Willmott Dixon appoints more managing directors: delivery and risk notes for project teams
Reviewed by Joe Ashwell
First reported on The Construction Index
30 Second Briefing
Willmott Dixon has promoted Judy Hegarty to managing director of Fortem, its social housing repair and maintenance arm, where she will work alongside chief operating officer Chris Tredget on the next phase of growth in that sector. Simon Ramage becomes managing director for Willmott Dixon Construction’s London & East region, following Stewart Brundell’s move to chief operating officer, while Adam Worrall steps up to managing director of Willmott Dixon Interiors, the fit-out business. All three previously served as deputy managing directors, signalling a clear internal succession path for leadership across repairs, regional construction delivery and interiors.
Technical Brief
- Internal promotions from deputy to managing director reduce onboarding time for regional and sector leadership.
- Fortem’s leadership continuity is important for long-term social housing asset management and planned maintenance frameworks.
- Direct MD–COO pairing at Fortem and London & East simplifies escalation on programme, cost and risk decisions.
- Concentrating MD roles in repairs, regional build and interiors mirrors typical package breakdown on complex estate regeneration schemes.
- Clear succession structure supports consistent application of group-wide quality, safety and ESG procedures across business units.
- Similar internal succession models in UK contractors have shortened decision cycles on design changes and value engineering.
Our Take
Willmott Dixon appears in only a small fraction of the 610 Infrastructure stories in our database, so a leadership reshuffle at group, Construction and Interiors level is a relatively notable governance signal for a privately owned Tier 1 contractor in the United Kingdom.
With London & East flagged as the regional focus, additional managing director capacity suggests Willmott Dixon is positioning to manage a heavier pipeline of public-sector and regeneration projects there, where framework-led procurement often rewards demonstrable regional leadership stability.
The presence of Fortem alongside Willmott Dixon Construction and Willmott Dixon Interiors underlines the group’s end‑to‑end capability from maintenance to fit‑out, and strengthening MD ranks across these units is likely aimed at tighter cross-business coordination on complex UK building and refurbishment programmes.
Prepared by collating external sources, AI-assisted tools, and Geomechanics.io’s proprietary mining database, then reviewed for technical accuracy & edited by our geotechnical team.
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