Greg Millar

Greg Millar’s working career started as an apprentice Radio Technician at 4LG, Longreach, Queensland. This lasted 18 months before company management issues forced a change of work – to Namco doing seismic surveys across the outback of central western Queensland.

Then the armed services beckoned. In the RAAF, Greg worked as an Affiliated Maintenance Engineer then moved onto a project in the USA for the purchase of the Black Hawk helicopter. Prior to this, Greg spent time in Malaysia at the Butterworth base – just after the Malayan Emergency.

Following this, Greg spent some 5 years in Electrical Engineering back in Melbourne. He then took a redundancy but continued to work
for the RAAF as a defense contractor for the next five years – in Melbourne, Newcastle, Adelaide and Sale. 

Greg next worked for Boeing at Avalon till they decided to move to Brisbane. His family opted to stay put in Melbourne so Greg’s next job was on the Jindalee Over-the-Horizon radar network. This led to him joining Tenix Defence as a Project Manager for work on RAAF aircraft. Then it was time for a career change….

Greg joined Thales, a French Company making air traffic control systems. This took him to places like Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Taiwan. Without visiting these places, Greg managed installations in Mexico, South Korea and China. The Philippines proved a challenge – the GFC took its toll…. Redundant again – but this time, retirement beckoned.

So in 2011 Greg joined the Woodworkers of the Southern Peninsula and soon became Secretary. Additionally Greg assisted with the Monday Maintenance team led by Bill Gorissen. Once Bill retired, Greg’s technical & mechanical experience has proved invaluable in keeping the club’s machinery in working order.

Greg hails from Capel Sound and is married with two children.