Happy 88th Birthday to the man that started it all! MacKellar is now Australia’s largest privately owned mining equipment and services provider and was started from the ground up, when Alastair began his apprenticeship at the age of 17.
In just a few short years, 22-year-old Harri Jones has gone from a promising young motorsport talent to becoming now one of Australia’s most exciting Racing Drivers.
Meet some of the women that make up our MacKellar family! While we operate in a traditionally male dominated industry, the opportunities for women have continued to grow across the sector in a variety of different roles from haul truck drivers to engineers.
Western Plant Hire is proud to announce a new strategic partnership with the MacKellar Group, Australia’s largest privately owned heavy earthmoving equipment and services provider.
We’re currently recruiting for roles across regional Queensland as part of our five year partnership with Bravus Mining and Resources.
Over the next five years on-site we’ll have the engineers, surveyors, operators and maintenance crews and we’re looking forward to seeing all the opportunities that this will create for Queenslanders.
Kaleb is an apprentice Diesel Fitter at our Nambour Rebuild Centre and one of over 40 apprentices engaged across our operations over the previous 2 years.
Harri is the #12 Helimods Porsche GT3 driver competing in the Porsche Carrera Cup, the premier one-make championship in Australia with drivers racing in identical Porsche 911 GT3 Cup (991 Gen II) race cars.
We recently finished construction of a brand new Allshelter engineered mobile workshop at a greenfields mine site in remote Queensland.
Over the past three years we’ve been proudly supporting the Australian Cycling Academy and their athletes including Alex on their professional racing journey.
As we continue to grow and expand into new territories it was only fitting that we look to secure a new property to support our overall vision for the future.
MacKellar's HR team has developed our own Apprenticeship Program, focused on creating a point of difference for our apprentices and our business.
A safe and healthy workplace is our number one goal at MacKellar, and we work tirelessly to meet and exceed best practice in safety and maintenance.
As a family-owned business, one of MacKellar's pillars is to be engaged in the communities we operate in. This is just one of the ways we choose to support our staff and their families.
Dave Overall is the new Chairman at MacKellar and brings with him a great deal of industry experience in resources and infrastructure construction, project development, operations and investment management
In October, MacKellar took part in a specialised Careers Expo in Rockhampton, aimed at offering school leavers, job seekers and career changers the opportunity to connect with major contractors in the Rockhampton Region.
One of the objectives of our recent rebranding project was to set a new vision for the company, as we continue to grow and expand into new territories.
MacKellar recently won a bid for a two-year contract to supply and commission five new Liebherr T 264 electric drive mining trucks.
There are so many exciting developments at MacKellar. We're looking forward to sharing the latest news on this page.
