0408 856 780

Geraldton, Western Australia

We put remoteroads and coastlinesback together.

Earthworks, haulage and civil for shires, mines and farms across the Mid West, Murchison and Gascoyne. Family owned, out of Geraldton, since 2009.

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A grader cutting a red dirt haul road at last light, under a sky burning orange from horizon to horizon
A grader working the last of the light on a Mid West job.

Why THEM

Four letters,four things we do.

The name is an acronym. Transport, haulage, earthworks and mechanical, all under one roof, which is why a single contractor can open the gravel pit, cart from it, build the road and keep the fleet running four hundred kilometres from a workshop.

  1. Transport Getting plant and material to jobs that are a long way from anywhere.
  2. Haulage Moving material in volume, on haul roads THEM usually built themselves.
  3. Earthworks The bulk of it. Clearing, excavation, grading, sheeting, rock armouring, dams.
  4. Mechanical Their own maintenance, run by a director who started as a heavy duty diesel mechanic.

Useless Loop, Shark Bay

Closing the Seroja breaches at Useless Loop

  1. 01 A breach open to the ocean, seen from above.
  2. 02 A wall of red fill pushed out across the gap, loader and excavator working the face.

Cyclone Seroja opened the salt ponds at Useless Loop to the open ocean in 2021. The widest breach was over thirty metres. THEM closed them.

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Aerial photograph looking straight down at a breach between two rock armoured headlands at Useless Loop, with turquoise water and sediment pouring through the gap
Aerial photograph of a wall of red fill pushed out into turquoise water at Useless Loop, with a wheel loader and an excavator working on top of it

Who we are

One loader in 2009. Seventy people now.

Stephen and Katrina-Lee O’Brien started THEM Earthmoving in 2009 with a single Samsung loader, working out of a backyard. Stephen had come up as a heavy duty diesel mechanic; Katrina-Lee was teaching in schools across the Mid West and ran the books at night.

Both are lifelong Mid West locals. Their grandparents came to the region in the 1950s and both families have been here since. Three generations work in the business today, and it runs from a purpose built depot rather than the backyard it started in.

70 people on the tools, in the workshop and in the office

More about the family and the team
Stephen and Katrina-Lee O’Brien photographed together in a black and white studio portrait
Stephen and Katrina-Lee O’Brien, Managing Directors.
An excavator working beside a timber bridge over a Murchison river pool, with fresh rock armouring stacked along the bank in the foreground

Carnarvon–Mullewa Road, Murchison

Ballinyoo Bridge demolition and Murchison flood damage roads

Demolition of the old Ballinyoo Bridge over the Murchison River, and the flood damage road package around it: gravel pits, resheeting, concrete stabilising and grading.

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Who we work for

Shires, state roads and salt.

Main Roads accredited, and working for local government and resource operators from the coast to the Kimberley.

Careers

We are hiring across WA right now.

Operators, drivers and mechanics. Immediate starts for the right people.

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A CAT excavator standing in silhouette against a burnt orange dusk sky at the end of a shift

Got a job that needs moving?

Ring Stephen or the office. Tell us where it is, what is in the ground and when you need it done, and we will tell you straight whether we are the right outfit for it.

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Monday to Friday, 7am to 5pm