Hi, I’m Tracy Davey, I’m the Stores Manager and Maintenance Controller at Hartlebury. I am also a First Aider, Fire Marshal and Mobile plant champion. I’ve worked for Wienerberger UK & Ireland for almost 8 years. I joined the business as Stores Manager at Hartlebury when it was re-commissioned in 2014 after being mothballed in 2008 due to the recession. I’d like to share my career journey with you.
How I got started
Prior to joining Wienerberger UK & Ireland, my experience was in retail working for Aldi, Matalan and Lidl working my way up from store assistant to department and store manager. It was exciting times being involved in new store openings, members only concept stores and no barcodes or scanners!
In June 2016 when I moved into my current role of Maintenance Controller I was over-seeing the department as there was no maintenance manager at site. Although that changed in August 2018, when we recruited a Maintenance Manager, I still have a great deal of involvement with the department today and my role hasn’t really changed.
Why I chose the construction industry and Wienerberger UK & Ireland
Being local to the area I had heard by word of mouth the H2 site was being re-commissioned and it looked like an exciting new challenge. In addition, I was turning 40 and wanted more settled hours than retail could offer. Having researched the company it was clear they were developing into different areas and were well established not just in the brick industry; I had always had a strong focus on budgets / KPI’s / audits etc. coming from the retail environment and hoped this would stand me in good stead for a stores role with Wienerberger, and it did!