Major Projects Senior Leaders’ Conference
Richard is a civil engineer and have spent some 40 years in the construction sector, delivering a wide range of complex projects, most of which have been design and build type contracts.
Part of his career has focused on the rail sector, being responsible for running businesses delivering new and enhancement schemes with signalling power and track as well as the maintenance of a significant part of the operational railway in the South of England.
He has worked overseas and been responsible for businesses in the middle and far east, Indonesia, India and South America. Richard is passionate about safety and the wellbeing of all who work with him. He’s driven by the desire to deliver for his clients, through quality and fully assured schemes delivered on time and to their requirements.
Richard Adams
Executive General Manager - Infrastructure, Energy and Power
Angus joined Balfour Beatty in 2016 as the Head of Investor Relations. An accountant by trade, he previously worked in a number of forward-looking financial roles at BG Group, before it was acquired by Shell.
Angus shares your disappointment with regard to the recent share price performance but notes that we have still performed better than most other companies in the construction sector.
A keen sportsman, Angus now coaches more than he plays, but took great pleasure from the World Cup win by the England cricket team this summer.
Angus Barry
Head of Investor Relations
Joe finished his degree in 2017 and joined Carillion on the A14 project, as a Graduate Materials Engineer. After the demise of Carillion, he moved to Balfour Beatty and was swiftly moved to the Hinkley Point C (HPC) Marine and Tunnelling Project.
In his role, he has been heavily involved in developing concrete mixes for both the Avonmouth and HPC main site. He currently works at the main site, managing materials approvals for concrete and specialist grouts, collaborating with other tier 1 contractors and suppliers.
Joe Boyce
Graduate Materials Engineer
Bryony is leading a Digitising Engineering Processes project within Balfour Beatty. This involves reviewing the detailed processes behind Temporary Works, Design Management and Site Engineering – rationalising and simplifying the existing processes in place across our SBUs and then digitising.
She is also working as an engineer within Major Projects Temporary Works team, having previously worked in the Thames Tideway Tunnel delivery team and the HS2 bid team.
In addition to her technical roles, Bryony has driven several Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) initiatives within Major Projects. She was part of the team that organised the Inspiring Women conferences and the team to launch the reverse mentoring pilot scheme.
Outside of work, Bryony plays Rugby Union for Richmond FC as part of their Tyrell’s Premier 15s squad.
Bryony Coombs
Section Engineer and Project Lead for
Digitising Engineering Processes
Sophie joined Balfour Beatty in September 2018 on the High Speed 2 (HS2) project, in the Sub Lot 7 and 8 Pre-Construction team. She is on a Civil Engineering Degree Apprenticeship where she combines work and study.
Sophie is a student at the University of Wolverhampton where she studying
Civil Engineering.
Prior to starting university in October 2018, she completed A-Levels in Maths, Physics and English Literature. Sophie is eagerly anticipating the start of construction of HS2, having had no experience yet in a site-based role and can’t wait to finally get her boots dirty!
Outside of work, she enjoys horse riding and tries to ride each weekend. She also used to regularly milk up to 150 cows.
Sophie Cutler
Apprentice Civil Engineer
David is a Chartered Civil Engineer and joined Balfour Beatty in 2009 within the Highways business. Prior to joining Balfour Beatty, he worked for Norwest Holst (now VINCI Construction UK) on infrastructure schemes all around the UK.
David joined Balfour Beatty VINCI JV HS2 team in October 2017 after more than 20 years working on several major projects, including the smart motorway programme. He is leading the pre-construction planning and management of the northern 30km of the scheme, which includes more than 50 large structures and almost 9M m3 of earthworks.
David is a Reviewer and a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers and outside of work enjoys spending time with his family, growing roses and learning to fly.
David Emery
Project Director
Brian loves large complex civil engineering projects and for the past few years, he has been working on the HPC project. He previously worked on a number of landmark schemes for other Tier 1 contractors including; Tottenham Court Road Station Upgrade and the Kings Cross Station Redevelopment.
He is drawn to projects which are challenging, either technically or logistically. He says the previous projects he has worked on have allowed him to be involved in ground-breaking bridge launches and awe-inspiring architecture. He is also proud to be a Chartered Civil Engineer.
He enjoys the responsibility of leading a team to deliver a goal - whether that be for a Balfour Beatty project or running the football team afterwards.
