About

Started in 2003 by two engineers who were tired of arriving with the wrong drawings.

Halden Technical Services has grown to 184 directly employed engineers and three depots without being bought, merged or turned into a division of something larger. That is a deliberate choice and it costs us work occasionally.

Ownership

Independent

Owned by the people who work in it.

Engineers

Directly employed

Core M and E is never subcontracted.

Depots

Three

Wakefield, Birmingham and Glasgow.

2003

Founded

By two site engineers who had had enough of being sent to jobs with the wrong drawings.

184

Engineers

Directly employed, across three depots. We subcontract specialist trades, never core M and E.

610

Sites under contract

From single plant rooms to estates of forty buildings.

83%

First-time fix

Measured on reactive attendances across the last twelve months, van stock included.

The prefabrication bay at Wakefield. Spooling pipework here rather than on your site takes days off the programme and most of the noise out of it.

How we work

Four things we put in the contract.

None of them is remarkable. Together they are most of the reason an estate manager picks a 184-engineer contractor over a national.

A van racked out the night before. Ninety per cent of a first-time fix is decided before anybody leaves the depot.

01

Directly employed engineers

Every mechanical and electrical engineer on your site is ours, on our payroll, with our induction. We subcontract insulation, asbestos and specialist commissioning and we tell you which is which before you sign anything.

02

The paperwork is part of the job

Test packs, O and M manuals and asset registers are issued to a date in the programme, not chased for six months afterwards. A job is not finished when the plant runs; it is finished when you can prove it runs.

03

We price the remedial before you ask

Anything we find on a maintenance visit is reported with a price the same week. You are never in the position of knowing something is wrong and not knowing what it costs to put right.

04

Safety is the schedule, not a slide

Isolation, permits and access are planned before the work is, because that is the part that decides whether the job is safe and whether it finishes on time. Both.

The people who will turn up

Eight of them, and you will meet at least three.

Ian Halden

Founder and managing director · Wakefield

Mechanical. Started the company in 2003 with one van and a lease on half a unit.

Marcus Oyelaran

Operations director · Wakefield

Electrical. Runs delivery across the three depots.

Sarah Kilbride

Maintenance director · Wakefield

Owns the asset registers, the schedules and the response contracts.

Dev Raichura

Electrical manager · Birmingham

LV distribution, testing and the certification standard.

Nina Straw

Mechanical manager · Birmingham

Plant replacement in occupied buildings. Wrote our isolation procedure.

Callum Dey

Depot manager · Glasgow

HV switching, the Scottish rota and the long drives that come with utilities work.

Rachel Ombler

Health and safety manager · Wakefield

Permits, method statements and the induction everybody sits through, including the directors.

Tom Ferrick

Commercial manager · Wakefield

Pricing, contracts and the remedial quotations that go out the same week.

Depots

Three, and we open one only when the work is already there.

Wakefield

Head office and workshop, since 2003

Denby Dale Road,
Wakefield WF2

01924 496 0180

Prefabrication bay, the 24/7 controllers and the electrical test fleet. Covers Yorkshire and the North East. 96 people.

Birmingham

Depot, since 2011

Bordesley Green,
Birmingham B9

0121 496 0114

Mechanical install teams and the Midlands maintenance rota. Covers Midlands and the South West. 52 people.

Glasgow

Depot, since 2018

Helen Street,
Glasgow G51

0141 496 0136

Electrical works, HV switching and the Scottish response rota. Covers Scotland and the Borders. 36 people.

Certification

Audited, and the report is available.

Most contractors will show you the certificate. Ask for the audit report behind it, which is the document with the non-conformances in it, and see what happens.

ISO 9001 quality management
ISO 14001 environmental management
ISO 45001 occupational health and safety
Schedules aligned to SFG20 task sets
All engineers hold current industry skills cards
Third-party audited annually, and the report is available to clients on request

Come and look at the workshop before you appoint anybody.

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