My name is Thomas Harbison
and I'm a Mechanical Engineer
up at Telfer.
I've been working with Newcrest
on and off since the end of 2013.
So I was lucky enough to have some vacation periods of work
through my studies at uni.
I did a few at Cadia
and then one at Telfer and then
started the graduate program up at Telfer the next year.
I came off the grad program early
which was nice.
There was a job there that just popped up
so luckily enough slid into that and
I've been working permanently since then.
As a Mechanical Engineer, it's pretty much my job to assist
the maintenance team.
So they do obviously all the Maintenance on all fixed plant
up here which is important to keep the Plant running.
So to help them, if they've got any problems regarding pumps
or anything they maintain, any issues with how they're operating.
We are here as a support service to assist them.
Having the guys come in and say thanks for doing that Tom
that's really made our job easier,
safer. That's the rewarding part.
Jack Jauristo
second year Geology graduate.
I did my first year at Cadia
and moved here a couple weeks ago.
Being from Canada, not used to having 40 degree heat most of the time.
So a bit different,
but you do slowly get used to it.
Joining the Newcrest grad program,
I thought it was pretty cool seeing Newcrest
being sort of a really big company
and having sort of quite a few different sites around the world
as well as, as a geologist having different deposit styles
in their portfolio.
So you're not just focused on one thing,
you have a variety of deposits to look at
so that does keep it interesting.
The other part is coming
having that rotation, so you're not on one side for two years.
You get to have that movement from Cadia
and then come to Telfer,
so you get sort of the exposure to
two different ways of working.
At Telfer you get to see sort of exploration,
you get the drilling,
you get open pit and underground experience
as well as seeing what you know the
Mining Engineers, Geotechs, Mets do and everything like that
so it's really interesting to be able to see
the whole project working together.
You're not isolated into your one group
and that's all you see.
My name is Naomi Sinclair
and I'm a graduate Production Engineer
in my first year.
I started in January
and I did about eight months underground
and now I've done about three and a half months in the office.
I work with the Production Engineers,
specifically I have been actually given a project
and it's to do with Asset Management.
So treating essentially all the drives in the mine,
it's a small part in the big project.
I get to kind of direct it myself,
so I get the benefits of having to talk
with a lot of stakeholders involved
and that sense of teamwork comes out
but then at the end of the day
I get to really drive it myself.
I really like the fact that we celebrate the wins
and we celebrate each other.
Anyone who's perhaps demonstrated our values really well
or has had a bit of a shining moment
we get to bring that up
and celebrate each other.
My name's Guy Morgan,
I'm the Development Scheduler
for the PC 2-3 project.
So I've just rolled off the grad program
into a full-time role now.
The more I researched into block caving
and what Newcrest was doing,
the more excited I got about coming to work
for the company.
There's very much a continual improvement
to the mindset.
So every day we're trying to do things better.
You do get put in high pressure situations at times
where you're the person who has to make an operational call.
And I remember the first time that that happened
and that that was quite stressful,
but by the same token
I'm absolutely a better engineer for it today
and I don't think that you get that with every grad program.
The most important thing I got out of it
was the crew time that I did
over at Telfer.
This really enabled me to understand,
I guess from the ground up
how a mining operation works.
Being able to see see it from underground,
see it from a drill and blast perspective
and a scheduling perspective
I felt gave me a really good foundation as a Mining Engineer
and what what it does mean to be a Mining Engineer.