Employees
Dialog aims to attract and retain the best people by ensuring that all employees receive comprehensive on-the-job formal training, coaching and mentoring. Clear and regular communication is achieved through regular company-wide information sessions, led by the CEO, and every effort is made to keep employees fully aware of company matters that affect them.
We encourage employee feedback at all levels for new ideas to improve business efficiency and performance.
We occasionally make small donations to good causes in the relevant local communities in which we work, based on employee suggestions.
Management systems
Dialog’s management system complies with the Electronics Industry Code of Conduct – EICC code. It is certified to the ISO 9001 international standard as a formal implementation of the code and is committed to implementing and facilitating continuous improvements, and to mitigating operations-related risks. To enable us to comply with all applicable laws, regulations and customer requirements, as required by the code, we also ensure that all our major supply-chain partners are accredited to the same standard.
To ensure that we constantly improve the effectiveness of our management systems, we regularly review and audit internal and supply-chain management systems.
Health and Safety
Dialog considers a safe and healthy working environment to be essential in the maintenance of employees’ morale and in the production of high-quality and innovative products. As a result, we require our major suppliers also to be committed to recognising and ensuring the creation of healthy working environments and safe working conditions. We expect them to provide evidence of suitable controls, safe working procedures, preventative maintenance and general protective measures in their working environments.
When hazards cannot be adequately controlled by these means alone, suitable protective clothing or equipment is supplied, and evacuation procedures and facilities are in place at Dialog’s and suppliers’ premises.
BEEA Young Design Engineer of the Year
One of Dialog’s young engineers has won the prestigious British Engineering Excellence Award for Young Design Engineer of the Year. Based in the Edinburgh office, Mairead Kelly has been with the company for two and half years and is employed as an Analogue Design Engineer within the ASSP Development Group.
Mairead joined the Edinburgh design team who were working on developing leading edge Audio ICs. She began her career by developing some performance analogue cells, along with some linear amplifiers. More recently she has worked on many key projects, designing blocks and circuits and developing new techniques.
As a young professional, Mairead is keen to support up and coming engineers to the business, and actively seeks opportunities to do this. As an alumnus of the University of Edinburgh, Mairead is passionate about developing business/academic links and encouraging young talent into the business. She is currently acting as a mentor for the Edinburgh University placement student, passing on technical knowledge, ensuring that they are inducted into the company and that their time spent with Dialog is as beneficial as possible.
In judging the entries for this award, the judges wanted to see a demonstration of the knowledge which the young engineer has had to apply, the contribution made to a project, the degree of innovation applied, and the nominee’s personal qualities, including their motivation, dedication and ability to act as an ambassador for their discipline. Of Mairead, the judges said;
“The energy and enthusiasm of this person shines through in her entry; she’s clearly a human dynamo”
“I love the fact the she’s so keen on nurturing and mentoring other young engineers. It shows that not only is she a talented and enthusiastic young engineer herself, but that she wants to transmit that enthusiasm to others”
The award was presented at a luncheon ceremony at The Globe Theatre in London, by Kate Bellingham, the journalist and broadcaster.
