Stabicraft Marine’s Sean McColl recently celebrated 30 years of service with the Invercargill-based aluminium boat builder.
Stabicraft is New Zealand’s largest manufacturer of aluminium boats with dealers around the country and a growing export market to Australia and the Pacific, North America, and Europe.
Twenty-three-year-old Sean started with Stabicraft back in 1995 when it was still a relatively small company. He started in an admin and logistics role – founder Paul Adams was still on the workshop floor welding boats – and missed the Hutchwilco New Zealand Boat Show that year, left behind to mind the shop. But he reckons he’s hardly missed one since and can’t even guess how many boat shows in total he has attended in the last 30 years.
As the company grew, Sean moved into sales and dealer support. In recent years, as Stabicraft Marine has morphed into a truly global company, his duties expanded to also include supporting Stabicraft’s overseas dealers, with more overseas travel and plenty of online meetings and digital communications with the company’s overseas partners.
Sean’s job title today is Dealer Relationship Manager – Adventure Engineer, because Stabicraft boats are all about the adventure, and Sean hasn’t finished his yet.
Mixing relationship building with adventure suits Sean just fine, so he’s in no hurry to go anywhere else. His son Sam started a boatbuilding apprenticeship with Stabicraft almost to the day his father celebrated 30 years with the company, so it must be in the blood!
Congratulations, Sean, on 30 years with Stabicraft Marine.
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