Vision ... To be the Leader in our Heavy Engineering Markets.

Progress towards this vision will be through:
  • Proudly providing value added products and services.
  • Building strong relationships with our customers and suppliers.
  • Ensuring our people are qualified, competent and adaptable.
  • Building and maintaining our organisational knowledge and capacity.
  • Reviewing performance for continuous improvement.
Important factors for our Customers' buying decisions:
  • High level of quality.
  • Experience and background knowledge of the staff.
  • Price competitiveness
  • Staff competency
  • Capacity of facilities and plant.

Staff

Our staff, who have considerable industry knowledge, enable us to constantly improve our work processes through engineering changes and process improvement initiatives.

Where possible, training is aligned to industry unit standards to ensure consistency of the level of training.

In addition, further training may be negotiated during the Annual Review and Development process for all staff.

Health & Safety

Our health and safety objective is to maintain the wellbeing of our staff and attain zero accidents site wide. Using education in workplace culture, adoption of best practices and employee participation we remain constantly focused on this goal.

Systems

Hillside Engineering utilises the SAP system for production, purchasing and sales, financial reporting, document control, maintenance planning and rework analysis.

Compliance

Hillside Engineering achieved ISO 9002 in March 1992 and is now currently assessed to ISO 9000:2004 and registered with Telarc.

The foundry is registered with Lloyds.

Annual audits are carried out on key areas of the operation to ensure we remain compliant to the standards.

The site operates with its Resource Consent where the current air discharge permit is valid until 1st December 2014.

Associations

Telarc (IANZ)

Company Member

Lloyds Register

Company Member

Casting Technology NZ

Regional Rep – Romek Lemow

Competenz

Company Member

Heavy Engineering Research Association

Company Member

Employers Association

Company Member

NZ Institute of Management (NZIM)

Company Member

IPENZ

Company Member

Energy Efficient & Conservation Authority (EECA) “Energy-Wise”

“Energy-Wise” Company Member

Dunedin City Council Engineering Cluster Group

Company Participant

NZISM – Institute Safety Management

Company Member

History

Community Involvement