McGill owner confident of 100-strong workforce, one year on from administration
429 people were made redundant on February 1 2019
Bosses at Dundee contractor McGill are confident they'll soon be able to employ over a hundred staff.
Tomorrow marks one year since over 400 workers were made redundant when the firm collapsed into administration.
It was taken over by Catalus Energy Investments three weeks later.
Owner Graeme Carling believes the company's on the mend.
"We're now up to around 70 staff directly employed by McGill on various contracts," he said.
"That's office based staff and operatives out in the field delivering on some of the contacts.
"Certainly in the next six months we'll be up at over 100 staff, that's based on the workload and the contracts that we're bidding for.
"I don't think we'll get beyond 200 ever. That is a manageable amount that in my mind is a good number."
Around half of the current workforce was part of the company before it fell into administration.
That includes Billy Robertson who works in the security team.
"I worked for McGill for 27 years previous to it going bust. Finding yourself redundant and not knowing what you're going to do next is a strange feeling,"
"There was a feeling that something was round the corner but you just didn't know what.
"You hear a lot of these things that people are interested but nothing usually comes of it."
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