When Vanessa Grady finished school, she never imagined she would enter the construction industry and drive huge machinery across NSW.
The chief operations officer for RoadWorks Surfacing in Kembla Grange advocates for females on staff and says that over the past five years, there has been an influx of female traffic controllers."They start out on the roads and then see what else is happening, and like Vanessa, they ask to have a go.""They operate the vehicles, the equipment, the plant and they are doing the labour side too.
"In that time, you learn so much about people skills, along with vehicles and machinery and then you get to experience so much, it's definitely worth doing it just for the experience."According to a planning department briefing, NSW would need to build 75 per cent more homes than the 36,000 expected to be delivered a year for the next five years to keep up with demand.