About Us
Meet the Team
We employ the best!
We have a large team working from our two main operating locations of Brisbane and Perth and our satellite facilities across Australia and New Zealand.
Our team includes highly qualified and experienced electrical trainers who hold trade qualifications and practical experience in the field in which they teach. Together they offer over 250 years of combined electrical experience, which is leveraged to ensure our course materials and training aids are relevant to the real-world and incorporate industry best practice.
In addition, we have competency assurance specialists on staff, from varying backgrounds including defence, aviation and resources. All are highly qualified, experienced and passionate about learning and development. They provide custom training solutions for our key clients both in Australia and internationally and facilitate the development and delivery of our professional courses.
Hayley Puohotaua
Theresa Bull
Tony O’Brien
Glenn Hawkins
Racheal Makene
Greg Smith
Tracey Campbell
Paul Hodge
Marissa Nightingale
Brett Newton
Brett Newton's Bio
Brett has been with Competency Training since 2016, delivery a variety of courses such as High Voltage Switching, Installation of Electrical Equipment in Hazardous Areas and our UEE40411 Certificate IV in Instrumentation courses. Brett holds qualifications in Certificate IV Electrical Fitter Mechanic Trade, Certificate IV Trainer and Assessor and Certificate III Metalliferous Mining Operations.
Steven Miller
Steven Miller's Bio
Steve is a qualified electrician with 22 years’ experience in a variety of industries including, Mining, Infrastructure, Power Generation, Oil & Gas, specifically Hazardous area inspection, compliance and auditing. Steve is an experienced instructor with 3 years demonstrated history of working as an Electrical trainer & assessor delivering HA & HV training to electrical workers.
Irish Taylaran
Norberto Manatad Jr
Erin Brosnan
Paul Bloomfield
Paul Bloomfield's Bio
Paul is a training professional and highly experienced technical writer with eight years in Workplace Training, and Training Design and Development.
His experience includes Gas, Metalliferous and Coal industries, Underground and Open Cut mining, Processing and Handling plants, Waste Plants, Heavy Mobile Equipment, Rail and Health.
Paul has worked with companies in Australia, NZ, Fiji and PNG developing, improving and implementing company procedures, SWPs, operations and maintenance training, training programs, systems and materials and eLearning courses.
Work specific to gas, and gas processes includes a 12‐month secondment with the QGC (Shell) Learning Team to research, develop and implement eLearning courses to address Upstream Operations and Maintenance requirements.
John Ryan
John Ryan's Bio
John has worked on a number of large industrial construction projects over the last 30 years in Australia and has a strong understanding of power and instrumentation systems, which include installation of infrastructure, cabling, terminations, testing, hazardous area electrical inspections and QA.
Wes Hodgson
Wes Hodgson's Bio
Wes is a licenced electrician with over thirty years of experience in the Western Australian industrial resource and mining sectors, of which the majority was with a leading timber processor (explosive dust atmosphere).
His responsibilities have included engineering, maintenance, fault finding, project management, commissioning, delivering training, supervisory functions and classifying, designing and inspecting hazardous areas.
