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Engineering director job for Kate Marjoribanks
Greater Anglia has appointed Kate Marjoribanks as Engineering Director. Kate will head up a team of 500 staff. She is a railway engineer with 20 years’ experience and has worked all over the network and in Australia and Europe. Most recently she was Engineering Director for
Chiltern Railways. Kate holds a Mechanical Engineering degree from Edinburgh University and is a full member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. She describes her shop floor training in her profile at IMechE. ‘I joined BR as Engineering Management Trainee (EMT) after finishing a four year Mechanical Engineering degree at Edinburgh University. I was initially allocated to one of the Roscos which was sold soon after as part of privatisation becoming Angel Train Contracts. ‘During my time as an EMT I worked on the shop floor at Craigentinny for a few months having small hands was helpful for changing top brushes on HST traction motors - spent six months at Slade Green on shiny new
electric trains, Class 465 and 466 EMUs still under warranty.’ Kate worked on various projects for Angel including the rehabilitation of the out-of-use 507/508 vehicles at Merseyrail. ‘We found one at Kineton with a tree growing in the side!’ Training and on the job placements were quite intense. ‘I worked out that in my first 18 months on the railway, I lived in 14 different places.’ Kate also worked at North London Railways as a Senior Technical Officer (STO) at Bletchley looking after 323s, heritage DMUs and 313 DV EMUs and the 321 workhorses. Then she rejoined Angel as a Maintenance Engineer and worked with Great Western and later ScotRail and Springburn, then First North Western. ‘During my time at Angel I
achieved Chartered Status and became a full member of the IMechE.’ In 2000 Kate went to work for Interfleet Technology in Sydney, Australia just before the Sydney Olympics. She stayed 4½ years also working on projects in new Zealand and South Africa. Back in Europe her Interfleet role took her to Denmark, Sweden and the USA. Then followed a two year stint as Head of Fleet Production at SWT, responsible for the Class 455 and 458 fleets at Wimbledon and Clapham depots, plus maintenance and train care operations at Strawberry Hill depot and Waterloo. She was appointed as Engineering Director of Chiltern Railways in 2009. Originally from Scotland, Kate now lives in Haddenham, Buckinghamshire, and is recently married.
Holbrow joins Resourcing Solutions
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Tom Holbrow has joined Resourcing Solutions as Group Business Development Director. The move signals a new phase for specialist recruiter Resourcing Solutions as it consolidates its presence in the rail and power sectors. Tom joins Resourcing Solutions from Balfour Beatty, where he was responsible for regional business development in the Construction Services division. Tom oversaw the implementation of the business strategy and secured new business for the Balfour Beatty Regional Civil Engineering and Mansell companies. He has worked for a number of manufacturers, M&E
Mark Peters has joined AMCO Rail as Contracts Director. Mr Peters previously worked for Birse Rail. Peters, based in Bristol, has worked in Wales and the West Country for 15 years. Recently the top team at AMCO Rail has been strengthened by the addition of Mike Parker as Contracts Director in the South and Phil Bubb as national Business Development Director. Says AMCO Rail’s Managing Director Andries Liebenberg, ‘Mark, Mike and Phil bring to AMCO nearly 50 years of experience in the UK rail industry. They are all well known across the rail market and their appointments significantly strengthen AMCO’s senior management team.
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contractors and large main contracting organisations. He originally served an apprenticeship as an electrical engineer. For the last 13 years, Tom has operated in a business development environment. 2013 has been a busy year for Resourcing Solutions. In the last 12 months alone the company has increased its headcount by over 20% bringing the total number of employees to 82. This includes the addition of a UK-based built environment recruitment team, additional resources in the rail team and a growing international team based in Dubai. Says Richard Lawrance, CEO, ‘Despite difficult economic times
in recent years, our business is continuing to grow year on year. The need for experts in our sectors is never more important with infrastructure projects on the up and our clients continue to turn to us to find that expertise. ‘Recent recruitment assignments have included providing a wide range of specialists - from safety critical staff for work on the Olympic Park to project directors for rail projects in the Far East. We want to continue this success and with his industry experience and leadership skills, I am delighted to welcome Tom on board.’ Resourcing Solutions has offices in Reading, Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Middlesex and Dubai.
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