Brian Fegan
Site Agent
Tina is a Senior Engineer who joined Major Projects in 2015 as part of the Temporary Works team.
She has supported a wide range of projects, including construction of 54-storey Madison Tower in Canary Wharf, refurbishment of Thames flood protection for TEAM2100 and construction of a suspension footbridge for a community of 5,000 in Rwanda.
She is excited about the digital era that the construction industry is heading into and will speak passionately about her involvement in Engineer of the Future and Reverse Mentoring if you ask. In her free time, Tina enjoys bouldering, trail running and travelling, often at the same time.
Tina Gunnarsson
Transformation Lead
Sophie began her involvement with engineering in 2014 at the age of 18 when she started a five-year university degree in Civil Engineering. During her time at university, she spent 3-4 months every summer on the Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route (AWPR) gaining invaluable site experience.
In her master’s year at university, she worked four days a week on AWPR and self-studied her degree; although this had its challenges, she said it was highly beneficial.
Since graduating Sophie has worked full-time on the A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon Improvement Scheme as a site engineer. Her hobbies are shooting, hill-walking and camping.
Sophie Henderson
Site Engineer
Hazel leads the Major Projects proposals team, working with our operational and technical experts to produce contract-winning bids.
Since joining Balfour Beatty in 2015, she has worked on several large-scale tenders, and says she loves the challenge of producing persuasive documents to tight deadlines and being involved in the start of the process to deliver complex and demanding projects.
Hazel Bennett
Proposals Manager
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Sophie began her involvement with engineering in 2014 at the age of 18 when she started a five-year university degree in Civil Engineering. During her time at university, she spent 3-4 months every summer on the Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route (AWPR) gaining invaluable site experience.
In her master’s year at university, she worked four days a week on AWPR and self-studied her degree; although this had its challenges, she said it was highly beneficial.
Since graduating Sophie has worked full-time on the A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon Improvement Scheme as a site engineer. Her hobbies are shooting, hill-walking and camping.
Sophie Henderson
Site Engineer
Stephen is an experienced and versatile senior manager with a proven track record in leadership in the construction industry.
He has successfully translated his hands-on expertise as a Project Director into the pre-construction environment, where he has led both large-scale integrated work-winning teams, technical services departments and numerous major bids for clients such as Crossrail, Highways England, Network Rail and latterly, HS2.
Stephen Holmes
Technical Services Director
Ryan joined Balfour Beatty in May 2016 following 25 years in the retail industry working in HR and Project Manager roles both in the UK and Internationally. He has worked across the Highways business for 18 months before joining the HPC as HR Business Partner Assistant and drives engagement across the Major Projects business.
To support his passion to learn more about himself and what motivates others, he is currently studying for an HRM MSc. He also recently qualified as an Emotional Intelligence practitioner, supporting future leaders understand more about themselves.
In his spare time, he cares for his mother and says he wouldn’t have it any other way.
Ryan Hunt
HR Business Partner Assistant
Since joining Balfour Beatty’s Major Projects business, Lewis has worked on the Sellafield site. During this time, he has gained experience at the Silos Maintenance Facility (SMF) and the Box Encapsulation Plant (BEP) projects.
During his career with Balfour Beatty, he has gained academic qualifications including an HNC (with Distinction) and is now reading for his integrated master’s in civil engineering.
Lewis Lindsay
CS&A Site Engineer
Terry has worked for Balfour Beatty since 2012, bringing his experience in Project Controls and Project Management to our nuclear projects at Sellafield.
Initially holding Project Controls Manager roles on SPP1 and then SMF, he progressed to Project Lead on both projects and is currently the Operations Manager at Sellafield, with principal responsibility for the BEP Project.
He says these high value, complex projects are key to reducing the hazard posed to the UK by the nuclear legacy, with the technical challenges, site constraints and exacting standards making it an exciting place to work.
Outside of work, he is a keen football fan, attending the majority of Liverpool FC home games. He also likes relaxing and occasional trips to the pub.
Terry Meighan
Operations Manager
Tom is the Engineering and Design Director for Balfour Beatty’s Major Projects and Highways businesses.
He supports a community of 1,500 engineers across the UK and has worked on a variety of projects during his career including; widening the busiest motorway section in Europe, installed a bridge for the Olympic Games, built a terminal in Europe’s most congested airport and led the engineering for a project creating the UK’s new generation of nuclear power stations.
