This appeared in todays news, on a few sites, skilled workers desperately needed

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The West Australian Government is so concerned about the burgeoning skills crisis its taking a delegation to the United Kingdom and Ireland in a bid to poach workers. The Training and Workforce Development Minister, Peter Collier, today revealed a targeted plan to help avoid an estimated shortfall of 150,000 additional skilled workers by 2017. Most of the demand is in the resources sector and the industry is pushing for greater skilled migration amid fears that Australia lacks the skills to fill the gap in the near future.

Industry leaders and representatives will accompany Mr Collier, on a 10 day trip, including trade shows and meeting with UK and Irish government members. Mr Collier also launched a website designed to help employers attract skilled migrants.

The Skilled Migrant Portal includes a list of occupations in demand, available visa`s, as well as information about living and working in WA, and how employers can help people settle in. The new website is targeted at people who are thinking of emigrating from their country of residence and employers who are considering using skilled migration as a workforce development strategy to meet their needs.

WA is also lobbying the federal Government to change the national migration system to better suit the states needs. The UK delegation leaves later this week, includes representative from the Chamber of Commerce & Industry, WA Chamber of Minerals and Energy, The Australian hotels Association, Motor trades Association, Civil Contractors Federation as well as other industries and groups.

so you should look out for new Worker`s Expo`s happening in the next few weeks, to a month, in an area near by, and start pushing to try to make it to the front of your queue, to try to get a better slant on what is on the list. I believe the new Portal is on the migration website you all know about, is was`nt mentioned by name as a seperate website.

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For those of you heading to Perth to look for work, maybe the news of some of the contracts

Won and publised in today and this week`s papers, will help you make the decision on whether its worth putting in your resume to these companies!

Mining contractor NRW Holdings has won a $70 million contract with Fortescue Metals Group for its main rail line duplication project. The seven-month contract involves bulk earthworks for 50 kilometres of rail duplication."The section awarded to NRW represents the most difficult work associated with the duplication of the main line, with significant drill and blast required through cuttings," the company said in a statement. NRW said it would begin the work immediately using resources from adjacent FMG projects completed in recent weeks. An anticipated peak workforce of 200 is envisaged.

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Chevron has all but silenced critics accusing the US energy major of ignoring local businesses in favour of multi-national contractors by today handing out a $US2.3 billion ($2.15 billion) work order to a WA-based consortium. The Perth offshoots of British engineering firm Kentz Corporation and New York-listed CB&I have won the contract, which is expected to create work for at least 1650 jobs.

The contract is thought to be the biggest awarded by Chevron to locally-based operators.Although CB&I and Kentz are not Australian companies, the work will be run by its locally-based offshoots. Their Gorgon contract covers the structural, mechanical, piping, electrical, instrumentation and commissioning support for the construction of three LNG trains, with a total capacity 15 million tonnes of liquefied gas a year, including associated utilities and a domestic gas processing and compression plant.The contract is due to start immediately and scheduled to complete by 2015.

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Different contract!

Earlier today Chevron awarded a multi-million dollar structural steel contract to Civmec Construction & Engineering. Civmec chief executive James Fitzgerald said his company’s Gorgon contract would involve the supply of about 10,000 tonnes of structural steel to Barrow Island for use in the construction of the gas processing plant. He said the contract would create work for about 60 employees at Civmec’s Henderson yard, adjacent to the Australian Marine Complex, over the next 18 months.“We are grateful to Chevron for this award, as it is a major commitment to local fabrication,” Mr Fitzgerald said

 

Another contract signed!

Fortescue Metals Group has signed an agreement with Seven Group Holdings' WesTrac Group and Caterpillar to provide up to 45 driverless trucks by 2015 for the company's Solomon iron ore miner in the Pilbara. The agreement sets out a trial of 12 autonomous 793F haul trucks by the fourth quarter of 2012, expanding to 45 by 2015. Fortescue's chief operating officer Neville Power said one of the key growth challenges faced by the company was the availability of people and the need to best utilize its valuable human resource. "As such, it is incumbent upon us to look at new ways of doing things," he said. Under the terms of the deal, WesTrac will be responsible for supporting the Caterpillar mining fleet at Solomon with machine and technology technicians and support personnel.Last month, Rio Tinto announced it would double its fleet of driverless haul trucks at its iron ore operations in WA. The company said it would deploy 10 Komatsu 930E driverless trucks at its Yandicoogina mine in the Pilbara.

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Another contract won!

