Matthew Brown

I am a highly motivated enthusiastic worker with a multitude of skills. I carry out work to the highest standards, from office work to hands-on practical work over a variety of industries. These are all carried out with confidence, a genuine understanding of the process and the reasons behind them. Total customer satisfaction is always a priority. I thrive on working under pressure, especially in a highly reactive fast paced environment. I am always keen to learn new skills and transfer the ones I already know, to carry out any task to the highest possible standard. My experience to date reflects my extremely reliable, dynamic work ethic with great time management and delegation skills.

Career

Full Time Travel Dec 2023 - June 2025

CBH Group Koorda – Receivals Point Operator – Sept 2019 to Dec 2023

• Primary site, RPO IC during harvest and managing up to seven other staff members on site. Being ultimately responsible for their training, health and safety, hours worked and the site throughput.
• Leading by example to establish a safety first culture.
• Efficiently prioritising tasks to set clear targets for any given shift.
• Identifying how to effectively utilise people to optimise their strengths and offer guidance if needed.
• Building a rapport with growers to allow both parties to communicate openly and discuss any issues that may arise. This included quality concerns, plant outages and cycle times.
• Continually showing my ability to pick new tasks up with ease. Including new computer tasks, operating plant, machinery and equipment.
• Stock control of all grain types and varieties.

Integrity Staffing – Administration – 18/07/19 to 18/08/19

• Working at the Construction Training Fund gathering data for a large survey of over 1200 Apprentices.
• Phoning each apprentices employer and discussing grants available to them.

Travelling South East Asia – 02/04/19 to 09/07/19

• Due to changes in the 417 visa I left to travel Asia till July when the new requirements were introduced to allow myself a full 12 months to qualify for a third year.

Integrity Staffing – Labouring - 21/03/19 to 29/03/19

• Working on a large construction site providing labour.
• Transportation of materials around site using wheelbarrows and manual handling.
• Digging out Heras fencing feet.
• General site clean-up.

CBH Group Corrigin – Sampler, Weighbridge Officer & Receivals Point Operator – Oct 2018 to Feb 2019

• Manage my own site within 7 days of starting harvest.
• Using 2-ways, working outside for extensive periods of time, completed JSA’s, Take 5’s, Pre-starts, wearing full PPE (long and long).
• My main duties of being in charge on site were to maintain high levels of health and safety, ensure efficient running of site, communicate with growers, anticipate the number of staff required on site and handle any disputes over the grower’s grain grade.
• Managing the health and safety of all staff and visitors to site. Through a pre-start meeting each morning highlighting the risk and hazards involved with each day’s work.
• Completed a five-day grain sampling course, one day RPO training, one day arc flash & isolation training and one day confined space entry training.
• Pre and post-harvest clean up, out loading, confined space entry and working with pest control carrying out pre-fumigation leak testing and post fumigation readings.
• Working up to 73 hours a week.

Oceaneering Perth – Projects Administrator – June 2018 to Aug 2018

• Develop and implement a new archiving procedure for all contract project reports.
• Discard out of date reports and old archive material.
• Develop a new Excel database for recording reports, their electronic/physical stored locations and their expiry dates.
• Digitalisation of archive material which involved vast amounts of scanning, filing and data entry.
• Overhaul of shipping container storing archive boxes and implementing new storage procedure.

Travelling Across Southeast Asia – Sept 2017 to May 2018

Countries visited: Thailand, Cambodia, Singapore, Malaysia, Borneo, Philippines, Vietnam & Indonesia.

