Employee returns to work two days after retirement
A Tarmac employee has returned to work just two days after retiring. Bernie Higgins retired from his job as coating plant supervisor at Tarmac’s Bayston Hill quarry earlier this year after 40 years service but returned after two days to take up the a new job as Tarmac’s first ever biodiversity officer.
Bernie has had a passion for ecology since he was fifteen years old and is well known locally as a wildlife and ecology expert.
Bernie said: “ I originally joined Tarmac in 1966 as a lorry driver and went on to become CAT driver then coating plant supervisor, but it’s fair to say my current job is the one I like best. I am responsible for recording all the wildlife, flora and fauna at Tarmac’s quarries in Wales and Shropshire as part of the company’s biodiversity action plan (BAP) programme. This involves recording everything from dormice to peregrine falcons, badgers to butterflies, barn owls to otters and every single shrub, tree, and flower present at every site.
Huw Evans, quarry manager at Tarmac’s Bayston Hill Quarry said: “given Bernie’s lifelong interest in ecology and experience of working with the local Wildlife Trust, it was only natural when we came to employ our first ever biodiversity officer that Bernie should take over the role. Bernie is unique in that he already knows the nature of our work and most of the staff so he is invaluable to the business.”
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17 July 2008