Ewen McDonald (Managing Director) believes that Muirton Control & Automation staff team are the best in the sector. He asserts that “Muirton’s success is largely down to the combination of talent, skill and loyalty embedded within the company. Every one of our employees is an important and a competent ambassador for Muirton Control and Automation”.
Approaching retirement Ewen began to consider various succession options for the company. Ewen states that “My first priority was to protect the employment of the Muirton Control staff team as most of our employees have been with us since joining as apprentices. The other prime consideration was to ensure that our customers continued to receive expert service and support throughout the duration of any transition. Following much research and contemplation I reached the conclusion that Employee Ownership Trust was the way forward as it would achieve both”.
Ewen continues “Our employees have always played a large part in the success of our company; our apprentices are never far from the top apprentice spot at local colleges indeed in the past they have achieved the top spot at both Moray College and Banff & Buchan College and we have recently won the SELECT top apprentice in Scotland award”. “The development, growth and hard work of our employees has been a significant factor in allowing the company to grow. I feel it is therefore appropriate that the future of Muirton Control & Automation should rest in the hands of these same people rather than any outside third party”.
To that end Muirton Control & Automation Ltd is now wholly owned by an Employee Ownership Trust and the move has received positive feedback from both employees and customers alike.
Ewen plans to slowly reduce his time in the business over the next 5-10 years gradually handing over to the competent management team. Ewen’s email signature now contains the sign off: “My aim is to become purely decorative rather than indispensable” !