A lot can happen in a year… so we thought we’d touch bases with one of the ladies we profiled last year during #INWED18 to see if much has changed since then! Catching up with New Zealand Steel Process Engineer, Mikaela Keir who is in the Steel Making Technical department. On a day to day…
In the lead up to International Women in Engineering Day on 23 June – we want to celebrate some of the amazing wahine in our industry. That’s why this week we’ll be giving a voice to many of the ladies in our midst – starting off with Ting Wang, a Civil Engineer at Tonkin +…
The third industrial revolution changed the way the previous generations worked – and very soon, the fourth industrial revolution will do the same again for us. Inevitably, we’ll always have the ability to access powerful resources previously unavailable or uneconomic. HERA members now need to be able to innovate and change to counter or utilise…
We’re so excited to announce that Sarah Lewis is our inaugural recipient of the HERA Whanake Scholarship. Sarah is studying a Bachelor of Engineering, majoring in mechatronics at Massey University in Palmerston North. She is also a graduate of the Puhoro STEM Academy. After meeting her on a recent trip to the rohe (area), I…
What the heck is HERA about and what’s our plan for the future? Two very good questions – and we’re excited to tell you the answer! Because for the first time, we’re releasing our strategy publicly. We’re doing this because we are really focused on building a tribe within our industry. We want to create…
April has been all about eco-systems and relationships here at HERA. And, no part of our operation exemplifies these ideas more than our Administration department! Thats why this months staff profile highlights our first customer touch point – Raewyn Porter. If you didn’t realise it, administration is the backbone of an organisation. It links your…
On 8 March the world celebrated International Women’s Day. So it seemed only right that for this months staff profile I introduce you to one of the lovely ladies in our midst – Intern Quỳnh Anh Vũ. Known to all of us as Anh – I can say without a doubt she brings an energetic and…
History helps us understand change. The world around us is in a constant state of change, and understanding this in society plays a pivotal role in being able to interpret the world that we see now. Up until now the history of HERA has been recorded in typical factual style. But, we believe there is much more to…
At HERA we have a real commitment to help our members address the challenges that are facing them. One we hear often is the skills gap which is hindering our members from delivering what’s in their pipeline – particularly as we look to the future. As a research association, it’s often hard to find a…
Jan302019 It’s not every day you get to chew the ear off NZ Steels Chief Executive Gretta Stephens. So of course when our chance came… we jumped at it! Join us as we hit up Gretta on how she’s finding her role so far, why she loves working in the NZ metals industry and their…
2018 has been a big year for HERA. Firstly, we had a change of leadership from Wolfgang Scholz to myself – HERA’s first ever female CEO! We also had the retirement of our longest serving employee, Peter Hayward. At the same time, we recruited two new team members; Musarrat Begum as our new Information Services…
Part of HERA’s role is to facilitate connection, collaboration and knowledge sharing for our NZ metals industry. And while we do this with vigour, we have to admit that access to such information hasn’t always been the easiest. Well, brace yourself – as things are about to change! Because… our library has gone digital! …