Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Certification
Accomplishments
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Carl Mikkelsen

Brisbane,QLD

Summary

Experienced onsite union delegate specializing in industrial relations and site safety management. Enhances worker morale and compliance while reducing incidents. Certified in Health and Safety with a focus on training and representation, fostering a secure and productive environment. Committed to mentoring young professionals in the construction industry and representing union interests effectively.

Overview

1
1
Certification
31
31
years of professional experience

Work History

Onsite Union Delegate

Delta Group
Brisbane, QLD
04.2024 - 05.2026
  • Representing members when communication between workers and principle contractors and employers breaks down
  • Acted as representative for members during onsite activities
  • Coordinated safety discussions with the principal contractor, employer, and members to create a secure job site.
  • Maintaining high levels of safety onsite
  • Implementing satey committee onsite
  • Coordinated training sessions for members to enhance skills and support learning throughout project timeline
  • Promoted positive morale onsite through engagement activities and support initiatives
  • Facilitated connections between workers, employers, and principal contractor through organizing BBQs and site lunches

Concrete Pump Operator

Civil group
Loganholme, QLD
10.2023 - 01.2024
  • Operation of a new 33.4 putmeister concrete pump sucontracted to elecnor working on the power line coming from South Australia to Qld
  • Liaising with the client to organise days of pumping tremi footings in power line towers op to 24m deep in remote areas 3hrs from the nearest concrete plant with design mixes and doing multiple test pours to ensure the concrete pumand line and the integredy of the footings were not at risk
  • Ensuring no environmental laws were broken nor any Bio/DPI cross contamination happen due to large amounts of country and properties travelled through
  • Organising and conducting pre starts and collecting paperwork to be submitted to the office on a daily basis

Concrete Pumper

Scp, Eastcoast, BCP, Pumpcorp,Nationwide
Brisbane, California
10.2009 - 10.2023
  • High rise and Mobile concrete pumps from line pumps to 61m placing Booms and Skid Pump operation. Installation and pipeline setup, climbing of Satellite Booms and demobilising.
  • Domestic and Commercial, residential and civil

Roughneck

Century Drilling
10.2006 - 10.2009

Drilling operations on Drill rig number s 17,27 and 17 in the surat basin

Electrical trades assistant

Electrical Connections
Brisbane, California
10.1995 - 10.2010
  • King subcontracted to multiple Brisbane gold and sunshine Coast councils installing bus shelter light from a to solar installations, park lighting, BBQ installation and maintenance, toilet block instalation and maintenance council building maintenance eg libraries, bus terminals, boardwalk light maintenance, ferry terminals.

Education

Yeronga State High School
Brisbane , Qld

Skills

  • Union representation
  • Industrial relations
  • Site safety management
  • HSR representative
  • Certificate IV Health Safety
  • High-risk licenses
  • Compliance auditing
  • Conflict resolution
  • Additional certifications

Certification

  • Cert 4 in Health And Safety
  • Mates in Construction Assist and Connector Training
  • First Aid Training (current)
  • HSR Training

Accomplishments

  • I ran a project in Hawthorne in Melbourne Victoria Called Hawthorne Park Apartments with the largest spanning rooftop pool between 2 buildings in the Southern Hemisphere. There were 5 concrete placing booms on the project and I was Co-ordination with the for work manager concrete pour days concreter numbers and volumes of concrete pours and also mobile pump visits. Builder was Hickory Group. The project was completed well aged of time. . Their management team WA sled by Julian Foggin. After completing that project Hickory asked me to do another project for them while in Melbourne for Salta Group in Mulgrave with another great sire manager Archie and the Formwok boss Jim which we completed well ahead of schedule. In Brisbane and Gold And Sunshine coasts I've worked on projects like Carindale shopping Centre, The Airport Link Tunnel, Gateway Bridge 2,Garden City, Pacific Fai, Sunshine Coast Private Hospital, Springfield Private Hospital, Springfield Shopping Centre, Indropilly Shopping Centre, Robina, Private Hospital, P.A Hospital, The Gas works, Ivy and Eve, 443 Queen St, 111 Eagle St, Jade Apartments, Soda, 1 William St, The Green, to name just a few. I have also had a large experience working with companys a such as Hindmarsh, Badge, Hutchinson Builders, Watpac, John Holland, Abi Grou
  • p, Greta, Greystone, Seymour White, BMD, FKG, Multiplex, Westfield, Lend Lease, PBS, Georgio, Sunland throughout my career.

Affiliations

  • I am the first person to nominate my service when needed helping anyone that needs it.
  • As a Delegate Organiser it's important to be there and turn up for members and keep them informed in what we are doing for them and this union.
  • On other levels I spend time looking after my aging mother and am the god parent to a number of my friends children who I keep in contact with
  • Outside of work also I like classic cars and partake in car events a the odd bit of Drag Racing at a track
  • I love going fishing
  • I spend a good amount of money evsey year buying depending on season hoodies, t shirts for members onsite to spread the word and try to get people to feel comfortable wearing union attire outside of our industry or on weekends at the shops to create conversations to educate the public to counteract the negative publicity the media portraits of us
  • I personally donated and with the unions help helped raised a lot of money for a member and his family who was injured onsite and was diagnosed with bone cancer due to the odd nature of the injury. I took members from site to visit him in hospital as it was only 6mnths before we lost him to cancer.
  • I have a interest in how we have evolved as members over the years from having friends and being single to having partners to marriage and now them having children who have been coming to Mayday Marches over the years and now some working in the industry which gives me more motivation to keep doing what I do.

References

Michael Brand 

041473487991

Dan Watt

0439498424

Kevin Zulu Delta HSO Manager 0411092898

Linda Keis Delta HSO 

0429278916

Timeline

Onsite Union Delegate

Delta Group
04.2024 - 05.2026

Concrete Pump Operator

Civil group
10.2023 - 01.2024

Concrete Pumper

Scp, Eastcoast, BCP, Pumpcorp,Nationwide
10.2009 - 10.2023

Roughneck

Century Drilling
10.2006 - 10.2009

Electrical trades assistant

Electrical Connections
10.1995 - 10.2010

Yeronga State High School
Carl Mikkelsen