Casey Slight

Casey came up through welding and fabrication, leading a fabrication team before moving into mechanical field work on some of the most demanding plant in Australian industry. He has overhauled gas turbines and generators during power station outages, working on GE Vernova, Siemens Energy and Mitsubishi Power assets, and built, overhauled and fault-found longwall systems in underground coal mines, including supervising the mechanical crew on an overland conveyor upgrade.

Before that he was Field Service Leader for Pentair across Australia and New Zealand, leading mechanical teams through shutdowns and servicing of valves, actuators, pumps and gearboxes in industrial and process plants. He has also worked as a heavy equipment fitter, from dozers and haul trucks to the excavators and loaders on local jobs.

That fabrication background still comes in handy. He's competent in fabrication and machining, so when a job needs a special tool or jig, he can design and make one, and where there's a workshop on site he'll jump on the lathe or mill to get a part made.

He started OMS to bring that standard to South East Queensland plant owners: planned, properly documented mechanical work, done to the site's permit and safety systems. Today he leads OMS and its trade qualified fitters, and brings in tradespeople with specialist experience when a job calls for it.

Casey is a husband and dad of two. Away from work he's usually on a dirt bike, out on the water fishing, or around anything fast and loud. He loves his dogs, the ocean in general, travel, and the odd round of golf.