Catherine Welsh Email & Phone Number

Wollongong, NSW, AU

Lucas Heights, Australia

Manage and co-ordinate the commissioning of a first of a kind processing facility of intermediate level liquid waste from radiopharmaceutical production

Lucas Heights, NSW, Australia

Write high level procedures for the SyMo Operational Readiness and Synroc teams in preparation for a new radioactive waste processing facility at Lucas Heights. Developed Time and Motion studies to summarise Operational and Maintenance data forming the basis of cost/value options. Developed preliminary SWMES utilising VBA. Utilise Visio for developing.

Eveleigh, NSW, Australia

Write, trial and facilitate approval of maintenance instructions for diesel trains: Endeavour/Xplorer fleets. Write Automatic Train Protection procedures for the OSCar fleet (electric). Write and facilitate the review and approval process for business essential safety procedures for the Eveleigh precinct, including isolation requirements and a rescue plan.

Wollongong, NSW, Australia

Business Owner CL Welsh Pty LtdProcess Engineering Consulting Services,Development of and upgrades to Standard Operating Procedures and Safe Work Procedures.Development of procedural systems.

Wollongong, NSW, Australia

Business Owner: CL Welsh Pty LtdProcess Engineering Consulting ServicesSubcontractor to JoyGlobal: Business Consultant – Safe Work Procedures.Summary: Lead a team of 5 that developed Safe Work Procedures (SWPs) for an integrated operations environment (Coal Longwall Mining, Conveyors and Underground Development Equipment). This role included the management.

Port Kembla, NSW, Australia

• Raw Materials Analyst - Linear Program modelling assessments - including plant configuration changes (production capability and quality from individual plants) and asset upgrades (5Blast Furnace Reline and Ore.
• Lead Research and Development activities Blast Furnace lower zone (deadman) samples - Development of procedures for taking and analysing core samples from Blast Furnace shutdowns including the management of contractors.
• Representative sampling of materials fed to the Blast Furnaces - efficiencies of various screen sizes /types(Wire Mesh, VR Polydeck, Hunter). Advice to Process teams on sampling protocols and their sampling trial.
• Reduction of iron losses in Blast Furnace slags - Analysis of variables affecting iron losses, plant trials and implementation of improvement innitiatives.
• Actively involved in the No.5 Blast Furnace Reline plant support - Hazardous Work Co-ordinator for cigar cooler installations in the 2 years leading up to the Reline, assisted with furnace rundown and conducted hearth.
• Reduction of sulphur dioxide levels on #5 Blast Furnace Casting Floors -Improvement notice sign off achieved with Workcover. Extensive plant trials involving the setup of sulphur dioxide monitoring across 3 casting.

Port Kembla, NSW, Australia

• Assist the shift team leader with crew and contractor safety
• Safely operate the blast furnace and associated plant:- Directly supervise operational activities
• Be able to run and troubleshoot, 2 different Blast Furnace control room Operating Systems
• Achievement of iron quality and delivery performance:- Extensive communications with upstream and downstream processes, Detailed analysis of process anomalies and assessing the impact on production, Communicating daily.
• Continuous improvement of plant operations through shift projects:- Casting trough development projects for reduction of iron losses, Upskilling of shift staff – excel graphs and statistics, report writing.
• Training of new staff in the System’s Controller role and Training of furnace operators (Operator Accreditations in plant operations & automatic systems, Emergency response procedure awareness).

Port Kembla, NSW, Australia

• Coal Preparation Principles Course at TAFE Illawarra, completed October 1993.
• Automation of reagent control programs for flotation feed - Reagent addition related to solids content of feed stream to flotation cells,
• Optimisation of flocculation usage / control procedures - Design of sampler to gain representative samples across the Delkor filter cloth to ascertain moisture variation for different flocculant rates and types,
• Documentation of fine coal circuit control problems / bottlenecking,
• Trials for automatic monitoring of moisture content of fine coal filtercakes - Research and Development for real time moisture prediction from the degree of resistance of the filtercake measured by angle transmitters,
• Knowledge transfer through standard operating procedures and report writing,

Port Kembla, NSW, Australia

• Quality Control of outgoing products - Coke Oven's Gas, Benzene (BTX), Tar (including napthalene) and Ammonium Sulphate.
• Optimisation of process vessels - Benzol scrubbers, Ammonia Absorbers.
• Process control improvement projects - Benzol still
• Team Leader of HAZOPstudy audit action team (production, maintenance, electrical, instrumental)
• Day to Day Technical advice to operations team, maintenance and process engineers.
• Implementation of Restricted Access to high hazard area of plant

Bachelor Of Engineering, Chemical

While completing the degree, I worked at ICI Australia - High Pressure Polythene Plant. Main activities included Dangerous Goods Auditing.

Coal Preparation Principles

Training to gain an understanding of the technical aspects behind various types of coal washery equipment and its operation.

Lean Six Sigma, Green Belt

Lean Six Sigma training to support Continuous Improvement project experience in a Major Hazard Facility (Port Kembla Steelworks) using.

Certificate Iv - Training And Assessment

Currently completing a Certificate IV in Training and Assessment to support recognition of prior training of personnel in a Major Hazard.