Mawsons

Building, Construction & Engineering

Mawsons is a family-run business that produces quality concrete and quarry products for the construction industry throughout Central and Northern Victoria and Southern NSW.

Across these regions, there are 80 worksites where nearly 600 Mawsons employees perform a very wide range of jobs. Trading also as Milbrae and Country Concrete, with a history spanning over 110 years and Adbri as a Joint Venture Partner, Mawsons are a well established and highly regarded employer.

MAWSONS TODAY

When it comes supplying quality concrete and quarry products, Mawsons are specialists. Mawsons are recognised as leading construction materials suppliers with a proud reputation for innovation, technical excellence and reliability. In addition to the sites with fixed plant Mawsons also operate mobile concrete batching and crushing and screening equipment, and have a fleet of concrete, cement and quarry delivery trucks.

Safety has always been Mawsons’ first priority. Operating modern equipment with the latest comfort and safety features helps to keep Mawsons’ safety performance ahead of industry standards. Staff are always encouraged to undertake further training to improve their skills & knowledge, advance their careers and strengthen the business.

Operating in a sustainable manner and minimising the environmental impact of our work Mawsons implement comprehensive quarry rehabilitation programs and maintain offsets for flora and fauna on our own land. We also supply low CO2 concrete, recycle aggregates and water and source all mains electricity from renewable sources.

Since 2007 Mawsons has been part of a wider enterprise through our Joint Venture with Adbri and, in turn, CRH. This means that Mawsons has the backing and support of a very large global corporation in doing what we do well in regional Australia. To find out more about Mawsons, click here!

Locations

Mawsons has over 80 sites across Central and Northern Victoria and Southern New South Wales. For a full list of our sites, please visit www.mawsons.com.au.

 

People and Communities

The people who work at Mawsons are skilful, resourceful and highly-motivated; always striving to ensure customers’ needs are safely and efficiently met.

Respect is a core value at Mawsons and our performance is measured against equality, integrity and environmental targets as well as safety and economic objectives.

Enhancing the skills and leadership qualities of our people provides great career paths while also securing future stability and giving our customers the best products and service. Specialist training in many fields including machine operation, metal & mechanical trades, concrete technology, IT, safety, plant design, quality assurance, explosives, rehabilitation, environmental care, people management and administration is regularly provided to employees who are looking to improve their skillsets and advance through the business. Attending conferences and participating in industry seminars helps ensure that Mawsons people remain well informed and familiar with industry best practice both in Australia and overseas.

As a long-established, regional employer, operating across so many towns and cities, small and large, Mawsons have strong community ties. Through the involvement of our employees and sponsorship from our Company Mawsons support hundreds of local clubs and organisations to help ensure the well-being and prosperity of all the people in the regions we serve.

Careers at Mawsons

Mawsons are committed equal opportunity employers with a diverse workforce and pride ourselves on being flexible to meet individual employees’ family, well-being and personal development needs. Understanding and respecting how the needs of individuals change over time is a feature of Mawsons recruitment and staff development programs.

A career at Mawsons offers enormous opportunities; it can start close to home and involve trying a range of tasks before undertaking further training and establishing your own career goals.

Graduate positions, trade apprenticeships, a tailored Cadet program and various traineeships are all available.

Mawsons departments:

  • Concrete
  • Quarry
  • Mechanical & Fabrication
  • Engineering & Technical
  • Transport
  • Administration, IT, WH&S and HR

Concrete

Concrete batch plants combine sand and stone from Mawsons’ quarries with cement, water and specialist additives which are then mixed and delivered to construction sites in agitator trucks. Mawsons’ concrete batch plants are strategically located to serve our region. Depending on demand there can be up to 10 agitator trucks and 15 people working at a Mawsons’ concrete plant. Jobs include truck and front end loader drivers, batchers (who select ingredients, manage raw material supply and operate the plant), transport co-ordinators and managers. In smaller plants these roles are shared amongst multi-skilled teams of 2 or 3 people. Some Mawsons’ concrete plants also offer a range of landscaping products for direct sale or delivery in smaller tip trucks.

Quarries

 Stone for concrete, road and rail way construction, asphalt, erosion control, dams and landscaping applications is sourced from Mawsons extensive quarry network. Many different types of stone are quarried. Hard rock, such as basalt, diabase, hornfels and granite is drilled and blasted using explosives. Gravel and sand is dug directly from the ground using excavators. Once extracted the stone material is crushed and screened to meet Australian Standard specifications for each particular product. Blending and wet mixing plants at Mawsons’ quarries ensure optimum product performance while recycling by-products and minimising any waste.

Quarry equipment is typically large. Mawsons use dump trucks that carry loads of between 30 and 60 tonnes. The largest front end loaders at Mawsons’ quarries can fit small cars in their buckets and excavators weigh between 25 and 75 tonnes. There is also specialised equipment such as rock drills and hydraulic hammers that work in the pits to win the stone. Some quarries have crushers and screens that are permanent, others use mobile crushers and screens that travel between quarry sites as customer needs dictate.

