ABOUT US
CULTURE
The culture at Ram Services Limited reflects our business foundations and our principles in which the business operates. Our culture, formed over decades, defines the way we approach work and engage with our clients, suppliers and workforce. Ram Services Limited is dedicated in engaging with all employees to ensure our integral business culture is maintained. Personal development and extensive, comprehensive training of all employees ensures our workforce remains at the forefront of the specialist contractor sector. The above training furthermore ensures all employees are aware of their health, safety, environmental responsibilities coupled with maintaining the wellbeing of all our employees. Our extraordinary high retention rate of all employees underlines the above.
SAFETY
The health and safety of our employees and clients alike remains the foremost foundation at Ram Services Limited. Think Safe, Work Safe, Home Safe – Zero Harm.
TEAMWORK
Collaborative working coupled with personal accountability to achieve right first-time status.
RELATIONSHIPS
Building trust and loyalty through communication and forging lasting partnerships.
INTEGRITY
Always treating people with respect and honesty while operating at the highest ethical standards.
AGILITY
Rapid response to remediate unforeseen problems for clients on new build and emergency work.
EXCELLENCE
Exceeding customer expectations with industry leading knowledge and service using innovation.
ACCREDITATIONS
OPERATIONAL STRUCTURE
PAUL HAWORTH
Director
Committed to providing a safe, injury-free and healthy work environment for our employees and our worksites. With an aim to achieve and maintain a health and safety system that provides a foundation from which to build an incident and accident free organisation.
JAMIE BEST
Director
Technology and innovation are key. Thorough understanding of materials and sector specific technology to remediate assets in the specialist construction industry underlines our history and propels the business to the forefront of our industry. Coupled with working actively across all aspects of the business, ensures our senior management team remains in complete harmony with site operations.
ANDY MURRAY
Contracts Manager
Andy has re-joined Ram Services Limited recently, following a ten year hiatus, commencing his role as Contracts Manager. Andy has over thirty years’ experience in the specialist construction industry and is a welcomed addition to the management team at Ram Services Limited.
LIBBY HAWORTH
Operations Manager
We are a family run business, and our employees are known to us professionally and personally. Our strength as a company is the ‘family unit’ culture, and my role is to assist the Senior Management team with the implementation of initiatives to support our employees. My objective is to ensure that Ram Services provides a working environment which enables all our employees to thrive.
ZAAL HANLON
Project Manager
I have worked for Ram Services since the 1990’s and enjoy all aspects of delivering projects for across the business. The past decade has seen our services expand within Flood Alleviation Schemes across the North of England and I find assisting real life problems pleasing.
ANDY KENNEDY
ANDY KENNEDY
Project Manager
Having recently joined Ram Services, I have been welcomed into a fantastic working environment.The management and operational teams run uninterrupted and this seamlessness largely attributes to the company’s fantastic reputation.
Having worked within the potable water arena for over twenty years, I am extremely looking forward to assisting Ram Services delivering works across the country as we move into AMP 8.
SAM KAYSER
Office Manager
When the MBO was completed, the previous owners understood the importance of the business remaining in control of the current senior leadership team. Ram Services is part of my family history and I thoroughly enjoy working for the business.
JOHN CHAPMAN
Accounts
Having worked for Ram Services for nearly twenty years, it is fantastic seeing the business in a healthy state, securing works across the UK whilst maintaining the core principles of a family ran business.
PATRICK HOYLE
Junior Estimator
Since joining Ram Services in June 2023, Patrick is gradually being exposed to the differing commercial and contract functions of the business. He is currently studying towards the RICS’S Foundation in Quantity Surveying which will provide the foundations for his enrolment of the next phase of his academic journey at The University of Central Lancashire, studying towards a BSc (Hons) in Quantity Surveying.
JOHN HOYLE
Senior Foreman
It’s great working at Ram Services. The directors, although relaxed in their approach are always there to help and provide not just myself but all the operational teams opportunities and invest in a great deal of training which ensures we can tackle all repair scenarios.
DAVID MEREDITH
Foreman
I joined Ram Services approximately four years ago. Having worked in the structural repair industry for over thirty years, I didn’t think I would be as happy in my role as senior foreman as I am now. The responsibility and managerial style, allow the operations teams to thrive.
JOHN HOYLE
Foreman
I have just completed my NVQ Level 3 in Occupational Work Supervision. This constant commitment to my personal development, in turn, underlines my unwavering commitment to the business. On site, I take great pride on the safety and quality of our work. We are a great firm.
OUR STORY
Ram Services Limited, was founded by Richard Kayser and Kath Trippier in 1980.
Richard, a maverick civil engineer, with a sound background in the repair and protection of concrete structures, understood the prevalence and continual maintenance associated with reinforced concrete structures. Founded on family backed, hardworking, technically driven principles, Ram Services Limited, gained traction and the firm foundations which remain today were set.
Moving into the late 1980’s and early 1990’s the business forged a formidable reputation and began to secure contracts in power stations, the clean water sector and secured large infrastructure remedial schemes.
As the technology of the repair and protection of reinforced concrete structures developed in the 1990’s, Ram Services pioneered the development of plate bonding techniques for the use of bridge strengthen. In 1998 Ram Services undertook the first carbon fibre (CFRP) bridge strengthening scheme for the UK’s Highways Agency. The business expanded in the late 1990’s moving into fields such as diamond drilling and masonry repairs.
Ram Services Limited continued to strengthen its client base in the 2000’s, securing numerous, national frameworks, for both highway structural repairs and water retaining structures. The business provided specialist labour and expertise on all five major Thirlmere Aqueduct shutdowns between 2006-2010 and remains a leading specialist contractor in the repair and maintenance of aqueduct schemes across the UK.
In early 2021, the existing management team of Paul Haworth and Jamie Best successfully gained full control of Ram Services Limited, via a management buyout. Prior to the completion of the transaction, the business was transitioning, securing large civil engineering and infrastructure projects across the UK. The business has secured numerous national frameworks, maintaining potable water infrastructure across the length and breadth of the UK, supplemented by council backed frameworks maintaining highway infrastructure. Working across the varying realms of the UK’s construction sector, coupled with extensive industry experience, the business continues to thrive as a family ran, technically driven business.
OUR CLIENTS
Ram Services react to all problems directed their way, they adapt and deliver
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POLICIES
We aim to provide excellence for our clients and staff, through our standards, behaviour and values, in order to truly deliver industry-leading solutions, with the highest levels of expertise and sustainability principles to drive true value for money. Our policies underpin our management systems and compliance requirements to ensure we provide a robust framework for our daily activities.
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