Lyndon Urquhart - General Manager: Petroleum Services

Lyndon’s early career started as an electrical tradesman managing his own electrical contracting business for 10 years. He later joined the Royal Australian Navy attaining the qualification of Electronics Technician (Communication).

After leaving the Navy he worked as a Logistics Engineer for Thomson Radar Australia Corporation performing LSA tasks including segment/product management for B&CW, IRDS, PSN, AFTN, VSCS and EUROCAT on the Australian Advanced Air Traffic System (TAAATS) After promotion with Thomson Radar (which changed name to Airsys-ATM after procuring Siemens), Lyndon became Customer Service Manager responsible for Repairs, Spares, Installations, Maintenance and Training on a global scale looking after a budget of 3MAUD with an after sales expectation of 5MAUD. Again Promoted, Lyndon became Technical Training Manager based on his EUROCAT SME status and after obtaining a DipED in his own time, training students globally in Air Traffic Control Maintenance. Lyndon’s final role with Thales-ATM was as a Project Manager, managing facilities maintenance contracts globally individually for projects up to 10MAUD or as a team on others up to 400MAUD.

Lyndon joined UMS in 2004 as a Contract Manager, managing a portfolio of building and facilities maintenance contracts along with capital works delivery to a value of 7MAUD predominately in the western region of Melbourne. Lyndon was promoted to Operations Manager - Facilities in March 2006 looking after a team of 65 staff with a cumulative value of 20MAUD. In Feb 2007, Lyndon was promoted into his current role of General Manager responsible for the Petroleum Business Unit of UMS. In this role Lyndon has complete autonomy of the P&L / Balance sheet whilst reporting to the CEO.

Lyndon’s skill set is extensive and includes the trades, communications, integrated logistics, education, sales and marketing, contract, project and financial management, all underpinned by his two diplomas in Education and Business (Marketing).
 

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