Meet The Key Team Members
Roger
Group Managing Director
What do you do on your average day at Granta?
Work on management and company strategy, providing mentoring for management staff and technical consultancy to our engineers.
What makes you continue to work at Granta?
It’s my baby, I have always been fascinated by automation and I love sharing my passion to help others achieve.
What is the main benefit you feel you can bring to Granta customers?
A team of dedicated, experienced, highly capable, practical, hands-on engineers to reliably solve their tricky automation problems.
What was your biggest success at Granta?
Stepping back and letting the next generation make it fly!
Derek
General Manager
What do you do on your average day at Granta?
I work on business strategy and improvements, and assist our team leaders with challenges and improvements. I also work closely alongside the sales and marketing teams supporting them as necessary.
What makes you continue to work at Granta?
Having a great team to work with and a passion for automation. I'm also passionate about helping companies grow and achieve with automation.
What is the main benefit you feel you can bring to Granta customers?
Continue building the structure and culture of the company so we always bring our customers the best, both in customer support and technology.
What was your biggest success at Granta?
Building a brand and team culture that has become known and trusted at the forefront of the UK automation industry.
John
Director
What do you do on your average day at Granta?
Visit customers to look at their potential needs for automation and then work back at the office with the engineers to come up with beneficial automation solutions for these customers.
What makes you continue to work at Granta?
Great place to work. A brilliant team spirit pervades this highly talented group of people.
What is the main benefit you feel you can bring to Granta customers?
I have a good few years of experience in designing and working with factory automation systems. From hands on install of equipment and wiring of control panels as soon as I started work (lots of years ago!) through to developing large multi robot systems for large manufacturers, I’ve seen a fair variety of situations and solutions.
What was your biggest success at Granta?
Can’t pinpoint it to one particular event. It feels great when you hear a satisfied customer reporting back on the benefits of their new automation system we have provided. – That feels like success!
Jonathan
Finance Manager
What do you do on your average day at Granta?
Build solid financial relationships for the future. Drink Coffee.
What makes you continue to work at Granta?
Awesome place to work! Good coffee too..
What is the main benefit you feel you can bring to Granta customers?
None whatsoever! Im the guy who (politely) requests payment so customers don’t like talking to me. Suppliers, on the other hand are always very keen to speak...
What was your biggest success at Granta?
Improving transparency for the management team through much faster financial reporting.
Andrea
Marketing
What do you do on your average day at Granta?
Work hard to make sure that no-one misses out on the opportunity to achieve with automation by creating and sharing useful content on our website and across our social media channels.
What makes you continue to work at Granta?
It’s the only job where you can help your customers to continually achieve. A win, win situation.
What is the main benefit you feel you can bring to Granta customers?
The power to achieve with automation – enabling our clients to reach their goals.
What was your biggest success at Granta?
Creating the World’s first automation payback and finance calculator that gives our clients crystal clear data they can base their business decisions on.
Matt
Sales
What do you do on your average day at Granta?
My days vary from being in the office writing up proposals and assisting clients with the initial stages of their automation requirements, through to being out on the road visiting new and existing clients.
What makes you continue to work at Granta?
Being part of a forward thinking team that has no growth boundaries.
What is the main benefit you feel you can bring to Granta customers?
Having the ability to connect our clients with the some of the top consultative engineering expertise in the UK. I am also very passionate about giving our clients an outstanding customer journey, from the initial enquiry, right through to the completion of the project and support thereafter.
What was your biggest success at Granta?
Bringing in multiple orders and working with the team to help build the stepping stones for Granta being known and trusted at the forefront of the UK’s automation industry.
Mark
Sales
What do you do on your average day at Granta?
A combination of sales and engineering based activities. I’m also responsible for the safety and compliance of the equipment we ship.
What makes you continue to work at Granta?
We have a good team, we’re forward thinking and we’re working in an industry that is growing fast.
What is the main benefit you feel you can bring to Granta customers?
There is a lot of information about digitalisation and automation systems out there. I can help you distil it down to the bits that are relevant to you if you’re struggling to parse it all.
What was your biggest success at Granta?
I’ve worked in the engineering department for several years and helped set up a lot of the systems and engineering standards. It’s nice to see the guys delivering projects on the basis of what we learned via our continuous review and improvement methodology.
Karen
Sales and Marketing Assistant
What do you do on your average day at Granta?
My average day is reaching out to businesses that have a manufacturing line to establish if automation and automated palletising would work for them. I then arrange meetings and keep our data up to date and fresh.
What makes you continue to work at Granta?
Learning a new industry is always exciting, I have only worked for Granta for a short time and still have so much more to learn about automation.
What is the main benefit you feel you can bring to Granta customers?
My many years of experience in customer service and customer care.
What was your biggest success at Granta?
Being able to reach the decision makers to drive more business and enquiries to Granta.
Joseph
Operations Manager
What do you do on your average day at Granta?
