Daniel Heal Email & Phone Number

Western Australia, Australia

Melbourne, Victoria, Au

- Leading the effort to decarbonise BHP's Australian operations.

Melbourne, Victoria, Au

- General Manager and statutory Senior Site Executive of Newman Operations - the combined Mt Whaleback, Eastern Ridge and satellite orebodies operations contributing up to 90Mtpa of high-grade iron ore lump and fines products to the WAIO supply chain.

Melbourne, Victoria, Au

- General Manager and statutory Registered Manager of the 80Mtpa Yandi hub in BHP's Western Australia Iron Ore (WAIO) business.- Responsibility for 13 open pits, 3 ore handling plants, 2 train loadouts and associated infrastructure.

Melbourne, Victoria, Au

- Mine operations manager role for the Olympic Dam underground mine - a 10Mtpa sub-level open stoping operation.- Responsible for the safe development and operation of the Southern Mining Area.- Achieved ramp up of underground development to a rate of 18km/year to deliver first production through application of rapid advance techniques.

Melbourne, Victoria, Au

- Mine operations manager role for Escondida open pit mining operations – material movements of 1.4Mtpd from 2 pits. Leader of the Mine Development group which is accountable for the construction and maintenance of the mining environment for safe execution of load and haul activities as well as safely providing blasted inventory in accordance with the mine plan.- Responsible for drill and blast, operation of ancillary equipment fleet, waste dumps, earthworks, electrical transmission, mine road / ramp construction and maintenance, traffic management, dewatering, mine services and tyre management for mobile equipment fleet.

Melbourne, Victoria, Au

- Management of the Technology and Innovation function - responsible for the identification, assessment and deployment of technology opportunities at the Escondida Asset as well as development of the long term technology strategy.- Management and design of piloting programs and industrial scale trials for mining and processing technologies.

Melbourne, Victoria, Au

- Member of the Planning Leadership Team, which was responsible for the design and facilitation of the BHP Billiton strategic planning and business development process across the Group.- Team member for writing of Group level documents (Planning, Tenement Management, Exploration Results, Resource and Reserve Reporting).- Independent peer reviews for major capital investment projects.

Melbourne, Victoria, Au

- Leader of the Technical Services Department at Leinster, which was responsible for the mine operating plan for the Leinster Nickel orebodies and the provision of technical support during execution.- Management of Mine Planning, Geomechanics, Scheduling, Ventilation, Mining Projects, Survey and Geology departments across three mine sites (Perseverance, Rocky’s Reward and Cliffs).

Melbourne, Victoria, Au

- Responsible for all aspects of Geomechanics engineering at Leinster – Perseverance Underground Mine (sub-level caving in 2 orebodies, open stoping in another satellite orebody) and the Rocky’s Reward open pit.

Melbourne, Victoria, Au

- Geotechnical duties at Perseverance mine operations and longer term Geomechanics project work.

Perth, Wa, Au

- Leader of a 3 year, $1.3M research project and responsible for completion of project deliverables and consulting work.- Conducted project work and provided geotechnical advice and support for numerous underground mines in Australia, Canada and Chile.- Expert witness.

Perth, Wa, Au

- Post graduate studies in applied rock mechanics (enrolled at the University of Western Australia).- Rock mechanics fieldwork, consulting and secondments at numerous Australian and Canadian mines.

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

- Geotechnical duties at Laronde underground mine - 8000tpd sub-level open stoping operation, mining to 2km depth.- Geotechnical review and analysis as part of the Laronde 2 Feasibility Study (expansion of mining from 2km to 3km depth).

- Site investigation (work included geotechnical mapping, core logging, drilling, penetrometer testing, sampling and pore pressure dissipation testing), earthworks auditing (for residential subdivisions and commercial developments) and road investigations for work underway on major civil construction projects.- Numerical modelling and stability assessments for civil and mining works.- Writing of final reports for clients and proposals for new work.

Au

- Geotechnical duties at Kambalda Nickel Operations underground mines.

Phd, Mining Engineering

Bachelor Of Engineering, Civil Engineering

Bachelor Of Science, Geology

Gaicd, Graduate