I started off as a mill operator in out at Deva mining in Cobar and then move into the underground at Peatwood McMahons and then from underground hard rock I decided to make a move to the Newcastle and the coal industry and which took me to different  areas and done bit more education and took me to a lot of different places geographically around Australia wherever be Queensland, the Bowen Basin, WA around Kalgoorlie area and it took me a lot of different industries as well.

Training was everything there the things that gave you the competencies you needed to be able to move forward and do that job to the best of your ability which was you know cost-effective and efficient for not only yourself as an individual in that role but also the company you may have been providing for work for at the time.

I definitely see it evolved in regards to people’s attitude towards other people and also processes and systems along that way, so change was a big thing to be able to improve for what we do.

I had thoughts about doing something different. I did dabble into it and I bought a pub for example and I guess sometimes it’s expanding outside of an industry what you know to realize it and appreciate what you’ve got and it come down to you know that dabble of outside the industry really made me appreciate how good the mining industry was and and how lucky I was to have these foundations and skill sets to be able to move forward. What was obviously the the dabble out of industry and then to come back and realize the gap that was required and the relationship you can build from the bottom to the top and being able to provide a service that I definitely seen an opportunity for.

So I started back out as a consultant, I figured if I was going to do this I wanted to do it as efficiently as possible and definitely be the best I can be in my field at the time was safety and training. Then from there it grew into labour hire and then so forth into the company of Facebook mining services, now its Face Contracting they come on board with Jason and a few other key personnel. 

A lot of it comes down to people, you treat people like people or how you’d like to be treated you’ll definitely get a lot more about it. I guess a big thing come about when I left industry and come back was that in past experiences people and including myself always got felt and treated like a number. Which was something that I figured you get so much more out of people by treating them like people and from there that attitude and no matter what school they will bring from a mining manager or a general manager right down to the new entry into the industry and if you can relate to all them people and treat them like humans you’re gonna get more efficiency out of them.

So you put them people in the right job and understand their skillset understand their role and understand what the management requirements are you can marry up the two pretty quickly and I guess that there are things that come back down to in regards to knowing the industry and knowing what the job is required and what tasks at hand. We’re not people that are fresh off the street and and trying to put people in positions, we actually know what it’s like to run operations, we know what it’s like to be the person that’s down in the in the hole working. We can fully relate to what’s required so the reality off that was surprising to get such growth in in a downtime but it really makes me hopeful and optimistic about the future what it brings them and when times turnaround and being out with aid ourselves as well as clients and people intern.