Comms 4.0 Archives - Page 7 of 18

#INWED18 – Meet Fletcher Building ANZ Group Employment Relations Manager, Charlotte Hatlauf

Advocacy, Articles for Kim Nugent, Career, Comms 4.0, People@HERABy Kim Nugent June 21, 2018

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…

#INWED18 – Meet Steltech Customer Services Manager Jacqui Brady

Advocacy, Articles for Kim Nugent, Career, Comms 4.0, People@HERABy Kim Nugent June 21, 2018

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…

#INWED18 – Meet Pacific Steel Market Development and Key Account Manager Laura Coffey

Advocacy, Articles for Kim Nugent, Career, Comms 4.0, People@HERABy Kim Nugent June 20, 2018

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…

#INWED18 – Meet Modern Construction Senior Structural Steel Detailer Mae Rose Billanes

Advocacy, Articles for Kim Nugent, Career, Comms 4.0, People@HERABy Kim Nugent June 19, 2018

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…

#INWED18 – Meet Modern Construction QS Estimator & QA Assistant, Reem Soliman

Advocacy, Articles for Kim Nugent, Career, Comms 4.0, People@HERABy Kim Nugent June 19, 2018

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…

#INWED18 – Meet New Zealand Steel Graduate Process Engineer, Mikaela Keir

Advocacy, Articles for Kim Nugent, Articles for Troy Coyle, Career, Comms 4.0, People@HERABy Kim Nugent June 18, 2018

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…

How to attract and retain female talent

Articles for Troy Coyle, Career, Comms 4.0, Education, ThinkTank@HERABy Kim Nugent June 18, 2018

We’re coming up to the International Day of Women in Engineering on 23 June 2018. And, with almost all member companies that we visit stating that attracting and retaining talent is a key issue for them, we thought we would share some ideas with you. The aim – to provide some insight on how to…

Who has time to innovate?

Advocacy, Articles for Boaz Habib, Comms 4.0, Education, ThinkTank@HERABy Kim Nugent June 11, 2018

Finding time to think about the future of your business or keeping an eye open for new opportunities can be difficult. Particularly amidst demanding business pressures. In fact, according to our recent member surveys – most find ‘lack of time and resources’ and ‘retaining talent’ the most challenging factors to create an innovative business. So,…

Manufacturing R&D in NZ – a sob story, job story or FOB story?

Advocacy, Articles for Troy Coyle, Comms 4.0, Education, ThinkTank@HERABy Kim Nugent June 6, 2018

That was the provocative title of my Keynote at MAD2018: A Collaborative Future for NZ Manufacturing and Design. It’s a question that is well worth considering. Though, I’m not sure the answer is one that we all want to hear. Manufacturing BERD looks great. GERD not so much. According to Statistics NZ R&D Survey…

Repairs to Westhaven Marina – Dixon Manufacturing Ltd

Comms 4.0, Projects@HERA, ResourcesBy Kim Nugent May 16, 2018

Dixon Manufacturing Ltd is a key example of how our members are actively diversifying their business model to react to local market conditions. For over 30 years Dixon Manufacturing’s focus has been on the supply of stainless steel solutions for the transport infrastructure industry in marine related solutions. Providing a range of ladders, handrails and…

Beyond commodities

Articles for Troy Coyle, Comms 4.0, Research & development, Resources, ThinkTank@HERABy Kim Nugent May 14, 2018

Manufacturing companies make significant contribution to NZ’s BERD according to a report released recently on the state of manufacturing in New Zealand. “Manufacturing Report 2018. Beyond commodities: Manufacturing into the future” identified that in 2016, national BERD was just $1.6 million, with manufacturing accounting for 42% of that ($671 million). The report also identified that the metals…

#roadsafetyweek – why should you care?

Articles for Kim Nugent, Comms 4.0, Education, ThinkTank@HERABy Kim Nugent May 9, 2018

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…