Yamazaki Mazak Enhances UK Sales with New Roles & Engineering Expertise

New Area Sales Engineers Mazak strengthens UK sales structure with creation of new engineering roles

2025-03-28 Source: Mazak 2 min Reading Time

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Machine tool manufacturer Yamazaki Mazak has strengthened its UK sales organisation through the creation of a series of new roles aimed at increasing customer touch points and expanding time-served engineering expertise, while further enhancing its aftersales and service support offering.

(L-R) Ryan Lakin, Brian Edmondson and Joe Green(Source: Yamazaki Mazak) — (L-R) Ryan Lakin, Brian Edmondson and Joe Green
(Source: Yamazaki Mazak)

As part of the move to strengthen its UK sales structure, Yamazaki Mazak has hired two new Area Sales Engineers for the Midlands. Joe Green will cover the West Midlands region, while Ryan Lakin will offer support to customers in the East Midlands. Both will report into Brian Edmondson, General Sales Manager for the North of England and Midlands regions.

Green assumes the role having joined Mazak as an apprentice in 2017, before completing a three-year extended diploma in Advanced Manufacturing and Engineering. Over the past eight years, Green has worked in numerous roles at Mazak’s European Manufacturing Plant in Worcester, including as a CNC Engineer and Production Team Lead on both the prismatic line and the turning and grinding line. Most recently, he was Machine Supervisor for two years, before moving to the Area Sales Engineer role.

Lakin also began his career as an apprentice, working for a Devon-based aerospace engineering company, before relocating to the Midlands as an applications engineer specialising in grinding and 5-axis machining. Prior to joining Mazak, Lakin most recently worked as a pre-sales engineer for a machine tool manufacturer.

The creation of the new roles follows Mazak’s recent announcement to recruit 19 new apprentices at its European Manufacturing Plant in Worcester. The company is also recruiting several new service apprentices located in parts of the country with high concentrations of Mazak users.

Alan Mucklow, Managing Director UK & National Distributors at Yamazaki Mazak, said: “The creation of the Area Sales Engineer role enables us to further increase our customer touch points while also providing a fresh injection of time-served engineering expertise. Both Joe and Ryan have extensive, recent experience of working on the shop floor and will bring a complementary perspective to our established and highly skilled UK sales team.”

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