Ernie Sciarrillo is director at Rand Road Surfacing, in Netherton. He lives in Deeside with his wife and two sons

6.30am: Awake. Quick shower, breakfast and dressed, ready to get on the road for 7am from my house in Deeside to the Rand office in Netherton. I use the time to phone all of our site managers and find out how work is progressing on every job. We have up to eight live jobs of various sizes running at any one time across the North West, but day-to-day contact with all of our managers is vital to make sure things are running smoothly.

8am: Arrive at the office. I wade through my emails and post, responding to any urgent matters and preparing reports for this morning’s management meeting.

9am: Sit down for a meeting with my partners, Dave O’Sullivan and Michael Lawson, for our weekly management meeting. Since being bought by Aggregate Industries (AI), in February, 2009, we have begun to look more closely at the business and the way that we operate and now the company is beginning to change. These meetings discuss the usual: finances, health and safety, training and operations – but also new areas of work and growing sectors that we’re moving into.

11am: Contracts and commercial managers, as well as our quantity surveyors, join us and we all run through a programme of works for each scheme. All is running smoothly, except for one or two issues with local residents on the One Vision scheme. We plan an immediate programme of community engagement and appoint a liaison officer to quickly resolve all issues.

12.30: I meet Kevin Shannon, of Foundation Utilities, for lunch at San Carlo. I’ve been on a healthy eating kick for a long time now and opt for a light sea bass and salad, somewhat quashing the stereotype of us builders as fast food munchers. We discuss our work for them at a One Vision housing scheme in Sefton where we’re supplying and installing concrete panels, posts and boundary across the perimeter of the estate – the scheme is running to schedule and has been a great one for us, as it’s a first for this type of work.

2pm: Arrive at the Seaforth depot where AI receives and stores aggregate brought in via boats from our Glensanda quarry. I discuss quantities and stone types with Mark Elstone for a road surfacing project at Atlantic Park set to begin next week, as well as a new scheme that includes 100% recycled asphalt as part of the specification.

We are using planed asphalt from our work with Lancashire County Council, transporting it to the AI site in Seaforth and recycling all waste in a mobile mixing plant. This is the first scheme that we have worked on using this product, and are quite excited about developing this further.

3pm: Back to the office for a meeting with Chris House, of Charcon Products, another AI business which manufactures concrete paving, kerbs and draining systems. We’re beginning to work closely with Chris and his team on bigger schemes, presenting a full supply and labour package that stays in-house.

4pm: Chris leaves and I have a catch- up with the rest of the team. There are 10 of us based permanently at the office with 40 on-site – we have recently taken on seven new staff and one apprentice, so I run through all training needs with them and make sure they’re all fully compliant with our health and safety policies.

My son, Tio, joined Rand after leaving school and is now training to become a quantity surveyor through us – the next generation of Rand is born! My partner David’s daughter, Hayley, also works with us in admin support. Although we are now part of a huge global operation, our business still has a strong family feel.

5.30pm: Off to the match. We do a lot of corporate hospitality and have a box at Anfield. My wife’s a huge Liverpool fan, as are both my sons, so they join us with clients for dinner and the match.

10pm: Disappointment and devastation again – will things ever turn round for Liverpool? We still had an enjoyable night mixing business and pleasure before I head off home with the family.