Meet the Team
Brian Scott
Position: Director
Role: Sales
Branch: Christchurch
Background experience:10 Years Engineering Trades experience
44 Years experience selling and servicing engineering machinery and machine tools
Qualifications include:
Fitting and Turning, Trade Certificate, Advance Trade, NZCE (mech), Electrical Certificate
Interests:
Golden Oldies rugby, mountain and road bike riding, hunting and walking
Christian Scott
Position: General Manager
Role: Management, Marketing and CNC Sales
Branch: Christchurch
Background experience:NZCE (mech) specialising in control systems
Trade experience in a large CNC engineering workshop
Maintenance and customer service
Interests:
Outdoors, camping, boating, family and mountain biking
Logan Scott
Position: Auckland Branch Manager
Role: Management, Sales and Supplier Liaisons
Branch: Auckland
Background experience:Logan has been in the machine tool industry all of his life, as the son of the original owner he started his first job cleaning machines at an early age.
Logan returned to New Zealand in 2000 from his OE and worked for several years operating manual and CNC machine tools as well as doing machine tool repairs
Logan started with Scott Machinery in 2004 and moved to Auckland in 2011 to run the Auckland Branch
Interests:
Hunting, motorcycling & brewing
Des Radford
Position: Finance and Inventory Manager
Role at Scott Machinery: Managing the purchase of all stock & indent orders from our overseas suppliers & arranging the importation & finance process.
Branch: Christchurch
Background experience:
Started at SML in 1997 after working at the Finance Dept of the Waimakariri District Council. During this time I attended Christchurch Polytechnic at nights & obtaining a Diploma In Business Studies
Interests:
Softball, rugby, touch rugby and pool
Roger Whinray
Position: Sales Engineer
Role: South Island Sales
Branch: Christchurch
Background experience:
18 years Machining experience
20 years in Engineering related sales including Sandvik
Interests:
Biking, classic cars, vintage tractors, 4WD club trips and lifestyle farming
Darren Johnston
Position: Sales Engineer
Role: South Island Sales
Branch: Christchurch
Background experience:
23 years on tools where I trained several apprentices
6 years experience in sales in Engineering with a diverse range of products
Interests:
Dog agility, sprintcars, speedway, mountain biking and family
Greg Macdonald
Position: Sales Engineer
Role: North Island Sales
Branch: Auckland
Background experience:
Years of experience in engineering and an extensive understanding of CNC machinery
Interests:
Engineering machinery (lol)
Gavin Davies
Role: North Island Sales
Branch: Auckland
Background experience:
Fitting and Turning, Trade and Advanced Trade Certificate
Manual machining, CNC machining and programming
36 years of workshop experience, then moved into machinery sales
Interests:
Squash, running, kayaking, fishing and golf
Craig Thomson
Position: Sales Engineer
Role: Lower South Island Sales
Branch: Dunedin
Background experience:
Started in Engineering Sales 1976
37 Years Experience
Interests:
Sports, rugby, golf, racing, beer, cars (vintage + classic) and water sports
Annabelle Scott
Role: General Accounts and Administration Management
Branch: Christchurch
Background experience:Currently studying towards a Bachelor of Commerce: Management and International Business
Interests:
Water sports, family, friends and hairdressing
Jürgen Biggelaar
Role: Parts and Stores and customer services
Background Experience:
30 years experience with customer service
Previous technical roles with installation, repair and diagnosis
Experience as a hydraulic service technician
Specialises in small specilaised tools through to rams, hydraulic torque wrenches and tensioning solutions
Interests:
Ham radio operating, creating DJ decks, music, friends and technology
Jeff Scott
Position: Workshop Manager
Role: Managing the machinery department, purchasing, assessing machinery, customer service/sales and freight and of course making videos.
Branch: Christchurch
Background experience:
Thirteen years working as an A-Grade Automotive Engineer, ten years working as a Technician for a polytechnic institute.
Interests:
Family, friends and the outdoors
Jeff Savage
Role: Installation, training and Service on Scott Machinery’s NC and CNC and conventional machines.
Branch: Christchurch
Background experience:
Precision machining and machine maintenance
Interests:
Cycling and travel
Neilsen Alcantara
Role: CNC, NC and conventional new and used machine servicing
Branch: Christchurch
Background Experience:
6 years as a maintenance technician in the Philippines
2 years as a CNC operator
Qualified overhead crane operator, CNC programmer
Interests:
Mountain biking, hiking, camping, travelling and trying different kinds of restaurants
Albert Caraan
Role: CNC, NC and conventional new and used machine servicing
Branch: Christchurch
Background Experience:
Years experience in preventive, periodic and breakdown machine maintenance
Interests:
Mountain biking, travelling and fishing