Our Team
Mike
Mike’s our foreman with an incredible eye for detail. He has lived and breathed engineering and fabrication ever since he was a young boy, spending countless after school hours sweeping floors and hanging out with his dad at his dads workshop. After finishing trade school he went onto spend 5years working on commercial swimming pools, then onto an 8year stint at a custom fabrication outfit here in Christchurch. Mike’s now a valued member of our Evolve team and spends his after work hours out in nature, hunting and fishing with his dogs or in his shed at home working on cars.
Jack
Jack is one of our most experienced site members, the past years he’s been on some of our most high pressure shutdown projects. As well as being a great Stainless fabricator another of Jacks strengths is working on Customer sites and ensuring permit to work, Isolations are correctly maintained to ensure the safety of the workers. Jack experience in hydrostatic testing and documenting results of large industrial steam heat exchanges is also a key asset. Jack spends his spare time running his Labradors Luna and Leo, Playing cricket and socializing with mates
Cam
Cam is in his 3rd year of his Fabrication apprentice. Since leaving school he’s worked for Evolve, learning, earning and just being a top bloke. Cam has recently purchased a Nissan Patrol “Mud Truck” and spends his weekends getting stuck, unstuck and stuck again at the local rivers, while trying to catch some fish.
Gilbert
Gilbert has been with Evolve since 2021. Gilbert was born in the Philippines’’’ and immigrated to New Zealand in 2011 prior to his wife and 2 children joining him in 2015. Between 2006 and 2008 Gilbert worked in Japan as a fabricator welder then moved to Qatar in 2008 where he done mixed fab and learnt to Tig weld. Gilbert is a very capable fabricator and takes complex tasks in his stride. Gilbert is only a few degrees separation from the late great Elvis Presley and is known to be mistaken for the King when in Karaoke mode.
Lainie
Lainie is married to Dwayne and is mum to 3 and step mum to 4. After finishing high school she worked in the pharmacy industry for 20 years before starting a family. Now the kids are well established in school she’s joined the team at Evolve preforming general office duties. Lainie spends her spare time running the family, spending time with friends and chilling at the hydro lakes in the Makenzie bason.