ETS Infrastructure Management has been at the forefront of Australia’s infrastructure landscape for over 40 years, pioneering innovation and excellence and helping to shape the future of our industry.
Over the years we’ve diversified our services while remaining true to our foundations. Now with over 1000 employees, ETS stands tall with 40 depots strategically positioned across Australia.
Our expansive network ensures our presence across every corner of Australia, delivering effective and sustainable infrastructure services in multiple sectors, whilst also delivering on our purpose of working together to make communities safer.
Our purpose statement ‘Working together to make communities safer’ ties back to when ETS first began, and owner John Wallace realized how the work we do is an essential front-line service which protects the lives of those around us.
Australian owned, we operate across multiple sectors including vegetation management, electrical and water metering services and fleet. This is possible through the strength of our skilled personnel and one of the most extensive privately owned plant and equipment fleet in Australia.
Customers value our collaborative style and ability to manage their infrastructure management needs. We follow the same approach to communication that we have followed throughout our 40 years of business, being honest and transparent to ensure we establish and maintain long-term and effective client relationships.
Our purpose is working together to make communities safer.
STAND TALL
Doing the right thing always, acting with honesty and integrity and being proud of what we do.
GROW STRONG
Always improving on what we do, playing to our strength, but never forgetting out roots.
BRANCH OUT
See opportunities, embrace change and deliver on out promises.
CANOPY OF TRUST
Working together, supporting & encouraging each other & being accountable for rout actions.
Meet our Executive Team
John Wallace
Managing Director
John’s association with infrastructure vegetation management began in 1981 in Victoria. During his early years of operation, he experienced the Ash Wednesday fires, where he realised just how important efficient vegetation management was in providing an essential frontline service for the community. Since then, John has played a pivotal role in advancing Australia’s infrastructure sector, leading with innovation and setting standards for excellence – but always with the same commitment to making communities safer.
John offers extensive experience in all facets of arboriculture services and has successfully managed long term government contracts and many private sector jobs.
He has a strong personal commitment to all clients and has an outstanding reputation within the industry for delivering exceptional service. By providing quality service to our customers, ETS has steadily grown over the years, strengthening our expertise, resources and equipment to now include a wide range metering services in the electrical and water industries and fleet management.
John’s business philosophy of focusing on the clients needs is a part of our ETS heritage and is well entrenched in the ETS culture. As the Managing Director and owner of ETS, John takes a personal interest in ensuring this philosophy is carried through all of the organisation’s operations, along with his passion towards safety and quality and innovation excellence. Internally He encourages this through all levels of business operation by providing comprehensive and superior training that emphasises not only industry compliance but also safety, risk management, and leadership at all levels. Externally he is passionate about promoting initiatives including the Utility Arborist Association Safety Leadership award.
John Wallace, the Managing Director commenced ETS operations in 1985 and offers extensive experience in all facets of arboriculture services and has successfully managed long term government contracts and many private sector jobs.
He has a strong personal commitment to all clients and has an outstanding reputation within the industry for delivering excellent service at a cost effective price. By providing quality service to our customers, ETS has steadily grown over the years, strengthening our expertise, resources and equipment. John’s business philosophy of focusing entirely on the clients needs is a part of our ETS heritage and is well entrenched in the ETS culture. As the Managing Director and owner of ETS, John takes a personal interest in ensuring this philosophy is carried through all of the organisation’s operations.
Paul Tymensen
CEO
Paul has been with ETS since 2006 and began his career with ETS as the Chief Financial Officer and has been in the role of CEO for the past 8 years.
Paul believes in honesty and transparency to ensure ETS can establish and maintain long-term and effective client relationships. Paul is focused on delivering effective, efficient and sustainable infrastructure services whilst also delivering on the ETS purpose of ‘working together to make communities safer’. Paul is a passionate Hawthorn supporter and has enjoyed their success over the past 30 years. Paul enjoys muscle cars and has owned a few Holdens over the years.
Paul has been with ETS for 17 years and began his career with ETS as the Chief Financial Officer and has been in the role of CEO for the past 8 years.
Paul believes in honesty and transparency to ensure ETS can establish and maintain long-term and effective client relationships. Paul is focused on delivering effective, efficient and sustainable infrastructure services whilst also delivering on the ETS purpose of ‘working together to make communities safer’. Paul is a passionate Hawthorn supporter and has enjoyed their success over the past 30 years. Paul enjoys muscle cards and has owned a few Holdens over the years.
