January Reward & Recognition Award – Maribyrnong Delivery Team
While the Project Manager was on leave, the team was confronted with a major project challenge, with significant pipe delamination – the project came to a standstill.
With most companies closed for the holiday break and long lead times being quoted, the team worked together to convince RPC to mobilise immediately and Defab were engaged to fabricate a steel inner ring in only a few days. There were a myriad of minor issues, but the team responded to them all quickly, calmly and professionally.
An amazing result, with the TBM operational again!
What a credit to all the individuals and to the Team as a whole.
Congratulations to the Maribyrnong Delivery Team on a great contribution to the JV!
Other January Nominees
There were four other nominations for January – keep up the great work.
Tania Conrad
Whilst on leave Tania supported another staff member through the invoice payment system to ensure we didn’t go onto stop credit with a supplier.
Mario Matijevic
Mario stepped up and engaged with a sub contractor bringing an issue to their attention to eliminate a working at heights risk.
Gavin Gormley
There were issues with tunnel preparation, Gavin took responsibility and did everything in his power to fix the issues and ensure tunnel preparation moved forward.
Jody Friend
Jody stepped up to ensure the relvant ITP’s and ITR’s on the SFPJV system were inline with the recently updated Downer Standard versions.
END OF YEAR CELEBRATION
A great night was had by all at the annual End of Year Celebration held on 8 December at Platform 28 in Docklands, with over 80 staff from all projects, partner companies and Melbourne Water in attendance.
The recipients of the October (Phi Nguyen) and November (Nafis Khan & Sam Morris) Reward & Recognition Awards were revealed and the winner of the $500 Nominators Draw was announced (Stuart Gray).
On behalf of SFP, Chris thanked the team for their hard work during 2023, congratulating them on their achievements during a very challenging year and encouraging everyone to stay safe over the coming festive season.
Employee Spotlight – Yash Amberkar
| Position | Project Engineer |
| Project/Location | Yan Yean Pump Station |
| Animals | None – terrible with all and any animals |
| Hobbies | Cooking, Baking, Painting, Dancing |
| Messy or Organised | Depends on the situation |
| If her house was burning down Yash would grab | Photo suitcase if this was NZ. I don’t have a home here yet, but probably laptop because I just got a new one. |
| Least favourite food | Anything bland and doesn’t drink tea, coffee or most hot drinks. |
| Something about Yash that would surprise us | She went skydiving when she was 16 but is now afraid of heights! |
Employee Spotlight – Vikki Cabral
| Position | HSEQ Advisor |
| Project/Location | NYM, Yan Yean PS and Yan Yean WTP |
| Single/Attached | Married with 3 children, 2 sons (15 & 19) and Daughter (13) |
| Pets | Aussie bulldog and 2 cats |
| Favourite Sport | Netball and AFL |
| Football Team | Carlton |
| Hobbies | Socialising, fishing, cars and gardening/plants |
| Messy or Organised? | In between |
| Vikki at 10 Years Old | Happy go lucky, not a care in the world |
| If her house was burning down Vikki would grab | Phone/USB with photos |
| Least favourite food | Mmmm, not much |
| Movie she’s seen the most times | Dirty Dancing |
| Something about Vikki that would surprise us | She owns a classic car and knows bugger all about the mechanics of it, just loves driving it. |