Mineral Resources has won a $1 billion contract to design, build and operate Fortescue Metals Group's second processing facility at the Christmas Creek iron ore project in the Pilbara.MinRes said work would begin immediately on the 25mtpa facility with production scheduled to come online by September next year. "The operational phase of the contract commences on completion of construction and will generate potential revenue in excess of $1 billion over 10 years," the company said. MinRes will also upgrade the existing Christmas Creek 19mtpa crushing and screening plant to 25mtpa as part of the development.

MinRes chairman Peter Wade said the new contract, which was the largest contract crushing operation awarded in Australia, maintained the established strong relationship between the companies. The work will be completed by MinRes' subsidiary Crushing Services International, which also built the first 19mtpa plant at Christmas Creek. The company also said it was developing its own iron ore operation at Carina in the State's Yilgarn region with first production expected by the end of the year.

Contractor Macmahon says it has won three Rio Tinto contracts in the Pilbara worth $129 million collectively. The contracts include rail earthworks and bridge construction for Hope Downs 4, two bridges over a railway line at Cape Lambert Port B development and earthworks, roadworks and civil works for Cape Lambert Port A. Macmahon said it would hire and train indigenous staff and involve indigenous sub-contractors in the work.

Chief executive Nick Bowen said the contract award was further evidence of the company's recognised ability to deliver significant infrastructure projects across the resources sector in remote and regional locations.

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UPDATE 9.10am: Shipbuilder Austal says the US Navy has confirmed the construction of two more high-speed vessels, the sixth and seventh in a $US1.6 billion, 10-vessel program. Austal said the US Navy had exercised options to take up the next vessels.The construction contract for both vessels is valued at around $US313 million ($294.28 million). The news puts to rest reports that the US Navy had become concerned by excessive corrosion aboard Austal ships, of which it had already taken delivery.

The vessels are intended as the US Navy's next-generation multi-use platform. They are being built at Austal's shipyard in Mobile, Alabama. Austal chief executive officer, Andrew Bellamy, said the shipbuilder expected the JHSV program to deliver a predictable revenue stream of approximately $US300 million ($282.06 million) per year from 2012 to 2015, or around 60 per cent of Austal's historical annual revenue.

 

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UPDATE 9.10am: Shipbuilder Austal says the US Navy has confirmed the construction of two more high-speed vessels, the sixth and seventh in a $US1.6 billion, 10-vessel program. Austal said the US Navy had exercised options to take up the next vessels.The construction contract for both vessels is valued at around $US313 million ($294.28 million). The news puts to rest reports that the US Navy had become concerned by excessive corrosion aboard Austal ships, of which it had already taken delivery.

The vessels are intended as the US Navy's next-generation multi-use platform. They are being built at Austal's shipyard in Mobile, Alabama. Austal chief executive officer, Andrew Bellamy, said the shipbuilder expected the JHSV program to deliver a predictable revenue stream of approximately $US300 million ($282.06 million) per year from 2012 to 2015, or around 60 per cent of Austal's historical annual revenue.

 

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Is Alabama in Wa ???

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Hey now I kn ow someone read these article..... tricky......Some of the local staff at Austal in Henderson, do go over to the other facility in USA at different time. My brother has rellies in his outlaws and in-laws who work for Austal, who have headed over there a few times for strategic work... at least I know 1 person who read these threads... thanks

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Very interesting reading, thanks for the posts

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REMEMBER. I suggested last month to check out this site..... not that I had insider information....

 

HENDERSON-based shipbuilder Austal is charting a newdirection into the resources sector with a new $1.5 million contract with NomadBuilding Solutions.

In a statement to shareholders today, Austal said it wouldprovide labour and facilities to build 44 modular accommodation and staffamenity units for the sector.

Austral chief executive Andrew Bellamy said the contract was“likely to be the first of many” in the resources industry.

Nomad today said in a separate statement to shareholders thejoint venture with Austal was for Rio Tinto’s Western Turner Brockman Project.

It added the agreement allowed Nomad to manufacture andassemble some of its modular buildings in Austal’s Henderson-based complex.

Nomad managing director Michael Bourke said the agreementwas a win-win for both companies.

“It provides Nomad with access to a skilled work force andhigh-tech manufacturing facilities as well as providing additionalmanufacturing capacity, and enables Austal Limited to develop new manufacturingexpertise and generate additional revenue in the resources sector,” he said,the contract was an “opportunity” to demonstrate its relevance to the miningand oil and gas sectors.

“The demands of the resources sector are creatingopportunities for organization with different skills, capabilities and industryperspectives,” Mr Bellamy said.