After completing an electrical apprenticeship while working for several Christchurch firms, Shaun McGrath spent three years travelling and working overseas. Shaun’s father is Irish, so he worked as a sparky in Dublin for a year and then in Canada, first in Whistler and then in Calgary. A change in the international petroleum market caused the Calgary project to be shut down — throwing 5000 employees out of their jobs — and Shaun decided to come home.
He started working for a large engineering company based at Lyttelton, initially as an electrician and then in supervisory roles. After 10 years in the heavy engineering world, he decided to buy his own engineering company and chose Dynamic Engineering in Christchurch’s north-west.
The company had four employees and mainly worked on contractors’ earthmoving machinery. One big job was to convert the
