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18+ years' experience in the Australian Federal Government (BoM & ARPANSA) as a technical expert. Roles including maintenance manager, technical trainer, and RADAR technician. Good communication, strong organisational skills, clear thinking, and opportunistic approach to issues. Strong customer focus, with a technical know-how to assist in problem solving. Strong advocate of SMART goals, and passionate supporter of plain English communication techniques.Excelled in training governance / classroom lecturer role. In support of adult workplace, in-house, equipment training courses. Gentle nature, empathetic, visual communication skills, and an ability to describe complex systems, assisted classroom delivery. Fair but thorough management, and logical workflow processes, afforded good educational governance, supporting training qualification databases and managing training content.An engineering trade professional in the electronics, instrumentation, and communications fields. Possessing extensive experience managing organisational activities for the business and delivering its maintenance programs and projects.International travel with Antarctic expedition to Davis station, and Fijian RADAR training for local technicians on equipment at Suva, Nadi and Labasa. Extensive regional travel including sea voyages in the Coral Sea and Indian Ocean. Travel to every state in Australia overseeing work in alpine, coastal, arid, fertile, and suburban locations, in support of field maintenance and asset management.Experienced in supervising, hiring, and training employees, managing quality assurance programs, and strategising process improvements. Good experience contributing to multiple concurrent projects, managing competing and often shifting priorities.Achievements:• Held the Maintenance Manager position during all Victorian COVID lockdowns. Increased productivity during this period, whilst inventing safe working methods in-line with state government regulations.• Major influence in maturing BoM's Training Competency Frameworks.• Spearheaded introduction of new enterprise asset management system within operations.• Long standing career in the Bureau of Meteorology, and extremely well known organisational-wide as a well-respected, intelligent, technical expert.Key Skills:- Effective leadership- Communication and collaboration- Prioritisation and time management- Problem solving and decision making- Incident and crisis management- Quality control and management- Recruitment and staffingFeel free to message me — I’d love to chat.