COP Planning for practice

“I'm always struggling to manage time!" smiles Mark Galvin.

He believes in a well-trained staff who are passionate about their work. His team get great satisfaction about putting a really nice machine together which works smoothly.

Mark explains that he doesn't have any formal management training. He feels that if you have like-minded people they tend to get on well and perform well as a team.

“We've got a small tight team and we all get on well. We've got a culture within the company. People know they have to do their job right, I trust the guys, they know what's expected of them, they've been well trained and it s a pretty relaxed sort of a culture."
Access Automation now have seven staff, three with NZCE in Mechanical Engineering, three fitters and turners, and an apprentice studying diagnostics and instrumentation (the new name for fitting and turning), and an administrator.

Communication

Clear written communications and good verbal site instructions are very important in making a job run smoothly. Communication must be effectively maintained with various stakeholders – clients, staff, suppliers, sub- contractors. This can get complex especially on bigger jobs where several subcontractors may be involved (such as landscape architect, surveyor, builder, electrician, site excavators, civil engineer), and misunderstandings can arise.