HER background is as a fashion retail manager, but Kylee Enwright wears garb of a whole new kind now.
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As a director of Singleton-based C.P.R Pest Management, on any given day Ms Enwright might be found in protective clothing as a pest control technician.
No, she doesn't love having cockroaches scurry across her.
But she's not alone.
"A lot of the guys you put out in the field don't love it either, but you do what you have to do," she laughs.
The recent recipient of the inaugural Women in Australian Pest Management (PWAPM) excellence award, Ms Enwright fell into the industry about a decade ago, when she and husband Paul set up their company in Singleton.
While Mr Enwright has about 25 years' experience in pest control, his wife started five years ago, initially thinking she'd just help him with administration.
Pretty quickly, however, she agreed with her husband that, for the benefit of customers and greater learning, it made sense to complete a Certificate III in Pest Management and other relevant qualifications for the trade.
"You want to educate people what the service is about and what we provide and that went on to doing a few short courses in business, which I had never done before either - from cash forecasts and strategies to working on the business, not in the business," she says.
Mrs Enwright says winning the industry award was important because she wanted women in her industry to gain qualifications at work, whatever role they played.
"Pest control is a career that is overlooked, probably because it's not nominated as a trade, but there are so many different aspects in it, you could be an entomologist, you could research the biology of pests and create chemicals that just work fundamentally on that certain pest, you can be in the supply side of chemicals to pest managers, you can work in the office, in sales, as a technician," she says.
Mrs Enwright believes her decision to train up - and be on hand to support other women in her field - also gives her credibility and may help "clean up" some industry standards.
C.P.R - which stands for critters, pests and rodents - does commercial, mining and residential services.
Mrs Enwright has enrolled to do her Certificate IIII in training and assessment and plans to use the extra skills for mentoring other women in her industry.
She says there has been a slight increase in women attending trade events in the time she has been attending, and believes women are sometimes better received in certain locations, for example women's refuges and aged care facilities.
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