Jobs go at Keppel Prince

KEPPEL Prince Engineering would like this workshop to be a lot busier than it is and its lack of use means 42 staff were laid off at the company this week. Pictured at the launch of a report last month to argue for the importance of local manufacturing jobs in the renewable energy industry are Keppel Prince executive director Steve Garner, employees Patrick Hodges and Carey Wakely, report author Leigh Ewbank of Friends of the Earth, Keppel Prince general manager Dan McKinna and Australian Workers’ Union organiser Rob Saunders. Picture: OLIVIA COTTIER 210219oc01

By Chalpat Sonti

March 19, 2021 | 8:39 AM

KEPPEL Prince Engineering has been warning for months that many of its workers’ jobs were at risk if it could not find more wind tower work, and those warnings became reality on Wednesday when 42 staff took redundancy packages.

The cuts were across the Portland company, with 16 staff across all divisions accepting voluntary redundancy, and a further 26 forced redundancies in the wind tower division.