Entec's people

Mark started his career as an Apprentice Electrician in high rise and light industrial builds in Sydney, before cutting his teeth in the industrial electrical world as a FIFO worker on large construction and mining sites all around Australia. After moving to NZ in 2007 Mark worked as a Site Supervisor and then Construction Engineer in the Taranaki oil & gas industry before joining Entec in 2014. Mark became GM Projects in 2015 and has overseen the substantial growth of this part of the business, including diversification into manufacturing (TCE Controls) and our major push on Prefabricated Plant Rooms. Mark took on the new role of Director – Strategic Sales & Innovation in October 2024; as the title suggests, he now focuses on pursuing new business opportunities and working across new and existing industry sectors to accelerate Entec’s growth and diversification.

Mark lives in New Plymouth with his partner and their four daughters and when not at work is likely to have either a fishing rod, golf club or set of bbq tongs in his hand.

Rob is an Instrumentation Technician, whose career morphed into Project Management and took him to many parts of the globe. Rob joined Entec in 2013 as a project manager and became General Manager Services in 2014. He has enjoyed the personal development provided in his role, and being an integral part of the huge growth achieved by Entec. Entec’s continued diversification both in industry sectors and geography, along with the opportunity to grow and develop awesome staff are key contributors to Rob’s enthusiasm in his role. Rob took on the new role of CEO in October 2024, taking on operational responsibility for all aspects of Entec’s business.

Rob and Lizzy are proud parents of 3 wonderful kids and all enjoy the outdoors, all sports and more than anything, travel. Rob endeavours to ward off ageing and destress by chasing small black rubber balls around the squash court as often as possible.

Bob joined Entec in 1996, initially as Commercial Manager, and then took over the leadership of the business in 2000. Bob’s qualifications are B.Com and MBA degrees. A lot of Bob’s initial time was spent on selling gas engines into landfill gas and biogas projects. As the business diversified into instrumentation, electrical and gas detection in 2010 Bob’s role changed to Managing Director. Bob took on a new role as Director – Future Business in 2024 and is now focused on future strategy and positioning Entec for its next phase of growth.

Bob lives in Auckland, is married with three sons, and enjoys time on the water and firing golf balls into water hazards in his spare time.

JJ joined Entec in 2019 as an Instrumentation Technician in Auckland after immigrating from South Africa. JJ has 15 years instrumentation, control and calibration knowledge in the Food, Pharmaceutical and industrial sectors. With hard work and dedication JJ managed to move up into a few different positions during his 5 years at Entec and in 2024 got appointed to the new position as Taupo Branch Manager.

JJ has a passion to see people grow and likes challenging colleagues with new opportunities and “out of the box” thinking.

JJ lives in the beautiful Taupo with his wife Sonja. Outside of work he is a passionate golfer and loves exploring the back roads of New Zealand with friends and family.

Ali Al-Rawi joined Entec in 2024, bringing with him extensive international experience in oil and gas EPCC project management. He holds a Project Management Professional (PMP) certification, an international MBA, and a degree in Psychology.

Ali thrives in a challenging environment, a quality he exemplified when he proposed to his significant other following a skydiving excursion, a moment that truly took her breath away. They are now proud parents of a young son, who serves as a source of inspiration for their personal and professional growth.

The young family has traveled extensively, and have lived in the UAE, Germany, and most recently relocating to Taupo, New Zealand. In his leisure time, Ali enjoys traveling, exploring new places and new food, engaging in outdoor adventures, barbecuing, and playing video games.

Jonny joined Entec in 2023 stepping into a technical sales position within the gas detection team. With over 15 years of experience in the gas detection field working as a technician, services manager and business development in previous roles, Jonny certainly has the expertise. Jonny has a passion for the products and services we provide and prides himself on going the extra mile for our customers.

Jonny, his wife Elise and son Lincoln enjoy biking, kayaking, time with family and pets. On a sunny day you’ll find Jonny at the air rifle range, on the motorbike, or hiking in the bush. On a rainy day he’ll be tinkering with his slot car track.

Before joining Entec in 2024 Shaun was a Senior Construction Engineer delivering a variety of multi-discipline projects in the upstream oil & gas sector.

Shaun has a fiancée and five amazing teenage kids who keep him busy. I enjoy going out with the family on our jetski, riding dirt bikes and generally anything to do with the outdoors.

Logan is born and bred in Taranaki. Throughout his electrical career he’s working in many different industries including food processing, timber manufacturing and oil/gas production, plus experience on oil rigs in PNG and mines in Australia.

Logan joined Entec in 2016 as an electrician, and worked his way up to be a site supervisor, including running a crew of 18 for a 12 month long project in 2020/21. Logan now works in our New Plymouth office as one of our Project Engineers.

Logan has a son and daughter and lives with his partner in Coastal Taranaki. He has a passion for the outdoors, especially fishing. His most recent out-of-work project is beekeeping.

Dave spent his formative years in the Eastern Bay of Plenty and has called Taupo home for the past 15 years. Dave is an Instrument Tech by trade and has built extensive experience across numerous industries throughout New Zealand, most recently in contract and project management roles in the High Voltage and Power generation industry.

