When she isn’t at HERA as a representative on our Executive Board, Troy is busy being the Manager of Innovation and Product Development & Pacific Islands Export Manager at Bluescope Steel. This role that sees her cross across many fields – including engineering. With a career journey spanning 16 years, she has had the opportunity…
Jessica is a Production Engineer in the Pipe and Light Plate Plant at New Zealand Steel. Starting off as a Graduate Engineer, in just over three short years Jessica has had the privilege of working in three different departments before securing her current role – where she’s been able to implement creative thinking and work…
This week we’re focused on shining the light on #WomenInEngineering, as we work to close the gender gap in the New Zealand metals industry and inspire our next generation of females to see engineering differently. That’s because, in a time when we should be welcoming more females to address skills shortages, we are seeing…
Currently on secondment for his third year in Bachelor of Computing Systems at Eastern Institute of Technology Hawkes Bay, Tobias Kick comes to us through established connections with the OTH Technical University in Regensburg Germany. Working under the supervision of our Research Engineer Holger Heinzel, Tobias brings a unique skill in programming language and tools…
Congratulations to the first SCNZ inaugural ‘Apprentice of the Year Award’ recipient Red Steel’s Thomas Forbes! Red Steel is valued member of ours and steel fabricator company so it was great to see one of their staff members take out this apprentice award. The Award was announced during a gala dinner following SCNZ’s AGM and conference…
The concern of skills shortages is something worrying many businesses around the world, and for the New Zealand engineering sector it’s no different. We’re starting to see serious skills gaps in our workforce which could strongly affect our ability to deliver quality work for our future pipeline. To address those and other issues COMPETENZ has…
If you’ve been to Christchurch in the past five years, the chances are you’ve seen some form of diagonal steel bracing in one or more of the city’s buildings. The reinforcements are called Buckling Restraint Braces (BRBs) and they’re now used in approximately 80% of new builds in the city. These braces are the main…
HERA is pleased to support the International Welding Engineer (IWE) and International Welding Technology run by the University of Wollongong, in cooperation with the WTIA in a newly restructured form. Successful completion of this course will see graduates obtain the globally recognised qualification, International Institute of Welding (IIW) – International Welding Engineer (IWE) or International…
This month,we’re offering Part 2 of the welding inspection training program leading to national and international qualifications. Qualifications are: CBIP Certified Welding Inspector (CWI), and Globally-recognised IIW International Welding Inspector Basic (IWI-B), and International Welding Inspector-Standard (IWI-S). The Centre is New Zealand’s only International Institute of Welding (IIW) Accredited Training Body (ATB). People gaining these…