabia.

Mace

Jason Millett will be taking up the position of Deputy Chief Executive for Mace. Millet is currently Chief Executive Officer and Group Board Director for Mace Consult.

Network Rail Consulting

Mark Prior has appointed former Managing Director and Global Chair for AECOM as a Non-Executive Director. He remains Non-Executive Director for Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Director of Lawford Estates Ltd.

Persimmon

Former Galliford Try Group Finance Director, Andrew Duxbury, will join Persimmon as the new Chief Financial Officer.

McGee Group  

Have promoted Richard Wilkinson to the newly created position of Operations Director. Wilkinson joined McGee earlier this year from Laing O’Rourke, where he was HPC – Nuclear Island Project Leader.

Wates Construction

Steff Battle has been appointed Interim Managing Director, Construction. This follows the news of Mark Tant’s decision to leave the company after nine years.  

Affinity Water

Have appointed Emma Davies as the new Director of People and Culture. Davies previously held the position of Director of Workforce Delivery at the NHS’ Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board (ICB).

UKRL

Have announced the appointment of Gareth Roberts as Managing Director. He will replace Mark Winter, a founding member, who is stepping down. Winter will remain part of the executive team.

AtkinsRéalis

Appoints Darren Martin as Chief Digital Officer. He joins this newly created role from McKinsey & Company, where he was Chief Technology Officer.

Mott MacDonald

Have appointed Michael Odling as Programme Director, leading the SYSTRA JV responsible for the delivery of design for Balfour Beatty Vinci on HS2. He joins from Faithful + Gould.

P.P. O’Connor

Steve Young has been appointed Commercial Director. He joins from Taziker, where he was Group Commercial Director.

J Murphy & Sons

Andrew Morton has been appointed as Group Commercial Director. The former Skanska Commercial Director leaves Fletcher Construction in New Zealand where he has been Executive General Manager Commercial.

EKFB JV

Sally Cox will join as Managing Director from December. Cox was previously Project Director on the BAM, Morgan Sindall, Balfour JV for the Tideway West tunnel.

McLaren Construction Group

Have appointed Paul Spiller as Group Commercial Director. He joins from McAlpine after 24 years in the company.

McLaren have also appointed Paul Heather as the new Chief Executive Officer. Heather was previously McLaren’s Group Managing Director for Construction.

Arriva Rail

Have appointed current Finance and Commercial Director Steve Best as the company’s new Managing Director. He succeeds Paul Hutchings, who will move into a new role at Arriva UK Trains (AUKT).

Core Highways Group

Jenny Moten joins Regional Managing Director from Cadent Gas, where she was Northwest Network Director.

They have also appointed Manchester Airport Group (MAG) Chief Executive, Charlie Cornish as the new Chairman.

Skanska

Steve Holbrook, Managing Director for Building Operations has left the firm with immediate effect after nearly three decades of service. Former Managing Director of Cementation Terry Muckian has been appointed as his successor, with Andy Entwistle stepping into Muckian’s previous role.

WSP

Have appointed David Cochrane as Senior Vice President to lead High Speed Rail Projects. He joins from HS2, where he was Head of Engineering and Environment for Phase 1 BBV section.

Northern

Appoints Richard Finds as its new Finance Director. He joins from Exertis, a subsidiary of DDC Plc, where he held the position of Chief Financial Officer, UK, and Ireland.

FM Conway

Joanne Conway has been appointed Chief Executive. She steps up to the helm following three years as their Managing Director for the Aggregates & Asphalt division.

Ramboll

Have appointed Patrick Folley as Head of Aviation, UK. He joins from Jacobs, where he was Director of Operations for Aviation.

HS1

Have announced CEO of London City Airport, Robert Sinclair, as the company’s new CEO. He will take up his role as CEO in March 2024.

Turner & Townsend Alinea

Have announced the appointment of Chris Trew as Director within their Specialist Services division. He joins from Rider Levett Bucknall, where he has been a Partner since 2022.

West Midlands Metro

Welcomes Sophie Allison as the new, full-time, Managing Director. Sophie has been Interim Managing Director at West Midlands Metro since November, 2021.

Balfour Beatty

Have announced that Mark Bullock, Chief Executive Officer UK Construction Services,  will step down at the end of the year after more than three years in the role.

Kier

David Rowsell has been named Managing Director of Kier Construction London and Cheryl Parsons as Regional Director for Kier Construction Southern. Rowsell has joined from Morgan Sindall, where he was the Northern Home Counties Area Director. Parsons joined moves internally from her role as Health Sector Director.

Skanska

Jonathan Wilcock is set to leave Skanska after three years as Managing Director Infrastructure. Simon Clitheroe has been appointed as his successor. Clitheroe has been Commercial Director for the Infrastructure operating unit and a member of the leadership team since 2015.

Scottish Water

Have appointed Lynne Highway as People Director. She joins from Natwest where she was Director of Colleague Experience and HR Transformation.

RSE

Former Galliford Try Environment Division Managing Director Stephen Slessor is joining water treatment specialist RSE as its new CEO. Slessor will start in his new role in January following a 17-year career at Galliford Try.

Galliford Try have promoted Mark Shadrick to the role of Managing Director of its Environment division.

Auckland One Rail

Martin Kearney joins as Chief Executive. He leaves Nexus where he has been Managing Director since 2020.

Costain

Former Amey Chief Executive Amanda Fisher is joining Costain as a Non-Executive Director. She will take up the role in December alongside former United Utilities Group CEO Steve Mogford who is also joining the board as two existing Non-Executive Directors move on.

Amey

Have announced the appointment of Danny Gilbert as Strategy Director of the Transport Infrastructure business to take responsibility for long-term strategic growth across the Transport Infrastructure business unit. Gilbert leaves Arriva where he was most recently Chief Commercial Officer.

The Go-Ahead Group

Have announced that Christian Schreyer has agreed with the Board to stand down as Group Chief Executive at the end of October 2023, when he will be succeeded by Miguel Ángel Parras, Chief Investment Officer at Globalvia.

Transport UK

Have appointed Martin Beable as New Trains and Fleet Director. He moves internally in the group from Greater Anglia after four years as Engineering Director.

Ramboll

Stephen Horrax joins as Head of Department Energy Transition. He leaves Jacobs where he has been for the past 9 years, most recently as Head of New Energy and Advisory.

Metrolinx

Frank Ibe moves internally to become Executive Vice President, Customer & Transit Operations. Ibe joined Metrolinx last year as Vice President Rail Services & Operations.

Bachy Solentanche

Neil Grosset joins as Project Director. He leaves Costain where he has spent the last 8 years, most recently as Programme Director on the £1.34bn A66 Northern Trans Pennine Route.

Bechtel

Colin Niccolls joins as Project Director – Sitewide Infrastructure on the Trojena Project – Saudi Arabia. He leaves STRABAG where he was Technical Director.

Cubic Transportation Systems

Have announced that Peter Torrellas has joined as President of Cubic Transportation Systems, following former President Jeff Lowinger’s retirement on October 13.