How we started

Waylon Sims started Prowire Technologies in Ulverstone in 2014 as an industrial electrical contractor and switchboard builder. For the next ten years we built our name on mine sites, food plants, utilities and industrial sites across Tasmania.

As the work grew, clients kept asking us to handle the steelwork on their jobs too. Rather than keep subcontracting it, we formed Prowire Group in 2024 and launched Prowire Fabrication alongside the electrical business, with Jake Rice joining as a director to lead it. Prowire Civil followed, so we could do our own trenching, conduit and pits.

Today all three divisions work out of our Fieldings Way workshop under one team. That means we can take a project from design and civil works through fabrication, installation, commissioning and handover, all under one contract.

We employ more than 70 local technicians and can call on a wider pool of over 200 people for bigger jobs. We train our own apprentices, and many of our crew have been with us since the early days.

Electrical. HV and LV installation, industrial and commercial electrical, instrumentation and controls, fibre and data. We design and build our own switchboards and MCCs in Ulverstone and factory test them before they go to site.

Fabrication. Structural steel, platforms, pipework, tanks, conveyors and machinery. Our welders are qualified to documented weld procedures, and we install what we build.

Civil. Earthworks, trenching, conduit, pits and plinths. Our civil crew works to the full project design, so footings, services and conduit are in the right place for the steel and electrical work that follows.

Turnkey. Put the three together and we can run a job from design to handover. One contract, one project manager, one program and one safety system, with test results, as-builts and O&M manuals at the end.

Our people

Our team is electricians, apprentices, boilermakers, welders, plant operators, supervisors, designers and project managers. They live and work in communities right across Tasmania, and many have worked on the same sites for years.

We put on apprentices every year and pay for training and tickets as people take on more. A lot of our crew started with us as apprentices or joined early and stayed.

For bigger jobs we can draw on a pool of more than 200 people, including trusted subcontractors we’ve worked with for a long time.

Our workshop

Our workshop at 23–25 Fieldings Way, Ulverstone, is where we build switchboards and MCCs, fabricate steel and pipework, and prepare gear for site. It has overhead cranes, a jib crane and space for large builds and factory acceptance testing.

We keep our own Franna crane, excavators, trench rollers, cable gear and calibrated test equipment, so we can mobilise quickly without waiting on hire. See our equipment.

Work across the state. Mining, food processing, ports and utilities, from the North West to the West Coast, Launceston, Hobart and the islands. Home base is Ulverstone.

Variety. Workshop builds one week, site work the next, across electrical, fabrication and civil. With three divisions there's always something different on.

Training. We pay for training and tickets across all three trades, from welding, rigging and plant tickets to HV switching. We put on apprentices every year.

Good gear. Our own workshop, vehicles and plant.

A lot of our crew have been here since day one.