In February 2014, Scottish Plant & Operators was
born out of a realisation that there was a demand within the industry for recruiting good quality operators and service mechanics. Managing Director Stewart McNeish quickly saw a niche in the marketplace for providing such a service for plant fleet operators, ground works contractors, in fact, any fleet user in the whole spectrum ranging from quarrying to waste handling, demolition and even agricultural contracting. In Scotland specifically, what would you do to
From ‘E’ Media to ‘E’ Machine
From starting out as an advertising platform for recruiting plant operators and mechanics in Scotland, Scottish Plant and Operators has enhanced its profile by growing into a dedicated plant hire company choosing Volvo excavators along the way.
recruit an excavator or dumptruck operator? Probably place an ad in the local gazette or Scottish national press and hope for the best. Stewart McNeish’s vision was to create an online advertising platform using the strength of social media to revolutionise and speed up the recruitment process and so Scottish Plant and Operators was born. Since its inception, the company boasts a total of 81,000 followers on Facebook with this number rising on a daily basis. “We have at least 40 large companies operating a whole range of plant advertising with us on a regular basis,” comments Stewart. “The online adverts are widely viewed and we estimate to have had over 100,000 views so far. There’s a huge demand and this method of recruiting good quality operators and fitters, welders – you name it, is proving very successful,” he continues. An almost immediate by-product for providing this
online service was a demand for providing machines for hire as well. “Our plant hire side was born out of the service we were providing online,” continues Stewart. “Our first excavator was a Volvo fourteen tonner which has proved to be very reliable and we have recently traded out an EC220D for the latest E version. In all, we now have seven excavators, a dozer,
10 THE VOICE MAGAZINE No29 2017
Scottish Plant & Operators’ new recruit the Volvo EC220E lines up with existing EC140D
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