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ABBTF - WA /MBA Best Bricklaying Apprentice 2007
The inaugural Western Australian ABBTF / MBA Best Bricklaying Apprentice award was announced at the October 2007 Master Builders Apprentice Awards.
With a strong field of finalists, the award was presented to David Jackson of Jurien Bay. Indentured to HIA Apprentices, David’s host employer were his parents Scott and Debbie Jackson. They have faced some hard times which led to David commencing his apprenticeship at 14. Now 16, David has completed his off-the-job training component and is seeking early completion of the apprenticeship. Having cut his teeth on a trowel, David chose to take on bricklaying as a means to keep the family business going, working mostly alongside his mother. Demonstrating maturity and workmanship that would be regarded as beyond his years. David has proven to be a role model for his peers in his home town.
Dean Pearson , from the ABBTF, made the presentation. “David has stepped up when his family needed him to so that the business could continue,” Mr Pearson said. “The fact that he has taken it in his stride at such a young age is a credit to him.”
Other finalists in the award category were Stuart Cardy, employed by Poly Pools and Skill Hire apprentice Kyle Goff and Peter Watters. Our congratulations do to them for a great effort.
How to Secure a Building Company's Future Through Apprentice Training and Support
The West Australian based Alcock/Brown-Neaves (ABN) Group of companies, builders of over 3,500 homes a year, are leading the way in their commitment to trades and their contractors Australia wide. Through apprenticeship development they are helping to meet the current and future housing demands across the country.
ABN Training started with 90 apprentices and now has over 300, 94 of which are bricklayers. The ABN Training arm was established about three years ago. Prior to that Dale Alcock had been involved in supporting bricklayers and has always encouraged contractors to take on apprentices. ABN Training absorbs the cost of administering the enterprise group training scheme which ensure the charge-out rate to the contractor is only for the apprentice's wages, less any wage support assistance from BCITF and ABBTF. The group also pays the higher national construction award to their 'mature aged' apprentices.
Dale Alcock's involvement in training (he was once a bricklaying apprentice himself), also involves grass roots assistance - he supported the Challenger TAFE in establishing its wet trade's area at a cost of $20,000 for new training facilities. Work with RTO's, industry, community and schools are typical activiites for Steve Cook, Apprenticeship Manager at ABN. They also have 170 work experience students on Company sites, being groomed for future industry participation.
ABN is now starting to see the fruits of its labour with apprentices in their thrid year nearing completion with some being developed for supervisory positions.
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