Award-winning, family-spirited, and built on over 30 years of dewatering expertise – Alba Dewatering Services Ltd (Alba Dewatering) is expanding fast, investing boldly, and challenging clients to test their limits.
Dewatering company, Alba Dewatering, has been providing dewatering services and groundwater management control solutions for over 30 years. Adapting quickly to demanding client requirements, the company now also offers specialist equipment, heavy plant, and machinery for hire and rental.
With offices and sites based centrally in Burton upon Trent, Scotland, Derbyshire, and Northern Ireland, Alba Dewatering prides itself on delivering a fast, responsive, and technically robust first-class service throughout the UK and worldwide – a reputation endorsed by consistently strong client testimonials.
The company is currently recruiting across a range of positions as it expands to meet growing demand, opening new offices and sites. While maintaining its commitment to investing in local staff and suppliers.
Services
From scientific assessment through to design, supply, installation, monitoring, and full project management, Alba Dewatering offers a comprehensive range of services, including:
- Dewatering – Wellpoint, Deepwell, and Ejector/Eductor Systems
- Borehole & Drilling Services
- Pumps, Pump Testing & Monitoring
- Overpumping, Pipework & Fittings
- Investigation & Testing
- Design & Build
- Fabrication & Construction
- Water Treatment & Remediation – Clean Water, Wastewater, and Sewage
- Specialist Heavy Plant & Equipment Hire/Rental
With 100 years of combined directors’ experience, the company holds ISO 9001, ISO 14001, and ISO 45001. Alongside a wide range of additional accreditations including membership of The Pipeline Industries Guild and The Dewatering Institute.
Current projects include the SPA Pipeline (Strategic Pipeline Alliance) in East Anglia. Fully compliant and operating across construction, infrastructure, mining, and environmental sectors – large and small, industrial, corporate, and private – Alba Dewatering’s reputation is built on fast mobilisation and a proactive approach to complex, bespoke, and time-critical groundwater dewatering challenges.
People want to come to work, are paid above market rates, trained, and allowed to grow and reach their potential. Above all — they are valued.
Investment in Equipment & Infrastructure
Millions of pounds have been invested in an unrivalled range of high-performance, specialist heavy plant, machinery, equipment, and vehicles over recent years.
Best-in-class for performance and power, the fleet includes HGVs and excavators through to a wide variety of pump and pipe specifications that are often unavailable at short notice elsewhere.
With over 50 staff, a large, owned vehicle fleet with drivers, and in-house engineering capability, Alba Dewatering is entirely self-sufficient — with an enviable track record in both project delivery and health and safety. The company is particularly well known for its pipeline work, especially over the past five years.
Equipment is replaced every three years, ensuring the fleet is always at the forefront of technology. Stock is carefully optimised, stored in order, and all plant, machinery, and vehicles are fully serviced and maintained by in-house engineers. The company owns HGVs that transport equipment directly to site, streamlining speed and operational efficiency.
New Premises
After a prolonged search for the right location, Alba Dewatering has secured and is nearing completion of new, centrally located premises in Burton upon Trent. Over £1 million has been invested in newly refurbished, state-of-the-art offices, a workshop, and a yard with storage in Derbyshire — all tailored precisely to the company’s operational needs, with easy access to the major motorway network and airports.
People at the Heart of the Business
People are at the heart of the business. MD Glyn Whitelam has been fascinated by the dewatering process throughout his entire working life. Together with his fellow directors and the wider team, he loves the business — and has no intention of retiring.
Whitelam relishes the challenge of finding the best and most appropriate solution to each dewatering problem and takes equal pride in running a company that feels more like a family. Alba Dewatering has in-house H&S Managers look after all employees, offering support when it matters most. With an excellent H&S track record, the safety of our staff is paramount”, says Whitelam.
Supported by a team of hydrogeological, environmental, and geotechnical specialists, the company counts some of the very best professionals in the industry among its ranks.
Challenge Us
Over 50 valued, committed, and experienced staff provide the manpower and geotechnical expertise to tackle dewatering and groundwater management challenges anywhere in the UK and worldwide.
The team thrives on the variety of client projects and locations, and the scientific, practical, and logistical challenges these bring – from multi-million-pound infrastructure projects to smaller, more unusual assignments. The approach is always the same: “Can Do.”
Trusted by leading UK and international contractors alongside smaller specialist clients across multiple sectors, Alba Dewatering saves clients’ money, minimises downtime, and helps drive best practices across the industry.
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