David Thomson
Managing Director
David’s early employment experience and background was in banking prior to going into mining and resources operational management in 1989. David worked for 16 years in operational and management roles at Tanami Gold Mine, Mt Todd Gold Mine and Gove Alumina Refinery in the Northern Territory and Forrestania Nickel project in Western Australia. His knowledge and experience in the resources sector includes Operational Management, Corporate Change Management, Human Resource Management, Occupational Health, Safety, Environmental, Quality and Training system implementation and Business Improvement.
David was appointed Managing Director/Partner of Northern Territory business Smart Staff Australia in 2006. Taking the small consulting business developing operational and maintenance procedures in the resource sector and expanded the business to provide safety and training consultancy services worldwide. David has grown SSI to become a vibrant specialist company with global clients across the resources, oil and gas and manufacturing sectors.
1000+ Projects
Completed All Around The Globe. Creating usable and practical workplace systems, documentation and training.
"I have worked with SSI for approximately 10 years, and I have always experienced sensational service and quality from them. The team listen to our needs and develop a solution for us that makes our service to our people and clients successful."
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SSI have helped us hone our processes and procedures to get our processes within regulation and to enable our team to use them in the field. We'll use SSI again without a doubt.
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"I am extremely pleased with the effort that SSI undertook in partnership with Hellas Gold. Aaron and Lisa listened to our particular needs and delivered exactly what we wanted, simple, clear, and easily understood standards and all supporting documents. When I showed the final product tour our VP Operations ...
