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PROUD SPONSOR OF DOORS & WINDOWS DOORS&WINDOWS YOUNG EMPLOYEE OF THE YEAR IS ‘HUGE ASSET’ TO SYSTEMS GIANT » » VEKA UK GROUP’S TRAINEE Operations Manager, Khaleel Mahmood, has been named joint winner of the Young Employee of the Year Award at the prestigious Burnley Business Awards 2019. VEKA UK Group was shortlisted for in an impressive four awards, including ‘Manufacturing Excellence’, ‘Employer of the Year’, ‘Burnley Business of the Year’ and ‘Young Employee of the Year’ which hardworking Khaleel scooped on the night. ‘above and beyond’ in every task. Khaleel’s The trophy was presented in recognition first project saw him lead a team in carbon of the valuable contribution Khaleel has fibre wrapping concrete beams within the made to the industry-leading PVCu systems supplier since he joined in 2017 at a ceremony technically advanced mixing plant. He was organised by Burnley Council and the Burnley responsible for managing his team safely and effectively and for managing a budget Bondholder Brand Scheme, in the beautiful of £200,000. After a stint in the packaging surroundings of Towneley Hall. department, where Khaleel and the team had The Lancashire manufacturer is no stranger a backlog of around 150-200 pallets with a to these Awards having, in recent years, been named ‘Business of the Year’ twice in a row, and combined value of £280,000 cleared in under three months; Khaleel then spent four months ‘Employer of the Year’ at the last BBA event. on shifts in the lamination department where Operations Director Paul Armstrong he acted as Interim Production Unit Leader said: “VEKA UK Group is a major Burnley during the restructure of three teams. employer and we were delighted to be “These experiences led Khaleel to his shortlisted in so many categories at the current role as Graduate Trainee in Operations Business Awards; it’s always a pleasure to be Management. He’s proven himself to be recognised for continuing hard work, and capable, intelligent and efficient in a way that being shortlisted in four such varied categories makes him a pleasure to work with and a huge shows that ours is a well-rounded company, as asset to the business; displaying VEKA values committed to staff training and development at all times.” as we are to manufacturing excellence. “Khaleel’s award was very well deserved; www.vekauk.com since joining us, he has consistently gone 65490 - PremierRoofSystems - QUTR.pdf 1 07/11/2017 14:58:36 D E S I G N // M A N U F A C T U R E // D E L I V E R Y Start the week with Clearzine. • Every Monday. • Delivered to 14,000 industry emails. • Your weekly news portal. • Mobile-optimised. Your customers, your news... 0191 455 8866 0191 447 6618 [email protected] Mon-Thu 8:00-16:30 Friday 8:00-15:15 // R O O F L A N T E R N S C M Y CM MY // C O N S E R V A T O R Y R O O F S CY CMY K www.premierroofsystems.co.uk TECHNICAL SUPPORT FREE NATIONWIDE DELIVERY QUICK QUOTE TURNAROUND Unit 8 Tyne Point Industrial Estate, Shaftesbury Avenue, Jarrow, NE32 3UP PREMIER ROOF SYSTEMS LIMITED // Company No. 07584655 // VAT No. GB109652217 Tel: [phone] C L E A RV I E W-U K . C O M » AU G 2019 » 39