Staff Interview Name Mark Waters Job title HR Business Partner Department/Division Human Resources Date of joining CLC 9th November 2020 Based I split my week between the Walsall and Oldbury offices Previous Experience What were you doing immediately before this recent new title? My previous role was HR Manager North providing full generalist HR support to the Midlands/Northern divisions of CLC as well as CLC’s Response Maintenance division and the Transmissions Division based out of the Leeds Office. With my new role I’ve added the Axis sites at Oldbury and Liverpool. Previous/earlier work experience in your career you wish to highlight? I’ve worked in a variety of sectors starting with the Royal Mail, Oil & Gas production with Marathon Oil, Financial services with Groupama Insurance, Business Gas supply with Corona Energy
and Plant Hire with A Plant (who are now Sunbelt). Always in HR, and one thing doesn’t change, the infinite variety of challenges and great opportunities be part of the growth and enhancing careers that working with people brings.
Future Plans for the merged business in outline? The new HR system, People XD, will enhance the HR service across the group enabling the team to focus on supporting the growth plans for the company and delivering on the career aspirations for all our people. It’s in development now so look out for updates when the system will be live.
How will your plans improve our business? Moving away from administering day to day changes and being a reactive team towards being a proactive service supporting management, function specialists and tradespeople to achieve the growth of the business and career plans of our team that will embed the HR function in the future success of the group. Any challenges you would like to share? Whilst new systems and ways of working are developed we are still dealing with the normal day to day administration, ER caseload, contributing to the planned changes whilst moving towards the new operating model so the whole team is very busy.