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Adelaide, SA, AU

Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Supporting the planning, scheduling & asset health team for Olympic Dam Surface Operations (ore-to-base metals). Role supports 16 direct reports incorporating planning, scheduling, and asset management professionals responsible for work management. Including, strategy & optimisation, risk management, minimisation of downtime by supporting repairable and.

Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

• Built a versatile, top-performing integrity engineering team, focused on enhancing strategic business improvement plans to increase effectiveness of operational risk management for static plant at Olympic Dam.
• Developed, implemented and led a $50M relife project to assess the fitness for service, remaining life, and residual risk exposure. This incorporated development and leadership of a comprehensive 5-year plan for.
• Created and executed risk-directed and risk-based inspection frameworks, including end-of-life planning to optimise capital and OPEX prioritization.
• Spearheaded assessments on remaining life and fitness for service, while overseeing engineering repairs and design modifications.
• Expertly managed intricate stakeholder interactions related to heightened risk scenarios, change management due to risk exposure, compliance with Major Hazard Facility regulations, and the implementation of Global.

Olympic Dam, South Australia, Australia

• Reporting to the process safety superintendent:
• Developed inspection regimes, examined results, and supported execution of inspection routines and campaigns for on-site static plant equipment.
• Inspection planning, remaining life and fitness for service assessments.
• Designed repair solutions for registered static plant equipment, and business case development for prioritising capital planning of end-of-life assets.
• Directed inspection, restoration, investigation, and operational support tasks for pressure equipment, tanks, and piping systems.
• Investigations, failure and damage mechanism analysis.

Olympic Dam, South Australia

• Oversaw and enhanced the RCM strategy for the hydrometallurgical plant to boost availability.
• Devised reliability strategies for rotating equipment utilising FMEA analysis.
• Created and executed repair work packs for mechanical equipment to ensure smooth operations.
• Established condition monitoring strategies and examined reports for rotating equipment to maintain performance.
• Probed and assessed static and rotating equipment damage mechanisms and failure modes, overseeing operational risk reduction to sustain production levels.

Olympic Dam, South Australia

• Secondment into an unplanned in-field tube bundle relife of a Sulphur Burner Waste Heat Boiler and Converter Boiler, including Sulphur Dioxide and Trioxide process vessels and heat exchangers.
• Led and managed a team consisting of 16 inspection and non-destructive testing technicians for damage, fitness for service assessments and remaining life examination.
• Developed and scoped follow-up inspection requirements to support review and monitoring of damage mechanisms.
• Perform level 1 & 2 fitness for service and remaining life calculations including directing level 3 finite element analysis evaluation.
• Scope relife repairs based on finite element analysis and fitness for service assessments for Acid Plant process vessels, tanks, gas transfer ductworks and strong acid (98% Sulphuric Acid) piping systems

Australia

• In this role I worked within the Energy and Resources sector for a range of clients across Australia. This consisted of direct and constant collaboration across a variety of projects with the key Principal Power.
• Mechanical design of fixed equipment for minerals processing and power generation.
• Project management for mechanical and electrical design packages.
• Proposals and feasibility studies into power generation projects and modifications.
• Development of technical queries, design reviews, and leading troubleshooting for clients across Australia on mechanical and electrical systems in the Energy and Resources Sector.Key Projects:Integration Representative.

• Full tuition scholarship, majoring in the following areas:
• Economics for Energy, Resources and the Environment, and Technology Perspectives
• Project Development, and Sustainable Management for Energy and Resources
• Energy Efficiency and Conservation, Macroeconomics and Sustainability
• Policy, Geopolitics and Law for Energy and Resources

Adelaide, Australia

• Freelance work on the continuation of my honours research into preventing fatigue fracture of mechanical components and structures under high vibration loading.
• Developed and managed experimental laboratory research utilising 3D scanning laser Vibrometry and Instron sinusoidal loading to simulate high cyclical loading of a mechanical structure
• Cross verification of experimental laboratory results by simulation in ANSYS Mechanical to examine stress and strain fields
• Created an algorithm in MatLab to heat map strain fields from planar and curved surface vibrometry velocity data utilising Bilinear Shape Functions, Iterative Least Squares with a 'moving' H-P cloud for data cleansing.

Exploration Oil & Gas | Surface Well And Drill Stem Testing | Moomba & Various

• Development of mechanical and electrical work packs for delivering Exploration Surface Well Tests; Santos, Origin Energy, Empire Oil and Gas, and CALEnergy
• Reviewed and developed non-destructive testing (NDT) work packs for static plant and chemical injection skid overhauls
• Review and audit preventative maintenance (on-site and in field workshops) to confirm integrity and reliability of operational mobile plant.

South West Queensland

• Summer internship program:
• Digital valve controller (DVC) obsolescence study in the Ballera area gas fields
• Identified remaining stock of DVCs and updated relevant maintenance strategies to reflect new Fisher DVC 6200 requirements
• During study identified a number of reliability issues with current DVC installations.

South Australia, Australia

• Port Stanvac desalination plant - chemical plant, waste treatment, and lime dosing
• BHP Olympic Dam - Acid Plant, Smelter and Refinery
• Schinder Electric - scada, PLCs, building management and chiller systems
• Solar panel systems, automation, data centres, commercial fit outs
• SA Water Treatment and Pumping Stations

Masters Of Business Administration, Distinction (6.4 / 7)

Graduate Diploma, Energy & Resources Management, Scholarship Recipient (Sponsored By Santos)

Bachelor Of Mechanical Engineering, First Class Honours & Academic Medal (Gpa 6.7 / 7)

Bachelor Of Applied Mathematics, Distinction (6.4/7)

Degree stopped in third year due to scholarship offer for full tuition at University College London Post Grad.

Apprenticeship - Electrician - Certificate Iii Electrotechnology, Registration Completed (Unrestricted And Contractors License) | Pge311637

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