Experience

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  Mobile Conveying Services Pty Ltd

  • Burpengary, Queensland, Australia

  • Parts Interpreter/Purchasing Officer

    • Jul 2023 - Present
    • Burpengary, Queensland, Australia

    Providing specialist parts support for mining machinery manufacturing

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  National Tiles

  • Strathpine

  • Trade & Retail Sales Representative

    • Oct 2020 - Jul 2023
    • Strathpine

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  Qantas

  • Australia
  • Airlines and Aviation
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Compliance and Continuous Improvement Coordinator

    • Apr 2018 - Oct 2020

    The promotion to a new National position that has the responsibility and oversight of all aspects of compliance from the Qantas Group GSE business incorporating inventory control, training, security, auditing and continuous improvement across all Qantas GSE workshops and assets in all airports across Australia.This is a very exciting and challenging role that will further develop and foster relationships both with in Qantas GSE and our customers across all Qantas Group companies.

  • Ground Support Equipment Coordinator QLD & NT

    • May 2012 - Apr 2018

    In addition to the GSE Coordinator position mentioned below, I was appointed to my current role through more changes within the entire Qantas business. This position now requires all of the responsibilities identified below in addition to the added responsibility for Qantas mainline ports within Queensland and Northern Territory.I have found this role to be particularly enjoyable and challenging at times. I find myself now dealing with new customers and meeting their demands, establishing new Service Level Agreements', undergoing customer and regulatory body audits, establishing budgets and also dealing with the increasing competition in the GSE market at all airports.I find my job interesting and exciting and I wake up looking forward to new challenges every day.

  • GSE Coordinator Brisbane

    • May 2011 - May 2012

    Significant changes within Qantas gave me the opportunity to apply successfully for the position of GSE Coordinator Brisbane in May 2011.In this new position, I was responsible for the day to day operations of the Qantas Brisbane GSE Workshop, the planning of preventative maintenance for the fleet of Qantas GSE, local administration of the IT software utilised by Qantas GSE, oversight of procurement and supply of stores, staff rostering, staff training and the reporting of all of the above listed items to the GSE Manager on a daily basis.The overall goal/KPI of this position was to ensure that no lack of service delivery occurred.

  • GSE Purchasing & Stores Officer

    • Aug 2004 - May 2011

    In August 2004 I began the transition from GSE Technician to GSE Administration. This was initially in a secondment role that ended up being a permanent position as the GSE Purchasing & Stores Officer within Qantas GSE Brisbane.In this role I was responsible for the procurement, supply and transport of parts for the GSE business in Brisbane initially but extended to other GSE ports as the business grew and changed in dynamics.The daily challenges included sourcing parts both nationally and internationally, negotiating best price with suppliers, establishing contracts with new suppliers and managing the Qantas accounts system with regards to queries and payments.This was in addition to also ensuring that Qantas fulfilled all obligations and adhered to company policies and legislation.

  • Qantas GSE Technician

    • Jan 1989 - Aug 2004

    During this period of time, I was part of the GSE team that was responsible for the preventative maintenance of all equipment associated with aircraft load/unload turn around's in Brisbane.In this role, I was not only a hands on repairer, but at times, the duty Leading Hand, whom is required to coordinate and allocate work to the GSE team. These decisions were based on priority of breakdowns etc, to ensure the repair and reliability of Qantas and customer GSE.Qantas always provided the GSE team with extensive training on all aspects of equipment maintenance and I have acquired numerous certificate's of competency from the training courses provided.