People

Years Service 12
Proudest moment Leading the management buy-out in 2004
Career path I was born in the Blue Mountains near Sydney, Australia. A Civil Engineer by profession, I came to England in 1997 having previously trained and worked in Local Government in Australia. The catalyst for the move was my marriage to Pippa who grew up in Suffolk and somehow convinced me that the sun always shined in England. Since then I have worked in many roles within both Jackson Group and then briefly for the worlds largest contractor, Vinci. I was then fortunate enough to lead a management buy-out of Jackson Civil Engineering in 2004. In 2008 I was made SEH Group Chief Executive after the buy out of one of the SEH Group's founding Directors
Favourite project I think every job is interesting although I tend to like the more challenging schemes. Getting those complex schemes right is always very rewarding

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Years Service 10
Proudest moment Being offered the position of Regional Manager in 2003
Career path Started as a Site Agent, became Regional Manager in 2003 and then Contracts Director for the South in 2006
Favourite project My most memorable and favourite project was when I spent 18 months on Robben Island (where Nelson Mandela was incarcerated) in South Africa as a site agent changing the island infrastructure from a prison into a museum for public access. As it was an island that had been made into a International Heritage site, all material had to be brought by ship or helicopter onto the island including all the aggregate for the concrete works and this caused huge logistical problems (we managed to get the ship stranded at low tide on more than one occasion). To top it all off I managed to personally meet and chat to the great man himself when we officially handed the works over. Job done!

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Years Service 12
Proudest moment Being promoted to Finance Director in 2010
Career path Joined Jacksons as Management Accountant - June 1999. Promoted to Financial Controller - April 2005. Promoted to Finance Director in January 2010
Favourite project Implementation of Coins business system in August 2003!

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Years Service 30
Proudest moment When I was offered a seat on the board. It was a target I had set for myself when I first joined Jackson and realised what a great company it was
Career path I joined Jackson as a site engineer and progressed to project manager before being promoted to regional manager for the Anglia region. From there I became key client/ services director looking after quality, safety, environment and training as well as being framework manager for the Environment Agency. I was then promoted to Technical Director with a seat on the board
Favourite project M11 Refurbishment. circa £5m over 5 months , stretching from Harlow to Stanstead. Carrying out over 11,000 repairs to the existing concrete road. As a lane rental, it meant living on site and working 11 days on and 2 days off. While very hard work, it is the sort of project that you look back on realise that it tested and pushed you to your limit

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Years Service 17
Proudest moment Completion of the management buy-out in 2004
Career path Joined Kier on graduating in 1975. Spent 15 years with Kier, including 11 years overseas, in two spells separated by two years with a consultant. Left Kier as a Contracts Manager in 1992 and joined a water process contractor. Joined Roadworks in 1994 as Contracts Manager for what is now our Region 4. Appointed to the Board as Contracts Director in 1999
Favourite project Billing WWTW for Anglian Water in 1999

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