Stacy joined Parkol in March 2021 after 11 years at Boulby Mine working as a Buyer, then moving into the Planning Department. Wanting a new challenge, Stacy was given the opportunity of Project Co-ordinator role at Parkol. Stacy’s previous experience, her proactive approach to Project work plus some additional training soon led to a managerial position – Buyer & Project Manager.

Following a long career as a nurse in the NHS and at a private nursing home, Jo experienced some major mid-life changes and decided to do something drastically different. She chose to train in a new profession – accountancy – and took on various accounting jobs in the Middlesbrough area.
Jo came to Parkol in summer 2017 as our accounts administrator and hasn’t looked back.

Before joining Parkol in November 2021, John worked for another family run Whitby business – Wilf Noble’s Building Supplies as a kitchen designer / counter sales operator. At Parkol John looks after our Whitby site, keeping Stores in order, dealing with deliveries and staff requests, monitoring stock levels and ordering materials.

Originally from Murmansk – the home of a large seaport in northwest Russia, Olga always felt at home in a busy port environment. Following a career in the legal sector, Olga moved to the UK and started again, mostly working in hospitality in Whitby and Scarborough area. Olga’s passion for administrative and HR work, and her experience as an administrator brought her to Parkol and she joined our team as an Office Administrator in June 2020. Olga helps Sally with projects paperwork and arrangements, administrates payroll and focuses her work on HR matters as well as general office duties.

Whitby born and bred, Matthew was self-employed for years as a local joiner, plasterer, painter & decorator. Starting with a part-time job as a painter at Parkol in 2014, Matthew quickly progressed to more complex fabrication work and is now overseeing operations on our Whitby yard. He is also a hog roast expert!

Having retired from a 22-years long career in the army in 2009, and after working as a coach driver for a while, Geoff joined Parkol in 2018 as a Storeman. His experience of working in accounting and also in stores and equipment in the forces helped Geoff with his role, which then transformed into his current role looking after Health & Safety and equipment on our both sites.

Stefie moved to England in 2013, following her training in Romania and Virginia, USA in economics and business administration in the hospitality industry. She worked for several years in the hospitality sector and was helping Parkol with communication between the Company and our Romanian workers before joining Parkol in August 2021 as an Office Administrator. While helping Jo with accounts, Stefie has discovered her passion for numbers and recently started her apprenticeship as an Assistant Accountant.

Stefan joined Parkol in 2018 as an experienced marine joiner / carpenter and made many skippers very happy with the quality of joinery finish on their new vessels since. From May 2022 Stefan has been leading a team of joiners on our Whitby site.

Samuel began his career at Parkol as an apprentice in 2014 and over the next few years he completed his apprenticeship and became a qualified welder. By 2019 Samuel progressed to the role of Welding Chargehand. Alongside general welding his other duties include weld inspection, maintaining and repairing welding equipment and advising the other welders which areas of the boat should be welded and the correct method of doing so.