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Safety Innovation AwardOctober 2011 Dawsons were proud to accept the Baulderstone Safety Innovation Award at an event held in Townsville, Wednesday 26th October 2011... She's got her boots on!July 2011 When Robyn VanRooye accepted the role of Training Manager with Dawsons Group of Companies, she was comfortable that her 12 years in Vocational Training – with Queensland Apprenticeship Services and CRGT – would stand her in good stead to make a smooth transition to the mining industry. That was the theory anyway.......... Rob Schroedter named Queensland Apprentice of the YearJune 2011 TWICE awarded as among the best by his peers, Townsville boilermaker Rob Schroedter is laying the foundations for a successful career in heavy metal fabrication. Dawsons hosts PNG Students for workplace visitsMarch 2011 Dawsons Training Division recently coordinated with Tropical North Queensland TAFE to provide workplace visits for three groups of visiting PNG students. Dawsons supports Cairns ExpoDec 10, 2009 Yesterday's jobs expo in Cairns has been declared a resounding success.The expo was organised to address the region's high unemployment rate by linking job seekers with prospective employers. Dawsons Group of Companies supported the expo with a stand promoting Labour Hire and Tranining opportunities. The region's employment coordinator, Peter Doutre, says 5,500 people attended and 35 were hired by employers. "We've got expressions of interest from 2,500 for work, we've got 80 people who have already been signed into training placements and 290 people with offers of work to be placed," he said. Paul Creedon from Centrelink says many more people got the opportunity to meet prospective employers. "Those people have probably handed in their resume and there could be jobs well in the future," he said. "We know the economy's starting to get legs now, it's starting to strengthen and a lot of those people now will be able to have their resume now with a prospective employer.". Dawsons Expanding at GEMCONovember 2008 Dawsons Engineering was recently awarded the balance of the Stage 1 work packages for the Groote Eylandt Expansion Project. The incremental expansion of the Groote Eylandt concentrator is aimed at increasing the processing capacity of the plant, to 4.0 Mt per annum, by removing bottlenecks from the existing layout. Dawsons Construction Crew Find Their Pioneering SpiritSeptember 2008 Dawsons Construction Crew is celebrating the completion of one of their most challenging projects to date. The brief by their client Queensland Parks and Wildlife was to fabricate and install a 40m long steel walkway to facilitate the safe crossing of the Cairns Kuranda train line at Red Bluff. The project presented many technical, logistical and environmental challenges, which the Dawsons crew met with relish. Cannington Contract WinAugust 2008 BHP Billiton has extended their partnership with Dawsons Engineering in the new Infrastructure Maintenance contract at Cannington Mine. No such thing as an impossible cutThe Waterjet profile cutting machine installed at the Townsville workshop of Dawsons Engineering has proven to be a versatile and popular method of cutting materials that had previously been difficult or impossible to cut using conventional technology.
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