Thirst for challenge is what keeps estimating manager Borana Rabona so satisfied in his job with Fletcher Construction South Pacific.

Based in the Fletcher Morobe Construction office in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, Borana leads a team responsible for the cost estimations on all Fletcher Construction projects in the region, from small jobs through to large commercial projects.  

Fletcher Construction South Pacific is where Borana’s successful career began.

Upon graduation from the Papua New Guinea University of Technology, where he studied construction management, he joined FC as a junior estimator at the age of 25.

After a decade, he left for a series of jobs out in the field where he gained further industry experience as a cost control engineer.

In 2020, he returned to lead FCC South Pacific’s estimating team. Borana says Fletcher’s leading-edge technology played a big part in attracting him back.

“The estimating software makes the work exciting, as well as the wide range of projects we work on,” Borana says.

The Fletcher Morobe Construction office employs approximately 40 people at the head office and 600 to 700 people on their construction sites, and continues to grow.

“I love the challenges we face, and working in with others on our large projects,” he says.

A highlight project was building the Era Dorina Stage 3 Apartment in Port Moresby in 2007, a job for which Borana was the contract administrator. “I enjoyed this project so much because it was a design and construct project and we managed it so well that our built cost and the budget cost were the same,” he says.

Borana says he is proud of the career development he has enjoyed during his time with Fletcher Construction.

Outside work, he enjoys investing his time with his family, friends and his church.