Bob Gierer
Chief Operations Officer
Bob is the Chief Operations Officer within ETS Infrastructure Management, responsible for the management of the vegetation division of the business.
Bob commenced his career within the electrical distribution industry in the areas of powerline design, construction and asset management. Bob then entered the contracting industry and has spent the past 24 years in the vegetation management sector. As a business, Bob is passionate that ETS delivers on their promise whilst at a personal level, Bob enjoys the satisfaction of mentoring people to help them to achieve their greatest potential. Outside of work Bob loves anything outdoors, preferably where there is no phone reception.
Bob is the Chief Operations Officer within ETS Infrastructure Management, responsible for the management of the vegetation division of the business.
Bob commenced his career within the electrical distribution industry in the areas of powerline design, construction and asset management. Bob then entered the contracting industry and has spent the past 24 years in the vegetation management sector. As a business, Bob is passionate that ETS delivers on their promise whilst at a personal level, Bob enjoys the satisfaction of mentoring people to help them to achieve their greatest potential. Outside of work, Bob loves anything outdoors, preferable where there is no phone reception.
Rob Godden
Chief Financial Officer
Rob is the Chief Financial Officer at ETS Infrastructure Management and leads the Finance and IT functions of the business. Prior to ETS he spent 11 years with AusNet in Senior Finance, Transformation and Strategy roles, after spending 9 years with Deloitte in the UK and Australia in Consulting and Audit.
Prior to that he spent 3 years in Molecular Biology cloning genes as part of the Human Genome Project.
Rob started his career wanting to understand how we work at the lowest level to help improve ourselves and that has never left him. At ETS he works with people who want to do their best but who are also passionate about people; so when things go wrong they help each other, which he loves.
Outside of work Rob runs and lifts weights and when the opportunity arises he likes to scuba dive. He has a heavily conflicted set of sports teams that he follows, Hawthorn and Collingwood, Manchester United, England and Australia and the British Lions in rugby but loves them all dearly.
Rob is the Chief Financial Officer at ETS Infrastructure Management and leads the Finance and IT functions of the business. Prior to ETS he spent 11 years with AusNet in Senior Finance, Transformation and Strategy roles, after spending 9 years with Deloitte in the UK and Australia in Consulting and Audit.
Prior to that he spent 3 years in Molecular Biology cloning genes as part of the Human Genome Project.
Rob started his career wanting to understand how we work at the lowest level to help improve ourselves and that has never left him. At ETS he works with people who want to do their best but who are also passionate about people; so when things go wrong they help each other, which he loves.
Outside of work, Rob has a lovely fiancée, three teenage daughters, a teenage step daughter, a dog and a puppy, so he meditates a lot! He also runs and lifts weights and when the opportunity arises scuba dive. He has a heavily conflicted set of sports teams that he follows, Hawthorn and Collingwood, Manchester United, England and Australia and the British Lions in rugby but loves them all dearly.
Matt Wallace
National Manager Delivery Performance
Matt is the National Manager Delivery Performance responsible for overseeing the performance of all contracts at ETS and has held multiple roles at ETS.
Matt started his career with ETS in 2008 after finishing school and began working on a chipper in Yarra Valley before moving to working out of one of the EWPs clearing vegetation. In 2016 he was offered an opportunity to progress his career by moving to Newcastle to take up a position in Management. Since moving back to Melbourne in 2018 he has worked in many divisions across ETS including HSEQ, Fleet and Operations. Matt has a strong passion for the tree industry and completed his Diploma of Arboriculture in 2019.
After witnessing the destruction of the 2009 Black Saturday Bushfires firsthand and assisting in the clean-up efforts this cemented in his mind the very reason we are in the Vegetation Management Industry. ‘Working together to make communities safer’ is not just a slogan but the very reason for what we do and the ETS purpose. Away from work Matt loves sport and is a member of both the Collingwood Football Club and the Melbourne Stars Cricket Club. He also enjoys cooking and getting up early on the weekend to put some meat on the smoker.
Matt is currently the National Manager Delivery Performance responsible for overseeing the performance of all contracts at ETS and has held multiple roles at ETS.
