{"id":2406,"date":"2019-01-25T08:48:33","date_gmt":"2019-01-25T08:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/?p=2406"},"modified":"2019-01-25T08:48:33","modified_gmt":"2019-01-25T08:48:33","slug":"story-contracting-to-up-headcount-40-to-1000-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/story-contracting-to-up-headcount-40-to-1000-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"Story Contracting to up headcount 40% to 1000 staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Story Contracting is strengthening its management structure following a year of record growth and an exceptional start to 2019,<\/p>\n<p>The Carlisle-headquartered infrastructure contractor has secured a five-year work bank worth up to \u00a3200m in recent weeks.<\/p>\n<p>It is now aiming to hire 200-300 staff over the next five years after last year taking on 195 new starters to raise the headcount to 700 staff.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\n<div class=\"ad-mpu ad-mpu-inline\">\n<div class=\"sleeve\"><a data-ad-id=\"216017\" href=\"http:\/\/www.constructionenquirer.com\/wp-content\/themes\/constructionenquirer\/adclick.php?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conquest.ltd.uk%2Fq-500%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DQ_500%26utm_medium%3Dbanner%26utm_source%3Dconstruction_enquirer\" onclick=\"track_ad_click(this);\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.constructionenquirer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Noticeboard-Advert-Con Enq (2).gif\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Story is strengthening its management structure with three senior promotions across the infrastructure business.<\/p>\n<p>From February, Ian Purdham and John MacArthur will become, respectively, managing directors of Story Contracting\u2019s Rail England and Story Scotland divisions.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_282730\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.constructionenquirer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Story-Contracting-MacArthur-Purdham-McFadden.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-282730 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.constructionenquirer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Story-Contracting-MacArthur-Purdham-McFadden.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1168\" height=\"796\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Promotions to strengthen the rail business (l to r) John MacArthur, Ian Purdham, Frank McFadden<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>While Frank McFadden will take on the role of Rail Technical Assurance Director, ensuring that Story Contracting is a leading business in all technical aspects of Rail work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\n<div class=\"ad-mpu ad-mpu-inline\">\n<div class=\"sleeve\"><a data-ad-id=\"163817\" href=\"http:\/\/www.constructionenquirer.com\/wp-content\/themes\/constructionenquirer\/adclick.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.constructionenquirer.com%2Fdirectory%2F%3Futm_source%3Dconstruction-enquirer%26utm_medium%3Dbanner%26utm_campaign%3Dconstructionenq-ads\" onclick=\"track_ad_click(this);\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.constructionenquirer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/enquirer_directory_mpu.gif\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Jason Butterworth, Story Contracting CEO, said: \u201cWe are enjoying a successful 2018\/19 and we are in a strong position, partly as a result of recent long-term major framework wins in both England and Scotland.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis will see significant growth in both of these divisions and we are therefore adding strength to the leadership of the company.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Story\u2019s growing stature in rail infrastructure and its collaborative approach to problem-solving has seen it land major contracts worth up to \u00a3200m in recent months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\n<div class=\"ad-mpu ad-mpu-inline\">\n<div class=\"sleeve\"><a data-ad-id=\"209475\" href=\"http:\/\/www.constructionenquirer.com\/wp-content\/themes\/constructionenquirer\/adclick.php?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.faset.org.uk%2Fguidance-2%2F%3Futm_source%3Dconstruction-enquirer%26utm_medium%3Dbanner%26utm_campaign%3Dconstructionenq-ads\" onclick=\"track_ad_click(this);\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.constructionenquirer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/CE_FASET-MPU_JULY18.gif\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Story Rail division is expanding its team, particularly in the Midlands, where it has opened a Birmingham office.<\/p>\n<p>The company also recently secured three framework agreements with Transport for Greater Manchester. These cover the renewals of structures, property and track on the Metrolink network and could be worth up to \u00a350m.<\/p>\n<p>To support the growth of the entire Story Contracting business, the Plant division will be investing in resource, equipment and staff to help fulfil the new contract wins, whilst also maintaining the existing work that has been secured over the past five years.<\/p>\n<p>Story\u2019s Construction division has also started the year with a flourish and is in the strong position of having secured work for 60% of its 2019 business plan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\n<div class=\"ad-mpu ad-mpu-inline\">\n<div class=\"sleeve\"><a data-ad-id=\"92680\" href=\"http:\/\/www.constructionenquirer.com\/wp-content\/themes\/constructionenquirer\/adclick.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.intersteels.com%3Futm_source%3Dconstruction-enquirer%26utm_medium%3Dbanner%26utm_campaign%3Dconstructionenq-ads\" onclick=\"track_ad_click(this);\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.constructionenquirer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/intersteel_mpu_advert[1].gif\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\">\n<div class=\"ad-mpu ad-mpu-inline\">\n<div class=\"sleeve\"><a data-ad-id=\"99972\" href=\"http:\/\/www.constructionenquirer.com\/wp-content\/themes\/constructionenquirer\/adclick.php?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.peri.ltd.uk%2Fprojects%2Fcivil-engineering%2Fburfell-tunnel.html%23q%3Dburfell+tunnel%3Futm_source%3Dconstruction-enquirer%26utm_medium%3Dbanner%26utm_campaign%3Dconstructionenq-ads\" onclick=\"track_ad_click(this);\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.constructionenquirer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/52_PERI_AD_MPU_CE_300x250px_DEC-18_AW.gif\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>from Construction Enquirer http:\/\/bit.ly\/2RKSL2J<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Story Contracting is strengthening its management structure following a year of record growth and an exceptional start to 2019, The Carlisle-headquartered infrastructure contractor has secured a five-year work bank worth up to \u00a3200m in recent weeks. It is now aiming to hire 200-300 staff over the next five years after last year taking on 195 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":147,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-2406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-construction-enquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2406"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2407,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2406\/revisions\/2407"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}