Meet the team at Corby
We’re pleased to introduce some team members at our Corby plant. From left to right we have David Prattis, Lisa Sutton, Daren Stevens, Anna Stocks, Bob Preston, Heather Elmore and John Frankland.
Find out more about the team below:
David Prattis joined Premier Galvanizing Corby as General Manager in September 2019. He has over 30 years’ experience in Steel and Aluminium Coil Coating, supplying product into the Construction and Leisure Industries. Before joining Premier Galvanizing, he spent 10 years as Plant Manager for an International Coil Coating Company based in the UK and The Netherlands.
Lisa Sutton is the Corby Office Manager. She is a long-standing member of the team, having worked for the company for 14 years, ensuring the smooth operation of all business administration.
Daren Stevens has been with Premier Galvanizing since it originally opened in September 2002 as an experienced Operative. He previously worked with Bob Preston (below) at Clark Steel. Working his way up from Shift Supervisor, he became Works Supervisor, then Galvanizing Manager. He was promoted to Operations Manager last year. Having worked at the plant for many years, Daren has expert knowledge in running a busy galvanizing plant.
Our Corby plant operates eight dedicated lorries to service customers’ needs giving a fast turnaround of typically 2-3 days. As Operations Manager, Daren also ensures these collections and deliveries run smoothly.
Anna Stocks is the Financial Controller for Premier Galvanizing and operates across two plants (Corby and Hull). She is a valuable member of the team and has worked for the company since 2016.
Bob Preston has a wealth of experience in galvanizing, having worked in the industry since 1972. Throughout his career, Bob has progressed through the galvanizing business from Shift Operative, to Works Manager, to Production Manager and onto his current position as Production Director. In this role Bob supports all other members of the customer focused team in delivering an exceptional all-round service.
Heather Elmore is experienced in administration, bookkeeping and credit control. She has worked with the Corby team for over three years providing much needed assistance in the office.
John Frankland joined Premier Galvanizing in September last year as Sales Manager. John is new to the galvanizing industry and has a background in Capital Equipment Sales to the manufacturing and metal fabrication sectors. John works at our Corby plant providing hot dip galvanizing services from Mansfield and Nottingham in the north, following the A1, M1 and M11 routes down through the country and covering the north half of London from Essex in the East through to Berkshire in the West.
The entire Corby team take pride in delivering an unbeatable service in terms of quality, turnaround and doing exactly what they promise. If you have any questions or queries, or if you’d like to place an order, please get in touch with them.
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It’s always good to put a face to a name… With this in mind we thought we’d introduce some of the team at Premier Galvanizing Hull.
From left to right we have: Steve East (Production Manager), Conner Harman (Business Support Officer), Alex Camp (General Manager), Chris Young (Commercial Support Officer) and Andrew Tweddle (Commercial Manager).
Steve East, Conner Harman and Chris Young oversee the production and transport side of the operation at Hull. Always willing and able to assist with any collection and delivery needs, keeping customers up to date with the progress of their work. The team are available from 5am to 5pm Monday to Friday and can be reached on 01482 587587.
Alex Camp – General Manager
Alex has worked for Premier Galvanizing for over 12 years and has a wealth of knowledge in hot dip galvanizing. He always takes service to the next level and ensures that all customers are at the heart of the business. Most recently he has been overseeing a significant overhaul of the plant including the installation of new automated systems to further the growth and efficiency of Premier Galvanizing Hull. Alex is available to assist with any technical queries and quotes.
Andrew Tweddle – Commercial Manager
For any enquiries or quotes for hot dip galvanizing work, or for any technical questions, contact Andrew on 07776 592008. Andrew is out and about visiting customers on a daily basis ensuring service levels are at their best and customers are happy with the work we produce for them.
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Congratulations to the runners and riders of the Velo Birmingham.
A couple of weekends ago the inaugural Velo Birmingham took place in the Midlands.
The course was 100 miles long and 15,000 cyclists of all abilities took part, criss-crossing through the picturesque Worcestershire and Staffordshire countryside before returning to Birmingham.
The event – which raised funds for various charities – was also created as part of the Birmingham Cycle Revolution, whereby Birmingham City Council are trying to encourage more people to take to the roads on two wheels, rather than four.
As per an earlier story on our website in March, we’re proud to say that team members from Premier Galvanizing and the Joseph Ash Group, including Stuart Cobourne and Richard Hall, took part in the race. They enjoyed the event and achieved very respectable times between 5.30 and 7.11 hours.
A Premier Galvanizing client, Stephen Harvey, also took part.
Congratulations to the team!
You can see some of the photos of our team members at the event here.
Here’s to the Velo Birmingham 2018!
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We love a good news story! So what better news is there than being proud to offer new career prospects to people in Hull?
With the year starting off as busy as the last finished, we have decided to bring in additional reinforcements to ensure we can continue to cope with demand and continue to provide our high levels of hot dip galvanizing services and quality control to each of our clients.
We put great emphasis on the training and development of our people so our new team members immersed themselves into our highly detailed and structured training programme which ensures that regardless of the specific role they have been employed to undertake – they will also learn and develop skills in all areas of our galvanizing production processes.
Strengthening our team ensures that our clients experience the very best levels of performance at all times, providing the necessary additional resource we need in the short term, but as we further develop our reach into the business community – it ensures we are able to grow and develop better in the longer term by giving us greater flexibility to deal with our customers needs.
