PROCON - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Sales and Marketing Manager
- Sales Manager
Dave is a Sales Manager with approaching 40 years' experience working in the Industrial Weighing and Process Control industry. Hard working and energetic, Dave leads a team of sales engineers to provide turnkey solutions for a diverse range of manufacturing industries. Knowledgeable at all levels of process engineering and able to interpret customer requirements to ensure the best technical solution is realised, Dave communicates effectively at Board level or direct with Engineering teams to develop weighing and process control applications for enhancing plant performance and reliability.
Dave has an exceptional appreciation of plant process requirements with many years hands-on experience in the role of Project Manager for Procon, managing all technical and commercial aspects for projects up to £2M in demanding industries such a Nuclear, Petrochemicals, Chemical, and Food & Drinks.
Dave is a keen fisherman and enjoys representing his local club in Match Fishing competitions. He enjoys the outside life and is a keen fell walker and caravanner.
Job Titles:
- General and Technical Manager
Mark holds BSc and PhD degrees in Electronic Engineering from the University of Kent. He has extensive experience in the design and development of electronic instrumentation and specialised transducers together with manufacturing processes, quality assurance and legal metrology. He has also worked for many years in the development of safety critical systems for the nuclear industry, and more recently digital signal processing techniques for boiler leak detection systems. Mark has been with the company for 35 years, and was previously Engineering & Technical Manager at Procon Engineering, before being appointed Technical and General Manager in 2017. Outside working hours, he enjoys country rambling and pubs with real ale!
Nick joined Procon Engineering to take on the role of Service Manager which was created in response to the continuing growth of the Service Division.
He has brought a wealth of experience, in particular working with beltweighers and weighbridges, having worked in the weigh industry all his working life. He started as a Trainee Engineer at Salter Industrial and following its takeover by Weigh-Tronix, became Service Manager. In 2001 he joined Precia Molen UK as Field Service Manager which included spells working overseas, before joining Procon in July 2017 to manage the service team and all day-to-day planning and scheduling.
Job Titles:
- Field Service and Contracts Manager
After graduating from Nottingham Trent University in 1985 with an HND in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Steve joined the test department at GEC in Kidsgrove, repairing AC & DC drives and the GEM 80 range of plc's. Four years later he joined Davy McKee in Sheffield as a Service Engineer, working on rolling mill control systems and weighing automation. This work often took him overseas, a role which continued after he joined Novaweigh in 1992 as a Senior Service Engineer in industrial weighing and process control, working in the UK, Western Europe, Russia and the Far East.
He moved to Procon Engineering in 2002 when there were just six in the service team. Soon afterwards Procon seized the opportunity to diversify and Steve's knowledge of instrumentation enabled the company to expand its services from weighing-only, into temperature probes, flow meters, pressure gauges and other equipment. Nowadays Procon has 16 service engineers and offers a ‘Total Site Solution'. Following the retirement of Rod Massey in 2020 after 36 years running the service team, Steve was appointed Senior Supervisor Field Service and Contracts Manager.
A keen sports fan who used to play football, and occasionally plays golf, Steve's main interest is now cycling and fell walking (he did the Three Peaks Challenge in 2013 on his 50th birthday!) from his caravan in the Lake District.