From M&S Bank to Qualified VDA Ed Mawdsley joined the Laird family in June last year from M&S where he was dealing their PPI claims. Prior to that he was travelling around Europe as a Mechanic for race teams. Since joining Laird he has gone from strength to strength learning the business, building relationships with…
What can we say about our annual Ski Trip! This was the fourth year we have all packed up our winter warmers and headed off to snowier climes and it is safe to say that it was by far the biggest and the best yet. On Thursday 25th February 22 of us packed onto the…
So today is National Employee Appreciation Day and we wanted to do something a little different here. We always talk about how our staff make our company and we are like a family here so it’s very important to us to recognise this day. Yesterday all our Managers wrote individual cards to each of their…
As far as we are aware we have recently completed the UK’s longest Locus Report. Instructed by a long-standing Principal, the Locus report took place in Walton, Liverpool and included: 43 pages in total 5 sketch plans (usually 3) 56 images 4 video recordings As the accident took place during the night, we completed 2…
We have always been focussed on hiring apprentices and giving them the opportunity to develop their skills through a proper training plan giving the them the opportunity to have a long career if they choose that path with Laird. Michael joined us in November 2015 as an Administration apprentice within the In-House Engineering team. We…
At the beginning of February we introduced a 6 hour working day within our In-House Engineering team. This came off the back of our Engineering Manager, Lee Baty, watching the ITV tonight show Shirkers or Workers? The premise of the show and the theory is that working less hours will increase the productivity of staff…
Laird have been participating in the Rainbow Trust Children’s Charity Wear It Red day for the last 3 years and this year was no exception. We donned our red outfits and baked our cakes in order to do our bit for such an incredibly important charity. We were lucky enough to hear a speech by…
Awards time! We’d like to say a huge congratulations to Kayleigh who joined us just over 3 months ago in our Logistics team. She fitted in immediately and is part of the family already! Aron, our Logistics Manager, set-up a little award ceremony for her probationary period completion! She has surpassed her KPI’s regularly and…
Following on from ITV’s programme ‘Workers or Shirkers’, and the dramatic increase in productivity seen by those firms implementing a 6 hour working day – Laird have decided to trial something similar within 2 departments. “Productivity expert, Graham Allcott is the the founder of Think Productive, and author of the best-selling book ‘How to be a…
We recently sent out a survey to see how engaged and happy our staff are working here. We pride ourselves on being a fun and flexible place to work with various different schemes put in place to ensure our staff are happy but it’s always good to hear it form the horses mouth! The results,…