Project Coordinator

Alistair has been in the dairy industry for over 25 years, starting out as an installation and service engineer for conventional milking equipment before moving across to robotic milking over 10 years ago.
Alistair is renowned for having excellent relations with his customers and has developed strong connections with all associated contractors (electrical, plumbing, building, civil engineers, architects etc.). Alistair is fully converse with current CDM 2015 building regulations and is both RIDBA and MEA qualified.
Joe has been involved in agriculture and dairy farming from a young age having grown up on a dairy farm before becoming a herdsman. More recently he worked in agricultural sales, managing an established local agricultural merchant.
Joe brings a broad knowledge and understanding of the dairy sector and different farming systems to the project coordination team and has a particular interest in cow flow and movement. He enjoys working on different projects to see how Lely can best support the farmer in achieving their goals and needs for both the farmer and the cows.
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The team work tirelessly assessing farm buildings on how they can be adapted or how new buildings can be built with cow welfare and flow in mind. So that when you make the decision to move to robotics your shed allow cows to be as stress free as possible and allows free cow traffic.
The team have lots of experienced contacts in shed building, electrics and so on. However, the team also understand farmers may have trusted people in these areas and enjoy colaborating to achieve the best shed design for the cows and farmer.
The team are on hand to help farmers through start up with any issues that may arise, to give training on the day and to talk through the tool box that includes small items that can be maintained and fixed by farmers to ensure logevity of the Machinery. This is the final step for the project coordinator and where they had you over to the Farm Management Support team.