Engineers Australia

The growing skills shortage is forcing more and more WA employers to look overseas to secure skilled workers.

Henneveld wins engineering honours

THE use of social media platform Yammer, a growing fly-in, fly-out workforce, and Big Brother-style analysis are tools increasingly in use by human resources departments across Western Australia.

Brookfield Place was named the overall winner at the WA Engineering Excellence Awards over the weekend.The award judges said the building set new standards for engineering excellence in Australia, with the slender skyscraper presenting unique challenges.

Will Neethling has been appointed the 2014 president of the WA division of Engineers Australia.Mr Neethling is a principal decommissioning engineer with Sinclair Knight Merz.He was named National Engineering Technologist of the Year 2013. 

Gender is a perennial issue because progress comes in fits and starts.

The federal government has failed to give enough consideration to the economic and domestic gas supply implications of floating LNG technology (FLNG), a Western Australian parliamentary inquiry has found.

Woodside Petroleum has more than doubled its intake of graduates, from 50 hired in 2013 to 115 expected to start next year.

The peak national body for engineers has revealed a strong desire among its members in Western Australia to be engaged in the industry’s nascent floating liquefied natural gas developments.

Business groups in WA are taking the lead on forming a peak infrastructure council after state government failure to support the concept.

Thirteen peak industry groups in Western Australia have backed the establishment of an infrastructure advisory group, in a move designed to give the business sector a unified voice and more weight in policy setting.

WA continues to experience falls in available jobs for engineers, prompting many to take up chartered qualifications.

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