Construcciones Yamaro: CPB Contractors backs A2B Personnel
CIMIC Group’s CPB Contractors is delivering on its Indigenous procurement commitments through its partnership with A2B Personnel, supporting Aboriginal employment and business growth.
In 2022, Aboriginal-owned workforce solutions provider A2B Personnel began working with CPB Contractors on a major Melbourne road development, with three Aboriginal workers joining the project. Four years later, the partnership has expanded across multiple major projects, with more than 140 Aboriginal workers engaged.
Across three Melbourne transport projects alone, A2B Personnel employees have delivered more than 161,000 hours of work. The partnership has also helped the business grow its workforce, strengthen its systems and create new career pathways for Aboriginal people while expanding opportunities beyond CPB Contractors’ own projects.
A2B Personnel executive general manager Mat Walker said the relationship had helped establish a platform for long-term growth.
“Working with CPB Contractors has given A2B something that is incredibly important for an Aboriginal business like ours – continuity and the confidence to grow,” said Walker.
“We started with three workers on a single project, and CPB Contractors saw what we were trying to build and backed us for the long term. As our people proved themselves, CPB Contractors created opportunities for them to step up, gain new skills and take on more responsibility, helping take A2B from one project into the next.
“That continuity has allowed us to grow our workforce, strengthen our business and, most importantly, create more sustainable careers for Aboriginal people. We now have people who came in at entry level progressing into skilled and leadership roles and who have become role models for the next generation.
“For me, that’s what a genuine partnership looks like. It’s not about filling a target for one project. It’s about building something together that continues to create opportunities long after that first job.”
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The relationship with A2B Personnel reflects a broader commitment by CPB Contractors to increasing Indigenous business participation across its national supply chain.
Supporting this work is the company’s Aboriginal Business and Social Enterprise (ABSE) database, which gives project and procurement teams access to more than 500 accredited Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander businesses and social enterprises across Australia.
Between July 2025 and June 2026, CPB Contractors engaged more than 200 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander businesses and social enterprises nationally, generating more than $99.7 million in spend.
The company was also the number one contributor to Supply Nation’s record $4.1 billion in contracts verified in 2025 and was recognised as Social Traders’ largest social enterprise spender in its latest impact report. CPB Contractors was also a finalist for both the Kinaway and NSWICC 2026 Industry Partner of the Year awards.
Sharon Gray, senior manager of Indigenous engagement and social inclusion at CIMIC Group, said Indigenous business participation played an important role in delivering on CPB Contractors’ Reconciliation Action Plan commitments and creating meaningful, long-term value.
“At CPB Contractors, we believe reconciliation is strengthened when Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander businesses have genuine opportunities to participate in and benefit from Australia’s major infrastructure projects,” said Gray.
“Our commitment goes beyond procurement. Through our projects, partnerships and people, we’re focused on creating sustainable economic opportunities, supporting employment pathways and helping Indigenous businesses build the capability, experience and confidence to continue growing long after a project is complete.”
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