ETC company Dialog Fitzroy doing their bit for students

After Build a Trailer students spent term two working on the trailer, the team at Dialog Fitzroy have stepped in to move the project forward during the holiday break. Pictured here is 2019 Build a Trailer graduate Liam Walton from Francis Douglas Memorial College, now employed as one of the Dialog Fitzroy team, polishing the welds to perfection and getting it ready for the galvanising stage.

Doug Timanus, Site Operations & Production Manager at Dialog Fitzroy is overseeing the trailer work and will have it back on campus at WITT for students to complete during term three. “We are always happy to get behind motivated students looking to enter the engineering sector” he says. Last year Dialog Fitzroy employed two students from the programme – and has signed up to have two more work experience students this year.

Taranaki Futures, a charitable organisation with a purpose to smooth the pathway from education to employment, works to meaningfully bring together industry and educators. Taranaki Futures Chair Steve Scott says “Build a Trailer is a fantastic model for developing engineering trade sector pathways, having ETC member’s and other companies support young talent in this way is a credit to their proactive workforce development planning”.