Tom Newton
Engineering and Design Director
Josh is from Maidstone, Kent and started with Balfour Beatty in 2014 as a sponsored student at Loughborough University.
He spent both his summer placement and placement year at Norwich Northern Distributor Route with Highways before moving into Major Projects as GraduateQuantity Surveyor. He is currently part of the change team at Hinkley Point C.
Outside of work, Josh is a very keen cyclist and a previous British Schools National Cycling Champion across a range of disciplines. Having made the decision to focus on his quantity surveying career, he now spends less time riding his bike and more time travelling around the UK and abroad managing a cycling team.
Josh Parkin
Graduate Quantity Surveyor
Harry has been with Balfour Beatty for 11 years, joining the Highways business at InteRoute Area 4 as a Laser Scanning and Survey Technician before moving to the M25 as Temporary Works Designer and Utilities Coordinator.
Harry has spent time in all departments learning the processes and procedures and then developing and implementing digital processes to improve our ways of working. He has also spent time seconded to clients, Highways England and HS2 to support them in developing their standards, methods and procedures in BIM / Digital Project Delivery.
He is currently the owner of the Digital Project Delivery Processes in Balfour Beatty BMS and an integral developer of the Balfour Beatty Group Minimum Digital Expectations.
In his spare time, he coaches Under 13’s rugby for his son’s team and takes his daughter to Baby Ballet.
Harry Parnell
Head of Digital Project Delivery
Sue Robbins
Audit, BMS and Nuclear Safety Manager
Gavin Russell
Finance Director – Major Projects, Highways, Investments
Nigel Russell
Project Director
Sue started her career with Balfour Beatty in 2002 on the Area 2 highways contract as a technical administrator in the Tormarton depot.
She was involved in many areas of the business and received her introduction to quality and auditing. She joined Skanska when it took over the contract and continued developing her career in quality and administration.
Sue returned to Balfour Beatty in 2017 on the HPC marine works project as Audit & BMS Manager and soon added Nuclear Safety Manager to her title after taking on all the Nuclear Safety inductions, champions, and nuclear safety processes for the project and the supply chain.
Gavin has been the Major Projects’ Finance Director since summer 2019, he had previously been the Balfour Beatty plc Group Financial Controller since April 2014.
As Group Financial Controller, his primary responsibility was managing our Group results and the stock exchange reporting cycle. During his tenure, he also led the implementation of the Group’s consolidation system (HFM).
Having moved into the business, he is now responsible for finance in Major Projects (including Gammon), Highways and Investments, although he spends the majority of his time in Major Projects.
He is a chartered accountant and graduated from the London School of Economics.
Outside of work, he recently had a baby daughter, enjoys running, football, golf and eating out (although the latter activities are becoming a memory following the arrival of his daughter).
Nigel is a Project Director with Major Projects and is currently leading Balfour Beatty’s involvement in Old Oak Common Station for HS2.
He joined Balfour Beatty in 1981 and has spent his whole career working on complex infrastructure projects including roads, rails, ports, buildings, tunnels and stations. Since 1996, he has worked exclusively as the Project Director of high-profile joint venture. Among the projects he has worked on are the M1-A1 DBFO, West Coast Mainline OLE and Distribution, Metronet LUL PPP modernisation, and Crossrail C510/C512.
Nigel is also the Chair of the Project Management Leadership Group.
Ken Turner
Commercial Manager
Ken has worked at Sellafield for approximately 15 years on a variety of projects. He joined Balfour Beatty in 2014 on the Silos Maintenance Facility (SMF). After four years on the SMF project, Ken moved over to the Box Encapsulation Plant (BEP) project where he is currently one of the commercial managers looking after areas including civils, structural and the grout plant.
Ken is also part of the Major Projects employee forum to help promote and improve employee engagement by learning from employee surveys, collaborating between projects and implementing project improvement plans.
Outside of work, Ken enjoys spending time with his children and can also be found most weekends on the Cumbrian fells either hiking, running or biking.
Stephen Tarr
Managing Director – Major Projects
Stephen Tarr is a director of Balfour Beatty Group and managing director of its Major Projects arm. He is also responsible for the Group’s operations in SE Asia.
He is a civil engineer and has extensive experience of delivering complex infrastructure across the transport, energy and industrial sectors.
