As the young face of the next generation of George Grant Engineering, I have a strong desire to see young people coming through and securing the future of our industry. I ‘served my time’ with GGE and have been afforded every opportunity to progress within the company.My first promotion came when my attention to quality and accuracy was recognized, and at the age of 21, I accepted the position of workshop QA. I remember struggling with this at first as I had to point out fabrication errors to the tradesmen that had taught me everything I knew. It was around this time that the quality requirements were escalating in our industry, so, eager to ensure that what we were doing at GGE was compliant, I took it upon myself to learn everything I possibly could about steel construction standards. Now armed with both technical and practical knowledge, I was ready to take on my next challenge and was promoted to Detailing Manager for GGE in 2011. Under the support of the senior leadership team at GGE, I was able to guide the detailing team into a new culture of working closely with builders and designers to increase efficiency and improve buildability of our projects and developing strong relationships and reputation along the way. In Feb 2017 I officially accepted my biggest challenge yet - General Manager for George Grant Engineering. In Jun 2018 I took a sideways step to the accept another new challenge - Contracts Manager, charged with overseeing all of GGE's site operations.