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and J Murphy & Sons( Murphy) on behalf of SSEN, which encompasses a significant portion of the new infrastructure program under the Accelerated Strategic Transmission Investment. This large-scale project demands a huge increase in our output capacity, which is why we have brought in so many new team members in the past year. Additionally, we are engaged in discussions to support frameworks with other DNOs to support network expansion across the wider UK transmission and distribution infrastructure. While the rolling forecast looks promising, it requires careful planning and execution to ensure we maintain our quality, delivery integrity, and commitment to our people, who are our most valuable asset,” he begins.
Investing in people
Workforce development is crucial to the success of Had Fab’ s operations and its ability to execute projects to the highest standards. As such, continuous investment in its people is one of the company’ s top priorities, which is why Had Fab has expanded its staff and even created new teams.“ Our structured competency programmes demonstrate how much more value our employees can add as their skills become more flexible. We also provide extensive supervisory and management training to support the growing number of personnel on the shop floor. As the contracting landscape becomes more complex in terms of commercial negotiations, we have strengthened our commercial team by adding quantity surveyors and project managers. In essence, we have created a project management office and invested heavily in our estimating and bids and proposals team. This growth has necessitated the creation of a new office in a new catchment area near Glagow, which currently houses around 12-to-14 people and is expected to grow further. In response to the increasing demand for our substation product line, we have doubled the size of our design
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