Our client is an extremely well respected Maitland based company with many years servicing mainly commercial, industrial and mining clients. “If it’s water they do it” – Irrigation, plumbing and filtration specialist with over 50 employees accros the region.

Based out of the Maitland HQ you will have a diverse workload accross all the sectors that the business service. Working with a great team of varied trades towards a common goal. Teamwork is the key to success in the business and the company prides itself on being a quality supplier of equipment but more importantly being the best service team in the valley.

This is a permanent role – you will begin as a casual through Hunter Recruitment Group and after a 3 month trial taken onto the clients books as a permanent employee. After this trial period you will be issued with a fully maintained company work vehicle.

As a Boilermaker / Welder you will need:

• min 3 years experience
• Great MIG experience (no need for pressure tickets)
• Some TIG and Stainless
• Excellent fabricator
• Mostly mild steel
• experinece with pumps would be great
• ability to service farming and mining equipment
• ability to work as part of a team
• have a great customer service mentality
• have a current drivers licence

It would be desirable but not essential to have additional tickets like:

• forklift
• confined spaces
• elevated work platform

You will be well paid – working as a casual to start you will earn $35 / hr plus super then after the 3 month trial you will revert to a permanent at $28/ hr + super plus fully maintained vehicle.

If you are a trade Boilermaker / great welder working for yourself and looking for a steady secure permanent job or if you are the welder that is sick of paying to travel to the Valley each day and would like a better lifestyle working out of Maitland – Apply today.

If you would like more information you can contact Craig McGregor on 49366 537 or simply apply by sending your resume to resume@hunterrecruitmentgroup.com.au

In late October I will be taking the day to don the jersey of the Highland Hornets – a team participating in this years Play Wel for Mai Wel event. The Hornets are a team made up of gun sporting stars from Northern Highland Travel (if you need to book a holiday or simply want to travel to Sydney to see Dolly Parton or Hair Spray – these are the guys to talk too) and the remained of the team are sporting has beens like yours truly from BNI Harvest (the greatest networking group on the face of the planet)

The Mai Wel group is a fantatsic charity based in Maitland that enrich the lives of the disabled.

The event is about having fun and obviously trying to bring home a few sheep stations in sports such as Netball, Volleyball and Indoor Cricket.

So give us a chance to maybe win a prize for raising the most money for such a worthwhile charity.

Follow the link below to the donation form and send it off to the Mai Wel Group. You will be helping them with much need funds to maintain the great programs in operation.

PlayWelHighlandHarvestHornetsFundraising Form

Today’s employment market in most sectors of our Hunter
region have turned traditional job interviewing on its head. If as a manager or
small business owner you think you are doing the interviewing to find the right
candidate – think again….it truly is the candidate that is weighing up your
role – Is this the best opportunity for me!!!

Are you conducting interviews that outline the benefits of
working with you and with the organisation? Are you selling at interview?

Even before the interview what is your brand doing for
recruitment?

Your brand as an employer is a very important strategy in
finding the best talent. If you are not working on employment branding in the
Hunter you are making the very tough task of recruitment even harder. Let’s
simply think about your website:

After looking at a job ad of interest or meeting with a
recruiter – the first place people go is your website. If your website does not
showcase your values, outline professionalism and if it is really boring, then
that great candidate may not be even interested in gaining an interview let
alone take a job.

Selling yourself as a business is now key to making great
placements, job hunters be it passive or active have choice and if you think you
miss out because someone else is simply paying bigger $$, you are totally wrong
– this has just become your excuse.

Finding the right people to help in your business is hard
work but selling the company better is the first step towards achieving better
recruitment outcomes. If you want to work with a recruiter and HR professional
that embraces these challenges contact Craig McGregor of Hunter Recruitment
Group & Retain HR today – 49366537

www.facebook.com/HunterRecruitmentGroup

Our client operates a cafe / industrial lunch shop and conference centre amongst other business ventures located in the industrial estate of Thornton. With fantastic growth an opportunity has presented for an enthusiastic individual to join the fast growing team. Working on site within this multi business environment gives you the advantage of being apart of a larger family oriented business.

