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Yorkshire’s Biker Group expands workforce by 18 per cent

Biker Group has welcomed almost 30 staff to boost its work across the construction, groundworks, concrete and haulage sectors.

The Yorkshire-headquartered business, established more than 50 years ago, has grown its workforce by 18 per cent in 2024, and intends to reach 200 staff by the end of the current financial year. 

Turnover was reported as £31 million for the 2022/2023 financial year, with plans to grow this by £9 million in the current financial year.

Thirsk-based Biker Group Groundworks, the operator's largest division, which undertakes multi-phased, large-scale road, sewers and plot works developments for national housebuilders and regional developers, has welcomed David Ashcroft as quantity surveyor, Rhiannon Birks as estimator, and Carl Waite and Simon Hill as contracts managers.

A further ten site-based employees have also joined.

David Phipps, Biker Group Groundworks director, said: “We have recently secured several multi-million-pound road, sewers and plot work schemes around Yorkshire and the North East, which will take our current order book above £30 million.

"We are delighted to bring in additional key individuals to our long-standing and proven commercial and production teams."

James Atkins has joined the construction division as project manager, and will help to deliver its portfolio of high-end residential projects.

Seven additional tradesmen have joined the teams on-site, providing a balance of youth and experience to the division’s growing project base, which has a reported 35 per cent growth this year. 

Elsewhere, Biker Group Concrete has also benefited from several recruits and continues to operate strongly, supplying ready-mix concrete and specialist screeds from its Dalton, Catterick and Leyburn plants. 

Plans are in place to bring a further concrete plant online later this year, creating more jobs when operational.

Biker Group Haulage & Aggregates has appointed Jade Wrest as assistant transport manager and Chris Mason as fleet manager.

Ben Biker, Biker Group managing director, added: “Recruitment has been challenging over recent years, restricting overall growth as a result, so it is really exciting to welcome so many talented people.”

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