Product Support
Our core business - providing specialised piling equipment and accessories by sale and/or rental, and the very important role of providing cost effective Product Support through our engineering and trade based workshop personnel. This is what Pilequip was established for and has specialised in for almost 20 years.
Director/General Manager - Brett Camm:
In this role Brett is responsible for all of the day to day operations of Pilequip in both the sales of equipment and accessories, the management of the rental fleet and the provision of Product Support services through our workshop and yard personnel.
Based at Vineyard NSW, this involves operations throughout Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific region.
Brett has had over 16 years experience as an honours qualified Civil Engineer specializing in construction and contract management, with a strong focus on customer service and support. He was Construction Manager with a leading Australian foundation engineering company where he gained extensive experience in the many facets of the foundation industry. He joined Pilequip in 2003 and has made very rapid progress since then. He has travelled extensively in the past 3 years especially to Western Australia, South Australia and New Zealand where he has identified and developed new business opportunities with a wide range of customers. He has also travelled overseas to the UK, Netherlands, France, Germany, Italy and Finland to gain experience with our major suppliers of piling equipment.
He is a very talented and capable Engineer and Manager.
Director/Product Support Manager - Mark Hellyer:
Mark is a very experienced Civil Engineer having 21 years of project management experience on varied jobs throughout Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Malaysia and Indonesia. These projects have included multi storey buildings; precast, in situ and cable stay bridges; precast concrete and tilt up panels; post tensioning of bridges, viaducts and slabs; permanent and temporary anchors for dams, excavations and retaining walls; dam foundation grouting, jet grouting, soilmix walls; road construction and pipelaying. He trained at UTS in Sydney.
In this role, Mark will work closely with our Manager Director Brett Camm and will be responsible for:
- Contract management: Organising & controlling all new rental and sales contracts entered into by the company, from receipt of order to completion of work and final payment with extensive customer liaison.
- Systems management: drafting, implementing and controlling contract management, product support, O,H&S and workshop management policies and day to day procedures and activities.
- Business development: examine and research new business initiatives and to assist in determining future expansion of Pilequip into new markets, either by product or geographic region.
Workshop Manager - Chris Symons:
Chris heads up our very mobile workshop team. Chris celebrated 10 years with Pilequip in March 2006.
He is very experienced in the operation and maintenance of all of the equipment in our rental fleet. He is required to travel extensively and has commissioned equipment as far apart as Apia in Western Samoa to Dampier in the north West of WA!
Service Technician - Alex Kaalund:The team is ably supported by our Service Technician - Alex Kaalund, a Fitter/Machinist who spent several years with Atlas Copco and Komatsu as Field Technician. Alex is fast rivaling Chris for frequent flyer points as he travels the length of the country. His experience with excavators becomes very apparent when it comes to commissioning and servicing excavator mounted piling attachments, and he has earned a very good reputation for his experience in this field.
Service Technician - Chris La Spina:
Chris, or 'Wolf' as he is often called, is a qualified motor mechanic and has extensive experience of service and maintenance in the contruction industry, and for the past 15 years in the specialised foundation engineering equipment industry.
He worked for 9 years with the very highly regarded Alan Wallace at Unidrill where he was responsible for the maintenance of a fleet of 20 vehicles, including heavy International and Volvo prime movers, and about 12 drilling rigs either mounted on prime movers or track based carriers.
Unidrill terminated their operations in 2001 and since then 'Wolf' worked with MGI Piling, Wagstaff Piling and most recently Williams Equipment. All very experienced, well managed and well known companies in the piling industry. In each of these companies he again specialised in the maintenance of piling equipment, particularly track based drilling and piling rigs.
Yard Manager - Steve Saunders:Steve Saunders is our Yard Manager at Vineyard. He is responsible for the sheet pile handling and movements on behalf of J Steel Australasia at Vineyard as their stocks in sheet piling products reach an all time high, reflecting the popularity of Arbed/Arcelor products.
Steve, who joined Pilequip in 1996, also celebrates 10 years with Pilequip in 2006. He is our transport organiser, and controls the sale and distribution of spare parts and accessories to all customers.
Warren is one of the most experienced Boilermaker/Welders in the business, and there is very little that he cannot tackle with confidence. He has worked at the Vineyard yard for over 15 years and is available to assist with equipment repairs and special fabrication such as for pile leaders or other attachments as required.