We asked our people from various roles across the business what they are most looking forward to personally and professionally in 2024.
Thanks to these 15 contributors for boldly sharing their inspiring goals and ambitions.
Featured L-R: Michael Munro, Holly Jenkinson, Terri-Lee Morris, Alex van Koersveld, Nicola Logan
Michael Munro
Materials Characterisation Service Area Lead & Senior Associate Engineer
- Welcoming the second little one into the family
- Successful implementation of the new Business Strategy to expand and advance ATCW’s laboratories
- Expand my professional network by attending more industry events and joining professional organisations
Holly Jenkinson
Marketing and Communications Manager
- Completing my graduate certificate studies followed by a long holiday
- Increasing our newsletter readership. Tell all your friends to read The Groundwork
- Increasing the number of exciting technical articles we publish. Giving you more knowledge and more insights from our technical leaders, as well as helping you stay up to date on the latest developments in the industry
Terri-Lee Morris
HSE&W Manager
- I am really looking forward to listening to our people and making improvements based on their feedback and experiences
- Allowing people to talk openly, trial new forms and documents and provide feedback on how we can improve HSE&W across the business
- Identify and address systemic organisational issues and develop systems and programs that are simple and meaningful
Alex van Koersveld
Victorian Operations Manager & Principal Engineer
- I am very excited about taking on the role of operations manager for Victoria
- As the Victorian office has expanded, I would like to consolidate the team, improve knowledge sharing and mentoring to benefit all our staff and increase the emphasis on project management
- Providing the necessary training (internal/external) where required
- We pride ourselves on the quality of work we produce and have done so for many years. I want to maintain these standards, and this is only possible collaboratively, capitalising on our in-house knowledge base to assist staff development and training.
Nicola Logan
Brisbane Operations Manager & Principal Hydrologist
- I’m travelling to the UK in June and looking forward to sneaking in some dam visits along with seeing family
- I’m planning to author (or co-author) two papers
- We’re building a fantastic closure team led by Phillipe Garneau, Katie Carter, and Melissa Salt
Featured L-R: Nick Brown, Sam Wijayasinha, Nicholas Reynolds, Mariel Mendoza, Alex Arroyo, Genevieve New
Nick Brown
Sunshine Coast Operations Manager & Principal Engineer
- Weekends with my wife and kids – you can’t beat them
- The rollout of our new Project Management software
- Listening more
Sam Wijayasinha, IT Manager
Nicholas Reynolds, IT Support Officer
- We are working on implementing Intune endpoint management and Software Portal, which are expected to improve software installation and configuration efficiency and security
- Achieving the Essential Eight cyber security standards
Mariel Mendoza
People and Culture Manager
- Having more quality time with my daughter before she starts school next year
- Focusing on my mental and physical health and wellbeing
- Implementing more people and culture-based initiatives and benefits that promote overall wellness, engagement, motivation, and happiness
- Employee Engagement Survey to understand what is driving and impacting motivation, engagement and challenges we face
- Strategic Initiatives for P&C, such as career development framework, strategic recruitment, and leadership development
Alex Arroyo
QMS Procedures Analyst
- Spending Christmas & NY with my family in Colombia
- Achieving my Australian Permanent Residency
- Taking on increased responsibilities in QMS management and embracing more management tasks
- I would like to develop and improve my leadership skills
Genevieve New
Principal Engineer
- Sunshine and the great outdoors
- Seeing some new work sites
- Developing a strong EOR cohort
- The 3 L’s – listening, learning, and leading
Featured L-R: Jacob Holder, Meri Sadeghipour, Ines Candido, Tracey Rose, Mark Passier
Jacob Holder
Undergraduate
- Moving into a full-time role following my graduation, I hope to focus the early stage of my career on developing a broad knowledge base and skill set in a range of different project types and engineering problems that ATC offers
- By obtaining a holistic understanding of different areas of work, I can identify my areas of interest, which will be used to help shape my career aspirations and progression path
Meri Sadeghipour
Associate Engineer
- Getting my Australian citizenship
- Planning a cool trip to Canada
- Engineers Australia Chartered Member status
- Taking on the challenge of Risk Assessment
- Balancing work and life better—making it real
- Boosting mindfulness and living my best moment-to-moment life
Ines Candido
Engineer
- I’m excited to celebrate my wedding in Portugal after being with my partner for ten years.
- Seize the opportunity to work at ATCW as a geological engineer and grow my knowledge and experience
- I’m also keen to work in business development to improve processes and procedures to increase operational performance and customer impact
- Improve my English throughout 2024!
Tracey Rose
Sunshine Coast Business Support Officer
- I am hoping to travel to America to visit my son. He has just had his first baby, and I want cuddles!
- Continue to be part of a great team here at ATCW
Mark Passier
Principal Engineer
- I spent some time on the bench with an injury in 2023, so I’m appreciating being able to ‘do life’ in a way that’s more normal to me
- Continue building relationships with our great people in this business and deliver excellent outcomes for our clients here in Tasmania
Thanks again to all. We might check in again towards the end of the year to see how they progressed and what they learned.
