Staff Profiles
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John Davidson- Managing Director
John’s mining sector career spans three decades, with much of it dominated by his service to CRA on the Bougainville Copper Project.Starting as construction manager (Bechtel Pacific) John’s experience encompasses roles within the supply, retail management, maintenance planning, training management and personnel administration and recruitment.In 1990, John established John Davidson & Associates (JDA) to provide professional recruitment services for mining and construction projects around the globe.Today, John continues to personally drive the future directions of JDA and consults across all employment disciplines with an emphasis on offering advisory services for senior mining professionals.
Neal Stewart- Director JDA
Neal Stewart brings more than 35 years domestic and international business and mining experience to JDA.Neal’s extensive career, principally in the field of human resources, has seen him work across the globe from Papua New Guinea (PNG), the Philippines, Indonesia and the United Kingdom.Domestically, Neal drove the entire human resource effort to establish new operations such as the Bronzewing and Jundee gold mines and the Cawse nickel mine in Western Australia. Earlier, Neal played key managerial roles with the Bougainville operation for CRA and the Kelian gold operation for RIO.Prior to joining JDA, Neal established a successful company that installs soft fall safety rubber into playgrounds, stables and fun parks.Based in Melbourne, Neal will provide strategic expertise to JDA’s PNG operations and manages key stakeholder accounts. He has accepted a Directorship on the company’s Board of Directors. He will also spearhead, JDA’s flagship Executive Search program that will be rolled out across JDA offices in early 2009.
Bob Lee- President Director, JDA-Indonesia
Bob Lee is the President Director of JDA-Indonesia in Jakarta, Indonesia. He has an extensive mining background of more than 25 years within professional and management roles.Bob is a qualified civil engineer and has worked with many high profile and successful projects throughout South East Asia (Hong Kong, Indonesia and PNG). In Hong Kong as construction manager for Leighton Contractors, Bob was responsible for managing the overall success of several civil construction projects, and while in Indonesia and PNG, he spearheaded the development of several large scale mining ventures.Bob commenced with JDA-Indonesia in 2004 and leads JDA’s Indonesian team. His role is to guide the directions of JDA within Indonesia and to work closely with project managers to secure the right people to meet the challenges of this dynamic market.
Brendan Donnelly- Manager - Mining Division
Brendan has more than 30 years’ experience working in the mining and construction sectors. He holds a BE Mining, is a trade qualified fitter in diesel and heavy earth moving equipment and was awarded an MIM scholarship.In more recent years, Brendan moved into technical writing and training and ran his own safe mine training consultancy. He joined JDA in November 2007 as a training consultant. However, Brendan’s skills and expertise in the mining sector were soon called upon and he has recently taken over management of the mining division.Brendan is an excellent communicator, with a passion for training people to reach their full potential. He likes to work in an energetic environment and is determined to ensure his team is happy and motivated to perform to the best of their ability.His objective is to ensure the mining team provides exceptional customer service and top quality candidates and believes that actively seeking feedback from both clients and candidates on their recruitment experience is an essential ingredient to success.
Mark Flood- Business Development Manager, Trades + Industrial
Mark is a leading Labour Hire recruitment expert with more than 15 years experience within the industry.Mark has an excellent track record for results and exemplary business acumen skills. His experience includes working within project to executive level management positions across several industry sectors, including manufacturing and mining.Primarily, Mark is currently responsible for managing JDA’s key business and industrial relationships in South East Queensland. He is also tasked with advancing the company’s new Export and Business Facilitation products and services.
Garry Brady- Regional Manager, North Queensland
Garry has worked within Queensland’s recruitment and labour hire industry for the past 15 years. He is a highly respected and valued recruitment specialist within the sector and has worked with leading organisations such as Boyne Smelter Ltd, BHP Yabalu and Xstrata Technology in Townsville.Garry’s outstanding ability to resource industry and candidate information, act quickly and proactively motivate his team enable him to stay at the forefront of the labour market industry.Garry’s role is responsible for implementing JDA’s North Queensland vision and to meet the varying demands of one of the industry’s largest growth regions.JDA’s North Queensland office provides a convenient and central service for clients flying into the area and supports numerous large projects within regional Queensland.
Amanda Treacy- Business Development Manager
Amanda holds a Certificate 2 and 3 in Business and has more than 4 years experience in the recruitment industry.With a background in administration and support services, Amanda successfully completed a business traineeship and continued to sharpen her HR skills within the recruitment industry until she joined JDA’s Belmont office, Perth in May 2008.Having grown up in a mining household in WA’s goldfields, Amanda is well aware of the unique requirements of the Western Australian job market. Her key objectives as a business development manager with JDA are to build relationships with both clients and candidates and grow their trust and awareness of JDA as a market leader in the on-hire labour industry.
