Board of Directors
Clearwater Construction is a privately owned company that strives for “best practice” in all areas of operation including governance. The Board of Directors provide oversight and guidance to steer the business towards its objectives and ensuring the day to day management is consistently aligned with the overall vision.
Wayne Carson – Director. Wayne has extensive engineering and construction industry experience and was previously General Manager of Clearwater Construction before transferring to a similar role in sister company D&H Steel Construction.
Mike Sullivan – Managing Director. Mike founded company in 1984 and remains the majority owner.
Senior Management
Mike Sullivan
Managing Director
Mike founded Clearwater Construction is 1984 and went on to establish a group of complementary companies. Mike actively oversees all project deliveries and offers his extensive technical expertise, wisdom, and a wealth of project experience and skills. Over the years, Mike has developed many innovative construction solutions which enable his companies to be leaders in their industry.
Martin Baker
General Manager
Martin is a well organised manager who understands the steps required to implement actions, source resources and plan and programme to achieve results. Martin has a strong customer focus and develops collobrative business relations based on trust, confidence and mutual respect. Martin thrives on the high level of responsibility, decision making and accountability demanded in his role.
Owen Michie
Commercial Manager
Owen is a respected estimator and quantity surveyor experienced in design-build construction projects. He offers clients a thorough understanding of project budgets, cost control and management, financial reporting, and variation management. Owen has a strong sence of the subcontractor market, costs of goods and services and resource productivity allowing him to see and take the whole project life cycle into account.
Our Team
We employ approximately 75 motivated full-time staff, inclusive of a large direct labour workforce of approximately 50. Our management team and workforce are rich with long-serving and experienced construction industry members. Our business is run on a day-to-day basis by owners. This “hands-on” management results in active involvement, ownership, empowerment and accountability in all we do.
The availability of our stable of permanent and experienced trade workforce guarantees quality standards are met or exceeded and that workforce is always available when required. We can manage rapid job start-up particularly for concrete and structural activities, reducing the dependence on subcontractor resource. Our expertise in this field results in structural work packages in both steel and concrete being provided to other building contractors.