Go-Ahead makes senior engineering appointments24 July 2023

Harrington will move to Go-Ahead’s head office to take on the role, effective 1 August

The Go-Ahead Group has appointed Richard Harrington group engineering director, with the responsibility for leading best practice in engineering across the company.

Harrington will oversee digitisation and engineering performance programmes set out in Go-Ahead’s business strategy, The Next Billion Journeys. He will support the group’s fleet and vehicle buying strategies and continue to aid the transition to zero emission as head of Go-Ahead’s Zero Emission Centre of Excellence. He will report to Louis Rambaud, Go-Ahead’s group strategy and transformation director.

Harrington entered the transport industry in 1984 as an apprentice engineer at London Transport. Over the course of his career at Go-Ahead London, he has been responsible for introducing London’s first diesel-hybrid route. He is a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport, the Society of Operations Engineers and the Institute of Road Transport Engineers.

Currently engineering director at Go-Ahead London, Harrington will move to Go-Ahead’s head office to take on the role, effective 1 August. His position will be filled by Chris McKeown, who is promoted from chief engineer.

McKeown joined Go-Ahead as an engineering graduate in 2005, and has held a number of positions at Metrobus, Brighton & Hove Buses and Go-Ahead London. He has been chief engineer since 2012 and has helped deliver transport for the 2012 Olympics, in the company’s buyout of depots in Northumberland Park, Croydon and Orpington and in the transition to zero-emission vehicles.

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