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Listed 16th of June 2011 | Our WHY
Over the years we have aspired to become our clients most trusted servants and many have gone on to become our friends: these friendships have grown out of mutual trust and collaborative understanding. It is one of our greatest rewards and we continue to promote this friendly cooperation in all our relationships, within and without our Group of Companies. In some ways the Present Group has emerged ready formed and each of the four new domains; Consulting, Resourcing, Services & Facilities thoroughly complement one another. This degree of differentiation is an essential transformation if we are to realise our overriding purpose to become the ONE Commissioning Completions Group. Our WHY drives an acute sense of purpose to remove and reduce the chronic waste of our all too finite natural resources. To this end we believe we can make the most impact in the world’s largest industry sectors which are currently engaged in major energy, resource and infrastructure projects. This is where the stakes are not only the highest from an economic standpoint but more importantly an environmental one.Chronic waste abounds not only in the resource sense but also as the waste of life purpose, especially when we find it so very hard to find personal meaning in a material world seemingly headed for oblivion. And so instead our passion remains dormant and we seldom experience the sheer exhilaration of discovering our maximum potential and releasing our full discretionary effort. Again and again on projects, we have witnessed both people and project serving the system, rather than the system serving the greater good. This results in massive waste, low morale, and cost and time overruns. As the Present Group we truly believe that we can remedy this to the benefit of our clients and our society.
When we have a PASSION for what we do and TRUST in one another, only then do we become both naturally ALIGNED and fully ENABLED.
Listed 15th of June 2011 | Present Group takes commissioning completions into the future.
In line with our stated purpose of becoming the ONE commissioning completions group, Powertech has been transformed into a new differentiated entity known as the Present Group.
The Present Group encompasses four complementary areas of expertise - Consulting, Resourcing, Services & Facilities.
  OCTAVE CONSULTING is focused on providing complete solutions to the most complex and costly asset problems using its tools and expertise to ensure that projects deliver assets to ‘name plate’ performance, on time and budget. Octave also provides effective governance of projects, eliminating costly tail end overruns and optimising the performance of assets through life.
  SEAMLESS RESOURCING provides large or small multi-disciplined teams tailored to client needs, whether it be testing or commissioning, validation, verification, audit or hazard assessment. With world class employee retention, it is able to rapidly mobilise highly motivated individuals to deliver the required client outcomes.
  POWERTECH SERVICES provides world class technical specialists across all engineering disciplines to ensure the customer gets the desired result in commissioning, testing, start-up, maintenance and operations. Its technical specialists are highly trained, experienced, autonomous, reliable and tenacious.
 PRECISE FACILITIES has unrivalled experience in the sale, rental and management of specialist technical equipment. With a national network of branches, it can provide sales and service, calibration and specialist support to meet all client needs.
With a client base comprising BHPBilliton, Rio Tinto, Xstrata, Woodside, Chevron, Santos, Origin and a project portfolio that includes renewables, power stations, desalination, platforms, refineries, mines, ports and rail, the Present Group’s collective experience is without parallel.
Listed 14th of June 2011 | New Gladstone presence!
Operating under branch manager, Mark Ibbett, the office has been established to better service the Group’s increasing involvement in the coal seam gas sector.It will also provide support for the Present Group’s growth in the Central Queensland coal mining industry. The office will cater for the full range of services provided by its operating divisions – Octave Consulting, Seamless Resourcing, Powertech Services and Precise Facilities.
Listed 1st of September 2010 | Committed employees deliver the best customer service
Powertech came in 4th of 14 medium sized organisations in the Employee Advocacy category of the recent 2010 WA Best Employer Awards. It also scored well in the Engagement category coming in 5th. For these awards, presented by WA Business News in partnership with Insync Surveys, medium sized companies encompassed organisations with 51 – 200 employees.The employee advocacy category measured promoters versus detractors in the organisation while the engagement category measured what proportion of the workforce is engaged. The awards are designed to recognise outstanding performance and identify organisations in Western Australia that are engaging their staff and building successful businesses as a result.Welcoming Powertech’s encouraging performance as vindication of the company’s HSE program, Powertech’s Business Director, Jonathan Stow, said the awards also played an important role in assisting the company with goal setting and focusing on areas requiring improvement. “There is little doubt that companies with employees who are deeply committed will always deliver the best customer service.”