More thanks go to our fantastic colleagues nominated for the Thanks For Your Effort award for showing exceptional dedication and going above and beyond their day jobs. They are:
Gary Donnelly and Duncan Finney, Lead Driver and LGV Driver, Supply Chain
Julie Welch, Health and Safety Manager and Carl Milton, Cement Logistics Manager, nominated Gary and Duncan: “Over the past few years CEMEX have been supporting the Institute of Traffic Accident Investigators (ITAI) crash test and research day. CEMEX provided a rigid tipper vehicle for this year’s event. Our Drivers, Gary Donnelly and Duncan Finney, worked non-stop during the event – giving a CEMEX driving experience and displaying the vision available to the drivers and demonstrating the safety features fitted to the truck to protect vulnerable road users. They acted very professionally and the feedback we got from the attendees was excellent and assisted those who had never even sat, let alone driven a large goods vehicle in understanding the challenges for a driver, including the many blind spots around the vehicle.”
Mark Brightwell and Dani Cullinane, Team Leaders at Rugby Customer Service Office
Rob Wilkinson, Logistics Manager, nominated Mark and Dani: “As a result of a period of extended absence of their Line Manager both Dani and Mark stepped up above and beyond their current roles as Team Leaders to ensure the office performed exceptionally well through a challenging period. They ensured high service levels were maintained for both Aggregates and Asphalt despite significant supply chain challenges which led to outages across several locations.
High levels of fleet productivity were achieved, and increased night work helped deliver this.
Excellent communication was maintained with all parts of the business especially with the Operations and Commercial teams. They have overseen the return of the Planning team back into Rugby Office and delivered the Zero4Life safety training. They have both worked long hours to ensure the Planning Office operated effectively. Both internal and external customers benefited from excellent service.”
Naomi Gough, Readymix Planning Team Leader and Jamie Helps, Readymix Transport Planner
Paul Cooke, Freight Manager, nominated Naomi and Jamie: “Naomi and Jamie have helped support the transition and setting up of our new Midlands Shipping Office based at Oldbury. Naomi will be the first Team Leader in Readymix to Team Lead two offices across two markets, while Jamie, in his own time, developed a full training package for new starters which he then rolled out himself over a period of four weeks.
With their help and support, our very ambitious timeline of two months to migrate two Midlands teams into one was achieved. Both have made huge personal sacrifices to help us to achieve our ongoing goal, to improve our overall customer experience for our customers in The Midlands.”
Gregg Thompson and Ryan Crowther, Plant Managers – Sheffield Readymix
Adam Leverett, Head of Operational Excellence WEM, nominated Gregg and Ryan: “Gregg and Ryan kindly assisted the Operational Excellence team this week in filming a case study for our CEMEX University Academy. The video will show some of the improvements the site team have made over the last year. The guys made us feel very welcome, kept us safe and were so accommodating of everything we asked for their help with, even though they were busy doing their day jobs. Gregg even agreed to appear on camera!”
Steve Rowsell, Transport Co-ordinator
Daniel Jacks, Customer Service Agent, Concrete Products, nominated Steve: “I was having issues with my computer and he took time out of his already busy day to help source a solution and enable me to get back to working as needed. The whole of the Concrete Products team benefitted as the system issue was stopping me from accessing necessary spreadsheets and therefore stopping me from processing orders.”
Clint Yarwood, VP & IT Support Leader
Adam Leverett, Head of Operational Excellence WEM, nominated Clint: “Clint has been extremely helpful in resolving some IT/software issues my team were having with some mobile devices we have rolled out to our Readymix sites. Essentially our INTELEX safety application was not working on the devices and Clint had to try many, many(!) different technical solutions, testing each one along the way, until he found a resolution. We now have this resolved and really could not have done this without Clint’s expertise. Clint is always so willing to help out and we really appreciate all his support with our projects. This will positively impact all our Readymix sites (100+).”