Background
Matt Joined Falco in 2009 as Team Leader/Ganger and worked his way up through the ranks to become Contracts Manager in 2015 in recognition of his leadership and managerial qualities.
Matt has over 24 years’ experience in the construction and civils sectors having started his career at P Bennett Foundations in 1995 before moving on to Kent-based Andel Plant. Since then, he has worked in various capacities for FM Conway, Ward & Thomas, and J Murphy before joining Falco.
During his early years at Falco Matt honed his skills in the discipline of deep excavation, focussing on facilitating the installation and maintenance of underground utility infrastructure for UKPN.
Since 2014 he has transferred these skills and experience as a Project Manager working alongside Skanska to provide and maintain the Electrical network in London and the surrounding area for UK Power Networks and to the water sector helping to deliver a £2.5 million contract to install FLIPs at Counters Creek FLIPs for Principal Contractor MGJV. Matt was instrumental in delivering the project on-budget and on-programme and receiving 24 customer commendations in the process, mainly for efficiency and customer care.
Matt also helped to complete a £1.2 million project on behalf of Dunamis at Purfleet Power to provide two 11kv High Voltage circuits to enable power from a 33kv Substation to an 11kv Substation to facilitate a Gas Generation Plant.
Responsibilities
As Contracts Manager Matt is responsible for delivering contracts on-time, on-programme, and to-budget. It is a multi-disciplined role which requires him to take hands-on involvement in the full lifecycle from planning i.e., arranging scoping/surveys, applying for licences and permits, conducting risk assessments and preparing method statements and resourcing, to overseeing the work, coordinating temporary works, auditing, attending progress meetings, client, and stakeholder liaison.
Matt has considerable experience as a Site Agent for electrical installations projects which include high voltage power cabling. He was involved in our 6-month project in Purfleet to create a 6-way duct run beneath the QEII Bridge where we facilitated the installation of two 11kv High Voltage circuits six 630 sqm XLPE electric cables to enable power generated from a gas Generated power Station to be transferred back to the network via the 11kv Primary Sub Station. As Site Agent Matt selected and assembled our multi-disciplined team which carried out the enabling works, as well as overseeing the procurement and site health and safety.
Credentials/Accreditations
- CITB Temporary Works Co-Ordinator
- CITB SEATS
- CITB SMSTS
- CSCS Gold Card – NVQ Level 3 Construction Management
- NRASWA Supervisor
- Cultural Behavioural Safety – Costain Managers’ programme
- HSG47 – Avoidance from Underground services
- NEBOSH – Health & Safety Management for Construction
- NEBOSH – HSE Introduction to Incident Investigation
- Approved EUSR SHEA Power & Water Trainer
- Mental Health First Aider
- EUSR Deep Excavations 1-4
- CPCS Slinger/Signaller, Excavator & Dumper Operator
Current
Health Safety & Wellbeing Manager
Matt currently oversees all training requirements for Falco Operatives and Staff and manages mobile site teams in the South East of England and assists other colleagues with Falco Projects.
Client Testimonial
It is a great advantage for us to have a subcontractor with expertise in both power and water disciplines.
Falco’s team worked with ourselves and other third parties such as Drax in a very professional and competent manner to get work completed to Thames Water requirements.
We have been very impressed with the way Falco micro-managed a challenging programme of FLIPs installations in the Borough to minimise the disruption to the residents involved.
Falco’s performance in delivering challenging projects within a tight timescale is outstanding. Their range skills and capabilities combined with an ability to overcome obstacles and devise innovative solutions are keys to its success. Their team’s ability to seamlessly manage a number of different stakeholders and interfaces to get-the-job-done is also extremely impressive.
Falco have provided an excellent service to Galliford Try. Our teams have worked well together to deliver on-programme and meet the needs of our client, stakeholders and Thames Water customers. Customer service has been excellent resulting in a number of written commendations from customers.
Falco discharged their duties with great care and professionalism. Their multi-disciplined team seamlessly accommodated fluctuations in programme and unexpected challenges that occurred during the Counters Creek project.
We were very impressed with Falco’s delivery of one of the more challenging cable installation projects we have commissioned. I would not hesitate to use them again.
We are so pleased with the new Pumping Station installation (FLIP) in Putney. What was a complex and difficult task involving planning issues, significant spoil removal and excavation in a confined space was swiftly completed by the team at Falco.
Falco undertake works in a very professional manner delivering to the required quality and met the time and cost deliverables with an excellent safety culture throughout.