Operated Plant Hire Manager
Flannery Plant Hire
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My name’s Neil, and I’m the operated plant manager at P. Flannery Plant Hire.
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We’re based in Wembley, which is West London.
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We specialise as a company in supplying various
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different types of machines to construction sites across the country.
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This can be rollers, dump trucks, excavator diggers,
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JCBs, bulldozers.
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Me along with my team,
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we’re responsible for ensuring all the operated hires,
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basically, have an operator on them. Any excavator that goes out on hire
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we’ll have to recruit the right operator for the right machine.
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And that could be
in a summer’s day,
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you could be looking at 100 operators, which gets busy.
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But it’s a challenge which is enjoyable.
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Persuasion is key. A lot of operators work for different companies.
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During the summer months, especially,
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we want them to come on board with us.
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So persuading them and showing them the benefits of what
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it will be like working for us, it’s all fundamental.
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Confidence – you have to be confident.
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We speak to hundreds of people on a daily basis.
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I loved school
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and not necessarily for the purposes I should be there for, which is education.
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I loved it in the sense of I loved socialising.
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I loved being with my friends.
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For me, it was the fun factor, like I was that person
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if you get a reference off any of my teachers, they’ll say
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he would not stop talking.
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He’ll be in a corner, just yap, yap, yap.
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That’s what I was like.
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And I’ve utilised that in sort of in what I do now.
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Like the job involves talking to people
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so I’ve sort of made it into a career.
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A-levels I done business and media. I moved on to university, which was up north, so up in Hull.
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I initially started off with business management,
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so moved over to accounting and finance, which in all honesty,
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I lasted about six months.
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I can’t see myself after university is done sitting in an office doing accounts.
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I left university after about a year and a half.
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My parents weren’t best pleased with it. Sat at home for probably about a month or two
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and I just tried to evaluate and see what I actually wanted to do.
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Then I entered the world of recruitment.
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So I started off in recruitment, supplying trades and labour staff
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nationwide, not as big as I’m doing now, but smaller scale, but it was still recruitment.
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From then I moved on
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to another recruitment company which was a peg up and
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it’s something I loved doing.
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I just loved doing it.
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And then I got a call once from Flannery’s asking me to come in for an interview.
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Came in for an interview and I got offered a job.
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You don’t want to have that feeling of
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dismay, like, I don’t want to go to work today.
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I wake up right now, I got to work. I’m happy.
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Jump out of bed, I’m a very morning person.
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If I was an accountant, I wouldn’t have been a morning person.
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I would have been just, it’s just paying the bills.
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The advice I’d have is don’t look at what anyone else is doing.
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Just focus on yourself and I guess just work hard.
Neil loved the social side of school and was always chatting. “The job involves talking to people so I’ve sort of made it into a career.”
After switching courses at university and then dropping out, he found his feet in recruitment.
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