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Valerie Hughes-D’Aeth, Group HR Director at Amey said: “At Amey we place a great deal of emphasis on recruiting and retaining graduate talent.  With a skills shortage affecting the engineering industry, it is very important that we support career development through structured programmes and further training. We are delighted that our commitment to our graduates has been recognised by this ranking.”

Lauren  Jones, Leadership Graduate at Amey said: “Amey is a very diverse company, which means I have been able to explore opportunities in lots of different areas of the business.  Thanks to the support of the Talent Team I have also been able to go on several training courses, which are really helping my career development.”

The reviewers acknowledged that the Amey Management Team takes a keen interest in the graduate scheme and the development of candidates.  The company’s provision of training courses and workshops was also regarded as rewarding and helpful in enhancing career development.

Amey has pledged that both graduate trainees and apprentices will each make up 1 percent of its workforce.  The company recruits up to 100 graduate trainees per year across two dedicated programmes - Leadership and Development.  The Leadership Programme is designed for ambitious, high achieving graduate trainees and involves a two-year formal development programme that aims to maximise leadership and managerial potential.  The Development Programme focuses on graduate trainees within a specified role and supports them to gain professional accreditation. 

Amey also offers an apprenticeship scheme to applicants aged between 18 and 23, which provides the opportunity to work towards gold in the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award. 

In addition to being recognised as a top employer, Amey has won two awards this year; having been awarded ‘Team of the Year’ at the prestigious Employee Benefits Awards 2011, and the award for ‘Most Successful Change Management Programme’ at the National HR Excellence Awards 2011.

Amey wins three Health and Safety Awards

In April 2011 Amey won three national awards from one of the UK’s most respected health and safety charities.

The Consulting and Built Environment divisions won gold and Local Government won silver in the prestigious Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) Occupational Health and Safety Awards 2011.

Judges praised Amey for using effective health and safety management systems, promoting strong leadership and involving its workforce in health and safety. 

Keith Sexton, HSEA Director for Amey, said: “These awards are testament to Amey’s commitment to achieving excellent standards of health and safety. We are delighted that judges have recognised our track record in protecting our own people and the wider communities we work in.”

David Rawlins, RoSPA’s awards manager, said: “RoSPA firmly believes that organisations that have demonstrated their commitment to continuous improvement in accident and ill health prevention deserve recognition. Amey has shown that it is committed to striving for such continuous improvement and we are delighted to honour it through the presentation of an award.” 

An award winning partnership

The Birmingham Highways Maintenance and Management Service is celebrating its third award win in a row. Amey, in partnership with Birmingham City Council has recently won ‘European Services PPP Deal of the Year’ at the Project Finance Journal awards ceremony in London.

This prestigious title is another award win in just two months for the £2.7bn, 25-year project. The contract has also recently been named ‘European Road Finance Deal of the Year’ by Jane’s Transport magazine and ‘European PPP Deal of the Year’ by Project Finance International Magazine.

Mike Notman, Amey Project Director said: “It is a great achievement for the project and the partnership to receive three prestigious award wins. This is the only project of its kind in the country and it is a compliment to be recognised on a national and international level.”

Cllr Mike Whitby, Leader of Birmingham City Council said: “This is brilliant news for the partnership and Birmingham. The project is putting the Birmingham Highways Maintenance and Management Service on the map and I am delighted about the industry acknowledgement the project is receiving.”

Judges from all three award schemes recognised that the project is the most complex of its kind in the UK, and praised its unique financial structure, which allows money to be continually invested into Birmingham’s transport infrastructure. The partnership is committed to a long-term programme of improving Birmingham’s roads and keeping the city moving.

Amey is responsible for delivering the service which includes improving and maintaining 2,500km of road network, almost 100,000 street lights and more than 850 highway structures and bridges across the city. The management and maintenance service is supported by Lloyd’s Bank and Equitrix Investment. 

Amey wins 2010 ACE/NCE Major Consultant of the Year Award

In 2010 Amey was awarded the prestigious ACE/NCE Major Consultant of the Year title. The award celebrates outstanding business performance of civil engineering consultancies across the UK. Amey was up against some stiff competition including Mott Macdonald, Mouchel, Atkins, Sinclair Knight Merz and Hyder.

Widely considered to be the barometer of the engineering industry the awards were judged by a who’s who of the engineering world including Antony Oliver [NCE Editor], Jackie Whitelaw [NCE Deputy Editor], Bruce Tether [Professor of design & innovation, Imperial College Business School] and Simon Murray [Visiting tutor at London School of Economics]. Judging was based on strict criteria including turnover in relation to staff numbers, projects applicants have been involved in and innovative activity over the year.

Andy Milner, Managing Director of Amey’s Consulting division collected the award and commented on the win;

“This is an absolutely fantastic honour for Amey. Over the last ten years Amey has developed a consulting function which complements our diverse service portfolio. From the acquisition of Owen Williams in 2003, to the 2009 opening of our International Design Hub in Birmingham, we have worked hard to create a world class consulting capability.

“Achieving this award is recognition of our vision to provide clients with a world-class service, delivering the same or more for less.”

Consulting at Amey comprises of almost 2000 consultants and spans the entire service offering; encompassing design, engineering, planning project feasibility studies, asset management and IT solutions development. Providing these services as both a bespoke and an integrated package allows Amey to offer a broad scope of front end services, using innovative solutions to deliver tangible results.

The past two years has seen significant growth for Amey’s Consulting capability with a number key wins and highlights including:-

• The award of the South-East, North-East and West Midlands TechMAC contracts with the Highways Agency, making Amey the largest Tech Mac provider
• Winning all 5 Civils Examination Framework Agreements (CEFA) with Network Rail – the only company do this
• Winning two frameworks contracts with Roads Services Northern Ireland  - for the provision of consultancy services to assist in the delivery of major works schemes above £5m.
• A range of highways design contracts across local government for clients including TFL, Pan South East authorities, London Development Agency, South East England Development Agency and the London Borough of Sutton.
• Being awarded preferred bidder for Birmingham highways PFI – the largest local authority Highways PFI of it’s kind
• Opened an International Design Hub in Birmingham - a state-of-the art facility that brought 500 new jobs to Amey and has become a centre of excellence for all Amey’s consulting capability, servicing customers all around the UK and globally.