Judges Tim Ford
Amber Scott-Harvey
CCNZ Past President Tim Ford has comprehensive experience in the management and leadership of infrastructure projects for private and government organisations throughout the country, gained through 32 years working in the civil engineering industry. Tim is currently a consultant, but was Executive General Manager for Fulton Hogan, Chief Executive for Stevenson Aggregates Limited and Stevenson Concrete Limited, and has served as a director on several joint venture boards.
As Customer Manager for Z Energy, Amber manages a portfolio of partnerships with industry representative organisations across New Zealand for Z’s commercial business. Working in the Small & Medium Enterprise team, she is focused on ensuring that Z continues to support and champion NZ SMEs and deliver first-class experiences for customers. Amber enjoys the challenges of working with Z’s partners to support their initiatives and deliver value to the members of these organisations, while generating enterprise value to Z. Amber is a born and bred kiwi but has spent most of the last decade working in global markets and is thrilled to be getting closer to the primary industries that make up the our business landscape.
Judges Fiona Malloch Fiona Malloch is the South Island Customer Service Area Manager for Connexis. With over 14 years at Connexis, she is passionate about developing a skilled workforce within our sector and introducing much needed new talent to the sector. The importance of industry training awards: With the Civil Infrastructure industry in high need of skilled workforce, it is vital more than ever that we recognise and celebrate those employers who actively provide opportunities for their staff to gain skills and knowledge through nationally recognised qualifications. These employers demonstrating the commitment to excellence in training and development by helping their staff create strong career pathways. They invest across all levels of their business, embedding training in everything they do and upskilling their people to move up in their chosen career pathway. They understand the importance of building their business by building their people. The Connexis Civil Industry Training awards has been developed to highlight the importance of these types of employers in creating a skilled and safe New Zealand.
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Brian Warren Brian has over forty years’ experience in the civil construction industry having held senior management positions with both Fulton Hogan and Isaac Construction. He was also a director of several subsidiary companies for both organisations. Brian is a member of the Institute of Directors, a director of Ashburton Contracting Ltd, a current member and past Chair of the Civil Trades Certification board. He served on the CCNZ National Executive for 5 years, including 2 years as President, having previously been a Roading NZ Councillor for 9 years. The importance of industry training awards: In preparing their entry for the Connexis Civil Industry Training Awards a company gets the opportunity to formally show how passionate and committed they are about developing their people. Every executive will tell you that people are their most important resource, and these awards showcase those companies who follow that through with how they embed training as a cornerstone of their business. New Zealand is currently facing major labour shortages in many sectors, most particularly infrastructure, making developing our people even more important. Effective training needs to be structured, consistent, apply at all levels within the organisation, be easily understood and fully supported by management. To enter these awards all nominees, have to demonstrate all these attributes and more. They should be proud of the real difference they are making to people’s lives.
CCNZ / Z PEOPLE & CONNEXIS TRAINING AWARD JUDGES 2021
