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Aboriginal Engagement Award – Central EarthmovingFinalists: Brierty, Georgiou.

Centrals has established a credibility with Aboriginal People and to have demonstrated a real commitment in providing commercial and work opportunities that make a real difference to the lives of their families and people. Centrals’ over 25-year commitment has included actively providing contracting opportunities for Aboriginal Businesses in the projects Centrals undertakes, and increasing the percentage of Aboriginal People employed at Central in the last 10 years from 9% to 17%. Managing Director Craig Patterson’s leadership, through demonstrated genuine commitment and passion to recruit, train and empower Aboriginal people, has recently led to him being the only WA Non-Indigenous Business leader that was invited to attend the Prime Minister & Cabinet roundtable on Indigenous Business Sector Strategy. L to R: Jeff Jackson (Total Rockbreaking Solutions), Craig

Patterson (Central Earthmoving).

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Individual Safety Contribution Award – Ryan Knight, DM Civil Finalists: Adina Backlund-Bellviken - Brierty, Matt Farmer – WBHO Infrastructure, Niall Walsh – Monford Group

Ryan’s ability to communicate succinctly and with authentic passion about all SEQ matters has been fundamental in DM Civil’s drive to reduce and ultimately eliminate risk of injury and incident. His improvements in communication forums, consultation with employees about procedures affecting their work and identifying staff training has seen an optimistic and constructive trend in all key measures. Keen to deliver transparency across the business, Ryan enhanced internal training by ensuring all leadership personnel received comprehensive SEQ management systems training. This resulted in much greater acceptance and engagement of frontline personnel, who are encouraged to be involved and raise issues to continually improve system policies, procedures and processes. L to R: Ryan Knight (DM Civil), Graeme Godwin (Hitachi).

Workplace Health & Safety Award – Fulton HoganFinalists: Brierty, Buckby Contracting, DM Civil, Georgiou, Rockingham Drainers.

Fulton Hogan has set a goal of Zero Harm. Its people care for the wellbeing of each other and have a number of policies, procedures and practices to try and meet that goal. Fulton Hogan has a number of in-house compulsory training sessions for all employees. This includes: StaySafe, which focuses on how to stay safe in the workplace; EnviroWise, which looks at environmental safety in the workplace; and First-Move, which looks to reduce the number of soft tissue and manual handling injuries. Fulton Hogan has placed a greater emphasis on elimination and substitution as control options for hazard reduction, resulting in safer work practices. Workers are empowered to say “no” by calling for work to cease if they believe the risk is unacceptable.

L to R: Pat Tinnelly (Fulton Hogan), Graeme Godwin (Hitachi).

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Project Manager of the Year – Toby Taylor, Georgiou Finalist: Brendan Tigchelaar, Buckby Contracting

Toby commenced at Georgiou in 2003 as a

Project Engineer where he demonstrated excellent leadership skills and willingness to be part of new endeavours. Two years later, Toby was promoted to Project Manager for Georgiou’s biggest land developments project at the time – the $6 million Midland Workshops Redevelopment. His ability to effectively lead teams and deliver projects on time and budget saw Toby become Georgiou’s first Project Manager to manage a project in the North West, Queensland and Victoria. In his Georgiou career to date, Toby has been instrumental in the award, planning and delivery of several integral projects. Even though Toby is only 39, the level of contribution he displays within Georgiou, the industry and the community cements his role as a leader within our company and the civil construction and engineering industry. L to R: Shane Pentony (Lavan), Toby Taylor (Georgiou).

CCF WA’s Industry & Training Awards, announced at the President’s Gala Dinner in February, recognised individual and corporate excellence in training, safety, Aboriginal engagement and other fields.

L to R: Justin Scotchbrook (DBYD), Cheng Rolfe (DM Civil).

Women in Civil Award – Cheng Rolfe, DM CivilFinalists: Linda Foten – Brierty, Sue Wood – Iplex Pipelines

Under Cheng Rolfe’s stewardship, DM Civil’s human resource management is now held in the highest regard. Cheng instigated the process for formalising DM’s core principles which now guide its business practice and company culture. She has been at the forefront of DM Civil establishing its own in-house trainer, mentoring and supporting one of its long-term operational employees. In 2013 Cheng was one of only 12 employees invited to be an inaugural member of DM Civil’s Management Team. Cheng is a highly valued member and brings a high level of professionalism, commercial acumen and balance to what is a heavily male dominated group. In 2016, Cheng was endorsed as the civil construction industry’s representative on the Building & Construction Industry Training (BCIT) Board, becoming the first woman to represent our industry on the Board.

L to R: Irfan Majeed and Domenic Cappelluti (Brierty).

Engineer of the Year – Irfan Majeed, BriertyFinalist: Declan Cawley, Tracc Civil

Irfan Majeed joined Brierty in October 2010 as a Graduate Mechanical Engineer. He breezed through the Graduate Development program with great ease. During the many development camps and seminars, Majeed would always take the lead and inspire others to work together to succeed. Majeed has been assigned the responsibility of mentoring new Graduates within Brierty over the last few years. With his guidance, all graduates have been successful in their fields and are in high demand by projects as they will get the job done with a work ethic that has been instilled in them by their mentor. Majeed has undertaken the lead role in asset administration and has been instrumental in redesigning the processes and forms associated with plant management.