Managing the projects and the engineers working on them to ensure that customer expectations are met in terms of project scope and delivery expectations. I also spend about half my time on operational development to continuously improve our processes and productivity.
What makes you continue to work at Granta?
There is a great team culture and every day brings a new challenge to solve and another opportunity to improve through automation.
What is the main benefit you feel you can bring to Granta customers?
Reliable communication link between the customers’ expectations and bringing these expectations into reality.
What was your biggest success at Granta?
The biggest success was developing and introducing a project management system to give visibility and accountability around every detail of every projects carried out here.
Edward
Automation Engineering Team Support
What do you do on your average day at Granta?
There are no average days! My role is centred on operations, basically getting things done. Whether it be purchasing, goods in, parts despatch, overseeing the workshop and parts store, preparing & printing presentations for the sales team or chasing suppliers for deliveries, no two of my days are identical. My varied daily tasks and challenges make life interesting. However, one thing never changes: tea!
What makes you continue to work at Granta?
Great people, great team, great culture, it’s a great place to be where successes are shared across the company and where a sense of humour is absolutely essential! Providing for my special other half and 3 little mouths is also a constant incentive to get out of bed each morning.
What is the main benefit you feel you can bring to Granta customers?
Are there any average customers? Direct benefit to any customers from my role is rather obscure and probably amounts to avoiding or finding solutions to problems because even a small missing component or part could let a customer down if their project is delayed.
What was your biggest success at Granta?
Focusing on my current job role has meant more personal alignment with the mission and vision of the whole team
Justin
Automation Engineer - Electrical and Mechanical Design, Programming and Installation Specialist
What do you do on your average day at Granta?
Depending on the work package, from start to finish research and development, design mechanical, electrical and final install.
What makes you continue to work at Granta?
Every day brings something different, no one day is ever the same, and the company and staff are great to work with.
What is the main benefit you feel you can bring to Granta customers?
Quality, experience and willingness to finish the project in hand.
What was your biggest success at Granta?
Learning structured text, breaking away from ladder.
David
Automation Engineer - Lead Mechanical Innovation and Installation Specialist
What do you do on your average day at Granta?
The work is immensely varied, from building bespoke machinery, integration, installation, brainstorming new ideas and concepts, research, prototyping and experimentation. But of course, there are also some mundane things that must be done, forms to fill in, facilities to maintain, logistics, and procedures to follow.
What makes you continue to work at Granta?
I would like to remain at GRANTA for many reasons. It is about engineering, but also about people. It is about survival, keeping ahead in the game. It is about exploiting technology to achieve a specific result, rather than for its own sake.
What is the main benefit you feel you can bring to Granta customers?
Forty-five years working with materials and engineering. Techniques evolved from our Victorian heritage, but timeless principles still finding a vital place in the current technological revolution.
What was your biggest success at Granta?
I carried out an objective mechanical design review for a client who was developing a complex and challenging pharmaceutical appliance. The client wrote back to Granta afterwards thanking me for being helpful, and very pleased with the professionalism of the advice and subsequent report.
Ryan
Automation Engineer - Electrical and Mechanical Design and Implementation
What do you do on your average day at Granta?
I am usually drawing bespoke machinery or electrical plans on CAD and contacting various suppliers to source the most suitable components for building these projects.
What makes you continue to work at Granta?
There is a helpful and proactive team and environment.
What is the main benefit you feel you can bring to Granta customers?
Creating bespoke automation solutions for the customer with the benefit of the combined experience of the team.
What was your biggest success at Granta?
Making a customer happy by delivering their project on time and on budget.
Philip
Automation Engineer – Mechanical Designer
What do you do on your average day at Granta?
On an average day at Granta, I design and develop bespoke automation equipment.
What makes you continue to work at Granta?
The helpful friendly atmosphere. Also I like problem solving, so have a job that enables me find solutions to unique problems is great.
What is the main benefit you feel you can bring to Granta customers?
Out the box solutions that are innovative.
What was your biggest success at Granta?
As a newbie to Granta, mine is yet to come.
Tamas
Automation Engineer - Electrical Design and Programming
What do you do on your average day at Granta?
Inventing solutions, overcoming problems every day.
What makes you continue to work at Granta?
The opportunity to constantly improve myself, the friendly and professional work environment.
What is the main benefit you feel you can bring to Granta customers?
Constant qualitative work, meeting our customers’ needs.
What was your biggest success at Granta?
I have only just started working at Granta
Juozas
Automation Engineer - Electrical Design and Programming
What do you do on your average day at Granta?
Most of my day is spent programming PLCs, HMIs or doing electrical design. I also help with electrical installation or commissioning, if needed.
What makes you continue to work at Granta?
The company has great work culture and is very innovative and forward thinking. It never gets boring and you get to do great things.
What is the main benefit you feel you can bring to Granta customers?
I have worked in different roles in the automation field, but my main strength is programming. Hopefully, I can create systems that are both flexible and comfortable to use for our customers.
What was your biggest success at Granta?
To date, it is commissioning and startup of a bottling system.