OCU Group News

19th Nov 2024

OCU Group awarded Gold accredited membership of The 5% Club – supporting early careers

OCU is thrilled to announce that we have been awarded Gold accredited membership as part of The 5% Club’s esteemed 2024-25 Employer Audit Scheme. This highlights our unwavering commitment to empowering our employees through ‘earn & learn’ initiatives such as Apprenticeships, Graduate Schemes, and Sponsored Student Placements. Achieving Gold status is a testament to our dedication to […]

24th Oct 2024

OCU acquires McCormack Drilling, specialists in trenchless solutions

OCU Group, a leading UK energy transition and utilities infrastructure services company, today announced the completion of the acquisition of Peter McCormack & Sons Limited (“McCormack Drilling”). McCormack Drilling has over a five-decade history of delivering trenchless technology solutions and major Horizontal Directional Drilling projects. With today’s acquisition and the addition of the McCormack Drilling […]

14th Oct 2024

OCU Group are joined by SSEN colleagues to volunteer for Wiltshire Wildlife Trust at The Great Wood

The Great Wood in Grittenham, near Lyneham is ready for winter and its upcoming restoration project thanks to volunteers from OCU Group and Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks. Our green-fingered colleagues dedicated their day at the site, run by the Wiltshire Wildlife Trust, to removing invasive species and carrying out coppicing activities to pave the […]

10th Oct 2024

OCU Group join the Powering Net Zero Pact

The Powering Net Zero Pact brings together companies across all tiers of the power sector that are committed to a fair and just transition to net zero carbon emissions. The includes five shared commitments and five topics for collaboration, which together encourage the delivery of five areas of ambition for a sustainable future. Michael Hughes […]

9th Oct 2024

OCU Foundation hosts Charity Dinner in support of Teenage Cancer Trust

Our Group charity the ‘OCU Foundation’ held its inaugural Charity Dinner on Friday 4th October and the event was a resounding success with dinner, drinks, entertainment, auctions and more. An impressive amount was raised on the night for our current charity partner the Teenage Cancer Trust. We were deeply grateful for the overwhelming turnout, and […]

2nd Oct 2024

OCU appointed to Wessex Water Framework

The acquisition marks a further significant enhancement of the Group’s design and engineering capability, adding Purestream’s water design expertise to OCU’s existing industry-leading energy and wider utilities design expertise.