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Safety, Quality
& Reliability

As an Australian owned and operated company, we take pride in doing “whatever it takes” to deliver for our clients, and be a valued and respected part of the communities in which we live and operate.
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Safety, Quality & Reliability

Precision machining, rebuilds, refurbishments

Dawsons Group of Companies provides the Complete Industrial Solution.

Established in 1987 by Keith and Valerie Dawson, the business has grown to become one of Queensland’s largest privately held multi-disciplinary industrial services companies. Now operating from workshops in Cairns, Townsville and Mt Isa and employing over 2000 people each year, Dawsons is still guided by family values and maintains a steadfast focus on safety, quality and reliability.

At Dawsons, it’s all about being smart, reliable, and responsive to our client needs, while continuing to innovate and grow. Our clients and projects range in size and are mainly in the Mining, Marine, Power, Sugar, Defence, Government, and Process sectors. Over the past 30 years, we have built our reputation on providing exceptional service and remaining focused on building long term, value driven relationships with our clients.

10
Apprentices Trained
since 1990
$10
Million Annual
Local Impact
100
People Employed
Each Year

Our Clients

The Dawsons Difference

What makes Dawsons stand out from the rest?
We care
Dawsons is big enough to do the job and small enough to care. We pride ourselves on our ability to maintain long term value driven partnerships with clients.
Proven Success
Dawsons has over 30 years’ experience supplying labour hire support to clients in industry. We are experienced in the management of services to vast geographic areas and to complex client structures.
Diversified
Dawsons is unique in its structure as a fully integrated Heavy Engineering and Labour Hire company and our strength and commercial competitive advantage lies in our own ability to leverage off the different divisions within our business. Our status as a Heavy Engineering company has underpinned our ability to attract the best quality employees. We also have the ability to upskill and train workers – our Labour Hire division utilizes our internal training facilities to ensure employees have the most up to date qualifications.
Our people
The Dawson’s culture is one of success, hard work and pride. Dawsons staff are passionate about the projects undertaken and the team spirit is clearly visible when you walk into an office or worksite.
Our Technology
We use a proprietary software system called TRON to manage our employee database and the compliance of safety, qualification, skills, performance and health of all current and past employees. The system now has over 40,000 employee and applicant records and provides us with an industry leading tool to manage our manning requirements.
Safety
Dawsons places the health and safety of its people as a core operating value. Dawsons has developed a Safety Management System that addresses the risks of our business and ensures our workers are safe when on a client’s site. All employees are required to have a minimum level of training prior to commencing work.

The Dawsons Difference

What makes Dawsons stand out from the rest?
We care
Dawsons is big enough to do the job and small enough to care. We pride ourselves on our ability to maintain long term value driven partnerships with clients.
Proven Success
Dawsons has over 30 years’ experience supplying labour hire support to clients in industry. We are experienced in the management of services to vast geographic areas and to complex client structures.
Diversified
Dawsons is unique in its structure as a fully integrated Heavy Engineering and Labour Hire company and our strength and commercial competitive advantage lies in our own ability to leverage off the different divisions within our business. Our status as a Heavy Engineering company has underpinned our ability to attract the best quality employees. We also have the ability to upskill and train workers – our Labour Hire division utilizes our internal training facilities to ensure employees have the most up to date qualifications.
Our people
The Dawson’s culture is one of success, hard work and pride. Dawsons staff are passionate about the projects undertaken and the team spirit is clearly visible when you walk into an office or worksite.
Our Technology
We use a proprietary software system called TRON to manage our employee database and the compliance of safety, qualification, skills, performance and health of all current and past employees. Providing us with an industry leading tool to manage our manning requirements
Safety
Dawsons places the health and safety of its people as a core operating value. Dawsons has developed a Safety Management System that addresses the risks of our business and ensures our workers are safe when on a client’s site. All employees are required to have a minimum level of training prior to commencing work.

Our Leadership

Dawsons Group of Companies has grown from a partnership between Keith and Valerie Dawson to now being a major regional employer, successfully completing multi-million dollar value projects. The strength and capacity of the Dawsons Group means that we are big enough to complete the big jobs; our family values mean that we are still small enough to care.

We are very fortunate to have had many fantastic people on the journey with us over many years in business. Our leadership team is small, we don’t hang on to titles or particularly enjoy talking about ourselves, this is how we roll.

In The Community

We take pride in giving back to our community whenever we can, and are proud to support and work with many local organisations and causes. The following are just a few of the groups that we are honoured to support:

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