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Yorkshire growth creates jobs

A burgeoning utilities infrastructure specialist has taken on three new people following a huge growth in Yorkshire business.

Service Connections Limited (SCL) – which project manages and delivers gas, water, electricity, telecommunications connections to commercial and residential developments throughout the UK – will turn over £2.25 million this year – seven times more than two years ago.

As a result, Simon Hunter, Gillian Warnock and Alex Thompson have all joined the firm, where continued expansion is expected to require further engineering and administrative support.

One of the main reasons for SCL’s rapid growth is the company’s first £1million contract. This is on a £42million, 28 acre, mixed use town centre regeneration project for Yorkshire based Dransfield Properties at Stocksbridge, near Sheffield.

The company has another project with Dransfield in Hull and is also working on a housing scheme known as Navigation Point in Castleford as well as developments in Manchester and London.

Said Keith Macaulay, who set up the company seven years ago: “The construction industry’s recovery from the recession has been far more rapid than anyone anticipated and so we have had to move quickly to recruit in order to meet the demand.

“I am delighted to have found three young people with the right mixture of skills and aptitude to take on what can be demanding roles. With support from more experienced members of the team they have all shown that they are capable of meeting the challenge.”

Simon, 34, formerly worked in the Parks Development Team with North Tyneside Council has been appointed to the role of Project Co-ordinator. Alex, 23, has had experience of major construction projects while Gillian, also 23 and originally from Northern Ireland has a marketing background. Both have taken on administrative roles which are vital to ensure multi-parties in a complex process work in partnership to deliver connections on time and on budget.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Paul Dobbie .