Having achieved social media prominence as a crane operator over the previous eight years, Katie Kelleher is altering tracks and going again to an workplace.
Since graduating with an English diploma 20 years in the past, she spent the primary half of her profession in gross sales and recruitment. Then in 2014 she took a 90-degree flip and joined Choose Plant as an apprentice crawler crane operator and, engaged on excessive revenue tasks akin to Crossrail and Thames Tideway, quickly grew to become a figurehead not only for ladies in building however – as Katie Cranes – for crane operators in all places, with 4,600 followers on Instagram and 25,000 on LinkedIn.
Now, she has resigned her publish from Choose and joint the Development Plant-hire Affiliation (CPA) within the newly created function of technical and growth officer.
In her new function, Katie Kelleher will present CPA members with steering and recommendation on technical, coaching and security topics, in addition to assist produce security and technical publications.
Of her new job, she mentioned: “I really consider I will be of worth to the CPA and its members. I’m wanting ahead to creating a noticeable distinction inside the sector and serving to take the affiliation to the subsequent stage.”
On leaving cranes behind, she mentioned: “The previous eight and a half years have flown by in a flurry and a blink. I’m so grateful of the chance that was given to me to alter my life round, I actually do consider my life as I do know it began the second I took the choice to alter profession and change into an apprentice. It was truthfully the day all the things modified for the higher.
“Annually has gone from energy to energy, I’ve been concerned in so many issues I might by no means have dreamed of on account of that first step. I actually can’t thank Choose sufficient for all they’ve given me, the doorways which have been opened, the community I’ve constructed and the buddies I’ve made.”
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