Railworks Corp. Names Two Unit Presidents; URS Fills New COO Position
URS Corp., San Francisco, announces several top executive changes. The firm elevated W.J. "Bill" Lingard to the newly created position of executive vice president and chief operating officer. Now based in San Francisco, he was president of the firm's oil-and-gas division. Lingard also is the former president and CEO of Flint Energy Services Ltd., a Calgary, Alberta-based provider of construction services to the North American oil-and-gas market that URS acquired in 2012. He was in those top roles at Flint Energy since 2005. Lingard also becomes chairman of URS' management committee. Further, URS has promoted H. Thomas Hicks, currently vice president and chief financial officer, to executive vice president. He continues as CFO. Wayne Shaw, previously chief operating officer of URS' oil-and-gas division, is named president, replacing Lingard.