A warm UK Docks Marine Services welcome to new starter Richard Cheel who has joined the company as Vessel Manager based at our offices in South Shields.
Richard, pictured here (left) being welcomed aboard by Technical Manager, John Lally, may be new to the company but he's also a veteran.
He is an ex-Royal Navy marine engineering Warrant Officer with over two decades of service to the country under his belt.
UK Dock has always acknowledged the contributions our serving armed forces bring to commercial organisations like ours and many of our team are ex-service personnel.
Richard becomes the 16th member of staff from the Forces, to be based in our North East offices and we also have four people who have direct relations serving in the armed forces.
The company's commitment to the armed forces was recently recognised with a Silver Award under the Defence Employer’s Recognition Scheme.
The scheme recognises individual company's commitments to the Armed Forces Covenant in their business practices.
We're proud to support the UK's Armed Forces at every opportunity but UK Docks also benefits from the knowledge and expertise people like Richard bring to our business.