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Hope Downs 4 Iron Ore Mine

Working in the Maintenance Planning department initially looking at the Capital Project Spares that have recently been handed over by the Project Management Company that built the mine before assessing all Fixed Plant equipment spares.Identify and organise all remaining Capital Spares to be catalogued and put into the warehouse.Obtain full spares lists from vendors for every piece of equipment within the Fixed Plant and assess what items need to be warehouse stock items and what items are… Show more Working in the Maintenance Planning department initially looking at the Capital Project Spares that have recently been handed over by the Project Management Company that built the mine before assessing all Fixed Plant equipment spares.Identify and organise all remaining Capital Spares to be catalogued and put into the warehouse.Obtain full spares lists from vendors for every piece of equipment within the Fixed Plant and assess what items need to be warehouse stock items and what items are required be catalogued as "As Required" which will make future procurement a lot easier for items that are only required every now and then.Run workshops to assess criticality rating, stock holding and monthly usage levels.Progressing of all relevant paperwork associated with the findings before liaising with the Inventory Controller for the area of the Pilbara, who then organises approval before cataloguing of all items that have been processed. Show less

Boddington Gold Mine

Working in a Maintenance Reliabilty Team going through all areas of the processing plant and identifying the equipment in each area and then finding all parts required for the equipment and then mainly recommending stock level reductions and adding new items which are mostly catalogued as On Demand items which will make future procurement a lot easier when the items are required sometime during the life of the mine.Processing of all relevant paperwork associated with the findings which is… Show more Working in a Maintenance Reliabilty Team going through all areas of the processing plant and identifying the equipment in each area and then finding all parts required for the equipment and then mainly recommending stock level reductions and adding new items which are mostly catalogued as On Demand items which will make future procurement a lot easier when the items are required sometime during the life of the mine.Processing of all relevant paperwork associated with the findings which is then sent to the main procurement office in Perth for them to finish processing. Show less

Perth, Australia

Coming from directly working for Rio Tinto Expansion Projects I set up and maintained contracts of my own plus I was training and mentoring Aurecon staff in the correct way to set up and maintain all Rio Tinto's suite of contract documents.

Effectively set up and maintained contracts for Construction, Supply and Manufacture, Consultancy, Maintenance and Service Order requirements working closely with engineering and operations management making sure their objectives were applied.

Effectively set up and maintained procurement contracts for the Karara Project working closely with engineering and operations management making sure their objectives were applied.

Perth, Australia

Supervision of a team procurement staff and set up of contracts for the Moly Mines Spinifex Ridge Project working closely with engineering and operations management making sure their objectives were applied. Project put on hold due to GFC.

Led the establishment of the Procurement department including preparation and implementation of all work procedures and reporting requirements. Successful management off staff and set up and overall management of all EPCM & EPC projects.