Matt started his career with ETS in 2008 after finishing school and began working on a chipper in Yarra Valley before moving to working out of one of the EWPs clearing vegetation. In 2016 he was offered an opportunity to progress his career by moving to Newcastle to take up a position in Management. Since moving back to Melbourne in 2018 he has worked in many divisions across ETS including HSEQ, Fleet and Operations. Matt has a passion for the tree industry and completed his Diploma of Arboriculture in 2019. After witnessing the destruction of the 2009 Black Saturday Bushfires firsthand and assisting in the clean-up efforts cemented in his mind the very reason we are in the Vegetation Management Industry. ‘Working together to make communities safer’ is not just a slogan but the very reason for what we do and the ETS purpose. Away from work Matt loves sport and is a member of both the Collingwood Football Club and the Melbourne Stars Cricket Club. He also enjoys cooking and getting up early on the weekend to put some meat on the smoker.
Bryan Cowley
General Manager – Metering
Bryan has been with ETS since 2017 in various senior management roles and currently leads the Metering Division with a national remit, as part of the executive team, covering the water and electrical sectors.
Bryan began his career as a chartered accountant and is now an experienced senior manager with a demonstrated track record of working in the utilities industry. A safety and people focused leader able to deliver sustainable growth through customer intimacy and a strong commercial understanding of what makes a business successful. Bryan is passionate about people, culture and great customer outcomes. The ETS values align very closely with Bryan’s own and the genuine care ETS has for its people resonates with Bryan. Bryan loves getting into nature with family, fishing and follows all things rugby.
Bryan has been with ETS since 2017 in various senior management roles and currently leads the Metering Division with a national remit, as part of the executive team, covering the water and electrical sectors.
Bryan began his career as a chartered accountant and is now an experienced senior manager with a demonstrated track record of working in the utilities industry. A safety and people focused leader able to deliver sustainable growth through customer intimacy and a strong commercial understanding of what makes a business successful. Bryan is passionate about people, culture and great customer outcomes. The ETS values align very closely with Bryan’s own and the genuine care ETS has for its people resonates with Bryan. Bryan loves getting into nature with family, fishing and follows all things rugby.
Scott Martin
General Manager
Scott is an experienced commercial manager who has worked in the utility sector for 30 plus years. As the General Manager at ETS Infrastructure Management he oversees all Victorian and Tasmania contracts including AusNet, TasNetworks, Metro Trains Melbourne, and Melbourne Water.
Holding an MBA in Entrepreneurship Scott has worked in numerous General Manager positions contracting into the private, government, manufacturing and utility sectors, having full accountability for the profitability of the businesses he has managed and led. Scott is passionate about developing a team culture that supports and underpins the success of the business’s units he managers. Scott is also an avid Collingwood supporter.
Scott is an experienced commercial manager who has worked in the utility sector for 30 plus years. As the General Manager at ETS Infrastructure Management he oversees all Victorian and Tasmania contracts including AusNet, TasNetworks, Metro Trains Melbourne, and Melbourne Water.
Holding an MBA in Entrepreneurship Scott has worked in numerous General Manager positions contracting into the private, government, manufacturing and utility sectors, having full accountability for the profitability of the businesses he has managed and led. Scott is passionate about developing a team culture that supports and underpins the success of the business’s units he managers. Scott is also an avid Collingwood supporter.
Sandi Willitt
General Manager People & Culture
Sandi commenced her career with ETS in 2009 as the Office Manager for the Sunshine Coast Energex contract, before moving into the HR Manager role and then into her current role of General Manager People and Culture. Sandi’s background prior to ETS included working in New Zealand within local government (Council) and government (Dept of Internal Affairs) and in people management/leadership roles.
Sandi enjoys working at ETS and sees strength in being a privately owned business with a great culture, and great people to work with. Sandi is passionate about looking after the ETS people which is evidenced by the number of long term employees still employed across the business. Outside of work Sandi enjoys early morning training at the gym, watching the V8 Supercar racing, and catching up on jobs around her acreage property on weekends (including hanging out with her 3 Alpacas – Dave, Macca and Ernie).
Sandi is the National Human Resources Manager at ETS Infrastructure Management, responsible for people and culture at ETS.
Sandi commenced her career with ETS 14 years ago as the Office Manager for the Sunshine Coast Energex contract, before moving into the HR Manager role 10 years ago. Sandi’s background prior to ETS included working in New Zealand within local government (Council) and government (Dept of Internal Affairs), in people management/leadership roles. Sandi enjoys working at ETS and sees strength in being a privately owned business with a great culture, and great people to work with. Sandi is passionate about looking after the ETS people which is evidenced by the number of long term employees still employed across the business. Outside of work Sandi enjoys early morning training at the gym, watching the V8 Supercar racing, and catching up on jobs around our acreage property on weekends (including hanging out with her 3 Alpacas – Dave, Macca and Ernie).
