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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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