Eight members of staff at Trant have been officially recognised for their contribution to the enduring strength of the Southampton-based engineering and construction company.
They were congratulated in person by chairman Patrick Trant at the firm’s annual long-service awards, attended by 100 colleagues and their partners.
He said: “We are immensely proud of what our long-servers have achieved, by growing the business and consistently delivering for exacting clients in technically demanding sectors which keep Britain working, from oil refineries and water supplies to renewable energy.
“Our blue-chip clients, under eight framework agreements with long-term contracts, benefit from an extensive range of services which include design, project management, process, mechanical and electrical, civil engineering and building.
“The men who we honour today are the backbone of our continued success, ensuring excellence at every level.
“Trant’s staff retention rate is one of the highest in industry – the fact that we have 104 people who have received 25-year awards and four people with 40-year awards stands testament to what we do.”
Recipients of the 40-year awards were Eamonn Flynn, contract director for the petro-chemical sector, and operative Ray Parker.
Receiving 25-year awards were environment manager Simon Williams, foreman Simon Atkins, plant fitter Joseph Fitzpatrick, quantity surveyors Simon Maidment and Tim O’Sullivan and site manager Gary Whitehorn.
Simon Maidment was the 100th person to receive a 25-year award at the company.
Each person was presented with an Omega gold watch at the awards, held at the Best Western Chilworth Manor Hotel, Chilworth, Southampton.
Privately-owned Trant employs 700 people and recently won two national awards for engineering-led projects.
The first was for a £12m reservoir for Southern Water at Hardham – the first of its kind to be built in four decades in West Sussex and providing up to 10m litres of water a day for the county.
The second was the £17.4m contract at Cleve Hill Onshore Substation, London Array Wind Farm. The substation, near Faversham in Kent, will flow energy from the largest offshore wind farm in the world to power 750,000 homes.
