CablePrice technician Levi Webster has won the 2018 Hitachi Top Technician Asia Pacific regional final and will now compete in the world final.
Webster, who is based in Wellington, represented CablePrice NZ at the recent competition in Singapore. He has been working for CablePrice for five years.
He will now represent both CablePrice and Hitachi Construction Machinery Asia & Pacific (HMAP) at the world final in Japan on October 10 and 11.
CablePrice, the New Zealand distributor and technical support for Hitachi construction machinery, has taken part in the Asia Pacific competition for 11 years with its technicians qualifying for the world final seven times and winning twice.
Webster was up against five other technicians including, for the first time, representatives from Myanmar and the Philippines at this year’s competition.
The event was based around Hitachi’s ZX200-5G range of excavators.
On the first day, competitors were presented with faulty machines and had 90 minutes to diagnose and repair their machine and offer solutions to ensure minimum downtime.
Webster was the only technician to complete this task and had to cope with the challenging conditions of heat and humidity.
The second day was devoted to machinery theory and again Webster performed extremely well.
He was named the winner of the HMAP regional final and is now preparing for the final in Tokyo.
“We are very proud of Levi and excited about his opportunity to go to Japan. The Asia Pacific win is great recognition of how hard Levi has worked and prepared and his real commitment to his trade,” CablePrice Wellington operations manager James Magill says.