Jo Volk
Director, Talent and Development
Jo joined Balfour Beatty at the end of 2016. As the daughter of a Mechanical Engineer; the wife of a Civil Engineer and with a career that has been ‘devoted’ to Construction/Engineering/Utilities, she feels a strong personal connection to our business and people.
Previously Jo has held HR Director; project, business change and integration roles within Centrica Energy, British Gas, American Water, Thames Water and Bechtel based in the UK and in the USA.
Jo is a Trustee and Non-Executive Director of the 5% Club and for the past few years have been the Chair of Balfour Beatty’s Gender Equality Network (GEN).
Jo is married, lives in West London and is the very proud Mum of identical twin daughters who have just started Senior School. Her interests include: coffee; increasingly adventurous vegetarian cooking and amassing a worryingly large number of houseplants.
Lizzie Wells
Lizzie has been with Balfour Beatty for six years, joining the Highways business as a Trainee Civil Engineer while studying a part time Civil Engineering degree course.
She transferred to Major Projects two years ago to join the HS2 project and recently moved to Hinkley Point C Marine project to work on the Outfall tunnel head construction at Avonmouth.
Lizzie originally became involved with the industry as a Project Support Administrator. After six months she was given the opportunity to become an Assistant Feasibility Engineer, which is when her passion for engineering surfaced.
During her studies, Lizzie was awarded the ICE East of England Student of the Year award and has since become an Incorporated Engineer with the ICE.
In her spare time she is keen on Health and Fitness and have just started training for her next marathon in April.
Maxine Wheldon
HR Director
Maxine is the HR Director for Major Projects, Highways and UK Investments businesses.
She has worked for Balfour Beatty for over 23 years including several businesses across the Group during her career. She is passionate about nurturing and supporting careers in construction and helping people realise their potential.
Andrew Whyatt-Sames
Principal Consultant (Lane4)
Andrew is a Principal Consultant with management consultants Lane4. He specialises in leadership, communication and storytelling, building on a successful 10-year career as a broadcaster and award-winning comedian.
He has spent seven years in HR partnering roles and has a strong grasp of organisational theory and background knowledge. He is a keen problem solver, with a direct approach and uncovers untapped potential.
Andrew values the opportunity to work with clients as a trusted advisor, to solve issues by getting to the root cause.
Among his achievements is supporting a UK automotive manufacturer in transforming its worldwide leaders into strategic leaders, as the design architect for its executive talent development project.
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Richard Adams
Executive General Manager - Infrastructure, Energy and Power
Richard is a civil engineer and have spent some 40 years in the construction sector, delivering a wide range of complex projects, most of which have been design and build type contracts.
Part of his career has focused on the rail sector, being responsible for running businesses delivering new and enhancement schemes with signalling power and track as well as the maintenance of a significant part of the operational railway in the South of England.
He has worked overseas and been responsible for businesses in the middle and far east, Indonesia, India and South America. Richard is passionate about safety and the wellbeing of all who work with him. He’s driven by the desire to deliver for his clients, through quality and fully assured schemes delivered on time and to their requirements.
Angus joined Balfour Beatty in 2016 as the Head of Investor Relations. An accountant by trade, he previously worked in a number of forward-looking financial roles at BG Group, before it was acquired by Shell.
Angus shares your disappointment with regard to the recent share price performance but notes that we have still performed better than most other companies in the construction sector.
A keen sportsman, Angus now coaches more than he plays, but took great pleasure from the World Cup win by the England cricket team this summer.
Angus Barry
Head of Investor Relations
Bryony is leading a Digitising Engineering Processes project within Balfour Beatty. This involves reviewing the detailed processes behind Temporary Works, Design Management and Site Engineering – rationalising and simplifying the existing processes in place across our SBUs and then digitising.
She is also working as an engineer within Major Projects Temporary Works team, having previously worked in the Thames Tideway Tunnel delivery team and the HS2 bid team.
In addition to her technical roles, Bryony has driven several Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) initiatives within Major Projects. She was part of the team that organised the Inspiring Women conferences and the team to launch the reverse mentoring pilot scheme.
Outside of work, Bryony plays Rugby Union for Richmond FC as part of their Tyrell’s Premier 15s squad.
