Steve Wallwork is now heading up the contracting division after joining from Rotary Building Services.

He has also held senior positions at Shepherd Engineering Services and EMCOR.

Wallwork is working with Commercial Manager Geoff Barwise and Contracts Manager Martin Paladino to target jobs in Manchester, Liverpool and Preston.

Managing Director of TClarke North, Kevin Mullen said: “In the North West we see substantial opportunities in M&E contracting for the TClarke brand of high quality services, delivered by our highly skilled, directly employed local teams.

“In the last couple of years we’ve delivered major, high quality M&E projects, working for longstanding clients like BAE, Westinghouse Springfield Fuels and Lancaster University, but also including a range of healthcare, education and high tech industrial facilities.

“Now we’ve made an investment in a leadership team to focus solely on the M&E Contracting opportunities in the North West – so this is a statement of intent.

“TClarke has had considerable success in the last few years, bringing all of our local operations into a new integrated, regional framework and all under one brand.

“The purpose is to match up with principal contractors in the regions and offer them the high quality TClarke M&E service, that delivers the safety, high quality people, deep expertise, delivery ethic and long term reliability that TClarke is famous for.

“So this move is a strategic investment that confirms the optimism and scale of potential that we as a business see for our M&E services in the North West. I’m very glad we’ve been able to assemble this leadership team, headed by Steve.”

Wallwork said: “The TClarke name is one of the strongest in the construction industry – so I’m delighted to be part of the story.

“Our offer is very simple – we can give you the same TClarke brand of non-confrontational, relationship contracting, delivered by excellent, motivated, directly employed local teams, right here in the North West.

“We have the resources of the whole group to draw upon and all together that makes a strong, dependable offer for our clients here in the North West.”