Congratulations to Lee Needham for achieving 25 years’ service. 

Lee started his career as a graduate trainee in September 1994, working with the Instrumentation & Control team at the then, Crown House.  As part of his development programme, Lee also worked at South Ferriby and Ash Resources, firstly with the Commercial team then, following the acquisition of Lytag, with the Business Development team.

In 1998, Lee and his then fiancée, Emma, went to Jamaica to set up a new lime plant supplying lime to an alumina factory.  They returned 2 years later married with a baby daughter and a son on the way.   Although Jamaica was beautiful, Lee has a few shocking stories to tell of violent incidents outside the gated area where they lived, so they were happy to return to the UK in 2000, when Lee worked with the Instrumentation Dept at Rugby Plant.  With the implementation of Shifting Gear (change management programme), Lee was part of the project team to roll out the programme.

Lee’s responsibilities grew after the acquisition of RMC by CEMEX, and he took responsibility for production data management for Cement Operations UK & Northern Europe and since 2016 has been UK Cement Inbound Manager.

It dawned on Lee recently that, having recently celebrated his 50th birthday, he has spent half his life with CEMEX – long may it continue.

The picture shows Phil Baynes Clarke (UK Cement Operations Director) congratulating Lee on this tremendous achievement.