Robert Mcfadden Email & Phone Number

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

A highly skilled and dedicated worker with vast experience within the Communications and Electrical industry. Long term experience and proven success at managing Operations with full responsibilities including all financial aspects, account management, HR and WH&S components managing large staffing numbers. Many great rewarding moments within the industry and have been fortunate enough to have create career progress for both myself and many of the experienced staff and dedicated professionals that have worked within my teams.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Great to be part of such a great team of hard working motivated industry professionals in this long standing National Electrical and Technologies business. Benefit are many to our staff and clients with clients having the ability of engaging just one supplier able to provide a range of related services in one installation. Programmed are certified installers for the majority of data and communication vendors, with experience and delivery and maintenance capabilities across multiple sites and locations around the country which includes a directly employed national workforce, including over 300 full-time staff holding security defence clearances and pride ourselves as market leaders in construction, defence, government, finance, commercial and infrastructure.

Sydney

Some of the rewarding aspects of my new role include the working with a very experienced team of dedicated professionals that all know their trade and have many years and many success stories behind them and now allowing me the opportunity to lead and be part of something that has endless potential. There are people in all the key positions of health and safety, project management, engineering and design and amongst them have great involvement of High Voltage jointing and installation, HV testing and commisioning services, are authorised to work on electricity distribution networks and have a full civil team to assist with their projects.

Sydney, Australia

Was employed to bring stability to and build a team for, an existing Downer Infrastructure and Construction business and integrate a Mechanical Division after Spotless acquisition. As most senior or longstanding staff had resigned from key positions there lacked a distinct understanding of previous dealings and process with my main responsibilities included managing two, separate teams, sharing multi discipline tasks within the group and all the while adopting and meeting new company (ownership) policies and procedures. Significant staff upskilling, was also required, in order to keep works ‘inhouse’ and provide satisfactory outcomes for both the client and business. I was required to gain a thorough and in-depth knowledge of the business, financial position/ fiscal workings and convert data into practical and useful terms, so that operational staff could understand individual project, financial status. Completed various project quotations, tenders and estimates of a wide variety of Electrical and Communication projects to provide a sustained pipeline of proposed works and projects. Was also heavily involved in the screening, interviewing and on-boarding of various Project Managers and Electrical Estimators.

Was employed to manage a business unit within the organisation specialising in various Electrical and Communication installations for new and existing clients.Throughout my career within the company, I was involved in various roles including NSW Project Director, Operations Manager, National Account Manager, NSW Account Manager, Project Manager, Estimator and Business Development Manager.Additionally, I have also been the NSW WH&S Representative and irrespective of other responsibilities, have responsibility and authority for ensuring that the company’s WH&S system requirements were established, implemented and maintained in accordance with Australian Standards.I have accountability for all Site Supervisors, Project Coordinators and Project Managers achieving monthly and annual sales targets, tracking costs, GP, maintaining overhead budgets and aided with the company’s debt collection for the clients associated with my portfolio.

Electrical Project ManagerWas involved in multiple projects and progressed from an Electrical Tradesman to a Project Manager. Works included a six million dollar electrical contract which included over 80,000m of large sub main cabling, the five million dollar Concord Repatriation Hospital, The Aisian Elephant Precinct at Taronga Zoo and where I was responsible for the day to day management of up to 35 staff members.