Meet Our Team
Colin Painter
Registered Industrial Electrician
Colin has been working in the industrial electrical field for 20. In that time has worked on many large factory plant installs throughout the country, as well as design and install of continuous plant improvement.
Colin has lived within the Manawatu most of his life with his family and kids. He enjoys spending time with his family and is also a keen snowboarder, mountain biker and dirt bike racer.
Zane Brookes
Registered Industrial electrician / Automation Manager
Zane has been an electrician for the past 9 years, working in all aspects – domestic, commercial and industrial. He has been working with Electraflo since 2014 as an industrial electrician and training to be an automation technician.
Zane spent his childhood on dairy farms throughout the Manawatu and now lives locally on a lifestyle block with his wife and 2 children.
Charl Fourie
registered industrial electrician
Charl is a New Zealand registered industrial electrician. Between 2005 and 2007 Charl took on a number of projects for various different electrical agencies while he lived in London. In 2007 Charl moved back to South Africa where he developed his skills working for Design Engineering Automation & Aeronautical International. Upon moving to New Zealand Charl worked for Manawatu Precision Enterprises (MPE) for 5 years before he became a valuable member of the Electraflo Industrial Electrical team. In his spare time Charl enjoys watching rugby and cricket and spending time with his family.
Rowena Huntingdon
Accounts Manager
Being the admin manager at Electraflo, Rowena is in charge of doing creditors/debtors/wages etc. She finds the best part of her role is the importing/exporting of our specialised equipment and talking with our customers. She enjoys working at Electraflo because every job we do is different, no two days are the same and finds she enjoys working with such a great bunch of people.
She has two children (boys) and is an avid speedway fan who travels all over NZ to a watch.
James Conwell
Process Engineer
James graduated from Massey University with a Btech (hons) degree in 2001.
He has been involved in the sales, design and manufacture of systems and equipment for the food and feed industries for over 15 years.
James has been working for Electraflo since 2008 where he has managed a multitude of diverse projects.
James also owns and runs his own business manufacturing specialised food and feed processing equipment which is marketed and sold internationally.
STUART ELSTON
SENIOR PROCESS
ENGINEER
With more than 27 years experience in the dairy/food processing industry, Stu started off working at Goodman Fielder where he quickly climbing to the position of supervisor. While at Goodman Fielder Stu received a certificate in dairy technology from WIT and a diploma in Dairy technology from Massey University finishing top of his class in both Microbiology and Chemistry. In 2011 Stu Joined the team at Electraflo as a senior process engineer, where his background in dairy processing insures that each plant we design runs efficiently and reliably.
KEVIN GILBERT
ELECTRAFLO DIRECTOR
Kevin has been MD at Electraflo for over 20 years and has a strong commercial and sales background within the food process industry , the majority of experience is in the dairy industry. Over the years Kevin and his business partner, Mark Dykes, have established a solid foundation for the business to grow, this is based on sound ethic's, strong governance and attracting and keeping the best staff.
Josh Benton
Electrical Apprentice
Josh is our Electrical apprentice. Born and bred in Tauranga, he completed his Level 3 Pre-trade qualification at Toi Ohomai Institute of Technology in 2019. He then jumped at the chance to move to Palmerston North to join the Electraflo team in 2020. Outside of work, he's a keen photographer.