Kerri Rohlf- Senior Consultant
Kerri is one of JDA’s most valuable recruitment consultants, successfully placing key appointments throughout Asia, Africa, Europe, Papua New Guinea, South America and Australia.Since joining JDA in 1996, Kerri has been responsible the recruitment of staff, through all levels of the organisation and for a number of large off-shore projects as well as the placement of permanent and short-term contractors into the heavy earth moving and mining sectors.Kerri has a strong customer service ethic and works as an integral part of JDA’s Maintenance and Engineering Team. Her current focus is on middle to senior management level placements for the mining and engineering industries.
Paul Creighton- Consultant
Paul joined JDA in 2005 after several years within the warehousing and logistics management industry for companies such as Sanyo Australia, Apple Computer Australia and Danzas AEI. Since then, Paul has been an integral part of JDA’s Industrial Team and has provided quality recruitment services for a wide range of mining, construction and engineering positions.Paul’s solid and practical employment experience and strong relationship skills enable him to understand the employer and employee dynamic, to successfully maintain and create successful long-term results for his clients.
Lyn Bock- Recruitment Consultant – Townsville
Lyn is a highly skilled industrial recruitment consultant with more than six years recruitment industry experience and 30 years work experience in various supervisory and management roles.Prior to commencing with JDA in August 2007, Lyn worked as a team leader for Workpac Industrial where she made more than 1,000 employment placements within a two-year period.Lyn’s recruitment and local market knowledge has helped to support JDA’s rapid growth within the region.Lyn is responsible for increasing awareness of JDA’s services within the labour hire and professional markets and to support regional clients with domestic and overseas placements.
Derek Gorst- Senior Consultant
Derek is one of JDA’s most experienced senior consultants and has worked within the mining sector for nearly 30 years in Australia, Papua New Guinea and Africa.Derek has held senior IT and Maintenance Management positions with the CRA group at Bougainville Copper, and prior to joining JDA, was Administration Manager with Sierra Rutile in West Africa.Derek is a degree qualified Chemical Engineer and has been a member of the AusIMM for more than 40 years. He is responsible for the management of professional appointments as part of JDA’s Professional Placement Division and specialises in technical disciplines such as metallurgy and chemical and electrical engineering.
Len Bowman- Consultant
Len is a qualified electrician with more than 25 years industry experience. He has worked in electrical supervision and plant maintenance and planning roles for major energy and mining projects such as BHP and Rio Tinto within Australia, Papua New Guinea and China.Since commencing with JDA in November 2007, Len’s industry knowledge has proven invaluable in sourcing and placing resources for companies operating both in Australia and overseas markets.Len’s experience has been instrumental in developing process plant and mining equipment maintenance planning and scheduling programs and managing the transition from in-house to MIMS computerised maintenance management systems.Len’s strengths include his broad industry experience in mining and power generation, meticulous attention to detail and ability to deliver on demanding HR assignments for the sector.
Harvey Morton- Consultant
Harvey holds a Mechanical Engineering Certificate, specializing in drafting and worked as a draftsman for 20 years before moving into maintenance planning with Bougainville Copper in Papua New Guinea.He was subsequently appointed as technical training supervisor at the Mine Training College for Bougainville Copper, an experience which has provided him with a thorough knowledge of the engineering and mining sectors, both domestically and internationally.Harvey joined JDA in April 2007. As a consultant with JDA’s engineering division, he is passionate about building good working relationships with his team and achieving successful recruitment outcomes for clients and candidates.
Bev Cosgrove- Manager – Communications, Risk and Compliance
Beverley holds a Graduate Certificate in Risk Management and has more than 12 years experience as a risk management professional.Prior to joining JDA in 2006, Beverley worked for a number of years with a top 500 retail company. Her past experience includes the disciplines of insurance, workers compensation, intellectual property, business continuity and fleet management.Since her commencement with JDA, Beverley has worked closely with senior management on re-branding the company’s image and developing its unique occupational health and safety platform.An active member of The Risk Management Institution of Australasia (RMIA), Beverley was recently the first person to be awarded its Certified Risk Management Technician (CRMT) accreditation – a new industry certification recognising operational experience and expertise of managers and specialist practitioners in risk management.Beverley is also the chair of the RMIA’s working group to promote the role of risk managers to Australian businesses and recruitment consultancies.