He joins from the merchant bank Goldman Sachs, where he was executive director of corporate services.
At Carillion Mr Burns will be responsible for “energy-led hard services offerings”.
"Euan's appointment is a key part of our strategy to strengthen our engineering offering for our customers,” said Phil Shepley, managing director commercial energy and engineering. “He brings a wealth of engineering experience and will play a key role in developing our engineering teams to better support our customers' businesses with excellent services."
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