Grace is responsible for setting the strategy to grow McConnell Dowell. She is also Chair of the Auckland branch of the Women’s Infrastructure Network. McConnell Dowell’s core capabilities cover three waters, transportation, marine, industrial, power and resources. The company delivers their expertise to these sectors within New Zealand and the Pacific, and across Australia, SE…
Katrin looks after innovations and product developments in the roofing and cladding sector. Working predominantly under New Zealand Steel’s COLORSTEEL® brand to explore product improvements that can offer market differentiation. A prime example of this being their new COLORSTEEL® DRIDEX® product. It offers an anti-condensation solution that features a layer of fleece to collect, store…
Charlotte is an in-house employment lawyer at Fletcher Building where her focus is split broadly over three areas. These being: Insourcing transactional work that would otherwise be briefed out to external employment lawyers. This could be anything from drafting employment agreements and policies, through to advice on employment related legislation, restructures, disciplinary process, personal grievances…
Jacqui manages the processing of welded beams to feed into a fabricator’s erection program for Steltech. Often overseeing more than 20 projects at a time – many of which are split into bite size phases. Her services range from the ordering of steel plate, through to the planning of the welding of each beam and…
Laura’s role is a mix of marketing and sales. Where she’s responsible for elevating core product brands for Pacific Steel such as Seismic® and Wiremark®. Laura’s enjoyment of building and construction made it a perfect industry to apply her skills to. She’s responsible for ensuring brand awareness and loyalty are maintained and grow over time within…
Mae is responsible for producing detailed 3D modelling and drawings for steel fabricators and erectors. She applies these skills to certain projects of Modern Construction. Giving deeper understanding of columns, beams, bracing, trusses and more for use in the construction of various types of infrastructure. Mae is also a Coping Machine Applications Programmer. This see’s…
Reem is responsible for assessing quantities and pricing for tenders and cross-checking material certificates for standards compliance. A role which is far from where her career path started – quite literally! Originally from Syria, Reem decided to study Civil Engineering. A decision driven by a natural interest and it’s popularity as a career for women…
Mikaela is a process engineer at New Zealand Steel. Looking after the process variables to produce molten steel to various specifications. New Zealand Steel is the sole producer of steel in New Zealand and the only in the world to make steel solely from iron sand. Their process is unlike any other in the world meaning…
Like many organisations, we want to ensure that our team gets home safely after their day’s work. Raising health and safety awareness is a fundamental step in ensuring that happens. The heavy engineering metal-based sector is full of hazards in workshops that must be managed and controlled, but driving is an unsuspecting one that often…
Our Executive is key to our association. Not only do they represent the diverse range of members we serve, but they bring us valuable insight into the current industry pulse. That’s why we’ve decided to start acknowledging the great (and voluntary) work that they do by profiling them on our website. And, as this team…
April’s health and safety focus for HERA is innovation in safety culture. More specifically – the need to find new ways to rally our staff toward common safety values, attitudes, and goals within our workplace as part of our commitment to health and safety. I know. It sounds a heavy and perhaps ‘waste of time’…
As part of our commitment to deliver value to our membership our lead team has come together to develop a seminar addressing a call for more clarity around the ‘cost of quality’. Whether a SME or a large company – it’s become clear that the adoption of quality management systems into our members operations are…