Published: 20th May 2025
BCECA Conference
BCECA has officially launched this year’s virtual conference which will take place on 8th October. The engineering contractors’ role in delivering UK energy transformation will dominate the agenda again.
Given continuing economic uncertainty, we’re delighted to confirm that former Chancellor of the Exchequer, Lord Philip Hammond, will join us to offer his thoughts on the new political landscape at home and abroad and the implications for decarbonisation and net zero.
The conversation will continue with a series of topic-focused breakout sessions throughout the autumn, and we’ll pull the threads together in our conference report at a reception in the House of Lords on 13 January 2026.
To register your interest in attending and for more information on the available sponsorship packages please visit: https://www.bceca.org.uk/annual-conference/conference-2025
BCECA Industry Day Events
The programme of university visits for the 2024/25 academic year has now been completed. Across the two semesters, twelve university departments spanning chemical, mechanical, electrical and control & instrumentation engineering were visited by 47 facilitators drawn from BCECA member companies.
Almost 800 students participated in the series of workshops that were delivered, providing an insight into the world of BCECA member companies and a typical energy project life cycle. Plans are now underway to prepare for the 2025/26 academic year visits.
https://www.bceca.org.uk/conference/register-your-interest
Forthcoming Online BCECA Meetings
- 2nd June – Commercial Managers
- 10th June – DS&E
- 12th June – Supply Chain Managers
- 19th June – Early Career Professionals
- 26th June – Process Managers
- 1st July – Project Control Managers
- 8th July – Board / Council
- 10th July – Engineering Managers
New BCECA Board Member
At the March meeting of the Early Career Professionals’ (ECP) Committee, Gabriel Jones of Aker Solutions completed his term as Chair. He also relinquished the ECP position on the BCECA Board. BCECA would like to thank him for all his support and commitment to BCECA over the past 3 years and we wish him well in the future.
We are pleased to welcome new ECP Chair and Board Member, Giorgio De Mitri of McDermott. Giorgio is a Process Engineer and is responsible for the concept design and engineering of processing plants, focusing on Liquefied Natural Gas facilities and other Energy Transition projects.
BCECA Pay Rates Surveys
In March this year, the latest BCECA Engineering Salary Survey was issued and completed by BCECA members, followed by the BCECA Indices Report in April.
This report, produced by Alan Jones and Associates on behalf of BCECA, tracks pay movement in the industry for permanent engineering staff (salaries) and for agency personnel (hourly rates). The Indices are calculated using the movement in the medians of the samples for the two groups, as collated in the BCECA Engineering Salary Survey and the BCECA Agency Rates Pay Survey.
The Indices Reports are produced twice a year, in April and October, following on from the Engineering and Agency surveys. For more information, or to join the survey programme, please contact Tracey Shelley: [email protected]
Women in Trade Associations Powerlist 2025
For the third year in succession, BCECA’s CEO, Tracey Shelley, has been included in the Women in Trade Associations Powerlist, which champions the role of women in Trade Associations.
The Powerlist is a joint initiative promoted by the Trade Association Forum (TAF), the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) and the CBI (Confederation of British Industry) and it was published on 7th March, the day before International Women’s Day.
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