Our quarries rely on skilled people of all ages and gender to perform a range of roles; mobile and fixed plant operators, drill and blast surveyors, mechanics, fitters and welders, transport co-ordinators and despatch staff combine as a tight to keep each quarry humming.

Mawsons operate quarries not mines; mines often use chemicals to extract and refine minerals. There is no chemical processing at Mawson quarries.

Mechanical and Fabrication

There are lots of machines at Mawsons; small and large, electric, diesel and petrol powered. Each piece of equipment has to be well maintained to ensure its safe and efficient operation. This is where the mechanics and maintenance teams play a critical role.

Mechanics and maintenance staff are based across the business, many are kept busy in the main workshops at Cohuna, Griffith and Leeton. These workshops are equipped with modern tools and undertake all sorts of repair and rebuild work. Mobile mechanics and welders also visit production sites to carry out maintenance, repairs and plant upgrades.

A specialist team of plant design engineers and project managers undertake the planning, design and construction for much of the plant upgrade work that Mawsons are constantly undertaking, often at several sites at once.

Engineering and Technical

The products Mawsons supply must be durable, safe and able to do what they are expected to do. A team of civil engineers, specialized laboratory technicians and material testers are based in NATA Certified Materials Testing Facilities in Echuca and Griffith, at major quarries and concrete plants across Mawsons’ business. These people are continually refining concrete mix designs and testing concrete and quarry products against a very wide range of criteria to ensure specifications are comfortably meet. Assessing new products and production techniques forms an important part of the Technical Teams’ work as Mawsons continue to keep abreast of the latest, most efficient building technologies.

3d engineering mock-up of a bridge.

Transport

On the roads Mawsons operate a large fleet of modern concrete trucks (agitators), tip trucks and cement tankers. This equipment provides the delivery services that link our supply sources to our customers’ construction sites. The work of concrete and quarry delivery drivers might take them to remote highways, farmer’s tracks, along rivers or across valleys. Rarely are two days the same for Mawsons’ drivers who are always in contact with their home base and manager via the satellite communication systems that are installed in each vehicle.

Administration, HR, WH&S and IT

Mawsons operational divisions are supported by specialist financial, IT, Human Resources and Work Health and Safety practitioners. These people play critical roles in managing the company’s finances and ensuring that the needs of our most important asset, our people, are well managed. The skills, experience and qualifications in these areas vary from home-grown experience to tertiary qualified staff who have lived experience in all sorts of businesses beyond concrete and quarries.

Offices with training facilities in Cohuna, Echuca, Bendigo, Leeton and Griffith are designed to make sure that the expert help of a specialist support person is never out of reach of an operator or manager at any Mawsons’ plant.

Are You Interested in a Career at Mawsons?

Mawsons is a family-run business that produces quality construction materials throughout Northern Victoria and Southern N.S.W. Across these regions, Mawsons are prominent players with over 500 employees across 80 sites. Trading also as Milbrae and Country Concrete, with a history spanning 110 years and Adbri as a Joint Venture Partner, Mawsons are very well established and highly regarded.

The Opportunity

Continuing with our second year of running the program in 2024; Mawsons have an exciting opportunity for school leavers to complete a 12-month Cadetship with the aim to secure young talent and provide development opportunities and experience to the young people in the communities in which we work.

The scheme offers four successful 18-25 year old candidates a 1-year fixed term employment contract, after which the objective is for each Cadet to potentially secure a suitable permanent role within Mawsons dependent on their skills, preferences, desired location and the business needs at that time.

Each Cadet will be rotated through four operational divisions: Concrete, Quarries, Technical and Workshops (Engineering, Fabrication and Mechanical). Each Cadet will be assigned a workplace mentor for the duration of the program to provide support and guidance.
As Cadets move through this diverse, hands-on program they will receive a competitive wage while gaining valuable industry and workplace knowledge from our friendly and professional Mawsons teams.

Cadets from 2023 talk about their experiences at Mawsons

“My experience in the Cadetship program has been amazing. I have met so many great people, in a range of different working environments including Quarry Operations, Technical Services, Concrete Operations and Mechanical Services.

I am so grateful to have had many enjoyable opportunities during my cadetship. I have learnt a lot of new skills from the experienced staff at Mawsons and have been given the best insights to help me find the right working environment to progress my career.

I look forward to my future at Mawsons and highly recommend the Cadet Program.”

– Erin

“Being a part of the Cadet Program at Mawsons has shown me just how much goes into not only the company, but the whole industry. I have been rotating through several operations and have gained valuable experience in this industry. I’ve met many people with differing experiences that contribute to an excellent work environment with lots of insights and avenues to take in new and helpful information.

Overall, it has been a great opportunity, and I can’t wait to continue to learn as I go, under the direction of those who have experience in each of these sectors and enjoy what they are teaching me.”

– Jude

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