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CCF WA INDUSTRY & TRAINING AWARDS

Training Employer of the Year – Georgiou Finalists: Fulton Hogan; Monford Group.

Georgiou makes sure that all employees are qualified

in their field and provides them with opportunities to continue to improve their skills to further their career. The Georgiou traineeship program commenced by identifying employees that had skills and experience but not the formal qualification in their field of work. The first intake of Civil Train trainees saw over 20 Georgiou employees sign up for this program. Since then Georgiou has provided a Civil Train traineeship opportunity to 174 employees. Trainees range from experienced operators, drainers or supervisors that are just lacking final skills or the qualification, whereas others are new to the construction industry but have the potential to become experts in their field of work. This program has become a foundation of the development for Infrastructure employees onsite.

Plant Operator of the Year - Vince Greco, WA LimestoneFinalists: Neil Brown, Densford Civil; Colin Fitzgerald, Buckby Contracting

Vince Greco has over 10 years’ experience in the civil construction

industry working for various companies. He worked his way up to a machine operator before joining WA Limestone in 2012. Vince was made supervisor for the quarry operations at our Hurst Road limestone quarry. He is a reliable and dedicated worker who will regularly go beyond the call of duty to ensure that the quarry is functioning at its utmost capacity, and works very hard at making sure all trucks are loaded as quickly as possible, while ensuring that the quarry’s crushers are operating at full capacity. Vince stands out as a superior plant operator having many years of experience, which gives him a competitive advantage when it comes to planning, implementation and execution of jobs in and around the quarry. Vince regularly liaises with the owners of the quarry, Cockburn Cement, to ensure that their requirements are met.

L to R: Keith Shugar (CJD), Vince Greco, Jeff Miller (CCF WA).

Site Supervisor of the Year - Steven Carbone, Carbone BrosFinalist: George Dragicevich, WA Limestone.

Whether it’s formulating a precise and efficient construction methodology or dealing with a challenging employee, Steven is able to methodically drive a desired outcome. Steven’s leadership skills are best demonstrated by the fact that he has managed to train his plant operators in such a precise and engaging way that Carbone Bros experiences almost zero reworks and defects at completion of projects. The experience and technique that he has developed over his years in the industry, initially as a final trim grader operator, are all passed on to the company’s plant operators with time and care to ensure that the client receives the highest quality product.As a result of this, Carbone Bros has ceased budgeting allowances for defects/ reworks.

L to R: John Elder (Hays), Steven Carbone, Jeff Miller.

L to R: Georgiou’s Robert Blaze, Kay Patel and Jason Stern.

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Certificate II Trainee of the Year - Danika Alexander, Southern River CollegeFinalist: Jimmy, Balga Senior High School

Danika is a proactive individual with a can do attitude. She is efficient with her time and a team player. Her perseverance and positive attitude held her in good stead as the only female in the Civil Construction Program at Southern River College. Her commitment to her traineeship showed a focused attitude and work ethic, with Danika achieving strong results and leading teams throughout. Her commitment to learning new things and applying this in a proactive manner attained Danika recognition in her final graduation.

L to R: Cheng Rolfe (CTF Board member), Danika Alexander, Adrian Kent (Civil Train).

Certificate III Trainee of the Year - Simon Partridge, Buckby ContractingFinalists: Tytus Aragu-Hunter, Downer; Paul

Argiropoulos, Georgiou; Jesse Charles, Shire of Narrogin; Brenton Clements, Georgiou; Damien Duffy, Monford Group; David McGowan, Monford Group.

Since undertaking a Cert III Pipelaying, Simon has shown significant improvement in skill application. He is a fast learner allowing him to apply newly acquired skills and knowledge to everyday situations with ease. He has gained significant knowledge in workplace health and safety. Simon always shows leadership, involving his crew each morning in the participation and completion of JHAs. Simon communicates very effectively with the HSE team by observing onsite safety hazards and bringing it to others’ attention and reporting when needed. L to R: Cheng Rolfe (CTF Board member), Simon Partridge,

Adrian Kent (Civil Train).

29 CCF WA ONSITE Autumn 2016L to R: Cheng Rolfe (CTF Board member), Tim Baines, Adrian

Kent (Civil Train).

Certificate IV Trainee of the Year – Tim Baines, Densford CivilFinalists: Lindsay Clyne, Fulton Hogan Services;

Michael Crump, Georgiou; Shaun McGlenchy, Georgiou.

Tim has been very keen to take on the responsibility of being a Site Supervisor. He has easily been the most enthusiastic of Densford’s trainees, and was grateful for the opportunity to complete the Cert IV traineeship. As a result of this training, he has been given the role of Site Supervisor at a project Densford is undertaking in Baldivis, and has really stepped up to the challenge. The training he received during his Cert IV has prepared him well for this role, and he is always striving to improve.