My journey at ECGC, a learning experience – Harold Allen

Working with the Eastern Caribbean Group of Companies (ECGC) has been a learning experience for Harold Adolphus Allen.

Allen has been with the company for 39 years and has worked his way up from a storekeeper in the maintenance department to the position of assistant senior miller at the feed mill on ECGC’s Campden Park compound.

Allen marked his 39-year milestone last November and he says his journey has been an uplifting one, as he moved from maintenance to a scale operator in the feed mill, to a miller.

He recalls that after he became a feed miller, he was given the opportunity to supervise the warehouse in the feed mill; then he went on to the rice mill, where he was an assistant for a year, after which he went back to the feed mill, where he supervised the mill warehouse and is currently stationed.

“I do more clerical work, plan, production, supervise the warehouse, distribution and manage personnel,” said Allen, who noted that, in the feed mill, the employees have developed a relationship and therefore work as a team.

“Things have changed somewhat over the years, but on the job, you focus on your duty and I think that it is important to have good relationships with people, because that can propel the work,” said Allen.

The miller thanks the ECGC for allowing him to better himself and achieve certain things.

“I have acquired a home; it was a learning experience for me and over the period I have learnt a number of things technically. I am grateful to ECGC for the training that I got in different areas, and that knowledge I have used it to help others,” said Allen, who has about three years before he is 65.

“I still enjoy doing my job, because it helps me as an individual and with dealing with people. The job itself, I would be eternally grateful to ECGC, because it is the only place I work in my life and that is a great milestone.”

Allen is responsible for supervising 16 persons.