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Quality Roading and Services
On-the-job-training
CONNEXIS AWARD CATEGORY 2: Turnover between $10m and $100m COMPANY: Quality Roading and Services
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124 2CCNZ / CONNEXIS CIVIL INDUSTRY TRAINING AWARDS 2022 Wairoa’s Quality Roading and Services (QRS) specialises in civil contracting, construction, infrastructure, temporary traffic management, and roading. It’s well-respected for its on-thejob training and staff education. QRS’s people and capability plan is the roadmap used to attract, develop, and retain staff. The company hires on attitude first then skill, and currently, a third of staff are working towards apprenticeships. Three staff have branched into an engineering diploma. Staff meet with managers six-monthly to set new goals and discuss progress on their previous ones. QRS offers competitive pay and
overtime rates, and staff are paid a minimum of 45 hours a week.
The company aims for a staff turnover rate of just 10 percent. Paramount to working at QRS is a desire to share in the company’s purpose which is ‘connecting and growing our communities'.
QRS donates $50,000 a year in community sponsorship and provides hundreds of hours of work in kind for the region. It recently funded Wairoa Museum and Wairoa Community Centre for $40,000 each.
QRS staff align with QRS’s mihi whakatau: Ehara taku toa i te toa takitahi, engari he toa takitini. My strength is not mine alone, it is the strength of many.
