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Coming Home Charlie VOL.1 /2018 COMING HOME MATES LOOKING AFTER MATES EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES TOMAGO HOUSE LIVING HISTORY AND DIVERSITY ON OUR DOORSTEP CHARLIE GIVING TO THOSE IN NEED RUNNING WITH SAY HELLO TO THE FLAME ROBBIE THE ROBOT CONTENTS CEO message 3 FEATURE STORY 4 EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES AND DIVERSITY Say hello to Robbie the Robot 5 Coming home – Mates Looking After Mates 6 Cheers to 25 years 7 Tomago House – living history on our doorstep 8-9 Building dreams for high school students 10 Supporting a future star 10 Finance having fun with numbers 11 Welcome to Tomago’s new starters 11 Super Mel conquers Moonlight Mountain Marathon 12 Fishing boats, fast cars and fast horses 13 SAP notifications 14 2018 Family Picnic Day 14 Building a new dining experience 15 Charlie running with the flame 16 Giving to those in need 17 Tomago stands against domestic violence 18 A perfect day to hit the greens 19 Supporting local charities 19 60 seconds with... Katrina Whitely 19 2 AUTUMN EDITION 2018 MATT HOWELL – CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER Colleagues, We have been genuinely Raw material (alumina) showcasing what it’s like Welcome to this edition surprised by the impact prices are also on the way to work at TAC and the of TAC news. this video is having on our up, particularly impacted opportunities available to workmates; going home to by geopolitical tensions and them. This is in support of our Well, it’s certainly been a long, our families at the end of our the prospect of trade wars diversity efforts and we hope hot summer and I take this shift is the bedrock of what between the US and China this attracts more women to opportunity to thank all our we stand for. and we are also seeing very join our team. people – particularly those significant increases in working on shift in the hotter We have now successfully With the successful energy costs. roles on site – for taking care concluded the enterprise Commonwealth Games behind of each other and our business. agreement for our operators All of this is a reminder that us we give a big shout-out to and, for the second year we must continue to work Charlie Saunders, who was This year we managed to avoid running, they join our staff together to find ways to chosen to carry the Queen’s a repeat of the February 2017 in a common salary increase minimise cost, avoid waste and Baton for the Commonwealth load interruptions, however and Annual Incentive Plan grow the production volume. Games relay when it passed we remain actively engaged measures and targets. through Newcastle in February in the wider energy debate A key enabler for us is stable – a very proud moment for to ensure our critical needs One thing we have listened metal flow; changing and Charlie and his family! as a baseload operation are to was the need to have covering our anodes on understood. additional contingency labour time and staying 12 ladles in Speaking of families, save available during the extreme advance every day – everyone the date for the Family Picnic The theme of taking care of heat periods. These people has a role to play. Day on the 9th September at each other is front and centre have now been recruited and Tomago House – there will be to the roll-out of our Mates Despite the tough commercial I’m pleased to say the first more details to come. Looking After Mates video, environment we continue to 12 commenced with us in “Coming Home”. support our close neighbours Enjoy this edition of TAC news early April. and a raft of charities; The and thanks again to our 1,000+ Every person on our site The trading environment Hunter Region Botanic strong team for continuing to has the opportunity to view for our business has been Gardens and Tomago House meet the challenges that life and discuss this short video extremely challenging of late, receive cash and in-kind and the market throw at us! featuring a number of past and with unplanned increases on support and our $50,000 per present employees discussing Best regards, a number of costs fronts. year sponsorship budget is the impact a significant incident Matt. always fully spent. had on them and their families. China’s efforts to clean-up air quality have put a squeeze on You may have noticed on production of coke and pitch, our Facebook page a number with prices up substantially of promotional clips of some as a consequence. of our female colleagues, Do you have an interesting story to tell? If you have a suggestion for TAC News please contact Katie Burns at [email protected] AUTUMN EDITION 2018 3 EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES AND DIVERSITY Katrina Whitely (left) chats to Michelle Whyte. Tomago has a very supportive culture and female working environment and fostering WHEN TOMAGO ALUMINIUM is just a great place to come to. You feel overall inclusion and diversity. like you have a sense of achievement at the The forum, which looked at ways of OPENED ITS GATES IN THE end of the day and you want to come back attracting, retaining and sustaining a more and do it all again tomorrow,” she said. EARLY 1980s IT WAS VERY diverse workforce, was told by PacAl MUCH A MALE-DOMINATED For electrician Jade Maddigan, the variety Business Improvement and Technology of equipment across Tomago’s site makes Chief Operating Officer, Brian Cooper, that INDUSTRY. her work experience an enjoyable one. such work environments deliver better safety outcomes and improved financial “There are nine on the team in Utilities, Numerically, men still dominate TAC’s performance through higher productivity. workforce but it is steadily moving forward including me. I’m the only girl and that’s and powering towards gender diversity okay. The team is like working with a “We are in a tough business and we will courtesy of management forward thinking family – every day I’m laughing with these only thrive by thinking differently and and strong, confident women on site. guys and that’s when I know I’ve got a being more innovative. To do that, we good day ahead of me,” Jade said. need a better gender balance. In the past, heavy industry was traditionally considered a place where blokes did the Carbon Manager, Magali Gendre, “By being a more inclusive business we heavy lifting but things have changed started working at Tomago six years expect to touch all aspects of diversity considerably over the years. ago as a Process Superintendent and but our focussed initiatives for now are recently became the first female to fill an on improving our gender diversity. ‘Heavy lifting’ is now more myth than reality operational department management role. and women are filling a variety of roles at “It’s not only the right thing to do, it makes Tomago, from operational electricians There is little room for gender on the work business sense,” Mr Cooper said. site, she believes, and it is not something through to top-level managers. Perhaps the last word though belongs to which she pays much attention. Process and Technical Development to Jade Maddigan, who said the best Supervisor, Michelle Whyte, has been at Magali, who with fellow TAC employee thing about working at Tomago is the Tomago for seven years and heads up a Michelle Whyte recently took part in work environment itself. a PacAl conference discussing women 17-strong team that includes five engineers. “I’ve felt pretty lucky to have Tomago. in the working environment, points to It doesn’t matter if you are male or Her job gives her greater responsibilities multiple career opportunities for women female. Here at Tomago there are lots and the chance to demonstrate her abilities at TAC including operators, tradespeople of opportunities.” as both an individual and a team member. and supervisors, all with options for “The most satisfying part of my role is to career development. have the opportunity to encourage other She and Michelle were among more than people to find solutions, find their own 60 women in leadership roles who met to ideas and work on those to improve the share ideas aimed at improving both the process,” Michelle said. 4 AUTUMN EDITION 2018 SAY HELLO TO ROBBIE THE ROBOT Every day Robbie and his cleaning tools WHEN WE THINK OF clean 7,200 holes. That’s 50,400 weekly and without a single word of complaint. ROBOTS WE TEND TO Robbie was first mooted as an idea a little IMAGINE MECHANICAL over 18 months ago by Automation technician, Phil Humphreys. He became a BEINGS FROM THE STAR reality 12 months ago and started earning his keep late last year. WARS MOVIES. “It’s new territory, but with Phil working closely with contract company SAR In the Carbon Department, however, when and Engineering team member Andrew they think of robots, they think of Robbie. O’Connell, we overcame the teething Robbie is definitely a robot, just not in an issues. R2D2 kind of way. In fact he is an electro- “There are still some improvements to mechanical articulated arm, like those that come but it is working and the benefit do spot-welding on car assembly lines and is that it takes away someone doing other awkward places. monotonously repetitive work in hot, “It’s leading-edge technology in an dusty, noisy and ergonomically poor aluminium smelter and ‘he’ is doing the conditions,” Brendan said. work of four people,” Brendan Corr, Rod Robbie is operating almost entirely on Shop Process Engineer, said.
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