Consultants

Kerry Clow

Consultant - Projects

Kerry Clow has 25 years experience working as a practitioner and consultant in employee and industrial relations in the construction industry. Her site and corporate experience was project based, working for large construction companies and employer organisations, in the Pilbara, WA and Queensland including generalist industrial relations and recruitment, with involvement in the design and implementation of innovative systems associated with employee engagement, performance based incentive schemes, accommodation programs integrated into local communities, leadership development and teambuilding. Her consulting experience includes development and facilitation of leadership development and team alignment programs and strategic employee relations management systems.

Email: kerry@shr.com.au

Cass Porter

Senior Consultant - Specialist Services

Cass Porter is a foundation director of the consultancy. Having moved intrastate she now provides expert advice on specific project planning assignments. Her career in human resources management and industrial relations has largely been in the oil and gas and maritime industries. Whilst her employment bases have been Melbourne, Perth and Karratha, her area of responsibility has covered all of Australia and South East Asia. Her experience encompasses all areas of human resources and industrial relations in both advisory and management roles. She has worked for both corporations and employer organisations. Project planning for new offshore production facilities and onshore processing plants as well as acquisitions and project abandonment are her particular area of expertise.

Email: cporter@shr.com.au

Cathy Miller

Senior Consultant - General HR Services

Cathy Miller Cathy Miller has gained over 15 years experience in both Human Resources and small business, having worked closely with people from a diverse range of industries, being oil & gas, mining, engineering, energy and the not for profit sector.

As a generalist within the Human Resources field, Cathy has a sound background in the areas of organisational culture, performance management, recruitment & selection, staff turnover, job evaluation, policy and coaching. As a result of her broad experience this has enabled her to provide both strategic and operational support to business.

Email: cmiller@shr.com.au

Stephen Storer

Senior Consultant - General HR Services

Stephen Storer has more than forty years of experience as an Industrial Relations, Employee Relations, Human Resources, HSE and Quality Assurance practitioner. During this period Stephen has managed corporate and field roles covering these respective functions.

Stephen's experience encompasses the electricity, engineering, and construction industries, where he has provided advisory and representative services for relevant organisations, including liaison with government, employer associations, and union representatives.

Email: sstorer

Shane Moretti

Consultant - General HR Services

Shane Moretti provides the consultancy with its payroll and related services. He has a strong payroll preparation and management background in the maritime, retail, wholesale and manufacturing industries. He also provides general human resources services to clients. He is experienced in several payroll packages including Attache, Spectrum Plus and Micropay. He runs payrolls based on collective agreements and individual contracts of employment. Since joining the consultancy he has supported strategic industrial relations planning through the analysis of comparative wage and salary data, preparation of comparative labour rates and the calculation of notional gang rates. He maintains construction, shutdown, maintenance and operations remuneration databases for the consultancy. He has conducted payroll audits from an industrial relations perspective by the development of "plain word" interpretations of employment arrangements and reviewing how those interpretations are applied by payroll, site administration and human resources elements in client organisations.

Email: shane@shr.com.au

David Tulip

Senior Consultant - East Coast

David Tulip has worked in the Human Resources field for 30 years, the past 20 years in senior HR management roles.
He has worked in the transport, mining, oil and gas, manufacturing, logistics and service sectors. This experience in a diverse range of working and industry environments has allowed David to develop a broad repertoire of human resources and general management skills.
Experienced in developing and implementing results orientated solutions to HR issues at both strategic and tactical levels, David has worked for a number of premier corporations, as well as employer organisations.
David's areas of expertise include employee and industrial relations, HR strategy development and implementation, acquisition and divestment of businesses, advocacy and training.

Email: dtulip@shr.com.au

Niki Reilly

Consultant - General HR Services

Niki provides industrial relations and human resources consulting services to clients operating primarily in the mining, construction, maintenance and oil and gas industries. Her experience includes two years as a solicitor in the areas of Industrial Relations, Employment Law and Commercial Litigation.

The scope of services Niki provides includes the development and implementation of collective employment agreements and individual contracts of employment; the conduct of workplace investigations, discipline and performance management processes; research into and advice on employment related issues and the interpretation of employment legislation and industrial instruments; policy development and implementation; on-site ER monitoring and support.

