Louise Gardner is a Chartered Mechanical Engineer with over 20 years of experience across the engineering and building services sectors in Australia and the United Kingdom. As General Manager at Dewick & Associates, she combines deep technical knowledge with executive leadership, overseeing the firm’s operational delivery, strategic direction, and overall business performance.
Louise is responsible for the day-to-day effectiveness of the business, ensuring that Dewick & Associates consistently delivers high-quality technical outputs. She fosters a collaborative, high-performance culture by supporting and developing her team while maintaining a strong focus on accountability. Her leadership ensures that client relationships are nurtured and that every project remains aligned with both strategic business goals and specific client objectives.
Her extensive background spans commercial, retail, hospitality, aged care, education, and government infrastructure. This broad sector experience provides her with a nuanced understanding of varying regulatory environments and stakeholder expectations across international markets. Having worked across the full project lifecycle, from mechanical design support and consultancy to O&M manual coordination, Louise is uniquely positioned to manage multidisciplinary inputs, ensuring consistency and precision across all deliverables.
Known for her structured and organised approach, Louise excels at managing competing priorities in fast-paced environments without compromising on quality or clarity. By bridging the gap between high-level engineering expertise and practical project coordination, she ensures that both the business and its clients are supported with efficient, compliant, and performance-driven outcomes at every stage of delivery.
By combining engineering expertise with strong leadership and coordination skills, Louise supports effective project delivery while also ensuring the business, its people and its clients are well supported at every stage.
Qualifications
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