Dave joined Entec in January 2023 to focus on promoting our project capabilities and building the business in the Taupo region and supporting the growth of the services division.

Dave lives in Taupo and is married with two daughters. As a family they enjoy boating on the lake, travel, snow skiing, adventure racing together and getting away to the beach.

Christian immigrated to New Zealand in 1992 and has lived for the most part in New Plymouth with stints overseas. He has an I&E background in the Dairy & Petrochemical sectors, most recently in project management roles.

Christian joined Entec in January 2023 as a Project Engineer, and is excited to become involved with new innovative technologies in the renewable energy sector, including the green hydrogen rollout.

Christian is happily married with two beautiful children. He is passionate about travelling and sports. He is also a “foodie” and when he goes abroad, he’s on a mission through alleyways, byways and highways to find the local street cuisine.

Ben was born and bred in Taranaki and left New Zealand in 2008 to work in the mines of Western Australia. He returned to New Zealand in 2012 and joined Entec shortly after. Ben started work at Entec as an industrial electrician and was soon promoted to a supervisor before starting his current role as a Project Engineer in 2017.

Ben continues to assist the wider project engineering team, but in his current role he is more focused on the pre-award, tendering & design review of projects.

Ben lives in New Plymouth and is married with two daughters and one son. While a keen golfer he also enjoys fishing, although the boat spends most of the time in the driveway these days.

Chris qualified as an Instrumentation Technician in the pulp & paper industry in the late 1980’s and has worked on a great variety of industrial sites in many industry sectors, in many parts of the world, since that time. As well as his expertise in process instrumentation, Chris also has a keen interest in quality assurance, safety and maintenance planning systems, and in bringing smart practices and efficiency improvements into the workplace. Chris has worked for Entec since 2017 and wears many hats, including business development and service management, alongside his core instro work.

Chris lives in an alpine paradise near Queenstown with his wife and two sons, and takes advantage of this great environment to pursue his passions for mountain biking and snowboarding.

Mike joined Entec as one of our Project Engineers in 2021, bringing a number of skills from his nearly 30 years in the electrical industry. Having completed an electrical apprenticeship in the domestic, manufacturing and commercial world in Wellington, he has since worked extensively in the heavy industrial area. This has included paper mills, sawmills, sewerage and water treatment. Within this time he has around 10 years of experience commissioning power stations in both New Zealand and Australia, including a large coal seam gas project.

Mike has a passion for hunting, which he has tried to bring into the office without success.

Kain joined Entec in 2015 as an I&E technician, focusing primarily on instrumentation across industries including dairy, food, steel & petrochem. Kain specialised further in fixed point gas detection as this part of Entec’s business grew, and not on any given week Kain can be found covering the whole country commissioning or servicing gas detection safety systems.

Kain lives in Auckland and depending on the weather he can be found either out on the water or dodging trees on his mountain bike.

Alistair Joined Entec back in 2014 having worked his way up from electrician to supervisor. He has worked on industrial & petrochemical sites as well as gaining his Electrical inspector qualification. Alistair had a change for two years and has recently come back to Entec in a new Project Engineering role.

He has a very keen interest in new technologies particularly renewable energies such as Solar & EV charging infrastructure. Alistair sees this as the way of the future.

Alistair has a young family, is a car enthusiast and has a keen passion for golf like a lot of the Entec crew.

John has been in the gas detection equipment sales and service sector for 25 years and joined Entec in 2010. As Gas Detection Manager during that time he’s grown the business significantly by offering excellent products and ensuring the back-up service is second-to-none. He enjoys building strong and everlasting relationships with our customers. When once asked what he likes about his job the response was “the equipment that we sell saves lives and protects property”. Not much more that you can say!

John is married with 4 sons and a granddaughter (all of whom keep him on his toes). He enjoys rugby, playing golf (badly) and likes to hunt the back country.

Mike joined Entec in 1991 and has specialised in the rotating equipment division with various roles from Service Engineer to Technical Manager, project managing power generation projects, biogas projects and customer and internal technical support for the Waukesha and Ariel product range. Keeping abreast of the everchanging technical advancements and focusing on how best these technologies can help our customers has provided an extremely satisfying career.

While Mike’s family are spread around the country, keeping up with his two children’s new families (3 grandchildren) is a hectic balancing act. His other passion for classic cars and motorsport along with spending more time at home with his partner keeps him busy.

Mark joined Entec in 2021, initially in a procurement/logistics role. Mark now looks after the HSEQ function of the business. Mark has 25 years’ experience in manufacturing inventory, industrial design and project support.

Mark relocated from Auckland to Taranaki and lives the good life on a small semi-rural property with his wife, his dog, a donkey and a Kunekune pig called Kevin Bacon.

Shiree’s employment commenced with Entec in 2014, originally as Financial Administrator and in 2016 moving into the role of Company Accountant. Shiree has over 36 years’ experience and knowledge in her field and whilst at Entec has gained a Graduate Diploma in Accounting. Shiree is responsible for maintaining the finances of the company and associated accounting duties, coupled with supporting her colleagues with the payroll.

