Culture

Fostering a High Performing Team

At Avocet, our fundamental belief centers on fostering a collaborative team approach to achieving successful project delivery. We firmly uphold a set of core values that not only bind us together but also serve as our guiding principles, ensuring that every member rows in the same direction.

These values are the compass that guides us, helping us navigate challenges and opportunities as we collectively row in the same direction.

Cultural Pillars

Inspirational

The management teams mission is to create a culture whereby team members can thrive and grow. We believe that one of the strongest pulls to drive excellence is inspiration.

Every person who has been employed by Avocet has come through a rigorous selection program in order to find those with the potential to succeed in our organisation. We aim to push our team towards achieving their potential in whichever area they choose.

We aim to inspire our team members every day they come to work through the challenges that are set. Often we ask team members to complete tasks that are outside of their comfort zones; we believe that our team members will always swim when in a sink or swim scenario!

Customer Focused

Avocet Materials Group are at heart a customer service focused organisation. The company has a growth mindset and aims to ensure our clients are happy first time every time. We on behalf of our clients and colleagues expect:

That our products & services meet an agreed quality standard.
That our products and services meet the timeframes agreed.
That our products & services deliver on the features / specifications.
That our staff are friendly, courteous and always go the extra mile for our customers

Accountability

Our team are an accountable team, and every individual has their own part to play in the delivery of services.

Each of our team members have clear roles and responsibilities but also have the freedom to be proactive and take the initiative which helps us achieve excellence on a daily basis.

Caring

Avocet are a family owned and family focused company.

We care about our team and their family commitments and our employment terms reflect this with flexible home working, good holiday allowance and the opportunity to travel.

The company supports numerous local grass roots sports teams as well as local charities and regularly volunteer in the local community.

We take an active role in reducing our impact on the environment through our sustainability goals, and in turn we expect our team members to take pride in their work, their team and their company.

Quality Driven

Quality is free as Philip Crosby famously said in his book by the same name.

In order to ensure we can be proud of what we achieve we must understand and test the parameters that matter so as to ensure that our clients expectations are met in advance, first time and every time.

Quality is a multi stakeholder process and one which each and every person has a part to play in. Delivering the right spec on time requires our entire team to do their bit in the process.

Agile

The Avocet Group’s head count has grown over 300% in 3 years and in order to maintain this growth it is important we remain agile.

Agility in business means that priorities can change rapidly due to changes in circumstances. Our team understand and accept this is the nature of this business and thrive off constant new challenges.

Being able to respond rapidly to changes in our environment is one of our super powers!

Certificates

We are proud to have been awarded ISO 9001 certification, an internationally recognised standard that ensures services meet the needs of clients through an effective quality management system. Our decision to work towards ISO 9001 accreditation demonstrates our commitment to providing a high-quality and consistent service to our clients and our ongoing investment in technology, development and processes and procedures.

You can download a copy of our ISO 9001 : 2005 certificate here.
You can download a copy of our ISO 14001 : 2005 certificate here.
You can download a copy of our ISO 45001 : 2018 certificate here.