Meet our 2025 Annual Awards Winners
We would like to extend our thanks to everyone who supported our dinner this year and to our guests in attendance last night. If the last few years have taught us anything it’s that our industry is truly remarkable, and with another successful sold out awards dinner under our belt, we want to say thank you and express how much we appreciate the effort and support shown for our awards each year.
Massive congratulations to our 2025 Award Winners. The excellence demonstrated by our winning companies and young engineers is truly a testament to the strength of talent within our industry. The energy and enthusiasm displayed by all of our winners never fails to fill us with optimism for the future of engineering in Scotland.
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Our 2025 Winners
2025 Scottish Engineering Company of The Year Award – Whittaker Engineering
The Scottish Engineering Company of the Year Award 2025 was awarded to Whittaker Engineering. Established in 1983 in Stonehaven the company’s roots are in the UK North Sea & Global Energy Sector, with a recent transition into renewable projects. Murray Whittaker, Director of Projects commented: “Whittaker are delighted to have been awarded the prestigious Scottish Engineering Company of the Year Award for 2025, this means a great deal to all of us at the company. This award is ultimately down to the hard work and dedication of all our staff for their commitment and loyalty to the business over the past 42 years. We would like to thank Scottish Engineering for this accolade”.
2025 Scottish Engineering President’s Award – Alex Begg Group
The 2025 President’s Award was presented to Alex Begg Group in Ayr. Barbara Birnie, Chief People Officer said: “It is a tremendous recognition of the dedication, craftsmanship and manufacturing excellence that Alex Begg Group prides itself on. The award reflects the collective effort by the full Alex Begg Group team and the beautiful luxury products that we make every day”.
2025 Engineering Excellence Award – Had-Fab Limited
The 2025 Engineering Excellence Award was awarded to Had-Fab Limited. Gregg Scott, Managing Director at Had Fab Limited said: “On behalf of everyone at Had Fab Limited, we are honoured to accept the 2025 Scottish Engineering Excellence Award. This recognition is a testament to the hard work, dedication, and innovation of our entire team. We are proud to contribute to Scotland’s engineering legacy through sustainable practices, advanced fabrication, and unwavering commitment to quality. Thank you to Scottish Engineering for this prestigious honour—we share it with our valued partners and clients who continue to support our journey”.
2025 Manufacturing Excellence Award – Bruntons Aero Products Ltd
The 2025 Manufacturing Excellence Award was awarded to Bruntons Aero Products Ltd. Alan Hook, Managing Director said “Our company will celebrate its 150th anniversary in 2026, with roots in aviation going back to 1909. Over the years we’ve adapted through numerous challenges—most recently, the sudden 50% market drop during COVID. In today’s uncertain climate of global conflicts and tariffs we’ve proactively expanded both our product range and geographic reach to ensure long-term resilience. Sales have grown by 135% in the last 3 years, with 75% now exported. Backed by more than a century of expertise, we’re proud to be recognised for manufacturing excellence and excited for what the next 150 years will bring”.
2025 Business Transformation Award – Brodie Engineering Ltd
The 2025 Business Transformation Award was presented to Brodie Engineering Ltd. Gerry Hilferty, CEO stated, “Brodie Engineering Ltd are privileged and honoured to be chosen for such a prestigious award. This achievement exemplifies the expansion of our company over recent years, the increasing investment in our young people, including graduate and artisan apprenticeships and student placements from local education. Added to that is our complete commitment to our social values within the local community and beyond. The foregoing greatly assists in positioning our company at the forefront of rolling stock engineering solutions, providing our staff with an exceptional place to work and our customers with a first-class service offering”.
2025 Sustainable Excellence Award – VWS Westgarth
The 2025 Sustainable Excellence Award was awarded to VWS Westgarth. Victoria Kinchington, Head of HR said “On behalf of VWS Westgarth, we are deeply honoured to accept this prestigious sustainability award from Scottish Engineering. This recognition truly belongs to our entire exceptional team, whose unwavering dedication, innovative capabilities, and collaborative spirit have made this achievement possible. Our people’s commitment to sustainable solutions and engineering excellence continues to drive our success. This award reflects not just individual contributions, but the collective expertise and determination of everyone at VWS Westgarth. Thank you to Scottish Engineering for this recognition, and most importantly, thank you to our outstanding team members”.
