MineTech management on the move

In a move that brings them closer to one of the world's leading providers of remote site safety and support services, MineTech International has transferred its management and administration base from Harare in Zimbabwe to work alongside the Group management team in Gloucestershire, UK.

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Operational and financial management for the specialist mine and EOD disposal division is now organised directly through the UK head office of MineTech parent organisation Exploration Logistics Group, home to more than 50 experienced management and logistics professionals, including recently relocated MineTech personnel. Operations Director Max Dyck continues to head up a specialist MineTech management team, who together with their families are now resident in the UK.

Managing Director of Exploration Logistics Group, Mike Jaques believes the move will deliver significant efficiencies for MineTech customers in terms of both operational management and performance.

Explains Mike, "Explorations Logistics' steady and continued success is founded on the skills of a highly specialist and professional team with unique experience in tackling the many and varied challenges involved in working in hazardous, post conflict and remote environments. We have been delivering a wide range of remote Health and Safety services for more than 20 years, achieving the very high and exacting standards demanded by the oil and gas industries as an example. Combining our management strengths under one roof will support our continued drive towards innovation and professionalism."

Recent recruits strengthening the Exploration Logistics Group management team include Tom Saul who joins as Finance Director having previously worked for a leading marine insurance firm in London.

Maintaining an office in Zimbabwe as well as a specialist dog training school in Pretoria, South Africa, MineTech will still operate a major recruitment base in Harare where the organisation maintains a highly skilled workforce specialising in mine and EOD clearance.

Established since 1986 Exploration Logistics Group has a workforce of more than 750 medics, consultants, training and field personnel around the world, specialists in demining and explosive ordnance disposal, Health and Safety audit, project management, off-road and defensive driver training, steep terrain activity. medical support and the provision of security explosive detecting dog teams.