Mike Omond joins the company from Speedy in the new role of plant operations director, Edward Carr joins from Select as operations director for cranes and former Interlift owner/director Kevin Chalmers is operations director for lifting solutions, following Hewden’s acquisition of Interlift last month.
Mike Omond started in plant hire as a 16-year-old and his career took him to National Grid, Scotia Gas Networks and Balfour Beatty Utilities. His first director-level role was running operations at Hydrex Specialist Plant before becoming managing director of Speedy Services.
Edward Carr started his career at Kier Plant, where he joined in 1999 as a mechanical engineering graduate, and rose to general manager. After Kier sold its plant business he spent a couple of years in environmental services operational support before moving to Laing O’Rourke in April 2014 to run Select Plant’s tower crane operations.
Hewden CEO Adrian Murphy said: “We’re delighted with these new appointments. Mike, Edward and Kevin all bring a tremendous amount of expertise, innovative thinking and leadership qualities to Hewden. There’s never been a more exciting time to be involved in this business. We’re investing in our people, our processes and our products to be the leading on-site solutions provider in the UK. With these new appointments, we’re in a better position to achieve those strategic goals.”
Although his career has been focused on tower cranes, Eddy Carr is now in the completely different business of mobile cranes – unless Hewden is thinking of buying back the HTC business that Hewden sold to PC Harrington in 2002 and is now owned by the German manufacturer Wolffkran. The Construction Index therefore asked the question and was told that Hewden has no plans to get back into tower cranes.
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