Balfour Beatty’s current UK chief financial officer Barry Perrin is to become chief commercial officer, where he will focus on procurement, working with Martin Chown as procurement and supply chain director.

Curl will bring a strong grounding in IT services and long term complex contracts to the job hen he joins Balfour at the end of March.

For the past two and a half years was CFO for G4S’ UK & Africa Division.

Nicholas Pollard, Balfour Beatty Construction Services UK Chief Executive Officer said: “Stuart’s extensive experience as a CFO for over a decade in businesses of significant scale and his wider strategic input and leadership skills combined with his proven financial expertise will be invaluable to the business.”

Balfour Beatty’s UK and Ireland construction business turns over £2.7bn,through three business streams: Major Projects, Regional and Engineering Services, where the firm has been hit by pressure on margins.