David Tonkin steps down as UK engineering giant restructures
David Tonkin has stepped down as Atkins UK & Europe chief executive as part of a broader restructuring of the engineer鈥檚 British operations.
Atkins announced today Tonkin, who has been UK chief executive since 2010, has resigned to 鈥渇ocus on the health and wellbeing of his family and pursue a more family-centric phase of his life.鈥�
He will be succeeded by Nick Roberts, who is currently strategy and growth director for Atkins鈥� North America region.
The company said Roberts has spent much of his career with consulting companies in the UK, and internationally in the water and environment sector, and has held leadership roles in Atkins鈥� UK design and engineering, rail and water and environment divisions.
Roberts will assume his post on 1 December 2014.
In addition, the company also announced that it is merging its six UK businesses to create four larger divisions.
The rail and highways and transportation divisions will be brought together, while the defence, aerospace and communications division will be merged with management consultants.
The firm鈥檚 UK design and engineering division and water and environment division will be unaffected.
The transition to the new operation model will complete by 1 April 2015, Atkins said.
Atkins鈥� global project management division Faithful & Gould and global energy division 鈥� which both have sizeable UK businesses 鈥� are unaffected by the restructuring.
Prof Dr Uwe Krueger, chief executive officer of Atkins, said: 鈥淎s our clients and markets evolve, so must we.
These changes position us better to deliver the technical capabilities, resources and innovation that will help our clients meet their business goals and solve the increasingly complex challenges we face.鈥�
Prof Dr Krueger added: 鈥淣ick brings a wealth of knowledge from across a number of our UK markets together with an international perspective which will be extremely valuable in driving this evolution of our UK business. I would also like to thank David wholeheartedly for his dedication to Atkins over the past few years and for charting this new course for the UK & Europe region.鈥�
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