Easylift is a family owned-business success story spanning three generations. Jeff Hatswell our Founder, established the business in 1984, from Cairns and the success of Easylift eventually expanded into Townsville and Rockhampton. Our Chief Executive, Adam Hatswell oversees the running of the company and is based in our Rockhampton office. With the construction sector being the third largest employer across Queensland, there is an overwhelming demand for Easylift products and services.
Prior to establishing Easylift in 1984, Jeff was in the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) as a member of the military who worked in armoury and maintained and repaired small arms and weapons systems, with some duties resembling repairs for electrical fittings.
Jeff and Adam have grown the business to now be one of the largest suppliers of garage doors, motorised gates and shutters in Queensland.
Being a family-owned business, Adam helped his father, Jeff, on weekends and school holidays from the age of 12 with roller door and tilt door installations. After completing his electrical trade in the early 1990s, Adam started officially working with Easylift. Adam was responsible for setting up and running Cairns Automatic Gates. In 2001 Adam was promoted to General Manager to oversee the three divisions in Cairns, becoming the CEO in 2013 and Director in 2018. In 2008 Adam relocated to Rockhampton with his family and established the Central Queensland branch, where Adam still resides today.
"The diversity of the Easylift product range and knowing our team can do it all, from residential garage doors, window shutters and automatic gates to industrial roller shutters, operable walls, security boom gates and access control. The praise Easylift receive from customers for doing the difficult jobs that competitors said couldn’t be done has always been a great feeling," says Adam.
"Like most challenges in businesses these days, we struggle to find new people that want to work or are qualified in our Industry. Fortunately, the Easylift team have long term core staff and their loyalty does not go unnoticed," says Adam.
Adam is most proud of his two sons. Bryce, the oldest of two went onto university and has become a qualified lawyer, while my youngest, Riley, started working with Easylift in 2023, making Easylift a third-generation family company.
As the Group General Manager of The Easylift Group Pty Ltd, Shaun leads the team as our point of call for all new and existing commercial projects and customers.
Shaun is responsible for ensuring the quality, efficiency, and customer satisfaction of the group's operations and sales, as well as managing the risk and change management processes.
By implementing best practices and policies to mitigate potential issues and adapt to the dynamic market conditions. Shaun is passionate about delivering value to our clients and growing our business. Valuing teamwork, integrity, and excellence, and creating a positive and supportive work environment for our staff and partners.
Shaun has been excited to be part of The Easylift Group for the past 12 years now and has 17 years’ experience in the garage door industry and over 28 years in the construction industry alone and continues to look forward to contributing to its ongoing success and vision.
Every day is challenging. Prioritising the challenges that we come across often is a core part of Shaun’s role. Calling on and delegating these challenges across the team ensure rapid solutions for our customers.
Everything that Shaun does in his role, contributes to why he loves being a part of the Easylift family along with the excellent support received from Jeff, Adam and Angela. With our strong network of support ensures the Easylift product and service never fails and we are consistently delivering high-end quality to our customers.
Mark is the Cairns Branch Manager and liaises with our commercial clients on their garage door solutions. As a Manager at the Cairns Branch, Mark oversees our recruitment process and staff training. A valuable thing in businesses is to protect your staff, encourage and uplift the team with friendly morales.
At the end of the day, once the clients are satisfied with what we’ve achieved for your business or residence, this is what makes the dream team. Working in the garage door and automatic gates industry requires a niche set of skills as there is no trade qualification offered in the gates industry, it’s all on the job training.
If you have a background in the building industry, mechanical or internet technology, you can guarantee a position in garage doors and gates anywhere in Australia or the world for that matter. We like to see our team members bring a can-do attitude to every role with most of our existing team members experts in customer service, no matter what position you’re in.
Mark has extensive product knowledge having been part of the Easylift team since 1990 and has grown in this position as the company has grown in it’s over 40-year history.
We have great company values, team morale, ongoing training opportunities as a Platinum Agent for B&D in North and Central Queensland and our ability to have our team educate our customers on our products and their benefits.
Angela has been with the Easylift team since 2004 and has enjoyed the growth of Easylift within this time. There have been many moments throughout the years where individually and as a team Easylift have kicked some major goals due to our ongoing growth and ongoing customer service.
Working closely with each department in Cairns, Townsville and Rockhampton, Angela oversees the financial health and performance, ensuring accurate financial reporting, budgeting, and compliance with regulations. Angela plays a key role in financial planning, risk management, and strategic decision-making, leading the preparation and analysis of financial statements, ensuring accuracy and compliance with accounting standards. Angela enjoys living in Far North Queensland and spending time with family.
Kevin oversees the general management of the Townsville branch including managing staff and improving sales processes, customer service and exceeding customers’ expectations. Every day, Kevin enjoys meeting customers and helping staff achieve their expectations and goals we each set out as a team. Being aware of the challenges in the industry today is mostly the delayed deliveries due to staffing shortages across the whole building and construction sector.
We can see a bit more normalcy coming back since the pandemic, which is taking a lot of pressure off wait times for our customers, we continue to take each day as it comes and understand the importance of constant communication within our team, our customers and our authorised suppliers. Kevin has been in the industrial door industry since 1986, and offers over 38 years’ experience both in the UK and Australia.
Easylift is operated by local owners and are 100% Australian owned
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