Let’s Talk Mental Health!

More than ever, given unprecedented home working & social restrictions, Lintott understands the necessity to show care & always consider mental health & wellbeing. 

Lintott has developed a team of Mental Health First Aiders, Mental Health Champions & RSPH Workplace Health Champions available to support colleagues during the period.  All have been externally trained & are subsequently equipped to support colleagues or provide advice for any family members.  For more information please contact the Business Assurance Team (via businessassurance@lintottcs.co.uk) or visit: https://www.mind.org.uk/information-support/coronavirus-and-your-wellbeing/.

Another on time dispatch!

Lintott Control Systems is continuing to support its clients maintain & develop critical infrastructure for water treatment during these unprecedented times. 

Last week the Company enacted its Business Continuity Plan.  Operating as per Government policy, the Plan places the highest emphasis on the welfare of all stakeholders whilst providing ongoing business operations.  This includes homeworking, split operations for factory-based personnel (with social distancing & heightened hygiene controls) & critical site works (in line with clients’ strict controls).  This provides customers with a largely uninterrupted level of service & response: evidenced by this week’s dispatch of a factory-built fully-packaged UV system for Severn Trent (Halam BPS project – pictured herein).

Environmental Excellence!

The Company’s Environmental Policy continues to set environmental targets & objectives designed to improve the Company’s environmental performance & identify & prevent any pollution resulting from the Company’s operations, products or services. This includes the minimisation of waste generated by its operations & the implementation of strategies that promote waste re-use, recovery & recycling where appropriate.

Did you know the Company’s waste disposal figures reduced by 21% in 2019 (including a 13% reduction in waste to landfill) compared to 2018?! Also overall operational carbon emissions have reduced by 7% year-on-year (based on a 6 year compound rate reduction)!

Pioneering Online Productivity

Did you know that Lintott’s pioneering online productivity tools enable design & projects to proceed via dramatically heightened collaboration & condensed lead-times? This includes Lintott’s Queen’s Awards for Enterprise winning MCC & Control System web-based design platform, Lin-finity Builder. This is just one component of Lintott’s digital ecosystem; integral to the Company’s strategy of ‘making-life-easier-to-do-business’ & fuels the advancement of an integrated digital community.

Want to know more – we hope so! Please email media@lintottcs.co.uk

Coronavirus: Service Level Update

Based on the coronavirus pandemic, Lintott Control Systems Limited has subsequently enacted its Business Continuity Plan.  In doing so, this directly seeks to:

• ensure the utmost priority is applied to the wellbeing of all stakeholders;
• continually provide clients with products & services with minimal disruption;
• be in a fit & agile position to rapidly respond to client needs following the worst of the outbreak & a period of stabilisation.

As a digitally integrated process solutions provider, the Company has highly developed systems, which facilitate remote working across all PC / Office-based business operations.  In addition, the Company has robust mitigating measures for Production, Test & Site Service functions.  As a result, the Company is currently operating normally, with client & partner-facing personnel being contactable via the normal channels (i.e. no change to telephone & mobile numbers, as well as email).  

The Company is committed during the period to strive to provide the best level of service possible & it will continue to monitor the situation to the best of its ability as circumstances evolve.  Further information will be provided & the Company is greatly appreciative of your understanding during this unprecedented period. 

A detailed Service Level Summary has been prepared.  To receive a copy or for any clarification, please email: Anna Hinson, Business Assurance Manager via ahinson@lintottcs.co.uk or Deb Scott, Business Assurance Officer via dscott@lintottcs.co.uk.

Purposeful Volunteering

A team of 6 Lintott colleagues (pictured above left to right: Josh Blowers; Jamie Thums; Deb Scott; Elaine Woodrow; Nicholas Rice; & Dave Crouch) delivered an assortment of food & toiletries (donated by Lintott employees) to Norwich Foodbank. The team also spent the morning helping to pick & prepare food parcels. Lintott COO, Jamie Thums posted (on social media) that it “was a sobering reminder that too many people are locked in poverty” & he praised the “amazing” work of The Trussell Trust & supporters.