Developing our people…
It’s early days but our new recruits are all showing a keen interest to learn, a willingness to get stuck in and a real desire to succeed. All qualities that mirror our company aims and objectives.
If we can carry on with this momentum then 2014 could be a real year of opportunity!
Looking to develop a career in the Manufacturing industry?
Then why not send us your CV and a covering letter telling us why you think you could help us strengthen our place in the hot dip galvanizing market? – Send all enquiries to
Opportunities@Premier Galvanizing
Unit 25 Stoneferry Business Park
Foster Street
Hull
East Yorkshire
HU8 8BT
As training and development of our people is one of the areas which Premier Galvanizing lays great emphasis on, Steve Sylvester (Production Manager) recently completed a four year degree course in Business Management and Logistics at the University of Hull.
The course, alongside his demanding day job proved testing at times on his social life, however Steve really appreciated the knowledge and experience he has gained at Premier Galvanizing in helping him produce some excellent work in each of the modules which included Business law and ethics, finance, logistics, marketing and human resource management.
“The support the company gave me throughout the four years was invaluable. I am delighted that Premier Galvanizing encouraged me to continue my education as a mature student and thus gaining a business management degree. This will prove invaluable throughout my career.”
Here’s to a bright future for Steve and we look forward to a long and prosperous journey through life!
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Premier Galvanizing recently held a retirement party for loyal employee John Lyell, who set off to enjoy his retirement at the end of December 2013. John, who has worked for Premier Galvanizing at the Hull factory for 14 years was sad to be leaving stating:
“I have thoroughly enjoyed my time working for Premier Galvanizing at both the Hull factory and training new employees at the Corby factory, I have worked alongside some great people, the owners and management team have always treated me fantastically well”.
John will be spending some quality time with his wife Denise, his 3 children and numerous grandchildren.
We wish John a long and happy retirement.
Next pageGalvanizing growth – now that’s what I call TEAMWORK!
Over the past few months we have been very busy on numerous high end hot dip galvanizing projects throughout the country. Two projects in particular were at a crucial stage and simply had to happen with constant overnight turn-around requirements being required.
This has been great from a business perspective but has made us think about the resources we have and how these can be best utilised.
We needed to do this because there was a risk that demand would out strip our ability to supply and this was simply not an option.
Considering we already work 24 hours a day starting at 9pm Sunday and running through until 8pm on a Friday as our basic week we are limited how we can build additional production into our week other than on a weekend.
We have an excellent core of multi-skilled employees who were working additional hours within the basic week, but needed to maximise our production capacity over the weekend periods.
We approached our Corby galvanizing plant to gauge interest in operatives coming to Hull to work over the weekend, working a full day Saturday and Sunday in conjunction with a team of Hull operatives.
Luckily the Corby guys jumped at the chance to come up to Hull.
We have repeated this exercise four times over the last couple of months which has proved to be a complete success and has achieved the following:
- Given us the additional galvanizing production capacity required
- Resulted in us fulfilling our commitment to our galvanizing customers by achieving all customer deadlines.
- Cemented strong working relationships between the two plants
- Created strong working relationships between the two sets of operatives and strong bonds have been formed.
Olympic Flame journey through Sleaford.
Premier Galvanizing’s Technical and Development Director, Robert Mohan, has something to smile about next week. His eldest son, also called Robert, has been selected to carry the Olympic flame on a leg of its journey through Sleaford in Lincolnshire on Wednesday 27th June.
Robert has been a successful athlete from a young age and has concentrated on shot put for the last couple of years since going to Loughborough University where he has just finished his degree in Sports Science. It is not surprising that he has athletics running through his veins, as his parents Robert and Jackie are both keen athletics supporters, coaches and ex-athletes.
Robert (jnr) says “It’s a massive honour and I realise how lucky I am to be selected. I have always loved doing sport and it is such a thrill to think that I will be carrying the torch in my home county of Lincolnshire”.
We wish him the best of luck next week and congratulations on being selected for such an amazing event.
If you would like to find out more about young Robert’s shot put exploits, follow the link to the website that he has recently finished updating. www.robertmohan.com
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Following their commitment to attend the Major Series at Bramham Park Leeds, West Yorkshire on 3 March 2012, the three brave souls from Premier Galvanizing survived everything the Major could throw at them.
There was smoke, swamps to wade through, ditches to climb in and out of, cargo nets to crawl under, hills to summit and waist deep streams to navigate.
There was also the mud to contend with lots and lots of mud. The mud got stickier and deeper as the day went on.
Justin and Alex got away fairly lightly as they both completed the 12k course in under 1 hr 13 minutes, however Alison and her brother who escorted her around the course didnt fair quite so well as can be seen in the photo above.
A great day was had by all on a very challenging course.
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Alison, Gary, Justin, Alex of Premier Galvanizing are taking on the Major Series Challenge of a 10km run through Bramhope Park on 3rd March 2012.
The Premier Galvanizing management team taking part have many years experience in the hot dip galvanizing industry and will be drawing on the teamwork skills to overcome the many obstacles that they will be facing as they battle against the clock.
If the 10km distance wasn’t enough there will be swamps and water to wade through as well as structures to climb over.
To find out more details of what is in store check out there website www.majorseries.com.
You can also visit this link. It’s going to be messy! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXwBQp89GuI&feature=player_embedded
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