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NZAM Machinery Sales, he says, is built on four main
factors: integrity, honesty, loyalty and responsibility.
The company wishes to take a responsible lead in their
industry, with special attention to safety, training and
quality. They are also interested in moving with the times,
hiring Todd as the marketing guru.
Todd is a recent school-leaver. He’s a millennial.
“We deployed quite a few machines to the expressway;
they needed a lot of diggers and Hydremas,” says Todd.
Say what you will about millenials, but they have a
different eye for detail than us Generation X and Baby
NZAM Machinery Sales also have machines at the Puhoi
Boomer types. They have an efficient and comfortable
Highway project, in fact any major ongoing roading
engagement with communications, technology and
project going on in the North Island, including the
media. They can get things done in half the time.
Waikato Expressway on State Highway 1, has NZAM
In a workplace, they embrace changes to how things are
Machinery Sales Hydremas involved.
done much easier than the older generation, and serve
The Puhoi Highway project, named Ara Tūhono, is
as a reminder that nothing these days stays the same,
an ongoing RoNS project north of Auckland. You’ve
and that technology is changing almost
probably heard of it, again, in the news.
Around holiday time the every facet of business and manufacturing.
Around holiday time the transit north (or transit north (or south) is
south) is a horror-show with traffic snaking a horror-show with traffic NZAM Machinery Sales has fully qualified
for miles in gridlock. The project aims to snaking for miles in gridlock. mechanics and technicians of all ages, who
are trained in the specialist area of heavy
ease the entryway to Northland and give
earthmoving equipment.
greater access for freight. Todd explains that roading is
now a major part of the business, mainly on the sales
“We have all sorts of specialist roles here, and need people
side of NZAM Machinery Sales.
who have knowledge of the machinery, but we also need
kilometres are estimated to need repairs, at a cost of
around $630M. It’s a four-lane highway that stretches
18km just north of Wellington. The Kapiti Expressway will
eventually open mid-2020. It also links to Transmission
Gully, another project NZAM Machinery Sales have been
involved in, to a lesser degree.
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