8th
February 2006
~ Metroline Appoints Engineering Director ~
 ComfortDelGro
subsidiary Metroline welcomes Russ Hargrave as Engineering
Director to their team.
Born
in Northumberland, Russ joined the Royal Air Force
in 1983 having won an Engineering Cadetship at
Kingston
upon Thames Polytechnic. Graduating in 1987 with
a BSc (Hons) in Aeronautical Engineering, he then
went
on to complete his RAF training before serving
in a variety of locations across the UK, Germany
and
the
Middle East.
Throughout
the 1990s he was heavily involved with the operation
and maintenance of aircraft
such
as the Harrier
and Tornado, but also undertook a wide range
of duties not directly related to aircraft. He also
gained several
specialist qualifications ranging from ISO9000
quality auditing to advanced bomb disposal.
Selected
for a nine month advanced Management and Leadership
training course at the Joint Services
Command and Staff
College in 2000, he was promoted to the rank
of
Wing Commander before graduating in July 2001
with a MA
degree in Defence Studies from Kings College
London.
This
was followed by 2 years as the Integrated Logistics
Support Manager for the new
Eurofighter
Typhoon fighter
aircraft before he was appointed as the Engineering
and Logistics Director at the RAFs largest
combat airbase at Marham in Norfolk. In this
position
he was responsible
for over 1,400 military and civilian staff
providing support to RAF operations around
the world, a
role that also covered the operation and
maintenance of a large fleet of heavy support vehicles.
Commenting
on the appointment, Russ said: “I’m
delighted to have been given the opportunity
by Metroline to ‘raise the bar’ in terms
of quality, performance, productivity and vehicle
presentation. 2006 will be an extremely exciting
and challenging
time and I’m looking forward to joining
Metroline’s
engineering team.”
Metroline’s
Chief Executive Officer, Jaspal Singh said: “Russell
joins Metroline with a wealth of engineering,
logistics and change management experience
that is highly relevant to his new role as
Engineering
Director. He will be applying this knowledge
to lead our engineering division to new achievements
and successes
in 2006 and establish a clear future direction.”
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Ends -
Notes
to Editors:
- Photograph: Russell Hargrave, Engineering Director,
Metroline.
- Metroline is one of the top five London-based bus
companies, currently running 13.5% of the capital’s bus
services under contract to Transport
for London.
- Metroline carries 250 million passengers every year,
operates 93 routes, covers over 37.5
million journey miles each year, employs almost 3700 people and runs
a fleet of over 1,200 buses in North,
West and Central London and South Hertfordshire.
- Metroline is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Singapore
based ComfortDelGro Corporation Limited,
which is the world's second largest listed land transport company.Enquiries:
For
further enquiries please contact
Jaspal Singh, Chief Executive Officer,
Metroline 020 8218 8888
Nicola Vincent, Head of Communications,
Metroline 020 8218 8831 |
