THE Edinburgh Boiler Company (EBC) has promoted Conor Maguire to the role of operations director in preparation for a year of ‘substantial’ growth.
He steps up from his position as installations manager, having originally joined the business in January 2022 as a gas engineer.
As a member of EBC’s first air source heat pump team, Conor Maguire helped the firm transition into renewables, while he also ran the team responsible for the one-day heating installations as part of the Scottish Government’s Warmworks framework focusing on low-carbon heating and energy efficiency as part of the Heat in Buildings Scotland National Scheme.
“This role means a lot and shows me how much I have developed since joining,” he said. “To have come in as a gas engineer and now be at director level is something I’m very proud of. I am very fortunate to be able to learn from the bosses Mark Glasgow and Dougie Bell. I can’t think of any better mentors and am determined to repay their faith.
“When I came here, it was a big change for me as I’d left a mechanical supervisor job with Fife Council. I hadn’t planned to stay for too long – it was going to be more of a stop-gap measure until I found something I really wanted to do – but the more I got to know the team, we all became more like a family and that’s what makes it such a good place to work; there is a real strong bond between us.
“I intend to keep driving everyone forward, maintain the company ethos and ensure it’s the same place I started with four years ago. We have some big targets to hit this year and I’ll be doing my best to ensure we reach them.”
The promotion comes a matter of months after Rick Bull was promoted to sales director, with MD Dougie Bell believing the appointments put the business in a good position to meet its turnover target of £20 million this year.
“With the rate of growth we are experiencing, and where we expect to be in 12 months’ time, moving Conor up into the operations role made sense,” he said. “He has grown into the business, is good with the customers and has developed superbly. When I stepped up from operations director to MD two years ago with Mark becoming chairman, we never backfilled the role.
“This now positions us well and allows me more capacity to focus on growing the company and hitting the targets we have set for the coming year and beyond. With Rick Bull now sales director having built up the solar side of the business, I believe we are in a really good place at the moment.”
