Brendon Partridge

This role covered multiple tasks, self managing a small team on the daily around the workshop and on weekends at motorsport events here in New Zealand and Australia. Based in Upper Hutt fly in/fly out required weeks away from home at a time and a lot of dedication put into daily Vlogs, stories or posts via our social media platforms.

Key Tasks:

• Constant communication with the teams corporate sponsors.
• Professional/consistent social media presence on various platforms to an audience well over 100 thousand followers.
• Car maintenance and prep on high level/expensive equipment.
• Planning of events, entries, travel, accommodation etc.
• Sourcing parts from overseas & locally for car maintenance or race day consumables.
• Managing a massive range of merchandise from ordering, completing stocktakes & distribution of sales via online website.
• Maintaining a "showroom-like" car workshop for social media and filming at all times.
• Light mechanical work where and when needed.
• Long haul travel towing 2 Million dollars+ of equipment.

During my 10 years at HEB Construction i quickly grew from a Foreperson to a Supervisor in 1 year, then managing up to 100 bits of plant and 30 staff at one time during the peak surfacing seasons over the last 9 years. With a lot of equipment and people there was always consistent problem solving while on site to meet both the teams needs and clients needs.

Key tasks:

• Applying strong leadership skills with a "hands-on" mentality to maintain workflows and a happy team.
• Showed empathy to individual strong relationships with my team.
• Planned, ordered and sorted delivery for chip and bitumen for daily operations locally and across the South Island at times.
• Maintained a high level of Health & Safety with my team with regular site audits & ensuring to comply with the company's best practices.
• Routine inspections on materials and quality checks on site.
• Regularly handled customer and/or residents complaints with respect & resolved issues to a high standard.
• Daily reporting with various Councils to to achieve results and meet deadlines.
• Repaired surfacing equipment to keep jobs moving while working remotely, and informing plant department of faults or repairs. Heavily involved with sorting plant maintenance servicing & wof/cofs.
• Making calls on weather effecting sealing with emulsions in Christchurch City, ensuring environmental need were always meet and to a high standard.

Straight out of school i was a young modern apprentice learning all trades within the industry that were on offer like Surfacing, Road Maintenance, Traffic Management, Mechanical Workshop, Storeroom PPE Supply and Plant Hire. I found my passion in the Surfacing division withing the first 2 years and focused on that growing my skill set and i quickly learnt that i enjoyed working with a team daily.

About the role & me:

• 6 Years of the role operating specialised class 5 truck/trailers loaded with approx 180°C Liquid Bitumen.
• Demonstrated respect, friendliness and willingness to help wherever needed while working with a team.
• Worked flexible hours; Nights, Weekends & Holiday Shifts
• Organized and managed bitumen quantities daily to ensure heat levels were maintained and had the desired amount of product for each job.
• Adaptable to change on the fly with weather conditions or job delays and self problem solve to achieve a result.
• last 3 years i was second in charge at a young age, leading the flow of the worksite and often left unsupervised to manage the team and workload to assist the site foreperson.
• Comply with company polices and complete things like; Pre Start Checks, accurate site information, quality checks, attend and sometimes lead Tail-Gate meetings & complete all paperwork to a high standard.

• Invercargill Airport Runway Project - (2008/09)
• Transmission Gully Project - (2021/22)
• Stewart Island Resurfacing Project - (2015)
• Various LPC Port Resurfacing
• Various Kiwirail Sites Resurfacing
• Ashburton District Maintenance Contract - (2019/23)
• Alice Springs Airport Runway Project - (2012)
• Southland District Reseal Contract - (2005/13)
• Selwyn District Reseal Contract - (2013/23)
• Christchurch City Reseals Contract Central - (2017/23)
• Christchurch City Reseals Contract Northern - (2021/23)
• Marlborough Transit NZ Highways & NOC Reseal Contract - (2013/23)