It was meant to be one crane but I ended up selling two and I was pretty chuffed.įrom there, I became more involved in the sector, visiting factories for instance, and became the president of the local crane association for about five years. At the time, the company I was working for took over the agency for Manitowoc, with a focus on Grove products and my boss said to me: “Cheryl, you’re the only one with experience in mobile cranes.” So, I headed up the mobile crane division in that company and being female in the industry at that time was pretty extraordinary – there were no other females around doing that particular job. By the time I became an executive, we sold our business to a company here in SA.

I then became involved in our local association, which was called the South Australian Crane Association back then. JO: Tell me more about the early years – how did you get into the crane sector?ĬW: When my husband left Brambles to work for himself, I started doing his books and began to take an interest in what the machines do. Today, Woodhart is the general manager mobile cranes at SA-based RMB Service Group, the company she and her husband set up in 2009, fitting seeing it was her husband who drew her into the crane world 30 years ago. From selling an $18 million crane to being CICA’s longest serving female director, the last three decades have been anything but dull, writes Jacqueline Ong.

Cheryl Woodhart has been in the crane industry for some 30 years and has accomplished much during that time, both professionally and for the sector.

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