Bryony Coombs
Section Engineer and Project Lead for
Digitising Engineering Processes
Sophie joined Balfour Beatty in September 2018 on the High Speed 2 (HS2) project, in the Sub Lot 7 and 8 Pre-Construction team. She is on a Civil Engineering Degree Apprenticeship where she combines work and study.
She is a student at the University of Wolverhampton where she is studying
Civil Engineering.
Prior to starting university in October 2018, she completed A-Levels in Maths, Physics and English Literature. She says she is eagerly anticipating the start of construction of HS2, having had no experience yet in a site-based role and can’t wait to finally get her boots dirty!
Outside of work, she enjoys horse riding and tries to ride each weekend. She also used to regularly milk up to 150 cows.
Sophie Cutler
Apprentice Civil Engineer
David is a Chartered Civil Engineer and joined Balfour Beatty in 2009 within the Highways business. Prior to joining Balfour Beatty, he worked for Norwest Holst (now VINCI Construction UK) on infrastructure schemes all around the UK.
David joined Balfour Beatty VINCI JV HS2 team in October 2017 after more than 20 years working on several major projects, including the smart motorway programme. He is leading the pre-construction planning and management of the northern 30km of the scheme, which includes more than 50 large structures and almost 9M m3 of earthworks.
David is a Reviewer and a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers and outside of work enjoys spending time with his family, growing roses and learning to fly.
David Emery
Project Director
David is a Chartered Civil Engineer and joined Balfour Beatty in 2009 within the Highways business. Prior to joining Balfour Beatty, he worked for Norwest Holst (now VINCI Construction UK) on infrastructure schemes all around the UK.
David joined Balfour Beatty VINCI JV HS2 team in October 2017 after more than 20 years working on several major projects, including the smart motorway programme. He is leading the pre-construction planning and management of the northern 30km of the scheme, which includes more than 50 large structures and almost 9M m3 of earthworks.
David is a Reviewer and a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers and outside of work enjoys spending time with his family, growing roses and learning to fly.
David Emery
Project Director
Major Projects
Senior Leaders’ Conference
Tina is a Senior Engineer who joined Major Projects in 2015 as part of the Temporary Works team.
She has supported a wide range of projects, including construction of 54-storey Madison Tower in Canary Wharf, refurbishment of Thames flood protection for TEAM2100 and construction of a suspension footbridge for a community of 5,000 in Rwanda.
She is excited about the digital era that the construction industry is heading into and will speak passionately about her involvement in Engineer of the Future and Reverse Mentoring if you ask. In her free time, Tina enjoys bouldering, trail running and travelling, often at the same time.
Tina Gunnarsson
Transformation Lead
Sophie began her involvement with engineering in 2014 at the age of 18 when she started a five-year university degree in Civil Engineering. During her time at university, she spent 3-4 months every summer on the Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route (AWPR) gaining invaluable site experience.
In her master’s year at university, she worked four days a week on AWPR and self-studied her degree; although this had its challenges, she said it was highly beneficial.
Since graduating Sophie has worked full-time on the A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon Improvement Scheme as a site engineer. Her hobbies are shooting, hill-walking and camping.
Sophie Henderson
Site Engineer
Stephen Holmes
Technical Services Director
Stephen is an experienced and versatile senior manager with a proven track record in leadership in the construction industry.
He has successfully translated his hands-on expertise as a Project Director into the pre-construction environment, where he has led both large-scale integrated work-winning teams, technical services departments and numerous major bids for clients such as Crossrail, Highways England, Network Rail and latterly, HS2.
Ryan joined Balfour Beatty in May 2016 following 25 years in the retail industry working in HR and Project Manager roles both in the UK and Internationally. He has worked across the Highways business for 18 months before joining the HPC as HR Business Partner Assistant and drives engagement across the Major Projects business.
To support his passion to learn more about himself and what motivates others, he is currently studying for an HRM MSc. He also recently qualified as an Emotional Intelligence practitioner, supporting future leaders understand more about themselves.
In his spare time, he cares for his mother and says he wouldn’t have it any other way.
Ryan Hunt
HR Business Partner Assistant
Since joining Balfour Beatty’s Major Projects business, Lewis has worked on the Sellafield site. During this time, he has gained experience at the Silos Maintenance Facility (SMF) and the Box Encapsulation Plant (BEP) projects.
