People: EY hire among trio of new recruits for Paragon; Group director role for Tony Hallwood; and more

Paragon has welcomed a trio of new recruits at its Manchester office.

James Quirk joins from EY as a senior project manager and is reunited with Peter McIlhagger from their days at Mace.

Quirk has been involved in projects such as works with the Ministry of Justice, Islington Wharf, Manchester and Chester Northgate as a project manager and assisted McIlhagger with the relocation of ITV’s Coronation Street. Quirk is currently working with Select Property Group on its VITA Leeds scheme.

Andy Keogh joins from Morgan Sindall as a quantity surveyor bringing further construction expertise and will be back working with Tarik Rasul with whom he previously worked with on Oldham’s  £40m town hall refurbishment. Keogh is now working on L&G’s £250m Thorpe Park scheme.

Keith Quigley joins from Workman as associate director building surveyor. At Workman, in addition to building surveying professional services, he project managed shopping centre and out of town retail refurbishments and reconfigurations together with commercial office refurbishments including Citygate in Manchester and Federation House within the NOMA Estate. Quigley will be managing a team of building surveyors at Paragon and working on similar profile instructions for funds, property companies and developers.

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Tony Hallwood

Cheshire-based Marketing Profile has hired Tony Hallwood, who previously headed up business development and public relations at Leeds Bradford Airport, as group director.

This year marks the 10th Anniversary for Marketing Profile, a full-service marketing, PR and events company, which also operates the exclusive members club theProfileClub.

Both businesses were founded by Hallwood’s wife Barbara.

She said: “’As both sides of the business continue to expand attracting clients locally, regionally and nationally it is a perfect opportunity to bring Tony onboard.  Undoubtedly his business acumen and contacts across Yorkshire will help further grow the business especially across the Leeds City Region.”

Tony Hallwood added: “I am excited to be joining Marketing Profile as the business is set to expand into Leeds and Yorkshire. I look forward to developing new business, marketing and PR opportunities and we have exciting plans for the future.’’

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Charmaine O’Connor, chief executive of Salford-based demolition, dismantling, bulk earthworks and civil engineering contractor P P O’Connor has been appointed as North West regional chair for the National Federation of Demolition Contractors (NFDC).

The NFDC was established in 1941 to champion the standards and professionalism of its members to the wider construction industry. To join the NFDC, companies must meet a stringent criteria on procedures and processes across the whole business including health and safety systems, training and development programmes, and its commitment to environmental and sustainability issues.

There are 19 member companies of the NFDC in the North West and a key part of O’Connor’s role this year is to encourage more construction industry clients to only use NFDC members. She will work closely with other NFDC members to help develop training and career development programmes, targeted especially at young people and women.

O’Connor said: “The NFDC is working very hard to promote the high standards and quality of its members and my role as North West chair is to develop stronger ties with clients and their advisors to make sure they understand why only NFDC members should be placed on tender lists to help with the advancement of professionalism across the whole industry.”

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North West-based training specialist Jigsaw Training has added five programme managers to its team.

The new staff will add their skills to help meet the needs presented by the newly introduced Apprenticeship Levy as well as other learning requirements from its client base.

The managers, spread across the UK, manage the curriculum, the training programmes and the delivery team as part of their role.

James Blackhurst, managing director of Jigsaw Training, said: “These appointments have all been made internally amongst our existing staff, and gives us the resource to meet our customer needs for now and the foreseeable future.

“As a registered provider for the new Levy arrangement, we also need to make sure we have the skills and resource in-house to provide the relevant level of training.”

The new Apprenticeship Levy – introduced in April – must be paid by employers in England with a payroll of more than £3m and is charged at a rate of 0.5% of their annual wage bill.