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Christchurch, NZ

Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand

• Lead the development, delivery and continuous improvement of Synlait's health & safety culture.Multi-site operations in Dunsandel, Pokeno, Palmerston North and Auckland.The Challenge: To lead transformational culture.
• Lead pandemic management response: implement policy, including mandatory vaccination and Rapid Antigen Testing, and establish robust systems to ensure safety and wellbeing of employees. 1000+ employees plus.
• Lead culture transformation: develop communication and brand strategy to engage the workforce in the importance of health, safety and wellbeing, improve performance, and manage critical risk.
• Drive improvement through refresh of management systems, establish minimum standards for controlling critical risk and eliminate incidents.Key Achievements:
• Delivered robust systems and controls to minimise absenteeism to <4% illness (COVID-19) through efficient ‘drive-through’ testing facilities, pragmatic response plans, frequent communications and robust vaccination.
• Delivered 35% reduction in safety incidents (based on Total Recordable Injury Frequency Rate) through increased employee engagement, focus topics and a compelling communication strategy and brand. The ‘Synlait Safe’.

Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand

Provide management consultancy services to enhance and develop safety management performance, operational excellence and leadership.

Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand

• Key Responsibilities
• Lead and develop the company’s safety, wellbeing and environment strategies, through the delivery of a roadmap and implementation plan for each strategic initiative.
• Lead the Safety, Wellbeing & Environment function to deliver an effective business partnering model and provide shared services for reporting, analytics and technical advice.
• Lead the Capability function with key focus on leadership development and delivery of a cognitive behavioural safety programme and competency training for critical risks
• Lead the development and implementation of an Environmental Compliance Management Framework.
• Lead external engagement with key stakeholders for the company across Health, Safety and Environment. Own key sponsorship and industry forum relationships. Drive marketing and communications for external events /.

Gladstone, Queensland Australia.

• Key Responsibilities
• Lead Site Services operations: optimise material handling, port terminal, site utilities (power and steam generation), and red mud (tailings residue) management. 200+ employees plus contractors, $62m annual operating.
• Lead department’s business transformation: develop operational and maintenance strategies to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the operations assets while reducing operating costs and contributing to the.
• Lead the company’s interface with key external stakeholders (neighbours and port authority) to build open, transparent relationships and ensure the company’s ongoing licence to operate. Key Achievements:
• Delivered >$16m of annualised savings (as part of an overall business transformation project targeting $200m savings) through 60% reduction in shipping terminal delays, 15% improvement in boiler efficiencies, $3m.
• Reduced capital expenditure by $2m annualised saving (from a budget of $20m), by reprioritising capital spend following a risk assessment and evaluation of the operational readiness of the tailings management facility.

Australia & New Zealand

• Key Responsibilities
• Lead a high performing team of consultants, project managers and administrators to deliver the highest quality in safety leadership and well-being services to clients. 18 FTE based in Brisbane, Perth and remote.
• Lead the implementation of a revised operating strategy and service model.
• Deliver consultancy and facilitator services, through coaching, workshop facilitation and leadership in organisational change management across a diverse client base (multiple industries and countries – Australia.
• Generated $500k of new business for the company and provided ongoing consultancy following the completion of site safety diagnostics, culture assessments and facilitating workshops with new client’s Boards, senior.
• Developed the capability of the consultant team, by recruiting and building resource capacity to meet client needs and embed team leadership practices (senior consultants) to coach and mentor others. This was achieved.

Parkes, New South Wales, Australia

• Key Responsibilities
• Lead the processing of copper ore to produce a concentrate product within quality specifications. 60+ employees, $40m annual operating budget.
• Lead the transport logistics (rail) and shipping of copper concentrate product by ensuring continuity of product supply and quality.
• Lead the operation’s water supply, and tailings management facility (including water recovery) by managing the site water resource through the approved bore supply and recovery from tailings management facilities while.
• Achieved our goal of ‘Zero Harm Operations’ with record processing performance (6.2 Mt of ore), 100% of product shipments meeting specification, increased processing capacity by 11% and over 500 days injury free (no.
• Reduced operating costs by 15% (annualised) from an operating budget of $60M by leading a waste minimisation programme across the department to identify business improvement opportunities and reduce costs (including.

Global (Melbourne Corporate office)

• Key Responsibilities
• Lead the implementation of an integrated (health, safety, environment & quality) management system standard across all product groups and business operations.
• Provide training, support and guidance globally to support business units to implement an aligned business system and manage change. Key Achievements:
• Delivered a standardised approach across the global business (4 Product Groups / multiple countries & business units, 250+ operating sites) for the management of health, safety, environment and quality risks by leading.

Melbourne, Australia, London, United Kingdom And Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

• Key Responsibilities
• Provide technical support, facilitation and project management resource for the business improvement project at Kennecott Utah Copper (pilot site for project)
• Provide training, support and guidance to support the business unit and the successful uptake of the value model / integrated planning processes.Key Achievements:
• Led the development of the smelter mass balance and validation of the overall Value Model – a business optimisation tool that identified $100m of value (life of mine) for the business and highlighted production and.

London, United Kingdom

• Provided business improvement support and advice to Rio Tinto Group HSE function, London, on assurance reporting processes.
• Co-ordinated activities for external assurance programme (Sustainable Development report) and production of external report on HSE performance.

Invercargill, New Zealand

• Leader of small project teams (3-10 people).
• Developed project plans, including resource needs, budgets, measuring and monitoring programmes and analysed and evaluated project metrics.
• Developed various improvement solutions for projects of significant challenge to the business, increasing the technical knowledge and capability of the process being studied.
• Managed teams of industrial contractors, carrying out hazardous work, including crushing and screening, waste recovery, and remediation activities.

Invercargill, New Zealand

• Project manager accountable for the identification and evaluation of long-term treatment and disposal options for major by-products and waste streams at the smelter. Primary focus being Spent Cell Liner (known as SCL.
• Provided monthly and quarterly reports to senior management at business unit and product group level.
• Instrumental in progressing business relationships with external companies looking to accept and process the waste material.
• Proactive in raising the awareness of waste generation rates across the operation and generating ideas for reduction and potential reuse of materials.
• Demonstrated ability to prioritise and multi-task. This work continued in addition to my Six Sigma Black Belt role in 2003 and 2004.

New Zealand Aluminium Smelters, Invercargill, New Zealand

• Provided analysis and reporting of process and environmental monitoring results.
• Maintained and implemented improvements to laboratory systems, calibrations of instrumentation and assuring quality standards.
• Compiled external reports and provided analysis of environmental performance for local compliance obligations.
• Promoted to leadership role as Specialist By-Product Management (after only 9 months).

Dunedin, New Zealand

• Planned and implemented a number of research activities for chemical oceanographic measurement, analysis and modelling.
• Co-ordinated voyage activities and research logistics.
• Additionally, supervised first, second and third year students and tutored in chemistry subjects from 1998 to 2000. Lead tutor for Foundation Year Chemistry Class International foreign language scholarship scheme (Year.

Master Of Science (Msc), Chemistry, Credit

Activities and Societies: New Zealand Institute of Chemistry (member) Specialising in Aquatic and Analytical Chemistry / Environmental.

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Chemistry

Activities and Societies: Knox College; University of Otago Rugby Club Chemistry, Biochemistry, Statistics. Inglis Memorial prize (1997).