Email: niki@shr.com.au

Linda Holmes

Senior Consultant - General HR Services

Linda Holmes has in excess of 40 years experience in general human resources management and industrial relations. This experience has been gained in working locally for Australian and international contractors and operators, predominantly in the construction and oil and gas sectors at corporate and site level. Linda's oil and gas experience covers on-shore, off-shore and sub-sea in the areas of fabrication, installation and maintenance. As a generalist, her experience encompasses all areas of human resources and industrial relations activities with a strong emphasis towards the issues surrounding an organisation's personnel. Included in her areas of expertise are the functions of recruitment, remuneration, logistics, injury management and workplace mentoring.

Email: lholmes@shr.com.au

Lucinda Locke

Senior Consultant - General HR Services

Lucinda Locke is a human resources generalist who has developed her career expertise through the mining, minerals processing and oil and gas industries. The generalist experience that Lucinda has acquired over the 20 years she has worked in the industry covers all areas of human resources, with particular strengths in recruitment, policy development, performance and behavioural investigations, and injury management / workers' compensation. Lucinda has a passion for site-based roles in operating environments, where she is able to provide advice and support to front-line leaders. Most of Lucinda's roles have been site-based, enabling her to be extremely effective in the complete implementation of initiatives and programs. This is achievable through leadership, coaching, planning and supporting leaders in the roll-out to employees and the issuing of follow-up procedures. Living and working in remote locations, Lucinda has been involved in indigenous employment, community liaison and emergency response programs. The experience Lucinda holds has seen her progress from an advisor to consultant level in offshore oil and gas, open-cut gold and iron ore mining, underground coal mining, bauxite mining, alumina processing, aluminum smelting and mining construction.

Email: lucinda@shr.com.au

Julie Menaglio

Consultant - General HR Services

Julie has six years of experience providing industrial relations, employee relations and human resources advice to public sector employees, in both Federal and State jurisdictions. This has included negotiations with unions, agreement preparation, interpretation of employment contracts, dealing with industrial relations tribunals and tribunal process, development of human resources policy and procedure, equity complaint management and advocacy, grievance management, performance management and general human resource matters.

Email: jmenaglio@shr.com.au

Frank Okely

Senior Consultant - Specialist Services

Frank Okely is a grounded psychologist who can translate best practice learning from years of applied theory and application to pragmatic, positive and proactive solutions for the workplace. Frank has extensive operational, corporate and human resource management experience in the mining, utilities, building construction and public sector. He is a skilled and experienced facilitator with a genuine commitment to achieving optimal performance in individuals, teams and organisations. His extensive range of clients describes him as considered, analytical and authentic and he consistently receives acclaim from those he works with. He provides well researched, focussed solutions in a direct, succinct and engaging style. Areas of specialist knowledge include conducting workplace investigations into concerns about inappropriate behaviour, facilitation and business improvement, workforce planning, fatigue and sleep management, coaching and psychometric profiling (to ensure people better understand themselves and others) and screening (to ensure the right people are selected for the right roles). Frank is a member of the Australian Psychological Society and a registered psychologist who has gained a Bachelor of Applied Science, a Post Graduate Diploma and a Masters of Psychology.

Email: frank@shr.com.au

Carol Zaugg

Senior Consultant - Specialist Services

Carol Zaugg can demonstrate a superior level of experience in the management of, and provision of expert services and advice on, all aspects of occupational health and safety in the workplace. Carol moved from an Occupational Health focus to a Safety and Health focus in the oil and gas industry where she gained extensive occupational health and safety advisory experience in the operation of the largest oil and gas processing facility in Western Australian that encompassed offshore platforms, sub sea pipeline and oil and gas processing.
From there she went on to manage the occupational health, safety and environment function in construction and public infrastructure services.
She has also provided consulting services to the mining, hydrocarbons, resources construction, airborne geophysics and exploration industries through her own consultancy and as Executive Officer for Safety and Health at the Chamber of Minerals and Energy. In particular she is very familiar with the preparation of Safety Cases and Safety Management Plans. She also has experience in the development of Quality Assurance Plans and procedures.

