Well done and thank you to all colleagues who have been nominated for a May or June Thanks For Your Effort Award.  You are all fantastic and we really appreciate your extra effort.  The nominees were:

Lucy Enright, Asphalt Internal Sales.  Lucy went above and beyond helping with a last minute emergency request from a customer.  The customer changed materials at 7 in the evening and Lucy kindly agreed to log in and add the material to the contract, saving 200t worth of manual tickets and potentially long delays on the job.  Another customer did a similar thing on a Sunday – Lucy again logged in a helped the team add the material to the contract. Both customers were really pleased with how quickly we were able to react out of hours.

Bulk and Packed Cement Planning and Customer Service team: Supply Chain Rugby. Since the pandemic started back in March both teams have been working at home under very tricky circumstances.  A number of the team have been in and out of furlough, but they have all managed to keep focused and have really done an amazing job.  They have kept the service to our customers at a very high level and kept the impact of Coronavirus to a minimum.  Each and every member of the team has pulled together (while working from home) and done a fantastic job.

Terry Gent, Wharf Manager, Brighton and Leamouth, South Coast Materials.  Terry has recently been extremely helpful to the Isle of Wight Aggregates JV business. He vacated the General Manager role on the island at the start of the year but has still offered guidance and support to the new General Manager since then, including assisting with Health & Safety and Environmental Audits and helping remotely during the pandemic. Recently, Terry dropped what he was doing and assisted with checking urgent quotations for essential repairs to the crusher on the IOW wharf – something we need really needed Terry’s expertise on and could have resulted in downtime and further costs had he not intervened.