We chat with Tay Kruizinga, a Licensed Graded Tradesperson in Port Kembla, Australia, who received the HVTC award for Apprentice of the Year in 2021, along with other significant accolades. She tells her personal career-change story, shares what she loves about her role and explains how other women can pursue work in trades.
Links and Show Notes
- Read a transcript of the episode.
- Pictured with Tay in MP3 artwork for podcast chapter four: Michael Ruddock (Manager, Southern Regions at HVTC)
- Tradesperson
- Apprenticeship
- Faces of BlueScope: Tay Kruizinga, Licensed Graded Tradesperson (TVBlueScope video)
- FocusOn New Apprentices in 2021 (TVBlueScope video featuring then-new recruits)
- FocusOn Basic Oxygen Steelmaking - the BOS (TVBlueScope video)
- HVTC
- TAFE NSW
- Apprentice Employment Network NSW & ACT
- NSW Training Awards by Training Services NSW
- Analytics
- Data centre
- Port Kembla, New South Wales
- Port Kembla Steelworks
- Sydney (Australia)
- An earlier LinkedIn post about one of Tay's awards
- BlueScope and Sydney Water (TVBlueScope video with more of an explanation of water recycling)
- Science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM)
- Science, Technology, Engineering, Maths Careers at BlueScope (TVBlueScope video)
- Programmable logic controllers (PLCs)
- Automation
- FocusOn Semi-automated Packing Line at Springhill (TVBlueScope video as an example of automation for safety and efficiency)
Edited by Martin Feld
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