Uwe Hetmanska has over 30 years of experience in piling projects across Australia. Some of the key projects he worked on included driving steel and wooden piles to build jetties in Darwin and Derby in the 1960s and 1970s. In the 1990s, he served as a general foreman on projects installing Franki piles and concrete pile caps to support conveyor towers and other structures. From 1993 to 1995, Hetmanska worked as an inspector on a major railway upgrade project in Townsville and Prosperine, where he oversaw the installation of bored concrete piles up to 1200mm in diameter using various construction methods under water and on land.

1. EXPERIENCE,SKILLS,ABILITIES
UWE HETMANSKA
ADDENDUM – PILING
1963 Harbours and Rivers
Derby W.A. – Horseshoe Jetty
GENERAL FOREMAN
Driving braker- and straight piles from pontoon
1967 Vogiolotti & Lapira
Darwin – Jetty
FOREMAN
Driving steel piles ,then to be filled with concrete, also
driving wooden springers .
1973 F.A. Pidgeon and Sons
Brisbane South- CBC Bank
GENERAL FOREMAN
Driving Franki piles with raft of pile caps.
1993 Guytan Construction
Ingham- Victoria Sugar Mill
GENERAL FOREMAN
Insitju Frani Piles with pile caps to support conveyor
Towers, 15 m above the ground
1993-95 (with exception of 4 months work Placer Pacific)
B.H.P. Engineering-
Townsville-Prosperpine Queesland Railway Upgrade
INSPECTOR
Bridge Piling: bored Insitju Concrete piles ,900 and
1200 mm diameter, some with permanent liners and
some with temporary liner and pile caps, sometimes over
2 , sometimes over 4 piles, Some
were pumped and some were poured with tremi. Some
precast concrete piles were driven with a 6 ton Kolbi
Hammer. Some were poured under water using super
Plasticiser.