Mark Haughton 2023 John Deere C&F Service Technician of the Year, Australia & New Zealand

9 Oct 2023

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Mark Haughton, a field service technician from Christchurch, won John Deere's 2023 C&F Service Technician of the Year award for Australia and New Zealand. He talks about his passion for building and repairing machinery, what makes the work rewarding, and advice for people considering careers in construction and forestry.

Making things, building things, pulling things apart, seeing how things work, putting broken things back together so they go. And that progressed from lawnmower engines and building go karts to big machinery. Hi, my name's Mark Horton. I'm a field service technician for Drummond and Etheridge based in Rollaston, Christchurch. The most rewarding part for me about being a John Deere technician is the daily interact with the customers and utilising John Deere's full suite of tooling we have available for diagnosing and repairing machines. The last, last two days of testing has been good fun. Yeah. Exciting, nerve wracking, emotional at times. Yeah. But no good fun overall. Now this award gives recognition for the hard work that we do day in, day out keeping the John Deere product running. Yeah. The advice I'd give to somebody wanting a career in the construction and forestry industry would be to work hard, take every opportunity that's presented to you, do as much training as you can and give everything a go.