Chris Millard will lead Laing O鈥橰ourke鈥檚 in-house engineering consultancy

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Laing O鈥橰ourke has appointed Chris Millard to lead its in-house consultancy the Engineering Excellence Group.

Millard joins from Balfour Beatty, where he spent five years as business efficiency director and was a key member of Balfour鈥檚 鈥楤uild to Last鈥� cost-cutting programme.

黑洞社区 reported in November that he would be leaving Balfour at the end of 2015.

Millard鈥檚 new role at Laing O鈥橰ourke will see him sit on the firm鈥檚 group technical committee and be responsible for alignment between Laing O鈥橰ourke鈥檚 overall strategy and the Engineering Excellence group鈥檚 activities.

Millard joins the firm with over 20 years experience in design and engineering.

Laing O鈥橰ourke group technical director Paul Westbury said: 鈥淐hris possesses a unique mix of cross-sector skills and experience that strongly supports our drive to become an Engineering Enterprise.鈥�

Westbury added that Millard will 鈥渟upport our earliest engagement with clients on new projects to more effectively embed our preferred ways of working and in turn deliver industry leading certainty to our clients.鈥�

Chris will take up the position with Laing O鈥橰ourke in mid-January this year.

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