Adrian is a Director & Chairman of the Board; Adrian has been involved in the World of contracting and machinery sales for the past 30+ years; having founded, developed and managed what is now ADP Group Ltd, since 1983 as a sole trader and then as a partnership, prior to making it a limited company in 2007.

Historically Adrian’s background has been within the Agricultural and Civil Engineering industries before diversification in 2006 saw the company move into its current field.

Adrian is still actively involved in the running of ADP Group Ltd and its subsidiary businesses; in both a hands-on and consultancy capacity.

Tom is our Managing Director; Tom’s background is in the Agricultural & Engineering industry, having grown up in the family Agricultural Contracting business he left to train as a Mechanical Engineer before being moved in to the Sales Dept. of the same industry leading firm, T H White Ltd.

Alongside Josh & Sally, Tom is responsible for the day-to-day running and general management of ADP Group Ltd.

Day-to-day duties include management of department heads, assisting with planning and delivery of all live projects, tendering/quoting and winning of new work, site visits and customer relations.

Tom can be reached at our Head Office on 01454 227 115.

Sue is our Financial Director; Sue has been involved in ADP Group Ltd since its conception (in its previous form) in 1984, having been a founding partner before ADP Group became a limited business in 2007.

Sue’s responsibilities to this day include:

• Credit Control
• Accounts Payable
• VAT & Taxation
• Sales Ledger
• Purchase Ledger

As well as other general financial controller duties.

Josh is our Operations Director and handles the day-to-day management of all live projects. Josh also works closely with our Drilling Manager to ensure efficient, safe and professional delivery of services on a day to day basis.

Josh is also our Rail & Road Division Lead and assumes management for all rail & road contracts including quoting and contract management (along with contracts from many other industries!); Josh is also responsible for our RISQS Link-Up system and Sentinel Rail Staff sponsorship along with Sarah.

Sally is a Director and also serves as our Company Secretary; Sally’s background and experience is mainly within credit control and accounts admin. alongside the running and day-to-day management of small offices.

Sally joined the family firm in January 2012 to assist in our accounts and credit control dept. as we continue to slowly grow in size.

Sally’s responsibilities now include tachograph management, employee PPE control, hotel bookings, annual leave, PAYE and HR. Alongside Tom, Sally is also responsible for the day-to-day running of ADP Group.

Sally also looks after our purchase order system, authorising and ordering parts, materials and plant; as well as assisting Sue with credit control and purchase ledger.

Craig’s role is arguably one of our most important; Craig is our Service Manager & Mechanical Engineer.

I quote a comment made recently by Adrian, “if a space shuttle was to land in our yard tomorrow, Craig would get it going”! I think that sums Craig’s role up pretty well, he is able to turn his hand to anything, be it an electrical fault on one of our HGV’s, right through to a hydraulic leak on a drilling rig; Craig has it covered!

If you are unfortunate enough to suffer a break-down on one of your sites, rest assured that Craig is on hand to get you up and running again in no time at all.

Craig is also responsible for liaising with our carefully chosen suppliers, managing our maintenance recording system and ensuring that all plant and equipment is in a well looked after, serviceable condition.

Dave is our Drilling Manager.

Dave is our site crews’ first point of contact, and is in daily contact with field teams throughout the UK.

Along with Josh, Dave liaises with both ADP Group crews and clients to ensure the smooth delivery of contracts Nationwide.

Dave has been a longstanding member of our team, joining us in 2013 as a second man, before becoming a lead driller in 2015 and achieving promotion to Drilling Manger in 2018.

Dave also possesses multiple competences, including NVQ L2 in Land Drilling, a BDA Lead Drillers Audit, CSCS, SPA, LPS & PTS to name but just a few!

Sarah joined ADP Group late in Summer ’16 as our main Receptionist, Business Administrator and Project Coordinator.

Sarah’s background is in sales, receptionist and administration duties. Sarah uses these skills to assist our Drilling & Operations Manager, Company Secretary and MD in the general day-to-day running of the business.

Sarah manages all employee administration as well as dealing with their training, PPE and hotel requirements. Sarah also looks after our business management systems, ISO9001 & ISO45001 along with the administration of most other company certifications.

If you are calling ADP Group, the chances are that you will speak to Sarah!

Jake is our Survey Director; Jake joined ADP Group in early 2011 as a Senior Land & Utility Surveyor, since this time he has worked on a countless number of sites throughout the UK and France.

At the start of 2013 Jake was made division Manager responsible for Utiliscan, responsibilities include quoting, invoicing, CAD processing, logistics and planning of jobs as well as management of Utiliscan’s surveyors; all whilst still often being onsite! In September 2014 Jake was made a Director of Utiliscan.

Jake’s specialist training includes SPA, LPS (Esso), SHEA Gas and NG Persons/BESC. Jake’s attention to detail, friendly approach and “can do” attitude see him regularly requested back to sites.

James joined ADP Group in January 2013 as a Senior Land & Utility Surveyor, James brought with him his wealth of experience in both Utility Locating and Topographical Surveying.

James’s remit within Utiliscan has an emphasis on topographical surveying, a field that he has vast amounts of experience within.

James’s training includes SPA, LPS (Esso) and CSCS as well as equipment specific

James is regularly out onsite throughout the UK and Europe providing everything from Topographical Surveys through to service clearance.