Van Elle boss shakes up leadership team

Van Elle new chief executive Mark Cutler has rejigged the leadership team and streamlined the ground engineering contractor’s operating structure.

The main operating structure has been reduced from eight to five divisions.

At the firm’s General Piling division, the largest group business unit, director Steve Johnson exits at the end of this month.

In the interim, he is replaced by group construction director David Warner. This follows the appointment of former Eastern Director Steve Bursnell as Contracts Director last month.

Former Van Elle divisional director Peter Handley is returning after a six-year stint at Skanska Cementation to take up the newly-created role of Strategy and Business Improvement Director.

He will lead Van Elle’s strategic development, business improvement and innovation programmes.

Peter Handley (left) returns after six years With Skanska Cementation and John Foster switches from facades and glazing to ground engineering

John Foster, former commercial director of Saint Goban-owned Facades & Glazing Solutions UK, joins as Van Elle’s new commercial director.

He will take responsibilty for all commercial activity in the Group as well as business development, estimating and procurement.

Both take up their new posts in early January.

New five division operational structure

General Piling – open site driven, CFA and rotary piling
Specialist Piling – restricted access, low headroom and ground & slope stabilisation
Housing – residential piling and modular foundation solutions
Rail – foundation and trackbed solutions in the rail environment
Geotechnical Services (trading as STRATA) – geotechnical investigations and testing

Cutler said: “The company has been through a lot of change over the last couple of years but the new strengthened leadership team and streamlined divisional structure allows us to accelerate our improvement, more clearly focus on our customer’s needs and better integrate our specialist capabilities across all the sectors we operate in.”

from Construction Enquirer http://www.constructionenquirer.com/2018/11/23/van-elle-boss-shakes-up-leadership-team/

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