About Us

OUR JOURNEY – WHO WE ARE

The origin of this company is aligned to the down to earth hard working rural industry.

The company was incorporated in 2005 working predominately in the fabrication industry specialising in heavy trailer production and stockcrate manufacture under the trading name of Transtock Transport Equipment. These trailers and components remain in the marketplace aligned with a reputation of the highest quality and durability.

The company quickly then broadened to service a wider market encompassing the mining market, servicing leading mining stakeholders such as Rio Tinto and BHP with effective customised solutions to their fabrication needs.

This servicing expanded to the supply of cast steel products into the mining, earthmoving and rural markets when an alliance with a local foundry was established which saw this company oversee the production and marketing of these products. This development also saw the integration of scrap metal recovery into the scope of the business.

Maintaining this proven and credible link to offering responsive and cost effective solutions, lead to the development of onsite mine support services in both electrical and mechanical fields at Rio Tinto’s aligned Kestel Mine Expansion (KME) development from 2011 through to late 2013. Held in such high regard was the company that it was one of the few remaining support contractors employed on site to see the project to its final stages.

EXPERIENCE COUNTS – MEET OUR PEOPLE

Martin A Laffer

Sole Director – Bachelor Applied Science 1993

Martin has accumulated an amazing pool of knowledge and capabilities over his varied working life. His career began in Rural Management working with a large pastoral company, Heytesbury Beef where he managed the financial, production and logistics management of up to 12 large scale cattle stations across WA, NT and Qld. Martin then began his own rural agribusiness offering consultancy and fabrication solutions to the rural industry firstly in Longreach and then based in Emerald. Martin was also employed by Suncorp as an Agribusiness manager for three years, winning Qld Agribusiness manager of the year in his first year. Martin is a qualified boilermaker who has successfully fine tuned the skills and capabilities of his staff to meet his perfectionist standards. Martin has developed a critical understanding of people and project management, logistics, engineering, financial management that supports the development and maintains the quality standards of this company.

Tricia Laffer

Administration and Financial Manager – Bachelor Business (Agribusiness) 1994

Tricia’s earliest career started in Rural Policy development when she worked for Western Australian Farmers’ Federation. A change in location then saw her engage as business consultant in the Northern Territory undertaking strategic business plans for a wide range of NT businesses. This prior experience provided invaluable knowledge and skills to enable her to drive the administration and financial arms of the company through its growth. Her main focus is maintaining strong internal systems and processes that ultimately guarantee the quality and sustainability of the company.

Tonia Williams

HR Manager and Administration Assistant

Tonia has been with MTL Pivot since 2012 and is highly experienced in all things associated with administration and people management. Prior to joining the company Tonia previously worked in banking for over ten years. This position saw her take on a National management role managing up to 65 staff across many States. Tonia offers a consistent thorough and comprehensive approach to her role ensuring our people our customers and staff are well looked after.

PRODUCTION STAFF

Our existing staff have been with us for a combined total of 21 years and between them have 50 years of industrial experience

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SAFETY AND ENVIRONMENT

No task the Company undertakes is so important that we can not do it safely! No action the company takes is so critical that is would compromise our high environmental values. MTL Pivot maintains a strong internal culture that is quick to recognise and manage for any risks that could potentially bring on injury, illness, environmental or property damage to its employees, contractors, customers, visitors, neighbours or the general community.

Our approach to risk management is simple, and practical. Our highly effective integrated HSE processes ensure minimal illness and injury rates, and very low Workers Compensation rates.

For a copy of our HSE documents please contact our administration

COMMUNITY – OUR INVESTMENT IN OUR PEOPLE

MTL Pivot believes that it must go further than offering good and safe working conditions, training and development of its people to make their lives enjoyable and productive. MTL Pivot believes in going further also for its customers. MTL Pivot believes strongly in investing in the local community where it operates, where its employees live and where many of its customers and families reside.

For this reason MTL Pivot offers support and sponsorship across a wide range of sporting clubs in the local district. This support can range from the fabrication of bike racks donated to the CH Triathalon Club, to the fabrication of lighting poles donated to the local tennis club, supply and install of five sets of donated goal posts for the Central Highlands Junior Rugby Club and the supply of jersies and shirts for sports teams. Cash donations are also made towards local fundraisers such as Ride for Smitty bike ride.

EMPLOYMENT

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