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Quebec, Canada

Production Superintendent - Digester Management

Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada

QA/QC Manager

Madagascar, Toamasina

Coordination between production, Engineering projects and maintenance shut down activities.Minor and major shutdown preparation, scheduling, parts procurement, kitting, re-commissioning.Coaching and mentoring employees.Development of maintenance and production KPI Bulk commodities port and rail sevrvice.Coaching and mentoring, development of new planning.

Toamasina Madagascar

Managing and developing a large tailing facility and ocean outfall pipeline.Applying and compliance to tailling industry best practices.Responsible for seepage control, erossion management, plant site river water pump station.

Edmonton, Canada Area

Process engineering support for nickel and cobalt refineries.Supporting operational excellence projects and de-bottlenecking studies.Promoter of process and operations safety culture.Support and management of the Management of change system.

Toamasina

Improvement of Utilities plant operations.Manage technical plant projects for power house, water treatment, acid plants, and gas plants.Managed and coordinated MOC, engineering priorities, for Capex projects.Managed O&M contractors for power house, Air separation and acid plants.

Tamatave

Refinery commisioning, name plate ramp-up of five high pressure laterite leach autoclaves.Commissioning of CCD circuits and Nickel and Cobalt sulphide precip plants.Building teams, hiring and training local and expat staff.Building a safety culture

Madagascar

Successful commissioning and operation of a 210Km ore slurry pipelineCommisioning or river water pump station.Right of Way Taillings pipeline road works maintenanceEnvironmental restoration and conservation managementCollaboration with social department and environmental stake holders.Obtained projects first financial completion certificate.

Moramanga, Alaotra-Mangoro, Madagascar

EPCM Green field project support for mine and ore preparation plant, design, model reviews, hazop's.Development of Operational readiness plans, POVT and turnoever acceptance.Construction completion milestone scheduling.Pre-Commissioning and commissioning planning and excecution.Operator recruitment and training for ore slurry plant, pump house and.

Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta, Canada

Production and Engineering Support for Ammonia leaching, Nickel, Cobalt, Zn and Cu refining.Plant production, maintenance and project coordination.Plant test work and plant bulk feed concentrate blending.Feed Concentrate and tailings management.Plant and environmental hiegene studies and projects.