Following the opening of the seventh office in Reigate last year, Hawkins has continued to expand its number of investigators with the recent recruitment of:

• Darren Cronk - Reigate office
• Jonathan Emm - Manchester office

Darren Cronk

Darren is a mechanical engineer and joins us from South Africa where his experience included working as the plant engineer for a scrap steel foundry, producing high carbon billet steel.

Darren embraced a wide range of engineering challenges encompassing inductive furnaces, cranes, specialised dust extraction plants and continuous casting machines; key components of this heavy industry environment.

Jonathan Emm

Jonathan is a materials engineer who joined BAE systems in 2000 as an engineer in the Advanced Technology Centre, Stealth Materials Group. He led a team of engineers and scientists in developing a sprayable, radar absorbent coating for aircrafts.

In 2003 Jonathan joined Cytec Engineered Materials, where he ran qualification testing programmes for aerospace composite materials. His customers included Airbus, Boeing and Lockheed Martin.

You can read more about each of our new recruits in our people and we will feature them in a future newsletter.