Directors, think about disruption!
Disruptions to established businesses happen all the time. Like everyone else in business, HERA members and their communities are called on to navigate in a potentially disruptive VUCA world –…
#INWED18 – Meet Longveld Managing Director, Pam Roa
Pam has been in the industry for 29 years, using her skills and experience to lead her team of 87. Longveld is a specialist stainless steel fabricator of primary processing…
Disruption – the path to resilience
Last week we were excited to have our Executive member and WSP Opus Corrosion & Asset Integrity Consultant Raed El Sarraf head to Rotorua from 20 – 22 June. Here,…
#INWED18 – Meet WSP Opus Work Group Manager Bridges & Structures, Natalia Uran
Based in Napier, Natalia manages her team to provide infrastructure asset management consulting services for WSP Opus clients. She’s focused mainly on bridges and highways structures, with an aim to…
#INWED18 – Meet New Zealand Steel Product Launch Manager – Roofing & Cladding, Katrin Schüenemann
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.…
#INWED18 – Meet Fletcher Building ANZ Group Employment Relations Manager, Charlotte Hatlauf
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…
#INWED18 – Meet Steltech Customer Services Manager Jacqui Brady
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…
#INWED18 – Meet Pacific Steel Market Development and Key Account Manager Laura Coffey
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…
#INWED18 – Meet Modern Construction Senior Structural Steel Detailer Mae Rose Billanes
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,…
#INWED18 – Meet Modern Construction QS Estimator & QA Assistant, Reem Soliman
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…
#INWED18 – Meet New Zealand Steel Graduate Process Engineer, Mikaela Keir
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…
How to attract and retain female talent
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…