During his career with Balfour Beatty, he has gained academic qualifications including an HNC (with Distinction) and is now reading for his integrated master’s in civil engineering.
Lewis Lindsay
CS&A Site Engineer
Since joining Balfour Beatty’s Major Projects business, Lewis has worked on the Sellafield site. During this time, he has gained experience at the Silos Maintenance Facility (SMF) and the Box Encapsulation Plant (BEP) projects.
During his career with Balfour Beatty, he has gained academic qualifications including an HNC (with Distinction) and is now reading for his integrated master’s in civil engineering.
Lewis Lindsay
CS&A Site Engineer
Since joining Balfour Beatty’s Major Projects business, Lewis has worked on the Sellafield site. During this time, he has gained experience at the Silos Maintenance Facility (SMF) and the Box Encapsulation Plant (BEP) projects.
During his career with Balfour Beatty, he has gained academic qualifications including an HNC (with Distinction) and is now reading for his integrated master’s in civil engineering.
Lewis Lindsay
CS&A Site Engineer
Terry has worked for Balfour Beatty since 2012, bringing his experience in Project Controls and Project Management to our nuclear projects at Sellafield.
Initially holding Project Controls Manager roles on SPP1 and then SMF, he progressed to Project Lead on both projects and is currently the Operations Manager at Sellafield, with principal responsibility for the BEP Project.
He says these high value, complex projects are key to reducing the hazard posed to the UK by the nuclear legacy, with the technical challenges, site constraints and exacting standards making it an exciting place to work.
Outside of work, he is a keen football fan, attending the majority of Liverpool FC home games. He also likes relaxing and occasional trips to the pub.
Terry Meighan
Operations Manager
Since joining Balfour Beatty’s Major Projects business, Lewis has worked on the Sellafield site. During this time, he has gained experience at the Silos Maintenance Facility (SMF) and the Box Encapsulation Plant (BEP) projects.
During his career with Balfour Beatty, he has gained academic qualifications including an HNC (with Distinction) and is now reading for his integrated master’s in civil engineering.
Lewis Lindsay
CS&A Site Engineer
Terry has worked for Balfour Beatty since 2012, bringing his experience in Project Controls and Project Management to our nuclear projects at Sellafield.
Initially holding Project Controls Manager roles on SPP1 and then SMF, he progressed to Project Lead on both projects and is currently the Operations Manager at Sellafield, with principal responsibility for the BEP Project.
He says these high value, complex projects are key to reducing the hazard posed to the UK by the nuclear legacy, with the technical challenges, site constraints and exacting standards making it an exciting place to work.
Outside of work, he is a keen football fan, attending the majority of Liverpool FC home games. He also likes relaxing and occasional trips to the pub.
Terry Meighan
Operations Manager
Since joining Balfour Beatty’s Major Projects business, Lewis has worked on the Sellafield site. During this time, he has gained experience at the Silos Maintenance Facility (SMF) and the Box Encapsulation Plant (BEP) projects.
During his career with Balfour Beatty, he has gained academic qualifications including an HNC (with Distinction) and is now reading for his integrated master’s in civil engineering.
Lewis Lindsay
CS&A Site Engineer
Tom is the Engineering and Design Director for Balfour Beatty’s Major Projects and Highways businesses.
He supports a community of 1,500 engineers across the UK and has worked on a variety of projects during his career including; widening the busiest motorway section in Europe, installed a bridge for the Olympic Games, built a terminal in Europe’s most congested airport and led the engineering for a project creating the UK’s new generation of nuclear power stations.
Tom Newton
Engineering and Design Director
Since joining Balfour Beatty’s Major Projects business, Lewis has worked on the Sellafield site. During this time, he has gained experience at the Silos Maintenance Facility (SMF) and the Box Encapsulation Plant (BEP) projects.
During his career with Balfour Beatty, he has gained academic qualifications including an HNC (with Distinction) and is now reading for his integrated master’s in civil engineering.
Lewis Lindsay
CS&A Site Engineer
Josh is from Maidstone, Kent and started with Balfour Beatty in 2014 as a sponsored student at Loughborough University.
He spent both his summer placement and placement year at Norwich Northern Distributor Route with Highways before moving into Major Projects as GraduateQuantity Surveyor. He is currently part of the change team at Hinkley Point C.