Chimflue Ltd – Installations Manager – Oct 2015 to Sept 2017

In October 2015 I was promoted to Installations Manager, my additional responsibilities to the one’s I was executing as assistant are listed below:

• Directly managing 10 employees including 8 installers, 1 delivery driver and my assistant.
• Scheduling our four full time teams plus three subcontracted, labour only, teams. On any given day, we could have up to another four subcontracted teams working for us, such as electricians, CCTV camera surveyors and access machine suppliers.
• I was responsible for scheduling all attendances with our clients. Firstly, I would need to check that everything was in place to carry out our installation, these included checking with our warehouse to make sure all the parts were in stock and ready to ship to site, liaising with our workshop to make sure any special items had been manufactured, confirming ETA’s with suppliers of non-stocked items. Arranging any subcontractors required to complete our works. Finally, I would need to check this fitted in with our client’s schedule on site and book it in. Many of our installs were between one to two days, so every day I would be scheduling approximately 6 jobs for the following day.
• HR – I was responsible for any HR that related to our installers, delivery driver or my assistant. This included all the hiring, dismissals, disciplinaries, pay rises and appraisals.
• Attending prestart meetings on site usually for larger projects, to run through logistics and health and safety procedures.
• Introduced and adjusted multiple procedures to help streamline the whole contracting department and reduce costs to the company. Including worksheets, new schedule layouts, the allocation of contingency materials.
• Prepping/raising invoices at month end for all contracting jobs.
• Reduced installer turn over by half within my first year.
• I would on average receive over 100 emails a day which all had to be read, understood and most replied to.

Chimflue Ltd – Assistant Manager – Oct 2013 to Sept 2015

Many of my tasks as Assistant Manager were identical to those as Installations Manager. I would carry out the same duties as the manager at the time and ultimately the same responsibilities. Due to the new nature of the position the role quickly developed where I was given the same duties, responsibilities and ability to make key decisions as the Installations Manager. From June 2014 to Sept 2014 I ran the department on my own whilst a replacement manager was found, due to a resignation.

• Attending site to fill labour shortages. This would often be with junior installers, which made me responsible for the install, safety on site and dealing with clients face to face.
• Conducting interviews
• Carrying out appraisals
• Making key business decisions
• Running the contracting department to cover annual leave or when the manager was out of the office.
• Attend on-site pre-start meetings with clients and contractors.
• Raising purchase orders for any contracting related items.
• Double checking allocated parts into the installer’s vans.
• Scheduling attendance dates with clients over email or phone.
• Taking the Health & Safety Meeting minutes and distributing throughout the company.
• Keeping our consumable fixtures and fittings cupboard well stocked.
• Book couriers and schedule their attendances to site.
• Equipment maintenance – Making sure all our equipment was fully functional including our 3 CCTV chimney inspection cameras’, pressure test kits, Furanflex steam generators and all our access equipment.
• In Sept 2014 I was asked to train my new manager in all our processes and procedures.

Chimflue Ltd – General Assistant (Part time – whilst at college) – Aug 2010 – Sept 2013

I worked part time in and around my college schedule. My general duties were stock takes, pulling parts for installs, installing on site and updating our operating system when we had any price increases or supplier price increases. I was also responsible for maintaining our price list, this involved generating a whole new excel workbook and formulae to extract the data from our operating system (Pegasus Opera).

Education & Qualifications

• Confined Space Entry – Australia
• Traffic Control & Basic Worksite Traffic Control - Australia
• Full UK Driver’s License
• Loader and Bobcat Competency
• Furanflex Liner Installation
• IOSH Managing Health & Safety
• Manual Handling
• COSH
• Slips, Trips & Falls
• Asbestos Awareness
• AAT Level 4 – Part Qualified

• AAT Level 3
• 4 A-Levels – Maths, Physics, PE and General Studies

Key Achievements & Skills

• Excellent understanding of Excel, Opera and Microsoft Office.
• Becoming Installations Manager after two years of full-time employment.
• Purchasing, renovating and renting my house in the UK within 12 months.
• Led a small team to Qatar for 5 days to carry out on site flue installations.

Hobbies & Interests

I have many hobbies and interests, most of which include sport and outdoor activities. Cricket is one of the main sports I enjoy playing along with Badminton, Fishing and diving. During the renovation of my house I carried out a large majority of the works myself including tiling, installing coving, installation of a wood burning stove, painting, plaster boarding, removing of internal stud walls, laying laminate flooring, hanging internal doors, full boarding and insulation of the loft space. I also enjoy exploring other countries and experiencing their cultures which I have been fortunate enough to do a lot over the years.

References:

Available on request.