Bob Butson Email & Phone Number

Thanks for visiting my Linkedin profile. I am the director and owner of WA Skills Training, an award winning Registered Training Organisation delivering nationally accredited training with a reputation built on quality and flexibility.WA Skills Training was established in 1996 to provide an alternative, flexible approach to training and client needs, and has since evolved into one of the leading training providers within Australasia. We are the preferred training provider for many large companies within the mining and construction industries in Australia.We have one of the largest scopes of any private training provider in Australia and although specialists in high risk work and mobile plant training, we deliver quality training across a wide variety of disciplines and workplace levels from the coalface to senior management.Our permanent training centres and offices are located in Bunbury, Welshpool in Perth and in Thailand, and feature custom-designed classrooms and training areas. Much of our training and assessment is conducted onsite at our clients' premises and workplaces throughout Australia and overseas. Background info:Grew up in the PilbaraEducated at Guildford GrammarApprenticeship in Fitting & First Class Machining with Mt Newman Mining (now BHP Billiton)Qualified in Hydraulics and PneumaticsQualified as Rigger, Scaffolder and Crane OperatorQualified Trainer and AssessorApproached by Hedland College in 1987Seconded to Bunbury College in 1990Established WA Skills Training in 1996Please click on the Prospectus below to see the full range of training WA Skills Training offers.

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  Owner And Director

  Wa Skills Training

  Jan 1996 - Present - Perth, Australia

  WA Skills Training offers quality and flexible training solutions. That is why we are the industry preferred training provider for mining and construction. Enterprises such as BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto, Thiess, Forge, Cape, Bechtel, FMG and Chevron choose us because we meet their demands for the best training available for their employees.Currently, our large training projects include the Chevron Gorgon Gas Project on Barrow Island and Chevron Wheatstone. These two projects reinforce WA’s position as a leading natural gas supplier and WA Skills Training is proud to have contributed to that development.WA Skills Training is also the preferred training provider on the 55 million tonne per year Roy Hill mine site in the Pilbara, one of the world’s premier iron ore areas. Out of state, is WA Skills Training’s involvement in the Northern Territories’ largest ever construction project, the Ichthys LNG project in Darwin. We are providing training for Leighton Contractors which will construct the main civil works on the onshore LNG facilities.Overseas, Bob Butson first offered training in Hong Kong. Since then WA Skills Trainers have delivered training in the Philippines, Thailand, U.S., Indonesia, China including Hong Kong and Macau, Timor, New Zealand, New Guinea and Africa.Contact WA Skills Training to meet your training and assessment needs through:- Face-to-face training at our Perth, Bunbury or Thailand training centres - Training on our clients' sites and workplaces - Partnering agreements - Traineeships - Recognition of Prior Learning - Recognition of Current Competencies - Verification of Competencies - E-learningPerth Training Centre141 Welshpool Road, Welshpool WA 6106t: (08) 6330 1400Bunbury Training Centre12 Halifax Drive, Bunbury WA 6230t: (08) 9724 7888f: (08) 9725 7421www.waskills.com.auThe 2006 South West Small Business of the Year