Rob Edlund
General Manager Fleet Solutions
As General Manager – Fleet Solutions, Rob is responsible for all things related to Fleet, Plant & Equipment and the assets within the organisation. He has overall accountability for ensuring that the Fleet is fit for purpose, efficient and well maintained and also manages the groups Motor Vehicle and Industrial Special Risk (ISR) Insurance Policies.
With over 3 decades experience working in Fleet, Capital Equipment, Fluid Power, Oil & Gas, Resources, Transport and Materials Handling sectors, Rob has a long track record of building, restructuring and green-fielding successful, sustainable and multi-site operations covering Australian, Asia Pacific and Middle Eastern Markets. This is backed by formal qualifications including Business Administration & Management and Fluid Power Technology based disciplines.
Rob has also held Global Service Director roles focussed on providing fluid power and engineering-based solutions within the resources services sector primarily focussed on Energy, Exploration and Extraction.
Rob was based overseas for almost 10 years and travelled extensively, meeting a wide range of people and having been fortunate to experience diverse local traditions, customs and cultures. He is passionate about building, deploying and leading action-oriented, service minded, client focussed teams with a safety first and rapid delivery culture. Leading by example and mentoring future leaders is Rob’s mantra.
Outside of work he is focussed on enjoying quality time with friends and family including 2 very spoilt dogs. Rob likes home renovating, cooking and entertaining and is spending his spare time exploring the richness of the Yarra Valley and Gippsland Great Lakes region. He also enjoys travelling to new places and spending time with relatives and people overseas.
As General Manager - Fleet Solutions, Rob is responsible for all things related to Fleet, Plant & Equipment and the assets within the organisation. He has overall accountability for ensuring that the Fleet is fit for purpose, efficient and well maintained and also manages the groups Motor Vehicle and Industrial Special Risk (ISR) Insurance Policies.
With over 3 decades experience working in Fleet, Capital Equipment, Fluid Power, Oil & Gas, Resources, Transport and Materials Handling sectors, Rob has a long track record of building, restructuring and green-fielding successful, sustainable and multi-site operations covering Australian, Asia Pacific and Middle Eastern Markets. This is backed by formal qualifications including Business Administration & Management and Fluid Power Technology based disciplines.
Rob has also held Global Service Director roles focussed on providing fluid power and engineering-based solutions within the resources services sector primarily focussed on Energy, Exploration and Extraction.
Rob was based overseas for almost 10 years and travelled extensively, meeting a wide range of people and having been fortunate to experience diverse local traditions, customs and cultures. He is passionate about building, deploying and leading action-oriented, service minded, client focussed teams with a safety first and rapid delivery culture. Leading by example and mentoring future leaders is Rob’s mantra.
Outside of work he is focussed on enjoying quality time with friends and family including 2 very spoilt dogs. Rob likes home renovating, cooking and entertaining and is spending his spare time exploring the richness of the Yarra Valley and Gippsland Great Lakes region. Rib enjoys travelling to new places and spending time with relatives and people overseas.
David Timms
General Manager HSEQ
At ETS Infrastructure Management, our purpose is clear: “Working together to make Communities Safer”. With 12 years at ETS and over 15 years of dedicated experience in Health, Safety, Environment, and Quality (HSEQ), David embodies this commitment as our HSEQ General Manager.
Having worked extensively in the utility infrastructure sector, David understands the unique challenges and complexities in ensuring the safety and reliability of critical infrastructure. He has played a pivotal role in implementing robust safety protocols whilst maintaining regulatory compliance and risk management strategies to safeguard our workforce, customers and the communities we serve.
David leads by example, championing a culture of collaboration, accountability and continuous improvement. He collaborates closely with cross-functional teams to develop and implement innovative solutions that address emerging safety concerns and enhance operational efficiency.
At ETS Infrastructure Management, our purpose is clear: “Working together to make Communities Safer”. With 12 years at ETS and over 15 years of dedicated experience in Health, Safety, Environment, and Quality (HSEQ), David embodies this commitment as our HSEQ General Manager.
Having worked extensively in the utility infrastructure sector, David understands the unique challenges and complexities in ensuring the safety and reliability of critical infrastructure. He has played a pivotal role in implementing robust safety protocols whilst maintaining regulatory compliance and risk management strategies to safeguard our workforce, customers and the communities we serve.
David leads by example, championing a culture of collaboration, accountability and continuous improvement. He collaborates closely with cross-functional teams to develop and implement innovative solutions that address emerging safety concerns and enhance operational efficiency.