Chinchilla’s new apprentice - George

SHELL’S QGC BUSINESS – WORKING WITH LOCAL COMMUNITIES TO DELIVER LOCAL APPRENTICESHIPS

Duration: 1:32 minutes

A promotional video highlighting the opportunities being offered to young apprentices at local businesses who supply to Shell’s QGC business.

DELIVERING LOCAL APPRENTICESHIPS Transcript

(Background music plays)

Up-tempo rock track, inspiring action.

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Shows a young male apprentice inside a workshop, wearing protective gear and smiling at the camera.

(Text display)

Working with local communities.

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Shows the young man walking around the workshop, inspecting and beginning work on a fabricated metal frame. A voice can be heard over top of video.

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Delivering local apprenticeships.

(Louise McMahon)

With Shell’s commitment recently to provide some opportunities to tender and be now successfully awarded long term projects…

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Scene shows door closing on a truck with MFE branding, before cutting to Louise McMahon, speaking towards the camera in MFE’s Chinchilla workshop. Audio of Louise speaking plays throughout.

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Louise McMahon – MFE Chinchilla

(Louise McMahon)

We’ve been able to commit and have confidence that we can provide long-term, quality apprenticeships.

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Providing long-term apprenticeships.

(Louise McMahon)

And what that, the recent award of one of the specific tenders. that was the catalyst for us bringing on our latest apprentice. Our first school-based apprentice.

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Shows the young apprentice with a grinder working on a metal frame. Scene then pans to show a close-up of the apprentice as he continues working.

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Meet George. Our first school-based apprentice.

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Shows George the apprentice reaching for another tool before walking back to his work bench to continue working on the metal frame.

(Louise McMahon)

He’s going to be more likely to stay in the regional community, grow up here, have his family here.

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George talks over his work with a supervisor. Scene shows George talking to the supervisor, before putting safety tape around the metal frame. Audio of Louise continues to play.

(Louise McMahon)

So, in terms of the economy as a whole, this is so pivotal to these regional communities and their long-term viability.

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So pivotal to regional communities.

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Expansive shot of the entrance to the MFE workshop in Chinchilla, then shot cuts back to Louise McMahon.

(Louise McMahon)

Myself, I’m quite involved in the community and in general outside of just MFE have seen a real positivity in the approach that Shell’s QGC business are taking to local investment and not just talking about it but actually doing something about it.

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Scene shows George in the MFE workshop in his protective gear. Inspecting his work, before laying the frame he has been working on to a stacked pile of frames. Audio of Louise speaking continues.

(Louise McMahon)

Awarding these sorts of jobs, providing some long-term certainty to the region about their investment in manufacturing, in local careers and opportunities.

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Scene shows another MFE apprentice reaching into his toolbox and taking out some screws. Footage then cuts back to Louise McMahon.

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Investing in providing long-term certainty.

(Louise McMahon)

It means we’ve now got the confidence and the ability to actually get some positive returns on investment in our staff.

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George stands there smiling in the MFE workshop as the video draws to conclusion.

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Working with local communities.

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Scene then fades to white screen as the Shell QGC logos are displayed.

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The Sound of Shell mnemonic concludes the video.