Tell us about your highlights as Managing Director/Operation Manager.
The thing I enjoy the most is helping and watching others grow. Seeing an employee strive and enjoy their work life is one of the best highlights for me. Also, watching the business go from where it started to where it is now, two young lads that just wanted to work for themselves, to then grow the business to where we have now, is a dream.
Did you always want to own your own company? What other careers did you consider?
It was always a goal of mine to work for myself. I never knew what I wanted to do, but being my own boss was a life goal. I enjoyed everything I had done in life up to where I was, and to be honest, traffic management never crossed my mind. But once I fell into it, I could see there was a demand.
Tell us about your career to date. What were you doing before you formed South Coast Traffic Management?
I started my career doing air conditioning through a family friend and worked my way up to becoming an air conditioning engineer. This role taught me time management and meeting customer demands. We would often have to be in and out of office buildings before the staff would come in and leave the place like it was untouched. Due to the recession, I had to be let go due to work drying up.
I then fell into fitting fire sprinkler systems. I went in to help a friend for a few days due to his fitter walking out, and he was waiting for someone to start a week later. After working with him for three days and him realising how quickly I was picking it all up, he offered me the job. I then worked my way up the ranks to becoming a fitter myself.
This role taught me how to deal with problem-solving and work as a team with the trades around me, so we could all complete our work alongside each other. Due to personal reasons, I had to move on. I was starting a family, and I chose to move to Poole to be closer to my partner, who was expecting our boy.
When I moved to Poole, I found it hard to find work doing anything I had previously done. So, I took on a new challenge and started from the bottom again. I took a job doing diamond drilling and sawing. Everything I had learned in my previous roles helped me rise through the ranks very fast. My quick thinking, attention to detail and problem-solving helped me get to the top of this trade in no time at all. But due to a new opportunity that I couldn’t turn down working with a family member, I made the decision to move on.
Now, I have started my journey into traffic management. I worked alongside my cousin Joe, who is more like my brother. He had made the leap and started up his own company. He moved down to Poole to be closer to me. Working alongside my best friend and doing my best to help him succeed in his new challenge. Joe then gave me the opportunity to become a business partner with him, and BANG South Coast Traffic Management was born. This brought happiness to my work life I had never felt before.
What are three things we should know about the team?
- Standards. The industry needed higher standards which I knew we are raising; the team are determined to better the industry to be the best.
- Determination. The team have got a can-do attitude, with no job too big or too small.
- Teamwork. Our team works as a unit; if someone needs help, there is always someone to lend a hand.
What challenges do your clients face, and how does the team respond?
There can be a lot of challenges our clients come across; however, our team offer a service rivalled by none. Any challenges that arise, we are always there to find a way to resolve them. The way our team works is that nothing is impossible. There is always a solution, and our team will work with the client to come up with the best solution to get past this and get the job complete.
How would you describe South Coast Traffic Management?
Champion’s League winners
What advice would you give to someone considering a career in traffic management?
GO FOR IT. You never know where it’ll take you.