Outside of work, Josh is a very keen cyclist and a previous British Schools National Cycling Champion across a range of disciplines. Having made the decision to focus on his quantity surveying career, he now spends less time riding his bike and more time travelling around the UK and abroad managing a cycling team.
Josh Parkin
Graduate Quantity Surveyor
Since joining Balfour Beatty’s Major Projects business, Lewis has worked on the Sellafield site. During this time, he has gained experience at the Silos Maintenance Facility (SMF) and the Box Encapsulation Plant (BEP) projects.
During his career with Balfour Beatty, he has gained academic qualifications including an HNC (with Distinction) and is now reading for his integrated master’s in civil engineering.
Lewis Lindsay
CS&A Site Engineer
Harry has been with Balfour Beatty for 11 years, joining the Highways business at InteRoute Area 4 as a Laser Scanning and Survey Technician before moving to the M25 as Temporary Works Designer and Utilities Coordinator.
Harry has spent time in all departments learning the processes and procedures and then developing and implementing digital processes to improve our ways of working. He has also spent time seconded to clients, Highways England and HS2 to support them in developing their standards, methods and procedures in BIM / Digital Project Delivery.
He is currently the owner of the Digital Project Delivery Processes in Balfour Beatty BMS and an integral developer of the Balfour Beatty Group Minimum Digital Expectations.
In his spare time, he coaches Under 13’s rugby for his son’s team and takes his daughter to Baby Ballet.
Harry Parnell
Head of Digital Project Delivery
Since joining Balfour Beatty’s Major Projects business, Lewis has worked on the Sellafield site. During this time, he has gained experience at the Silos Maintenance Facility (SMF) and the Box Encapsulation Plant (BEP) projects.
During his career with Balfour Beatty, he has gained academic qualifications including an HNC (with Distinction) and is now reading for his integrated master’s in civil engineering.
Lewis Lindsay
CS&A Site Engineer
Sue started her career with Balfour Beatty in 2002 on the Area 2 highways contract as a technical administrator in the Tormarton depot.
She was involved in many areas of the business and received her introduction to quality and auditing. She joined Skanska when it took over the contract and continued developing her career in quality and administration.
Sue returned to Balfour Beatty in 2017 on the HPC marine works project as Audit & BMS Manager and soon added Nuclear Safety Manager to her title after taking on all the Nuclear Safety inductions, champions, and nuclear safety processes for the project and the supply chain.
Sue Robbins
Audit, BMS and Nuclear Safety Manager
Since joining Balfour Beatty’s Major Projects business, Lewis has worked on the Sellafield site. During this time, he has gained experience at the Silos Maintenance Facility (SMF) and the Box Encapsulation Plant (BEP) projects.
During his career with Balfour Beatty, he has gained academic qualifications including an HNC (with Distinction) and is now reading for his integrated master’s in civil engineering.
Lewis Lindsay
CS&A Site Engineer
Sue started her career with Balfour Beatty in 2002 on the Area 2 highways contract as a technical administrator in the Tormarton depot.
She was involved in many areas of the business and received her introduction to quality and auditing. She joined Skanska when it took over the contract and continued developing her career in quality and administration.
Sue returned to Balfour Beatty in 2017 on the HPC marine works project as Audit & BMS Manager and soon added Nuclear Safety Manager to her title after taking on all the Nuclear Safety inductions, champions, and nuclear safety processes for the project and the supply chain.
Sue Robbins
Audit, BMS and Nuclear Safety Manager
Since joining Balfour Beatty’s Major Projects business, Lewis has worked on the Sellafield site. During this time, he has gained experience at the Silos Maintenance Facility (SMF) and the Box Encapsulation Plant (BEP) projects.
During his career with Balfour Beatty, he has gained academic qualifications including an HNC (with Distinction) and is now reading for his integrated master’s in civil engineering.
Lewis Lindsay
CS&A Site Engineer
Gavin has been the Major Projects’ Finance Director since summer 2019, he had previously been the Balfour Beatty plc Group Financial Controller since April 2014. As Group Financial Controller, his primary responsibility was managing our Group results and the stock exchange reporting cycle. During his tenure, he also led the implementation of the Group’s consolidation system (HFM).
Having moved into the business, he is now responsible for finance in Major Projects (including Gammon), Highways and Investments, although he spends the majority of his time in Major Projects.
He is a chartered accountant and graduated from the London School of Economics.