Lintott is steadfast in its objectives to have a positive impact in the community & on creating a lasting legacy.  Since the launch of the Company’s Community Engagement Programme (2015) over 315 community events have been undertaken (equating to 167 days). To learn more, please contact media@lintottcs.co.uk.

Lintott showcases “Lean” expertise

Once again, Lintott’s People Manager, Ellie Woodrow, was delighted to host a cohort of engineering undergraduates from West Suffolk College [“WCS”]. The visit was organised by WSC teaching staff to provide students with a real-life implementation & experience of change management & successful Lean transition.

The visit began with Lintott COO, Jamie Thums, providing a detailed presentation of the Company’s change journey. This included an overview of how Lean-based (continuous improvement) tools have been deployed & championed by Lintott’s workforce. Jamie also discussed how the Company’s digitisation strategy, which fuses products, processes, people & places, sought to differentiate the Company & importantly, provide its client’s with an Industry-leading solution. The event concluded with a tour of the facility as well as a questions & answers session.

Following the visit, West Suffolk College Lecturer, Alex Elliot, commented; “The students found it to be highly valuable and Jamie’s presentation was particularly convincing, contextualising much of their theoretical delivery. A very valuable engagement for us and we are very grateful for the opportunity and ongoing support over the last 3 years, thank you.”

To discover more, please contact ewoodrow@lintottcs.co.uk.

World Engineering Day!

Lintott is celebrating World Engineering Day for Sustainable Development. Spanning over 40 years, the Company is proud to have served Industry – providing a range of high-quality sustainable solutions across a developing portfolio of products & services. These seek to reduce environmental impacts & whole life costs, & ‘fuse’ products, processes, people & places. Sustainable outcomes include, but are not limited to: significantly reduced design time; improved safety; enhanced process integration & equipment up-time; & reduced carbon.

Lintott has a highly trained team of technicians & engineers; 45% of whom are qualified to Level 4 (HNC) or above. The Company is celebrating this expertise, that of all engineering professionals & the engineering sector in this UNESCO international day of homage. But is doesn’t stop there: underpinning the need to breed more budding technicians & engineers, 13% of Lintott’s workforce are currently apprentice or trainee level.

To discover more about World Engineering Day visit: https://worldengineeringday.net/about-wed/

Outstanding Team Performance & Recognition!

On a recent scheme for Thames Water, Lintott Control Systems provided a system upgrade replacing an existing Orthophosphoric Acid Dosing System. This involved utilising Lintott’s temporary dosing system whilst the existing system was decommissioned and the new dosing arrangement installed and commissioned over 5 different sites.

Martin Tooley, Lead Project Engineer for Thames Water praised the Lintott Engineering, Manufacturing and Site team, stating – “As a team they worked exceptional well and ensured that the projects were delivered safely, professionally, to the highest standard, on time and come hell or high water”

Lintott’s Director of Engineering, Andy Whilding commented – “This is excellent feedback – it is always great when customers take time out to praise good work.”

100% clean sweep again, but the hard work goes…

The Achilles UVDB auditing process involves a rigorous external inspection of an organisations Management System (that is how the entity conducts its operations & collaborates with the supply community) & an ‘Onsite Assessment’ (which assesses local procedures & practices).  Both elements involve a detailed assessment against key criteria against the headlines of Quality, Health & Safety, Environment, & Corporate Social Responsibility).  Lintott is delighted, for the second consecutive year & the fourth occasion in its history, to score 100% in each criterion part.

UVDB (Utilities Vendor DataBase) is the Utility Industry’s pre-qualification system, used by procuring organisations to monitor & maintain standards.  For Lintott’s valued clients, this serves as key peace of mind.  For Lintott, the exercise is an essential component of its value-adding benchmarking & continuous improvement programme.

The hard work continues….