The People at Scotwood
Allan J Scott
Founder Chairman
Allan J. Scott founded the business in 1964 and is well known within the industry. The company was originally based in Busby and over the years operated a popular D.I.Y. Centre and Business Centre. In May 1988 due to the expansion of the partitioning side of the company it relocated to East Kilbride. Allan was previously with the Clydesdale Bank for 17 years as a Bank Accountant.
Allan retired as Chairman of Scotwood at the end of December 2000 when Douglas and Jim carried out a Management Buy Out.
Douglas Kerr
Joint Managing Director
After graduating from Strathclyde University BA (Honours) in Business Administration (Specialist Subject : Marketing). Douglas worked in the hotel sector for 4 years as a Sales Manager. Douglas joined Scotwood in 1989 and has contributed significantly to the improved control and direction of the company.
His responsibilities include Sales and Estimating and Financial Control.
James A Scott
Joint Managing Director
Jim joined the company in 1987 after 3 years in the Insurance Business as a Management Trainee. He has worked in different departments of the company to gain wide experience in the operational functions. Appointed a Director in January 1993.
Jim, like Douglas, is involved in Sales and Estimating and also oversees the Contracts Department.
John Taylor
Contracts Director
John Taylor joined SCOTWOOD in 1985 as a joiner and has worked his way through the ranks to become recently appointed Contracts Director. He has excellent experience in running contracts up to the value of £1,500,000. John oversees all Scotwood’s contracts and is in charge of a department which includes over 20 qualified tradesmen.
Through John’s experience, planning ability and eye for quality, we ensure that Scotwood maintain our customers and gain much repeat business.
Andy Ashton
Contracts Manager
Andy joined Scotwood in 1997 as a time served joiner. He quickly worked his way to Site Supervisor at the Motorola, East Kilbride, plant where he looked after a team of up to 8 joiners and an annual turnover of above £250,000. His duties on site include estimating and site management liaising with the client. Andy was recently promoted to Contracts Manager where he now has a large amount of contracts to manage on a day to day basis all over Scotland.
His responsibilities are ensuring projects run smoothly to the clients’ time scales and to the agreed budget.
Willie McLardie
Technical Sales Manager
Willie has been a member of Scotwood’s Management Team for over 30 years. His experience in the past has included being resident Site Supervisor at Motorola in East Kilbride. There he was responsible for successfully carrying out refurbishment and relocation of interior works (and some exterior work), within an existing working plant environment, requiring extremely detailed planning and execution to ensure all works were completed in sequence and on time, within tight programmes and with the absolute minimum inconvenience and disruption to the client.
Another significant contract with which Willie was involved was the Burn Stewart Distillers
contract in East Kilbride (value in excess of £450,000), completed within 3 months, to
clients’ entire satisfaction. This was a multi-trade contract and was the first project that
Scotwood worked under the CDM Regulations.
Terry Fox
Contracts Supervisor
Terry is the newest member of our Contracts Team, having joined Scotwood in 2008 after running his own home improvements company for 10 years. Terry has a sound knowledge of the construction industry. Before home improvements he worked for various shopfitting companies such as Dollar Rae and Europa. He has contract managed several projects including the City Building kitchen refurbishments as part of the Glasgow Regeneration Programme.
His duties now include supervision of many sites, including milti trade projects.
Graham Scott
Buyer
Graham joined Scotwood in 1991 and quickly showed his enthusiasm and drive to earn promotion within the company. He was promoted to his current position as Company Buyer in 1993. During this time he has undertaken various courses, including the CIPS at Central College of Commerce in Glasgow.
He has a key role within the Contracts Team and ensures the smooth day to day running of contracts. He is responsible for all Material and Subcontract orders, Transport and Plant issues, to give the needed back up the Contracts Managers to ensure projects are completed on time and efficiently.
Anne Warren
Anne joined Scotwood in 1994 as Office Manageress and, coming from a training background, brought a sound knowledge of Administration and IT to Scotwood.
She was instrumental in introducing and overseeing a new computerised system to the company. Anne’s new key roles include PR ,Marketing, Web design and CDM manuals for completed projects.
Shirley Smith
Shirley first started with Scotwood in 1997 as a part-time credit controller. She went full-time in 1998 and was instrumental in bringing the accounts in-house. She left briefly but returned in 2001 and her primary role now is dealing with all account ledgers, weekly and monthly payroll, cash flow and legislation changes within the construction industry.
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