Author: Robin Roberts

Bridgend Engine Plant (BEP) makes working for Ford as family friendly as possible. In fact, its efforts to integrate working life with family life has been recognised in the Chairman’s Leadership Awards for Diversity. The management team at BEP was singled out for the way it has developed policies over the last few years which allow production staff to share duties and about 20 employees have Flexible Working Arrangements. The BEP programme has evolved to provide flexible working arrangements in almost every department in the plant and Neil Davis, assistant plant manager, said he was delighted they had won the award.…

A multi-million pound three-storey state-of-art paint shop is nearing completion and engineers have started installing assembly lines, fitting out offices and preparing customer areas as well as constructing a dynamic assessment test track including an ‘active hill’. The 90 acres site started life as a series of £100M Ministry of Defence Super-Hangars and over two years is being completely transformed into one of the world’s most advanced luxury car plants. With the unveiling of Aston Martin Lagonda’s first DBX SUV scheduled for the last quarter of 2019, work is progressing apace to complete the new St Athan production facility. Nearly 200…