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OIL & GAS POWER & INDUSTRIAL WEIRBULLETIN | MARCH 2011


Alloa hires wind turbine apprentice


Mark Pryce has joined Weir Group in the new role of senior tax manager based at head office in Glasgow reporting to head of tax Leslie McCall. Mark brings a wealth of tax experience from his 16 years employment with Ernst & Young. More recently Mark specialised in the provision of consulting advice to clients wishing to enhance the performance of tax as a function within their organisation. He also recently held a leadership role in the Ernst & Young tax accounting and risk advisory practice. Mark will strengthen the tax resource within the Group, ensuring that Weir is better equipped to meet the increasing demands placed upon the tax function. His initial focus will be to review and strengthen the tax compliance and reporting procedures. He will also be available to provide tax advice across the Group as required.


Weir Power & Industrial’s Alloa Service Centre has


Trevor Latham joined Weir Group in January 2011 as Group head of procurement. Trevor is based at head office in Glasgow, reporting di- rectly to Jon Stanton and will lead the purchase excellence committee.


enrolled apprentice Allan Wilson on the UK’s first modern appren- ticeship programme dedicated to renewable energies. Allan is taught at Carnegie


In this position Trevor will


be working with various business leaders and key stakeholders to develop and implement a best in class procurement system across the Group. The scope of his brief will also focus on how procurement can align and support the delivery of Weir’s strategic growth plans. Trevor’s previous work experience includes senior pro- curement and supply chain leadership roles at GKN, Federal-Mogul and JCB.


College’s Whitlock Collaboration Centre in Rosyth, Fife, Scotland, where he is one of 15 students from companies across the energy sector enrolled on the course. The programme was launched in November at Renewables UK’s annual exhibition when Scotland’s First Minister Alex Salmond met


all the apprentices and presented each participating company with a commemorative plaque.


The course is designed to give students basic electrical and me- chanical engineering skills before progressing to the next level, at the end of which the students will have learned skills specific to wind turbine technology.


By December 2011, Allan will be one of the first to have gained this qualification in ‘wind turbine technician competence’ recog- nised throughout the UK energy industry.


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