Page 30 - Real Rochdale Issue 14 Summer 2022
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Paul Marsh, Zeb Ahmed and Steve Marsh






































                       BES: DELIVERING INDUSTRY-LEADING EXPERTISE FROM ROCHDALE





          BES started life as a small company, established     “BES has grown year on year since we were                        a supportive management team, a focus on             and laboratories, where the environment
          by a group of former colleagues who wanted to        first established in 2002,” explains Steve. “But                 collaboration and a commitment to developing         needs to be strictly controlled for temperature,
          design and deliver exemplary buildings for the       the past couple of years have been particularly                  talent through mentoring. Around 70 per cent         humidity, pressure and cleanliness,” explains
          pharmaceutical sector. Two decades later, the        successful as we have invested in further                        of our team have benefitted from our bespoke         Steve. “What sets us apart is our joined up
          Rochdale company is not only celebrating 20          development of our design department. We                         leadership training, which helps enhance             approach; by working collaboratively across
          years in business in 2022, but is also nudging a     have also invested in our multidisciplinary                      communication and effective management               departments and with our clients, we can
          £100 million turnover for the first time and         team, digital technology and  training, to ensure                across the business. We’re also proud of the         design and deliver projects that achieve the
          still growing.                                       we offer an industry-leading, end-to-end                         opportunities we have created for young people       best possible outcome, innovating for our
                                                               solution for clients, while focusing on managed                  in Rochdale, with an apprenticeship programme        clients and ensuring we meet the needs of the
          Steve Marsh has been BES’s managing director         growth and succession planning.”                                 that dates back almost as far as the business        people who will work in the facilities we build.”
          since the company was first established                                                                               itself. A number of former apprentices have
          and all BES’s start-up team are still with the       A Chartered European Process Engineer                            gone on to senior roles, having been sponsored       Having increased the company’s team by 50
          business today, providing consistency and            and Oxford University Alumnus, with triple                       through their degree by the company.”                people over the past two years, boosting all
          industry-leading expertise to clients across         fellowship of the Institute of Chemical                                                                               departments across both its Rochdale HQ and
          the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, advanced          Engineers, Energy Institute, and Institute of                    Offering process, mechanical, and                    Milton Keynes southern office, BES is poised
          manufacturing and healthcare sectors.                Directors, Zeb is a key part of that succession                  electrical, and architectural design, along          for more growth to come.
                                                               planning. His process engineering background                     with construction services, BES can take
          The company has always adapted, remaining            complements the turnkey service offering of                      projects from feasibility study to cGMP              “Essentially, our strategy is to invest in people
          agile as it has grown to serve new sectors,          the BES business, which designs, engineers and                   validation, which is required to meet the strict     and skills, creating a great place to work whilst
          embrace new technologies and leverage the            constructs complex facilities for technically                    manufacturing standards in the pharmaceutical        providing an exceptional service that we can
          skills of its multidisciplinary team. In July,       demanding industries.                                            sector. The company’s clients include                all be proud of,” Steve adds. “It’s hard to believe
          Steve will move to a new role as Executive                                                                            international blue chips, such as AstraZeneca,       that it’s 20 years since we first took the leap
          Chairman, and Zeb Ahmed, who worked with             “What we do is very specialist,” Steve continues,                along with niche R&D and manufacturing               of faith to start the business, and even more
          all of BES’s existing leadership team in the         “so creating a culture of collaboration and                      companies, NHS trusts, government agencies           to reflect on how much we’ve achieved since
          1990s, will become the company’s first CEO,          developing skills has been central to the way                    and emerging technology specialists.                 then. Looking ahead, there is so much potential
          while current engineering director, Paul Marsh,      we have built the business since the day we                                                                           to continue building the business here in
          will become COO.                                     began. We are like an extended family with                       “Most of our projects encompass cleanrooms           Rochdale.”

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