We are looking for someone to work closely with the CAFE Manager and act as his second in charge. Someone with an ability and desire to do what is required to ensure the CAFE operates effectively

As Cafe Assistant you will be:

• Assisting with food preparation within a busy cafe & conference facility
• Ensuring timely delivery of food to clients off site
• Maintain ordering of food and other consumables
• Act as wait staff for functions and events held on or off site
• Be prepared to clean food prep areas and
• Work as part of a team unit.

To be successful in this role you must:

• Have a customer service attitude to your work
• Be flexible with regards to your roster – hours may change due to functions booked
• Have an ability to work after hours and on weekends
• Experience working in the food industry is very much desirable.

Most importantly it is that CUSTOMER SERVICE attitude that will ensure success. The businesses operated by the owners has grown on the back of happy clients and this is the case again with the Cafe and function centre.

Full time hours of 6am – 230pm Monday to Friday with a 9am – 1pm Saturday shift to be worked on a roster also. We need someone with flexible availability to assist with off site functions booked throughout the year as well.

You will be rewarded with a pay rate of $19.00per hour with overtime worked taken in lieu.

We are looking for a people person who is comfortable delivering sandwiches to local businesses, serving food at events such as a chamber of commerce breakfast, cleaning up the cafe, waiting tables as a high end function. Someone to work closely with the CAFE manager and ensure that customer satisfaction is at the top of the priority list.

For more information contact Craig McGregor on (02) 49366 537 or to apply send your resume to craig@hunterrecruitmentgroup.com.au

• Civil / Structural role within well established and rapidly growing Multi-Discipline Engineering firm
• Starting package negotiable based on your experience – NAME YOUR PRICE
• Work on mining and power projects whilst living in either Newcastle or Maitland

Our client is one of the Hunter Valleys most respected and fastest growing consulting engineering firms. With multi-disciplinary engineering projects across mining and energy they have a diverse team and the backing of over 20 years in business. The first choice in engineering design and project management for all of the miners in this region and throughout Australia.

With the company office based in the heart of Maitland you get the benefit of working within the mining sector without the daily grind of travel associated with commuting to Singleton or Muswellbrook.

If you are looking for a career rather than a job working in only one area of engineering – then this is the company for you. The team works on a project model were all Engineers contribute to the entire project in a multi engineering discipline team environment. Work on a project from start to finish and as a Senior Civil / Structural Engineer take the lead and form lasting relationships with clients

The role of Senior Civil / Structural Engineer has the following responsibilities:

• Design of earthworks / reinforce concrete and structural steel
• Leading a civil design team
• Writing technical specs for tenders and scope of works
• Client liaison and project delivery
• Design review / in-house and 3rd party plans

To be successful in this role you will need to have:

• Degree in Civil / Structural Engineering
• Chartered membership of the Institute of Engineers
• NPER would be desirable

Working within the multi-discipline environment you would need to have experience in the following areas:

• Structural design – large industrial steel frame structures
• Reinforced concrete design – footings / pavements / retaining walls
• Working knowledge of applicable Australian standards
• Software experience with Strand 7 / Microstran & AutoCad
• A background in mining or heavy industry

This role represents a great opportunity to enter a very well established business going through growth, and at this senior level you will get to play a major role in shaping the future of the business. Extra rewards will come from this growth but he company is willing to recognise current skills and negotiate a great start up remuneration package for the right person.

For more information contact Craig McGregor on (02) 49366 537 or 0419115444

To apply in confidence send your resume and a covering letter stating your motivation for taking such a role to craig@hunterrecruitmentgroup.com.au

http://blogs.news.com.au/cubefarmer/index.php/news/comments/should_i_confide_in_the_hr_manager/

Found this article that opens a whole lot of interesting debate from the news.com.au readers. For me HR should be a strategic advisory function within business. Outsourcing this function within small to medium business to a company such as my consulting brand Retain HR allows business to decentalise these issues and have the HR function focus on policy and advice.

Follow the link to listen to Craig McGregor discuss the Federal National Employment Standards along with comments on a recent anti-discrimination case involving a small employer when recruiting. Interview is part of Julian Campbell’s Business the law and you program which runs from 1pm every Thursday on Newcastle Radio 2NUR FM 103.7

http://www.newcastle.edu.au/service/2nur/audio/bly/bly20101021p.mp3

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