53North are pleased to announce the arrival of Deborah Bird to the team as our office manager. Deborah joined the team in January and brings with her a wealth of experience along with a drive for improvement. We are very excited to welcome her into a new role for the business. We asked Deborah to introduce herself and this is what she had to say;
53North had a great time at this year’s CBM conference in Manchester. At the event our own Keith Smith (53 North’s head of Asset Management Services) spoke about real world maintenance change implementation and what the leadership requirements are needed for its success. In this post we ask Keith to share with you what he presented, to see why this is important and to see how you can improve the success rate of maintenance change programmes.
53North are delighted to sponsor Worksop Town FC under 14’s away kit after their recent promotion to the Sheffield & district Junior league “A” division.
It’s great to be able to support grassroots football and we wish the boys every success going forward.
53North are delighted to announce the addition of two new trainee engineering analysts to our expanding team.
Abbie Malton – Abbie joins 53North Group after gaining her degree in Physics and Astro-physics at York University, a local girl from Oldcotes, North Notts, she has a keen interest in engineering and wishes to further her knowledge by getting hands on experience with our wide variety of customers in their numerous facets of the Food and Drink industry.
Ryan Amps – Ryan joins 53North Group post University, after gaining his degree in Mechanical Engineering from Sheffield Hallam. A home-grown Sheffield lad with a deep desire to push himself further in engineering at every opportunity.
53North are excited to welcome you both to the Team
Never being a Company that passes up the opportunity to assist a worthy cause, 53North accepted the invitation to play in the FSH Muscular Dystrophy Charity Golf Day at the prestigious Lindrick Golf Club, in South Yorkshire. The whole day’s event was organised and corralled with expert ease by Mark Fowles, the Managing Director of Nottingham City Transport and his wife Natalie, both whom we must thank for a wonderful day.
53North Group are proud to announce that they have renewed their Safecontractor accreditation. 53North are committed to providing excellence in health and safety and this latest achievement represents an important milestone in our continued efforts to deliver the very best service for our clients.
Safecontractor is one of the fastest growing health and safety assessment schemes in the UK. Accredited contractors can use the Safecontractor logo as a means of demonstrating their level of health and safety compliance to clients and potential clients.
This Summer was a major milestone in 53North Groups history as we reached over 53,000 hours without a Lost Time Accident; this is a record we are incredibly proud of.
The safety of our team is of the upmost importance as we want everyone in our team to go home safe’ at the end of the working day.
Tom Clayton (Managing Director) commented ‘It is amazing to go over 6 years and 6 months without a lost time accident, particularly when you consider the team are working within an engineering and manufacturing environment. I am really proud of this achievement and the whole team that work together to achieve it’.
53North Group are proud to announce that we have recently passed our ISO 9001:2015 certification following a thorough auditing process from ACM Ltd.
The ISO 9001 standard is a collection of management principles designed to ensure that our organisation’s quality management systems meet the needs of our customers and workforce.
The ISO certification means our quality and management systems together with our Health and Safety procedures have all hit the standard required to be ISO certified. For our customers, this means consistency in our levels of quality, service and operation on-site.
Director Keith Smith commented “Quality is one of our six principles and we are fully committed to ensuring our systems provide accuracy, assurance and support to all of our customers. Chris Wragg and the team have done a fantastic job in passing this audit and I know they are continually looking to improve our internal processes and systems to maintain our certification in the future.”
The winner of this quarters award is Aaron Lees, Congratulations Aaron!!!
Aaron has won for his conscientious and committed attitude to doing good work. Aaron has supported the team when required, been flexible with work requirements wherever possible and demonstrated a willingness to go that extra mile. Congratulations Aaron
At 53North we hold a Quarterly Contribution Award to recognise the hard work, support and dedication of our team members. The winner is chosen by the management team taking into account feedback from both customers and their colleagues. We ask everyone in our team to remain observant and to pass on the good, conscientious work that our colleagues are undertaking on behalf of our customers, which only enriches and enhances the reputation of 53North.
We look for individuals who have excelled in;
The winner of the Award receives a weekend away for 2 in the city of their choice in the UK. Enjoy your weekend Aaron!
Team 53North have had an incredible weekend raising £2000 for Children with Cancer. The team completed the 100km Peak district challenge, which is a tough figure 8 route through Derbyshire’s finest scenery. At that distance it really is an Ultra Challenge. The team have been training hard over the last few months and was rewarded with 14th place in their category. Andy and Tom had this to say about the weekend “A special thanks must go out to the organisers and all of the brilliant support staff, without whom events like these couldn’t happen. Last but by no means least, a massive thank you to all who helped to raise the sum for such a worthy cause”
Well Done team!!
