Overview
Who is Eastern Guruma?
Eastern Guruma is a West Australian civil and mining contractor, which is 100% owned by members of the traditional owner group Muntulgura Guruma. Established in 2004, Eastern Guruma is a successful aboriginal business, servicing Australia’s top-tier Iron Ore Miners Rio Tinto, Fortescue and BHP. The Eastern Guruma land surrounds the Tom Price area in the Pilbara region of WA.
Services and Works
Eastern Guruma delivers projects in the Western Australian resources industry that include the following:
- road construction and maintenance
- bulk and detailed earthworks
- concrete
- construction of tailings dams
- drainage and protection
- traffic management
- exploration
- rehabilitation
- landscaping
- drilling
- telecommunications
- facilities management services.
Eastern Guruma proudly partners with Aboriginal groups to work on specific mining and civil projects. Such partnerships have created opportunities for Aboriginal people including traineeships and ongoing career development.
Aboriginal Engagement
Background
Eastern Guruma is 100% owned by members of the traditional owner group Muntulgura Guruma, with the core values of the business ensuring it provides employment, career and business opportunities for Aboriginal people. Since its establishment in 2004, Eastern Guruma has employed many Aboriginal people in a range of different roles within the business. These roles have included entry level positions and traineeships, experienced operator, supervisor and manager roles, as well as trades and other service positions.
Employment & Training
Our Aboriginal Employment and Training Policy states our commitment to providing employment, training and skills improvement to Eastern Guruma and other Aboriginal people. Our success in partnering with other businesses to provide traineeships have led to long term careers for Aboriginal people within the civil and mining, landscaping, facilities management, drilling, telecommunications and pastoral industries. Traineeships have been undertaken with a combination of theory-based learning through accredited providers combined with on-the-job learning. Successful candidates have been offered ongoing employment and have taken on a career path leading to promotion and further growth within the business.
Partnerships
Our partnerships with Aboriginal businesses have seen the growth of new business opportunities and further employment and training for Aboriginal people. Our joint venture with Wirlu-Murra Enterprises has led to a successful project at Solomon Mine, which has been ongoing since 2013. The Road Maintenance contract has a growing number of Aboriginal employees, currently over 50%, and has led to further business for both Eastern Guruma and Wirlu-Murra at Solomon Mine, as joint venture partners and individual businesses. This partnership has seen Eastern Guruma become the major partner mentor, helping Wirlu-Murra to build their capability and operations and take on 50% of the Road Maintenance contract as well as grow their business to further undertake new contracts independently.
Future
Eastern Guruma endeavours to continuously grow the number of Aboriginal people within its company through direct employment and subcontracting arrangements. Our vision is to create pathways to empowerment for Aboriginal people to participate in the Australian economy.
