UK Plant Operator of the Year 2024: The Results

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The 2024 final of UK Plant Operator took place at the CITB National Construction College on Saturday Sept 21st. With a record number of entrants, the 60 finalists were asked to select five challenges from an available eleven.  At the same time the challenge to find the Tower Crane Operator of the Year also took place. 

The standard of the finalists was extremely high, to ensure fairness and consistency a judging team of 24 was assembled. 12 from the instructor teams at the CITB and 12 from the leading national hirers training academies, such as Flannery, Lynch and Collins. 

Each challenge winner qualified for the grand final, where over two different challenges, the finalists were scored to determine the overall winner. 

Champion Plant Operator of 2024: James Penman 

Runner Up: Bryan Williamson

Third Place: James Covell                                                                             

Trench Box Transfer

1JamesCovell3.29
2JamesHerring5.07
3JamesPenman5.19
4WilliamFrame5.35
5JamesDuxbury5.41
6MarkJarman5.47
10MartinSmith5.57
7StevieMilne6.00
8RyanBagley6.36
9MaciejGrzyb7.20

Backhoe Precision Showdown

1MarkJarman3.44
2JamesPenman3.54
3PhilMclintic4.28
4DanEastwood4.32
5MartinSmith4.33
6MarkFirth4.37
7LouieCoram4.40
8LewisCameron5.02
9GregLeyland5.08
10JamesCovell5.09

The Straight and Narrow

1DritonKrivenjeva4.00
1JamesPenman4.00
1JamesCovell4.00
4MarkFirth4.10
4JamesHerring4.10
4NickRoberts4.10
4MarkJarman4.10
4HarryMiles4.10
9AndrewWalker4.20
9CharlieGold4.20
9VictorStanciu4.20
9LinasPetrauskas4.20
9GrantPodmore4.20
9GregLeyland4.20
15CraigJohnson4.30
16DawidCzub4.30
17TomWhiting4.30
18ErvinHorvat4.30
19NeilGrainger4.30
20MaciejGrzyb4.30

Grapple Grab

1LewisCameron1.34
2LinasPetrauskas1.46
3JamieCurrie1.47
4JamesCovell1.47
5CharlieGold1.50
6TomWhiting1.58
7JamesDuxbury1.59
8ErvinHorvat1.59
9MaciejGrzyb1.59
10BenWade1.68
11MartinSmith2.06
12KieronGligorijevic2.06
13ShaunRichmond2.08
14MarkJarman2.18
15LiamHills2.19
16CraigJohnson2.21
17RyanBagley2.21
18WillGoldstone2.24
19DanielGrantham2.25
20BryanWilliamson2.25

Tipping Point

1BryanWilliamson3.02
2PhilMcLinitic3.13
3CharlieGold3.29
4RobbieAllander3.31
5DanEastwood3.37
6NeilGrainger3.39
7KieronGligorijevic3.40
8TomWhiting3.45
9PeterGawthorpe3.47
10BillyRay3.50

Skip Tip

1JamesCovell1.41
2jamesHerring1.57
3MarkJarman2.02
4MarkFirth2.05
5JamesSnaith2.10
6LewisCameron2.15
7JamesPenman2.17
8MaciejGrzyb2.17
9ShaunRichmond2.17
10AndrewWalker2.18
11BillyRay2.24
12LiamHills2.26
13VictorStanic2.26
14WilliamFrame2.26
15MartinSmith2.29
16JamesDuxbury2.33
17CraigJohnson2.34
18MarkPalmer Broughton2.34
19TomWhiting2.37
20ErvinHorvat2.38

Make the Grade

1AndrewWalker5.31
2JacobHawkins6.06
3JamesDuxbury6.30
4LukeWilkinson6.32
5KieronGligorijevic6.45
6LewisCameron6.50
7HarryMiles7.03
8WilliamFrame7.21
9ShaunRichmond7.28
10JamesHerring7.30

Reverse Engineering

1CraigJohnson2.53
2AaronPodmore3.02
3BillyRay3.08
4BenWade3.18
5JamieCurrie3.20
6PhilMclintic3.34
7LewisCameron3.47
8JamesMansfield3.50
9CharlieGold3.52
10GemmaBarber4.32

The Big Push

1ShaunRichmond14.50
2DawidCzub15.17
3LiamHills15.45
4NeilCoram16.00
5JasonSnaith16.00

Lock N Load

1DanEastwood2.25
2BryanWilliamson2.32
3LewisCameron3.06
4GemmaBarber3.10
5StevieMilne3.10
6CharlieGold3.11
7NicholasRoberts3.37
8JamesPenman3.49
9GrantPodmore4.03
10LiamHills4.04

Pipe Down on the Sim

1JamesCovell11.14
2JamesHerring11.30
3BillyRay11.53
4TomWhiting13.29
5AndrewWalker13.36
1SteveScott7.38
2TomAllen7.39
3JasonDye7.48
4MartinMcElduff7.58
5DanAnghel10.10