If you work at GMW, chances are you will have met or know GMW’s southern storages manager Scott Wikman.
Scott has seen a lot of changes since starting out at GMW in about 1997.
From an early career at Waranga Basin, Scott believes GMW has helped shape him as a person, and teach him the value of ‘having a go.’
“When I first started working at GMW, I was given the opportunity to sign up for a traineeship as a storage officer at Goulburn Weir and Waranga,” he said.
Since these early beginnings, Scott has worked up the ranks and across different levels of GWM to become manager of GMW’s southern storage areas of Lake Eildon, Goulburn Weir, Waranga Basin, Lake Eppalock, Cairn Curran Reservoir and Tullaroop Reservoir.
The storages feed the whole supply system to provide water to the communities to exist, thrive and grow.
“Without water there is no community so if we do our job right, then water is available for irrigators when they need it,” he said.
Scott is also grateful to the people at GMW who invested in him and his future.
“I’ve grown up in GMW from my 20s to now and been lucky to work with so many decent people who showed me what a good manager and leader can do,” he said.
I’ve been lucky in life, working for GMW and I love my job.