Williams moves into the managing director role from his current position of operations director, where he was responsible for facilities management operations in the healthcare, local authority and commercial office sectors.
Prior to that, Williams held a number of senior roles within the MEP side of the business, having joined Skanska in 2001 from college, as part of a student engineer programme.
He succeeds Adam McDonald, who has been promoted to executive vice president and has taken over strategic responsibility for Skanska UK’s building and building services businesses.
McDonald fills the post following the promotion of Katy Dowding to take over as CEO of Skanska UK.