Apprentice of the Year 2022 - Landscape Construction

Sponsored By: Apprenticeships Victoria

Joint Winners:

• Liam Andrews: Landscape Construction apprentice with Brad Andrews Landscaping

• Victor St. Clair: Landscape Construction apprentice with Greener Visions

 

 

Judge's Comments:

LIAM: 

"Liam is a passionate young man who was born into a landscaper’s household. A great part of his childhood was spent on landscape construction sites on non-school days assisting his well accomplished landscaper father, Brad. Giving up a weekend to participate in the Make a Wish project in 2021 alongside industry veterans, it was noted by these leading landscapers that “Liam’s personality, work ethic and manners are a credit to him and shows that he has what it takes to be a future leader of this industry.” 

Mature beyond his years, Liam looks forward to the opportunity to lead a team of young apprentices. Liam also enjoys the business side of running a Landscape Construction company and has big ideas to build the family business in the future."  

 

VICTOR:

"Spending several years studying finance at University, Victor St. Clair decided to embrace the outdoors and head in a completely new direction of outdoor physical work once he realised his part time labouring work whilst studying had become his greater passion. So enjoyable was the work that he decided to apply for a landscape apprentice position at Greener Visions who commented in his entry application that “Vic’s attention to detail in the first few days on the job was amazing, and that he entered their team seamlessly as though he had been there for years already”.   

Vic has shown great enthusiasm for both hard and soft landscape tasks. He is very proud to be a landscaper and his love and respect for his job and his employer was very evident to the judges, showing that the future of the landscape industry is in good hands. "