Finning holds exclusive rights for the distribution of Cat® equipment and products in the UK and Ireland. The company is determined to buck international trends and attract a more varied talent pool by supporting diversity through recruitment, including, but not limited to, gender diversity candidates with disabilities, people from black or minority ethnic (BAME) backgrounds and those from socially deprived areas.

Finning is taking a range of positive steps to help improve upon the latest figures released by the Women’s Engineering Society which revealed that just 14.5% of engineers globally are female, and statistics unveiled by the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE-UK) which show that only 9% of UK-based engineers are from the Black, Asian, Minority and Ethnic community.

As a leading global company Finning understands the benefits that colleagues from different backgrounds and with varying experiences can bring to the business. The company’s award-winning apprenticeship programme offers amazing opportunities for people to gain qualifications, skills, and a life-long career within a forward-thinking, dynamic, and professional organisation, whether they have just left school or college or are looking for a new challenge.

STRABAG is dedicated to providing full construction services to our clients and is a leader in innovation and construction capability. We have been working in the UK market since 2011 and cover all areas of the construction industry. In doing so, we create added value for our clients by integrating a wide variety of specialist skills and services, helping to deliver complex infrastructure and ground engineering projects. We are one of the few companies that can offer services along the entire construction journey from design, through planning and construction, to commissioning and operations. STRABAG continues to actively explore further tunnelling, ground engineering and infrastructure development opportunities in the UK market, to build upon the foundation of our current projects.

Willmott Dixon places equality and diversity at the heart of everything we do. We believe an inclusive and balanced business leads to better outcomes for our customers alongside making us a great place to work, where our people feel challenged, content and able to make a difference. That's why we have set a goal to achieve gender parity across all management levels by 2030, and are actively working towards having more women in senior roles through our CITB-backed Women's Leadership Programme.

To continue to grow and thrive, the construction industry must attract a new generation of people that represents all parts of society, and that includes achieving better gender parity. That's why this campaign is so important and why, as a founding member, Willmott Dixon is keen to work collaboratively to ensure our industry attracts and retains the very best people from all backgrounds, who will choose our sector as somewhere they can enjoy a rewarding career of a lifetime.

It is an approach that has seen Willmott Dixon feature in The Times Top 50 Employers for Women list, which is the UK’s most highly profiled and well-established listing of employers striving for gender equality in the workplace.