Our Team

Our Recruitment Consultants detailed below each have distinct engineering, technical or marketing backgrounds. They are able to understand your needs and competently answer any queries regarding contract or permanent placements.

Your e-mail or phone enquiry would be most welcome.

    

Manager - Recruitment Services:
Tony Baker 
tony@southtech.com.au

Tony joined SouthTech in 1992 and has over 25 years experience of working in and recruiting for various industries and organisations throughout the UK and in Australia since 1982. This includes 5 years experience of Industrial Recruitment for Trades and Technical personnel.


Recruitment Consultants:
Ted Bazak 
ted@southtech.com.au 

Ted, SouthTech's Senior Recruiter, has approximately 30 years expertise in the Technical Engineering field from drafting to design through to management. Ted joined SouthTech in 1994 and recruits and places technical staff in the Civil, Structural, Architectural, Mechanical and Electrical fields.



Sarah Oakes

sarah@southtech.com.au 

Prior to joining SouthTech Personnel Sarah spent 12 years with a service organisation in which she held 3 significant roles. Of most relevance was her 6 years as Business Development Manager for a key division. Sarah believes in the value of building long term open relationships where honesty and integrity are part of the business process for both parties and it is a key strength she utilises today.

Sarah joined SouthTech in April 2001 and primarily recruits and places technical staff in all disciplines of the Mechanical, Electrical, Chemistry and technical fields.

Sarah’s strengths lie in her passion, tenacity and commitment to providing beneficial and innovative solutions to clients and candidates alike.



Mandar Erande

mandar@southtech.com.au

Mandar joined SouthTech in 2004 and has a degree in Socio-Legal Sciences with a post-graduate Diploma in Business Management. Mandar focuses on understanding client's staffing needs and candidate's career growth potential. He has 6 years experience recruiting white-collar staff and recruits and places professionals at all levels in Civil, Architecture, Infrastructure, Mechanical, Electrical and emerging technology areas.


Michael Higgins

michael@southtech.com.au

Michael joined SouthTech in 2005 and has over 15 years experience in the hospitality industry and 10 years with Sydney Water as a Structural Technician and Marketing Manager Design. Michael has exceptional people skills, a strong engineering background and an enthusiastic and innovative approach to recruitment. With  Michael's extensive marketing experience he understands the importance of delivering a service that always exceeds both client and candidates expectations. Michael is qualified in Structural Engineering, Marketing and Business Planning.

 




Marella Bourne (Consultant Support)

marella@southtech.com.au

Marella joined SouthTech in 1999 as a receptionist and has approximately 10 years experience in various reception / payroll admin. roles. In early 2001 Marella was promoted to the Admin. Dept. She is now actively supporting the recruitment team and plays a pivotal role in assisting the consultants.


Karen Smith (Reception / Data Entry)
karen@southtech.com.au

Karen joined SouthTech in 2007 and has more than 10 years experience in Data Entry and Reception duties. She is responsible for front desk reception duties and data entry of candidate's information into our systems.



Joy McSparron (Reception / Data Entry)
joy@southtech.com.au 

Joy joined SouthTech in 2008 and has more than 10 years experience in Book Keeping, Data Entry and Reception duties. She is responsible for front desk reception duties and data entry of candidate's information into our systems.