I Was Destined To Do This.

FOR HUTCHINS BROS DIRECTOR HEIDI HUTCHINS, MONTY PYTHON PLAYED A ROLE IN HER DECISION TO ENTER THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY.

- Sharon Masige

Heidi Hutchins’s family are big fans of Monty Python. In year 10, when Heidi was thinking of her future career options, she recalled an episode of the British comedy series with a skit featuring Ethel the Aardvark who goes quantity surveying. “I looked at the job description for a quantity surveyor and I decided it is something I would be interested in,” she tells The CEO Magazine. “I didn’t want a job where I’d be stuck behind a desk all day, so being in the construction industry was attractive from that perspective.”

Raised on a cattle farming property in Tooma, New South Wales, Heidi decided to move to Sydney to study building construction management. But after university, she got a job as an equity analyst with Deutsche Bank, where she handled property trusts. While Heidi had deviated from construction for a time, one thing pulled her back into the industry.

“I got engaged to a man,” she laughs. “He was living in Sydney with me at the time and his parents were ready to exit the business.” That company was Hutchins Bros, and Heidi, together with her now husband, Bill Hutchins, had to decide whether to take it on or let the opportunity go. They decided on the former. “Since we were both from the country, we were planning to move back there to start a family,” Heidi says. “So the timing worked well for us.”