A message from your leaders, Feb '23

Welcome back to Around the Sites, your monthly newsletter in which we share important updates and celebrate successes in the business. 

Thank you to everybody who gave up their Christmas to continue to drive outcomes and deliver on our projects. At Iron Bridge we delivered on our critical path activities and significant progress was made.

Over the festive period we both had an opportunity to take a break and time out to reset.

Brett: For the first time in three years due to COVID, I celebrated Christmas with my family in Victoria on my family’s farm. My wife and two boys spent quality time together in Victoria with our extended family.

Paul: I had a quiet and relaxing family Christmas at home in Perth, with little to no stress!

We’re both feeling recharged, ready to go and excited for what looks to be a very promising year ahead. We hope you are too.

Across all our sites we ramped up over a notoriously high risk period, and again our safety performance remained strong. The Finishing Strong, Starting Stronger engagement sessions on site supported this, demonstrating the benefit of stopping, reflecting and refocussing.

On the projects front:

• Mines Services Area (MSA) project for Talison Lithium – is ramping up to peak resourcing in March. It’s all systems go, and we continue to make positive progress. Congratulations to the team’s monthly Tinny Time winners.
  Brett: I had the opportunity to get out to site this month. It was great to get out and catchup with the crew and see the substantial progress that’s been made since December. All work fronts are open and job setups are clean – a lot of effort has gone into the planning and execution, and safety as a result is top notch.
• Iron Bridge site project for Fortescue Metals Group – our work scope is over half way complete. With the focus turning more to E&I and completions. Our productivity remains good, as we push for first ore. We are still increasing resources, specifically in E&I
• Iron Bridge Pipeline – we are further assisting FMG and incumbents on the cross-country pipeline under the guidance of Mark Weldon, Since December we’ve had a small crew of about 20 working to complete the slurry pipeline
• Iron Bridge Canning Pump Station – last week we also mobilised to assist on the pump station, sending a crew of approximately 12
  Paul: the ongoing scope growth at Iron Bridge is a direct result of our high quality and trusted work. This month I visited Iron Bridge, and was pleased to see the good compliance and standard of work while catching up with the team across the various work fronts

Some of our works are wrapping up and some are still recruiting, so we’re working across our projects to ensure we can redeploy people where possible. We are also still recruiting heavily in the E&I space, so if you know people with the right skills and culture, send them our way!

We’re also pleased that we can confirm the award of a new contract with BHP at their Port Hedland operations, for the Car Dumper 3 (CD3) Replacement Project. A significant package of work, valued at over $115 million, we’ll need more than 500 people over the project life. We’ve commenced early works and anticipate project completion in early March 2025.

Additionally, we’ve secured several early contractor involvements (ECIs) on various iron ore, lithium and rare earth projects which has the possibility of leading into successful contract awards.

Tendering remains strong and we want to give a special thanks to the team for their efforts through December including right up to Christmas Eve and then straight back at it after New Years Day.

A reminder for anyone who hasn’t completed their training requirements for Respect@Monadelphous, please make sure you do. We want Monadelphous to be an employer of choice, so it’s important that we continue to uphold a positive and inclusive environment.

We’ll soon be embarking on the next round of apprentice intakes which presents a great opportunity for anyone wanting to start out in the industry and for mature age apprentices. Get in touch with recruitment@monadel.com.au for more.

Finally, thanks to everyone who completed the Employee Engagement Survey. We have the results, there’s some great insights and outcomes that we have to work on which we’ll release shortly. We always want to listen, so we can improve.

Stay safe, look after your mates and remember to always be respectful toe ach other.

Paul and Brett