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Staying Power
Civeo Australia’s Darren Schuck on current supply chain challenges and core business values. Photography Graham Werner
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arren Schuck’s career could have looked very different. The now General Manager, Supply Chain at Civeo Australia – a company specialising in full-service workplace accommodation – initially enrolled in a pharmacy degree after leaving high school. He soon discovered his future wasn’t as a pharmacist. “I switched over to a commerce degree and worked in a range of hospitality roles,” he says, later using that industry knowledge and newfound commercial skills to land a job at Empire Hospitality Group. That role eventually led to a GM position and when the personal circumstances of the ownership group changed, Schuck was asked to break up the businesses and sell them off. Sale completed, Schuck took a break from work, taking the time to travel. “I really got the travel bug,” he says, and went on the hunt for a job that wouldn’t tie him down in one location. A role at Civeo Australia (then called The MAC) as a Food & Beverage Manager ticked all the right boxes. Taking advantage of the 14-day-on, seven-day-off roster, Schuck hopped around South-East Asia and Europe in-between work. “My career with Civeo was going well, progressing within the business to the regional relief manager and catering operations manager, when an opportunity arose with Civeo Australia’s operations support and procurement department in 2015,” he says. “At that point I was keen to get serious and step up my career.” Seven years later, he’s happy he made that
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“I think about the five pillars that Civeo operate under – ‘care, collaborate, excellence, integrity and safety’ – every day, right from the top down, we live and breathe those values.”
