Our people are, and always will be, our greatest asset. We take pride in our long history as a family business and maintain our industry levels of engagement.

More than that, we aim to support our employees to grow, thrive and benefit from a sector leading reward package with an emphasis on wellbeing.
We encourage job shadowing, secondments between departments for learning, and temporary placements to practice new skills. Mentors are also a key part of sponsoring employee's development journey and identifying and facilitating opportunities. The case studies above demonstrate how this has supported our employees with their career progression.

Growing our own

Key to our strategic plan is developing our own future talent. We promote internally wherever possible and have structured development plans in place to ensure our people are working towards their career aspirations.

Management Trainees

Our trainee programmes are open to people from all backgrounds and offer a wide range of experiences in the business. The scheme is centred around 3 core placements, Operations, Commercial and Business Solutions and other supporting placements in Finance, IT, HR and Procurement are also incorporated. A specialist trainee scheme is also available e.g. Estimating, Quantity Surveying. Currently, we have 47 trainees in the business and some of our trainee journeys can be found on our trainee page.

Apprenticeships

We have developed over 300 apprentices to become skilled, competent trades people and ambassadors for the business. We offer apprenticeships in a wide range of disciplines, including carpentry, plumbing, plastering, gas and electrical. Currently, we have 73 apprentices in the business. Full details can be found on our apprentice page.