South African Business 2018 edition

Transforming South Africa’s engineering sector
Building on the success of its Enterprise Development
programme, which saw a combined turnover growth
of the initial ED partner companies by 204% and the
creation of over 100 permanent and temporary jobs
in South Africa, WorleyParsons is collaborating with
small- and medium-sized black-owned enterprises to
jointly deliver services in the mining, water, energy
and infrastructure sectors, says WorleyParsons’ CEO
Denver Dreyer.
“As part of our unwavering commitment to
transformation, we are leading this agenda in
engineering across all sectors in South Africa and are
partnering with sustainable, empowered businesses
that are capable of growing with us,” says Dreyer.
“We do not consider transformation a ‘numbers
game’ in terms of BEE points. It is imperative for
long-term success as our traditional markets are
changing. Service providers have to adjust their
business models to reflect the transformation
agenda or else be at risk of becoming obsolete.
“The partnerships that we are creating are mutually
beneficial. We will evaluate the strengths that each
party brings to the table and identify where we can
help each other. These enterprises will benefit from
skills transfer and gain an understanding of how to
successfully deliver bigger projects with our support,
while we do our part to transform the engineering
sector in South Africa,” says Dreyer.
WorleyParsons RSA to their own client base, enabling
a mutually beneficial relationship of growth.
“We are entering into agreements with suitable
companies as equals for the benefit of both parties.
Transformation is the right thing to do for our
country, but on an enterprise level, it will also secure
a better future for all the people engaged in our
organisation, regardless of who they are. Through our
transformation partnerships, we will be able to land
bigger projects alongside those partners, which will
benefit everyone in our employ,” adds Dreyer.
Denver Dreyer
Chief Executive Officer of WorleyParsons RSA
Denver Dreyer is a vibrant executive with 20 years
of strategic business development and operational
experience in the chemicals, infrastructure, power
and hydrocarbons sectors in sub-Saharan Africa.
Denver is the CEO of WorleyParsons RSA, part of
the global WorleyParsons Group, and is responsible
for the company’s mining, hydrocarbons and
power operations based in Johannesburg, South
Africa. He is passionate about the meaningful
and sustainable transformation of engineering in
South Africa.
Referred to as the Enterprise and Supplier
Development (ESD) programme, WorleyParsons RSA
is also assisting the ESD partner companies with
branding, marketing collateral, legal compliance,
market positioning, financial compliance and
introducing potential clients that WorleyParsons
RSA is already servicing to ESD partner companies.
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