John Hopper

Divisional Manager

John is ex-military and joined Darlow Lloyd & Sons in 2012, initially as the workshop Manager.

John is now responsible for managing the day-to-day aspects of the Plant Hire Division of DLS. He also works closely with our Trasport Manager to control external lorry movements of the low loaders and 8 wheeled road lorries.

John manages DLS large plant hire contracts. From 1-week projects to larger ongoing projects up to the scale of the Invictus Green Steel project and other global clients.

Examples of some of Johns larger projects are:

Capping of the Hazardous and Non-Haz Landfill cells, managing the screening of materials, haulage, levelling and compacting, profiling, and drainage by coordination of  a large fleet of Plant and Labour.

Large volume excavated material specialist Crushing and Screening projects to create fill materials as part of circular economy projects. 

Specialist Demolition, which includes excavation, haulage and stockpile management.  Levelling, and compacting materials on site to create finished formation levels for the new Scrap yard for the Electric Arc Furnace development t Port Tabot and National Grid substation sites.

Qualifications: 

• ILM level 3
• IOSH managing safety
• OLAT for transport
• WAMITAB level 2

Outside work, John enjoys Family walks and playing Golf.