Every Australian company no doubt would prefer to draw people from the community where it operates but at the present time with a number of trades and professions in short supply this is not possible.   Governments both State and Federal have all recognised that it will be a number of years before the shortage will abate.

But that doesn’t meet the immediate needs of industry.  The solution is to source well qualified people from outside Australia.

Of course it can be a daunting task but UVO has established a specialist service to provide your company with the overseas staff that you need.

Specifically UVO does the following at no cost to you:

• Identifies trades in short supply
• Identifies the best country or territory to source a particular trade
• Identifies suitable individuals in those countries and territories
• Assesses skill level through practical examination to ensure compliance with Australian standards
• Where work procedures are different to Australia, conducts a conversion course so that candidates are skilled up to work in Australia
• Runs English language courses to ensure candidates that have English as a second language are conversant in English to a level they understand work instructions both verbal and written and understand OH&S instructions and site inductions.

The advantages to your company in using UVO are:

• Save Time:  UVO attends to all the requirements of the Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs (DIMA).  Just leave the paper work to UVO and devote yourself to running your company.
• Avoid Duplication: UVO utilises specialist migration agents in dealing with the DIMA this ensures that applications are completed correctly before they are submitted for approval and thus avoids duplication by having to resubmit documentation.
• Improved Productivity: UVO provided skilled tradespeople are ready to work in your company environment.  If you utilise our “Ready for Work” service, candidates will be trained in your work procedures before they arrive at your company’s factory door

WHAT UVO CAN DO FOR YOU !!

Your Needs
UVO uses a simple questionnaire as a guide to quickly identify what your company needs are for skill labour.  We seek to understand your immediate needs as well as your medium and long term needs.

With skilled trades each company has procedures for various tasks of each position as well as the OH&S requirements for each position.  UVO sources this documentation from you to:

• Understand the scope of each position and task; and then to
• Train candidates in your procedures and processes

UVO will also discuss with you your financial requirements to better understand the cost structure that candidates will fit into.  However, UVO view is that quality candidates are worth paying for as you gain much more from improved productivity.  Of course there are substantial savings from eliminating the waste of having to reprocess work that was done incorrectly first time.

Our Solution

Our solution will be to simply meet the needs that we have agreed with you.

UVO will, though its quality assurance program, ensure that candidates are technically competent to the level require by your company and that they in all cases are independently assessed as meeting Australian Standards for each particular trade.

UVO also works with Government, Union and Employer organisation to ensure that our people are introduced into your company with ease.

UVO as the sponsoring employer tasks full responsibility for the payment of:

• Wages
• PAYG
• Superannuation
• Payroll Tax

And meeting

Meeting the Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs requirements
Workers Compensation Insurance
Health Cover

Your responsibilities being to:
provide a safe work environment and
pay the all inclusive fee to UVO for the provision of the tradespeople.

The Outcome

The outcome to you will be the smooth operation of your business by competent people which will result in improved productivity and increase profitability for your company.

COMPANY PROFILE

UVO is part of the Altius Group which has enjoyed significant growth since its establishment in 1993.  We believe our growth has been due to focus on customer services.  We have adopted a pro-active approach to meet the needs of our clients by extending technical advice and expertise.  Many companies enjoy the benefit of quality services that the Altius Group provides

The Altius Group conducts four business streams:

• Engineering & Construction (Altius)
• Do and Charge (labour hire) (UVO)
• Welding Training (UVO)
• Hospitality Training & Labour Hire (UVO)

Construction

Services offered in the construction and engineering area are:

• Micro Estimating / Project Management / All forms of steel work
• Conveyer systems / Architectural & Structural steel work
• Balustrades & Glass / Maintenance Supervision
• On-call Maintenance / Shutdown Maintenance / Machine Overhaul
• Plant Upgrades / Plant Relocations

Do and Charge (labour hire)

UVO’ Do and Charge business evolved out the need to supply experienced and skilled tradesmen to undertake work on construction projects that UVO was carrying out.   Once projects finished in order to keep in place the team of skilled tradesmen, UVO developed its Do and Charge business to on hire the tradesmen to keep them working until the next major project was ready to commence.

 This business is extended to suit your needs whether it be permanent, casual, contract, short or long term for any staffing requirement at any level of management or industry

The reputation of the tradesman as reliable, skilled and their ability to work competently and complete projects on time led to other companies approaching UVO to supply skilled tradesmen. 

The Do and Charge business now has a wide custom base.  UVO has also developed the ability to process timesheets and pay on hire staff efficiently and effectively. 

Paramount to UVO is the wellbeing of its employees, whether located on an UVO site or located with a host employer.  To this extent UVO has worked to ensure the environments in which its employees work are safe.  Occupational Health and Safety issues are dealt with quickly and always with a bias to our employees’ welfare. Validation of a prospective employee’s qualifications and experience combined with reference checking with pervious employers ensures that the skill level of our work force is kept high.

Welding Training

Most manufactured objects require some form of welding, which is a useful skill for a worker to have.  UVO recognised that there is a strong demand for welding training at the beginner level (second class welder) right through to the more advanced welding skills.

UVO has built a training facility at its Smithfield headquarters, the facility is run under the supervision of an experienced tradesman who is qualified by as a welding trainer and a welding inspector. Although the facility has only being in operation for a short time, it is proving a success.

Many projects which have been carried out have proven to be demanding both in terms of time and budget constraints. Our clients continue to utilise the project management expertise and quality trades personnel provided by our company and most of our clients have come to us through referrals. Such as:

• Bovis Lend Lease / Mirvac  / Buildcorp / Barclay Mowlem
• National Engineering / Grindley Construction / Billbergia
• Tollfab Australia  / RTA (Road & Traffic Authority)
• Daktronics / Swiss Timing  / Hatch
  

Hospitality Training

UVO are the Western Region agents for Thinq Training. All courses are held at Penrith RSL which are all RTO Accredited. We run all the courses that pertain to the Certificate II in Hospitality Operations individually on a rotating bases per month, whether you are Government Voucher approved or a paying customer we have packages to suit your needs.

UVO is also committed to training up Australians which it does in alliance with a number of registered training organisations so while UVO can help you with your immediate needs, we are preparing for the future as well.

I look forward to discussing the provision of UVO Services to you in the near future.

In the meantime, should your require any further information, please do not hesitate to contact me anytime.

Thank you for your time and will look forward to working closely with you.

Kind Regards,

The UVO Team