Shiree is a born and bred Aucklander, is a proud mother of two adult sons, and enjoys long leisurely walks and as she is a passionate foodie, enjoys cooking up a storm.

Joshin joined Entec in 2021 as Project Engineer – TCE Controls. Joshin’s qualifications are BTech and Postgraduate Diploma degrees. Joshin’s engineering career started as CAD designer and later as Project Engineer with more focus on HV installation works including transformer and generator. His focus in this role is assisting with design, pricing and production management for the full range of switchboards and control panels being manufactured under the TCE Controls name.

Joshin lives in New Plymouth and enjoys cooking in his spare time.

Steve joined Entec in 2010 from the heavy automotive industry, starting rotating equipment team to service the large fleet of Waukesha gas engines and Ariel gas compressors around New Zealand, including on offshore installations. As the team grew Steve moved into a team leader role in 2014 to take care of the operational running of the rotating team while still enjoying some on the tools work. In 2022 Steve joined the Entec management team as Taranaki Service Manager and now manager seconded I&E staff, the rotating team and all things service related for Entec.

Steve lives in New Plymouth, is married with three sons, and enjoys his free time chasing the elusive 20lb snapper, watching sports, and spending family time.

Ross joined Entec in 2020 and was appointed to the new role of Operations Manager I&E in 2022, following a five year stint as Senior Construction Engineer delivering a variety of multi-discipline projects in the upstream oil & gas sector. Ross is a registered electrician and is part of the way to completing his instrumentation qualification as well. Ross served in the NZ Military for 11 years, including operational deployments.

Ross has a passion for lean operations and bringing positive change into his workplace. He’s currently studying towards a Diploma in Business Management.

Ross is married with two children, and lives in a fairly remote part of the beautiful Taranaki province. He enjoys hunting, riding dirt bikes and generally anything to do with the outdoors.

Martin has 25 years’ experience in the switchboard industry, covering all aspects of design, manufacture and testing. Martin is an electrician and project manager by background, and is also a registered Electrical inspector.

Martin joined Entec in 2016 to establish our in-house manufacturing division, TCE Controls. Martin has built this part of the business to be a large and highly regarded supplier of switchboards and panels, with a very high rate of repeat business.

When he is not deep in design or in switchboard building mode, you may find him out on the open road motorcycling across the country with his long-suffering wife.

Dylan has worked in the Gas Detection industry for 20+ years. First as a service technician, he worked on the repair, maintenance, and calibration of a wide variety of fixed and portable gas detection equipment. Having experienced the management and execution of nationwide service contracts Dylan soon moved into technical support, customer service and inhouse sales. After a stint of broadening his instrumentation knowledge, he has returned to his core as Entec’s Key Account Manager, Gas Detection.

Dylan is a proven technical expert with a passion for keeping people and plant safe. A proud father of 2, Dylan is never happier than when riding the mountain bike trails of greater Auckland.

Jake joined Entec in 2020 to launch our new compliance services initiative. With many years’ experience as a hazardous area electrical inspector he has seen the need for more than just an inspection service. He is passionate about working proactively to help our clients achieve all their safety and compliance requirements. Backed by a team of highly competent and experienced inspectors, Jake is looking forward to “getting you running, and keeping you safe”!

Outside of work Jake is blessed with a beautiful fiancée and four amazing kids who keep him pretty busy. When he can manage it though he likes to get out and about in our beautiful back country or out on the water hunting, fishing, and exploring.

Paul joined Entec in 2015, initially as a Gas Detection Technician, and following growth in the department he was promoted to become Service Manager Gas Detection. His knowledge base includes servicing of all makes of personal gas detectors, specialising in Industrial Scientific and ION Science manufactured instruments. He has site-based experience with both personal and fixed gas detectors.

Paul had a variety of career roles prior to joining Entec and outside of work is best known as an accomplished artist, with a number of successful exhibitions and commissions.

Mark has been involved in manufacturing temperature probes since leaving school initially in the United Kingdom and then in New Zealand since 1996. Mark is a self-described “efficiency nut”, why make a job harder than it needs to be, the easier it is the better the quality!

Mark likes sport as long as it involves a comfortable chair at his home in the Waikato, a large TV Screen and surround sound. In particular he supports Liverpool football club, Ferrari F1 team and of course the All Blacks.

Lani joined Entec in 2010 as a part time administrator, after owning her own small business for 6 years. Lani has a Diploma in Business Management and over 20 years of varying accounts and admin experience. During her long time at Entec her role has grown and developed together with the business, she is now responsible for all of the systems, software and (most importantly) admin people that make our business run smoothly and efficiently.

Lani lives in the quiet beachside suburb of Beachlands in Auckland with her husband and two teenage girls, one a budding mechanical engineer and the other a dance addict. The majority of her spare time is spent running around after the kids, but when the opportunity arises she loves to travel, read and is trying to become more zen by learning yoga!