2025 Innovation Excellence Award – Malin Group
The 2025 Innovation Excellence Award was awarded to Malin Group. John MacSween, Managing Director said “Malin’s mission is to deliver the best client support possible by building innovatively on the values and experience of our heritage – so it is with great pride that we accept this Innovation award. It is a concept that underpins all that we do – from new partnerships and ways of working, to research of new modes and methods, including robotics, additive manufacturing and the creation of a marine technology hub on the Clyde. We are very proud of our team and hope their efforts encourage others to join the industry, collaborate and encourage best practice and innovative thinking“.
2025 Skills Excellence Award – Martin Precision
The 2025 Skills Excellence Award was presented to Martin Precision. William Martin, Managing Director said “Martin Precision are delighted to accept the Scottish Engineering – Skills Excellence Award 2025. We have always had a tradition of recruiting locally and training to the highest standard that the apprentice can achieve. Our aim is to engage with local schools and the wider community to educate Martin Precision on the needs of the community. We are a great advocate of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) education and devote time and effort in the local primary and secondary schools in this endeavour”.
2025 Young Engineer of the Year Award (YEYA25) in partnership with The Incorporation of Hammermen of Glasgow – Zak Thomson of Emtelle
Our 2025 Young Engineer of the Year Award (YEYA25) in partnership with The Incorporation of Hammermen of Glasgow was presented to Zak Thomson of Emtelle for his role in developing a cable and machine allowing installation companies to install fibre drop cable distances up to three times longer than previously seen using their own battery drill – the solution is now being rolled out across the world.
2025 Runner Up for Young Engineer of the Year Award (YEYA25) in partnership with The Incorporation of Hammermen of Glasgow – Robyn Heslin Dewar of Thales UK
2025 Commendations for Young Engineer of the Year Award (YEYA25) in partnership with The Incorporation of Hammermen of Glasgow – Steven Scobbie of Oil States Industries (UK) Ltd and Rachael Crowe of PEAK Scientific
Andrew Young, on behalf of The Incorporation of Hammermen of Glasgow quoted, “Once again, the calibre of young engineers participating in the competition was exceptionally impressive. Their outstanding presentations demonstrated a remarkable depth of engineering talent, of which Scotland can be justifiably proud. Determining a winner among such a high standard of entries was a considerable challenge, but in Zak Thomson of Emtelle, we have a worthy winner. Zak’s project started by seeking to meet a customer request for a solution that did not exist at the time of asking, and he went on to design a low-cost method which is now subject of a patent application and under evaluation adoption by clients all over the world. Alongside Zak, all our finalists, should be proud of their outstanding achievements and they are a true inspiration to Scottish engineers, young and not so young.”
2025 Engineering Graduate Apprentice of the Year Award – Nairn Moffat – Torishima
The 2025 Engineering Graduate Apprentice of the Year was presented to Nairn Moffat of Torishima for his role in designing and developing the module design for sub-sea desalination
2025 Runner Up for Engineering Graduate Apprentice of the Year Award – Angus MacInnes – Thales
The runner up trophy was awarded to Angus MacInnes of Thales, for his involvement in the design of a complex laser product research and design project.
2025 Modern Apprentice of the Year Award – Katie Wallace – Hydrasun
The 2025 Engineering Modern Apprentice of the Year was presented to Katie Wallace of Hydrasun for aspiring to be one of the best CNC Machinists within her company and in doing so, finding that engineering can be the path for wider success in her life
2025 Runner Up for Modern Apprentice of the Year Award – Carys Anderson – Rautomead
The runner up trophy was awarded to Carys Anderson of Rautomead for volunteering to take on a new challenge and going on to take the lead in the organisation’s new CNC programming and teaching her newfound knowledge to her colleagues.
2025 Runner Up for Modern Apprentice of the Year Award – Lewis MacPherson – Rolls Royce
Our runner-up for Modern Apprentice Engineer of the Year Award is Lewis MacPherson of Rolls Royce for putting himself forward for any opportunities available to broaden his skills, knowledge, and experience. Lewis has even become Mental Health Champion and now supports his fellow apprentices.
This year’s images are available to purchase should you wish through this online gallery. We’d like to extend our thanks to our fantastic photographer Guy Hinks for his work last night. The password to access the online gallery is “hilton”. Thank you.
A huge thank you to our event sponsors