Outside of work he recently had a baby daughter, enjoys running, football, golf and eating out (although the latter activities are becoming a memory following the arrival of his daughter.
Gavin Russell
Finance Director – Major Projects, Highways, Investments
Since joining Balfour Beatty’s Major Projects business, Lewis has worked on the Sellafield site. During this time, he has gained experience at the Silos Maintenance Facility (SMF) and the Box Encapsulation Plant (BEP) projects.
During his career with Balfour Beatty, he has gained academic qualifications including an HNC (with Distinction) and is now reading for his integrated master’s in civil engineering.
Lewis Lindsay
CS&A Site Engineer
Nigel is a Project Director with Major Projects and is currently leading Balfour Beatty’s involvement in Old Oak Common Station for HS2.
He joined Balfour Beatty in 1981 and has spent his whole career working on complex infrastructure projects including Roads, Rails, Ports, Buildings, Tunnels and Stations. Since 1996, he has worked exclusively as the Project Director of high-profile joint venture. Among the projects he has worked on are the M1-A1 DBFO, West Coast Mainline OLE and Distribution, Metronet LUL PPP modernisation, and Crossrail C510/C512.
Nigel is also the Chair of the Project Management Leadership Group.
Nigel Russell
Project Director
Lewis Lindsay
CS&A Site Engineer
Ken has worked at Sellafield for approximately 15 years on a variety of projects. He joined Balfour Beatty in 2014 on the Silos Maintenance Facility (SMF). After four years on the SMF project, Ken moved over to the Box Encapsulation Plant (BEP) where he is currently one of the commercial managers looking after areas including civils, structural and the grout plant.
Ken is also part of the Major Projects employee forum to help promote and improve employee engagement by learning from employee surveys, collaborating between projects and implementing project improvement plans.
Outside of work, Ken enjoys spending time with his children and can also be found most weekends on the Cumbrian fells either hiking, running or biking.
Ken Turner
Commercial Manager
Lewis Lindsay
CS&A Site Engineer
Stephen Tarr is a director of Balfour Beatty Group and managing director of its major projects arm. He is also responsible for the Group’s operations in SE Asia.
He is a civil engineer and has extensive experience of delivering complex infrastructure across the transport, energy and industrial sectors.
Stephen Tarr
Managing Director Major Projects
Brian says he loves large complex civil engineering projects and for the past few years has been working on the HPC project. He previously worked on a number of landmark schemes for other Tier 1 contractors including; Tottenham Court Road Station Upgrade and the Kings Cross Station Redevelopment.
He is drawn to projects which are challenging, either technically or logistically. He says the previous projects he has worked on have allowed him to be involved in ground-breaking bridge launches and awe-inspiring architecture. He is also proud to be a Chartered Civil Engineer.
He enjoys the responsibility of leading a team to deliver a goal - whether that be for a Balfour Beatty project or running the football team afterwards.
Brian Fegan
Site Agent
Lizzie has been with Balfour Beatty for six years, joining the Highways business as a Trainee Civil Engineer while studying a part time Civil Engineering degree course.
She transferred to Major Projects two years ago to join the HS2 project and recently moved to Hinkley Point C Marine project to work on the Outfall tunnel head construction at Avonmouth.
Lizzie originally became involved with the industry as a Project Support Administrator. After six months she was given the opportunity to become an Assistant Feasibility Engineer, which is when her passion for engineering surfaced.
During her studies, Lizzie was awarded the ICE East of England Student of the Year award and has since become an Incorporated Engineer with the ICE.
In her spare time she is keen on Health and Fitness and have just started training for her next marathon in April.
Lizzie Wells
Lizzie has been with Balfour Beatty for six years, joining the Highways business as a Trainee Civil Engineer while studying a part time Civil Engineering degree course.
She transferred to Major Projects two years ago to join the HS2 project and recently moved to Hinkley Point C Marine project to work on the Outfall tunnel head construction at Avonmouth.
Lizzie originally became involved with the industry as a Project Support Administrator. After six months she was given the opportunity to become an Assistant Feasibility Engineer, which is when her passion for engineering surfaced.
During her studies, Lizzie was awarded the ICE East of England Student of the Year award and has since become an Incorporated Engineer with the ICE.
In her spare time she is keen on Health and Fitness and have just started training for her next marathon in April.
Lizzie Wells
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