Email: czaugg@shr.com.au

Tony Hurley

Senior Consultant - General HR Services

Tony Hurley is an experienced HR/ER manager and consultant with over 30 years of broad human resource management experience gained in the private and public sectors in Australia and overseas. He holds a Bachelor of Business (Management Studies), has completed courses in Manpower Planning, Industrial Relations, Employment Law, Remuneration, Commercial Negotiations and Compliance Auditing and is a seasoned user of the Hay Job Evaluation Methodology. During his past ten years of consulting, Tony has undertaken numerous assignments in the private and public sectors. These projects have included Strategic HR and ER/IR advice to senior management, executive search and recruitment, remuneration consulting, outplacement counselling and involvement in the development and review/audit of HR policy and processes. This period also included an extended assignment in East Africa involving a major review and restructure of expatriate and national remuneration, contractual arrangements for a major gold mining project and the successful implementation of improvement/change plans resulting from the review. Prior to entering the consultancy business, Tony was Manager Human Resources with Wesfarmers CSBP Limited and prior to that he held HR Management roles with BHP Billiton, Elders Limited, State Government of Victoria and Human Resource Consulting with Touché Ross.

Email: thurley@shr.com.au

Tony Clarke

Consultants - General HR Services

Tony Clarke specialises in providing senior employee relations support and advice to major construction projects in the mining and oil and gas industries. His background is founded on a sound payroll and recruitment experience base before moving onto senior industrial relations and human resources management roles. His advice and services have been sought by major participants in the gold and metalliferous mining and processing, oil and gas production and processing, shipping, civil construction and EPCM management for both strategic planning and field employee relations roles. His skills encompass industrial relations, occupational health and safety, payroll management and administration, recruitment and selection and the development of human resources policy and process.

Email: tclarke@shr.com.au

David Lansbury

Senior Consultant - Specialist Services

David Lansbury is one of the few Australian industrial relations practitioners whose extensive experience of industrial relations in the resource sector construction industry is crowned by an excellent knowledge of offshore construction in a maritime environment. Recently completing a distinguished career with the premier Western Australian engineering and construction company as its Employee/Industrial Relations manager, David has made his Australia wide construction knowledge of construction projects, onshore and offshore, available to clients of the consultancy. His industrial relations career, almost exclusively undertaken in the construction industry, was preceded by engagements in finance, administration, human resources and branch management. His advice is particularly sought after for the preparation and assessment of pre qualification and tender submissions.

Email: david@shr.com.au

Gary Rothville

Senior Legal and IR Advisor - East Coast

Gary Rothville has more than 30 years experience in the field of human resources (HR) and industrial relations (IR), both in business and in legal practice. His expertise covers extensive strategic IR and HR planning and IR management generally, including direct experience in resolving a broad range of industrial disputes, developing enterprise and industrial agreements, assisting in all manner of HR issues and Project planning and implementation. Gary has acted for major employers and employer associations in both Federal and State jurisdictions. He is also an accredited and experienced mediator.

Email: grothville@shr.com.au

Ron Nieuwenhuis-Last

Senior Consultant - East Coast

Ron Nieuwenhuis-Last (Last) brings over twenty years senior employee relations and industrial relations knowledge to SHR and its clients. His experience with employer organisations encompasses both the National and Victorian areas of influence holding the positions of General Manager, Workplace Relations and Workplace Policy for the Victorian Employers Federation and National Construction Manager - Project Services for the Australian Industry Group. He has also held the senior employee relations position with major national companies in the construction, manufacturing and infrastructure services industries. His employment with SHR provides the Company with a broad employee relations consulting service on the East coast of Australia and, in particular, Victoria. He has been associated with the provision of strategic and operational advice to clients in the construction, heavy engineering, manufacturing, petrochemical, mineral processing, mechanical services and labour hire industries. Ron has a thorough and practical knowledge of workplace legislation and its application in the workplace, be it of an industrial relations, occupational health and safety or human resources nature. He has the ability to work within, or as an adviser to, project and operational teams.

Email: rlast@shr.com.au