Following in his father’s footsteps, Sean Russell has completed his first year working for MIS Fuel Monitoring as a post graduate management trainee. As well as learning the ropes, Sean has made an important contribution by helping the company to implement improved business management processes.
“Apart from work experience this is my first full time employment and I was happy to start on the shop floor and get a good understanding of the products and the Merridale business process,” says Sean.
“It has been an interesting time and I have learned how important it is to balance inventory with production schedules in order to control costs and maximise profitability.”
From cost accounting, Sean has turned his attention to marketing by helping to staff the Merridale stand at the Eurobus exhibition, where he was able to get a feel for the industry sector and meet some the Merridale customers and business associates.
“It has been a fascinating 12 months so far and I have certainly been able to apply skills and knowledge acquired from my studies into the practical realities of a small batch manufacturing engineering business,” says Sean.
Since 2018, JPB have been using Merridale’s MX-I to refuel, monitor and keep track of their extensive fuel use and large fleet of vehicles, having previously used only receipts and hand-written accounts of transactions to stay up-to-date. Built to be the complete solution in commercial fuelling and designed to meet strict ATEX standards, the MX-I […]
Having an unusual problem of one of the locations being highly remote and without power meant that this job was slightly different to Merridale’s standard installations but none-the-less, they were able to find the solution quickly and provide a temporary self-sufficient system. Marcus, who leads operations for the internet provider said “We needed a temporary […]
With Merridale’s own range now available, as well as still supplying Gilbarco with fuel management units, the marketplace had the choice of buying either a complete Merridale built package or a Gilbarco built version of the same management system. However, over the decades that followed, Merridale enhanced its product range by introducing true twin units, […]
