Senior engineering leadership and independent technical oversight for major infrastructure, nuclear and transport projects and programmes.
Supporting projects that need improvement in assurance and delivery confidence. We provide experienced leadership to overcome technical challenges, strengthen governance and improve delivery outcomes.
Objective, evidence-based oversight at every stage, giving clients, sponsors and regulators confidence that what is being built is right.
Getting the brief right before major commitments are made. Clearly defining what needs to be built, to what standard, and how success will be measured.
Hands-on support across cost, schedule and technical performance, embedded alongside your team from contract award through to handover.
Guiding delivery teams through complex regulatory requirements and industry standards so projects stay compliant without losing momentum.
Connecting disciplines, contractors and clients across complex multi-party projects, eliminating the gaps where major programmes most often fail.
Building compelling, evidence-based bids and tender responses. We bring technical credibility, structured requirements understanding and delivery track record to your submissions.
Helping clients specify not just the deliverable but the evidence required to close it out. If the specification is wrong, the programme will be too.
Mapping delivery against compliance standards so evidence matures with the work. In rail, the CENELEC EN 5012X suite defines what needs to exist and when.
HS2, Transport for London and Transpennine Route Upgrade
Ottawa Confederation Line and TransLink Vancouver
Port development and construction works in complex operating environments
New build, decommissioning and operational safety — Sizewell C and Sellafield
Regulated water capital delivery — Yorkshire Water AMP7 and United Utilities
Operating inside your sector, not looking in from outside.
Get in TouchTechnical direction, design, engineering and independent oversight across the full nuclear lifecycle in regulated UK environments.
Independent technical oversight, safety case support and assurance on the UK's most complex and sensitive nuclear programmes.
Technical leadership, governance and independent assurance across the UK's most significant rail projects and programmes.
Technical direction, systems integration and independent assurance on major regulated transit programmes in Canada.
Large-scale infrastructure transformation in regulated environments where technical governance, stakeholder management and delivery discipline matter most.
Independent technical advisory, training and procurement support across regulated infrastructure sectors.
You get an experienced person who has done this before. Not an adviser looking in from the outside, but someone who has been the technical director, led the team, resolved the crisis and stood behind the decision.
We build capability around us as well as bringing it. We have rebuilt failing delivery teams from scratch and shaped national engineering practices.
Clients trust us to deliver the outcomes that matter: systems that work, services that open, programmes that close out. Not reports. Results.
Technical Director roles on the programmes that define UK infrastructure. Sizewell C. HS2. Ottawa. Sellafield. Not academic knowledge. Operational.
Rebuilt a Sellafield delivery team from 3 to 20. Created a national systems engineering practice from inception. We create capability, not just bring it.
Ottawa Confederation Line into passenger service. Sellafield safety-critical facilities into operation. Our track record is outcomes delivered, not reports that circulate.
Recognised industry leadership shaping infrastructure delivery through standards, thought leadership and academia, including co-authoring the ICE Systems Approach to Infrastructure Delivery and guest lecturing at Imperial College London, University College London and the University of Southampton.
When clients appoint Ackor, they gain access to proven experience, leadership and credibility.
Get in TouchTechnical Director with over 30 years leading multidisciplinary engineering teams on the UK's most complex regulated projects and programmes. Former Technical Director and executive board member. Has held full technical, governance and commercial accountability across nuclear, transport and water sectors, with international delivery experience in Canada.
Whether you have an immediate requirement or are exploring what senior technical support might look like on a future project, we are happy to have an initial conversation with no obligation.