Civilex has changed its name to Symal.
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At Civilex (soon to be Symal) our civil infrastructure work lays the foundation for how people live, work and play.
We are an agile, dynamic contracting business that responds to the ever-changing needs of clients, as we harness the best industry talent to work on complex projects across Australia.
We work across various construction sectors including transport infrastructure, rail, ports, airports, energy and resources, water infrastructure, justice, defence, remediation, structures, and community infrastructure.
Our professional approach ensures project quality results while reflecting the uniqueness of each build. Our clients value our adaptability, innovative thinking, and attention to detail that cements our contractor reputation in the industry. We’re industry leaders ensuring long-term relationships with our partners and clients are built on and sustained by true collaboration and communication.
Our project delivery and industry relationships speak for themselves. Committed to safety, quality, and robust programming, our work is demonstrated through our values, guiding us in everything we do. We develop rigorous management processes and practices across all construction projects to maintain our high standards and deliver above expectations.
Implementing experienced and dedicated people to each construction project, our teams are chosen for expertise and skills. We harness significant capability in delivering complex, large-scale projects and engage with competent subcontractors and suppliers demonstrating their ability to complement our workforce.
Joe unites the group, inspiring us all to strive for a better tomorrow, every day. With over 20 years’ experience in the industry, Joe has worked on hundreds of diverse construction projects. With drive and passion for the business, Joe embeds a positive culture across 500+ highly skilled staff.
Ray is a strategic problem-solver, skillfully managing engineering, project operations and risk while establishing key commercial relationships. Over the past decade with us, he has inspired leadership in others and consistently delivered beyond client expectations.
Andrew has a solid industry foundation and an astute approach to pre-contracts. Over the past decade with us, he’s built, a strong reputation for foresight, accuracy and efficiency, enabling our clients, and our business, to move forward with confidence.
With a strong vision and an ambitious approach to progress, Nabeel’s experience in the construction industry is a key growth driver for our group. A proven leader, with a track record for forming effective, long-term partnerships, Nabeel has the engineering skills and business acumen to bring people together through shared values.
Nicholas’ high-level and long-term commercial insight and economic strategy are invaluable to our Board of Directors. As CFO for almost 20 years, his management skills ensure financial statements, budgeting and risk analysis always keep us on track to deliver on our promises.
Talented multi-disciplinary team manager, Olivia is responsible for quality human resources, organisational development, and creating learning and development frameworks to support strategic outcomes. She drives diversity and inclusion, staff engagement, and influences culture while delivering social procurement outcomes.
Ben’s ability to read market direction combined with his high-level strategic approach ensures mutual success for our business, and our clients. His enthusiasm shines – it’s one of the reasons he’s been such a great ambassador for us, delivering great opportunities as a result.
Sandra’s vast experience as a construction lawyer, allows us to manage corporate risk, making her a cornerstone to our ongoing business success. Sandra brings a wealth of commercial knowledge to our business and the clients we work with.
Kris brings an enormous amount of diverse experience to the group, consistently delivering on productivity levels. With a passion for plant and machinery, management skills, and a mechanics qualification, he manages assets in excess of $30 million and is a unique hybrid of technical and organisational genius.
Our work comes with great responsibility to the communities we serve. Taking the lead on developing, auditing and reviewing our safe work practices, George makes sure our teams meet – and exceed – industry standards and legislative requirements.
A pragmatic, talented and influential leader, Matt has more than 15 years of construction industry experience. Matt oversees the entire Civilex business in Victoria and NSW and will play a vital role in the further expansion as we expand operations across Australia.
An outstanding construction operator and team mentor for over 14 years, Rod is adept at managing key procurement negotiations, the resolution of commercial issues, financial reviews and reporting, and liaising with key stakeholders.
Ben’s motivational leadership style enables him to constantly drive his team to achieve the best results. For over 15 years in Australia and the UK, he’s delivered complex civil infrastructure projects in road, rail and marine environments.
With over 30 years’ experience delivering complex infrastructure, Steve leads our culture of safety and safe execution of works. Steve supervises site staff, organises project resourcing and programming and has built an enviable reputation for completing projects ahead of schedule.
With over 18 years’ broad construction experience, Jen leads the Civilex HSEQ team, focusing on continuous improvement of our systems and standards, incident investigations, internal training and return to work while maintaining our certifications.
Qualified in business, training and safety, coupled with a street-smart mindset in negotiation and communication, Matt is an expert in sourcing and managing essential supplies across our diverse projects. He confidently builds and sustains long-lasting relationships with stakeholders and manages subcontractor agreements.
We’re lucky enough to work on some of the most transformative projects in Australia. But the nature of construction means potential hazards are never far away. Every year, the industry sees a wide range of workplace incidents, severe injuries and even fatalities, all of which could have been prevented.
As part of our commitment to safety, we’ve embarked on a collaborative journey with a diverse cross-section of our people to review our processes, benchmark them against industry-leading practices and help embed a consistent safety approach in the culture of our business.
The result is Safety 7 – a set of expected behaviours and risk management practices, mapped across seven core areas of our business.
Safety 7 aims to:
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To prevent harm to the health and wellbeing of people or damage to services and assets via a systematic approach, eliminating or reducing risks associated with our activities.
To manage the interaction between mobile plant, vehicles, ground personnel and the public to avoid harm to health or damage to property.
To control the operation and maintenance of plant to prevent harm to people or damage to property and the environment.
To support the planning and execution of excavation work to prevent engulfment, ground collapse and temporary works failure.
To prevent lifting operation failures that could result in harm to people or damage to property arising from incorrect use of cranes or other plant, lifting/rigging hardware and stability conditions.
To remove the possibility of a person or object falling from a height.
To control risks associated with unique work activities.
Our Vision
To be the preferred civil construction partner for our clients and to be the benchmark on how others are measured.
Our Mission
Civilex is committed to providing a safe and supportive environment for all. We deliver civil infrastructure projects to the highest standards. We are proud and passionate about who we are and live by our core values of safety, respect, wellbeing, relationships, innovation and culture. We fulfil our vision as an industry leader and build well founded relationships with our stakeholders. We are recognised for our versatility and innovative approach to delivering exceptional outcomes on our projects. We are one team with a unified approach and embrace our responsibility where each of us, our communities and stakeholders can prosper now and in the future.
Our Values
As a business that originated from humble beginnings, our continued growth and success is testament to having a clear vision, supported by our core values that will continue to shape and drive our culture into the future. Our culture is developed through our values and our values are driven by our greatest asset – our people.
