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My name's Fergus Louden and I'm Operations Director of Thomas Tunnock Ltd. I'm in charge
of operations which is mainly production - I decide when we make things, how we make them
etc. I worked for Thomas Tunnock Ltd for nearly
25 years. I was in the motor trade before that and the owners of the garage that I worked
in sold out and I was made redundant so I went to work for Tunnocks on the vans, the
sales vans, I then went from there - there was an opening for distribution and I was
in charge of all the orders, making up all the orders and distributing them out to all
our customers up and down the UK. I have a sales background and I went into
sales, obviously had to learn how the product is made up, all the different elements of
the product and was promoted to Scottish Sales Manager and then two years ago I was asked
to become a director of the firm. Because it's a family business you don't have
any one role. I drive fork-lifts, I sweep floors - you do everything in our place.
It's really on-job training. I mean the likes of today, we all have to have a health and
hygiene certificate. That involves training and we do all that in-house.
Although we have 550 people working for us over three shifts, you're not a number you're
a name - you are an individual and that's one of the key things I enjoy about my job.
Like anybody I have off days but over the peace I enjoy going to my work.
It may sound a little cheesy but if you have a vision grab a hold of it and go for it because
you just never know. If you look around today with the number of
stands and the diversity of the stands that are available today there are definitely opportunities
available.