Fenix Connections aims to stop the brain drain of young people from regional areas, specifically the Mid West region in WA, by providing sustainable livelihoods and career paths across a variety of industries – creating opportunities for the next generation in mining, transportation, logistics, port handling and storage through innovative training programmes and support initiatives.

The underlying principal of Fenix Connections is that Fenix does not just create jobs; we set out to enable long-term careers generating sustainable livelihoods and significant ongoing benefits for the communities in which our employees live and work. This is not typical corporate behaviour for most junior mining companies – and serves to highlight the time, money and resources that Fenix devotes to contributing positively to the communities in which we operate.

Fenix’s haulage subsidiary Fenix-Newhaul created the Kickstart Training
Academy, featuring the world’s first multi-combi driving simulator. This
enables Kickstart trainees, who are predominantly indigenous, to become
better, safer drivers. Kickstart Academy’s mission is to create significant
and sustainable career pathways via training programs and employment
opportunities. Fenix-Newhaul encourages long-term career development
with a focus on employee benefits and comfort, including hyperbaric
chambers, saunas, nutrition, sleep management and more.

Supporting four brothers – Jack, Matchum, Brodie and Dwight – to establish Schwarze Brothers, providing ship loading and storage shed management services for Fenix at the Geraldton port. Schwarze Brothers is majority owned by the four, indigenous brothers.

Fenix partners with Wajarri Yamaji traditional owners in recruitment – traveling to the regions for outreach, as opposed to relying on SEEK or FIFO. The innovative approach to recruitment goes across all Fenix’s activities.
This enables Fenix not only to recruit young people for jobs, but to understand their challenges and work with them to create “stickability” and thus deliver long term careers and sustainability.

In addition to securing naming rights to the Fenix Geraldton Buccaneers in the NBL1 – Fenix funding enables an innovative program of kids’ activities and outreach, aiming to instil skills and discipline through sport that helps equip kids as the grow and approach the workforce.

Fenix has formed a partnership Clontarf Foundation to support aboriginal youth with education opportunities and mentoring for the post-school world of work. Innovation for youth extends to our partnership, improving education, discipline, life-skills and employment prospects.