Portering Team – Estates Services

Mark Cusack, Mathew Grimes, Stuart Leckenby, William Smith, Ian Douglas, Tony Devlin, Robert Craig

Without a doubt they are one of the hardest working teams in the University, regularly working behind the scenes over weekends and holidays to ensure the smooth running of exams, graduations, central pool room set-ups, town & gown events, registration & conferences. moves, events, graduations and deliveries are completed successfully.

Each one of them has to remain completely people oriented every minute of the day as their customers are the entire University of Strathclyde community.

They also help develop innovative ways to recycle transport waste & chemicals in accordance with The European Agreement on International Carriage of Dangerous Goods while complying with operational health & safety procedures related in particular to manual handling regulations.

There is a continuously high level of demand on this extremely busy team while meeting the heavy operational demands of core University business, ie the exam diet, graduations & business critical high profile events.

Their hard work and professionalism is regularly evidenced in the high volume of positive customer feedback they receive.