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Australia

Australia

Para Hills, South Australia, Australia

Austral Tree Services is a company providing tree and vegetation management with over 80 employees. Achievements• Led the day-to-day management, support and development of Project Green Group, a not-for-profit division of the organisation.• Created a new schedule for maintenance with no stock control, ensuring all fleet and 76 plant equipment across NSW, Victoria and Adelaide were up to schedule.• Successfully implemented new maintenance processes that increased machine uptime by 46 per cent, improved operational efficiencies to reduce contracts by two days, and significantly decreased fleet breakdowns.Responsibilities• Leading a team of three professional mechanics and multiple casual workers to manage and deliver scheduled major and minor services for all fleet vehicles, adhering to preventative maintenance schedules.• Managing and carrying out all unscheduled maintenance and repairs to ensure plant and equipment is available to the work teams as a high priority.• Managing staff productivity, efficiencies and quality of work, and handling any employee issues relating to the incorrect operation of plant and equipment.• Overseeing and ensuring the accuracy of all records in service, maintenance and repair, meeting the demands and challenges of project compliance.• Ensuring safety, compliance, cleanliness and security standards are consistently met throughout the organisation for all tools, equipment and supplies.• Proactively monitoring risks and regularly reporting to the HR Director and Quality, Safety and Environment on risks and mitigation strategies.• Participating in audits conducted by internal and external auditors, ensuring follow-up actions are completed within the required timeframe.• Managing and implementing the department budget, providing cost effective solutions, and sourcing and negotiating with appropriate suppliers, developing the Equipment Hire Entity into a profit centre.

Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

Epiroc Mongolia is a mining and infrastructure equipment, consumables and services company, with customers in 150 countries and over 14,000 employees.Achievements• Coordinated, oversaw and directed daily training programmes for 127 staff in operations, maintenance, mechanics, and supervision and evaluation.• Led the professional development of all employees and coached and oversaw promotions for 16 staff members to lead mechanic and lead supervisor positions.• Conducted technical training for machinery, leadership and skills coaching, and Train the Trainer and CRM training.Responsibilities• Coaching the Maintenance Mechanical execution team to ensure all members fully understand their tasks, routines and procedures related to work management.• Conducting on-the-job training of artisans on TM3 machines, ensuring fast and accurate fault-finding on TM3 machines.• Ensuring daily and weekly services are successfully carried out, all stock is available, and daily shift reports are delivered to the Project Manager.• Understanding detailed execution issues and solutions, looking for ways to improve, coach and mentor teams to enable them to independently undertake this process.• Collaborating with other relevant operating and maintenance crew supervisors, supply personnel, and maintenance planners and schedulers, maintaining channels of mutual feedback and communication.• Reviewing and providing professional recommendations to improve the work of crew members, including on performance, quality, timeliness and post-execution responsibilities.• Using pre-start meetings (Toolbox) to drive team engagement, meeting safety and quality standards and delivering work by deadlines.• Renegotiating deadlines with senior management where required to support teams.

Kitwe, Copperbelt, Zambia

Murray & Roberts Cementation Zambia Limited, part of the greater Murray & Roberts Group, is an engineering contracting and construction services company for oil and gas, power and energy, building, and infrastructure sectors.Achievements• Oversaw repairs to successfully increase various organisational efficiencies, including mean time to failure from nine hours to 24 hours, and mean time to repair by two hours per shift.• Led and implemented onsite training programmes for 54 mechanics and electricians, which included physical hands-on training.• Successfully reduced injury incidents by conducting pre-start meetings, securing organisational consensus and shaping a team culture that emphasised safety.Responsibilities• Driving accountability and team engagement throughout the workforce, ensuring all team members understand their performance measures and provide regular feedback on performance.• Ensuring the safe execution of maintenance work to the agreed schedule, which included daily stakeholder management with internal and external stakeholders.• Planning, scheduling and coordinating the day to day work, providing clear direction and expected outcomes for safety, work quality and expected completion times.• Contributing to the continuous improvement and optimisation of systems, processes and assets.• Contributing to scoping, quoting, estimation and cost control of various works.• Developing and maintaining a thorough understanding of client needs and requirements.• Actively promoting company capabilities and seeking further opportunities to expand on offerings.

Johannesburg Gauteng Province, South Africa

Atlas Copco is a multinational company that manufactures industry tools, equipment, and services and solutions. The company has approximately 39,000 employees and formed a new company in 2018, Epiroc, where I subsequently worked.Increased mean time to failure and mean time to repair by 20 per cent across 11 mine sites, which also reduced costs by 40 per cent and created more employee time for recourse analysis. Increased stock availability by 20 per cent and reduced mean time to failure by 25 per cent, leading mechanical improvements, engineering and radiators and fan alterations.Led negotiations with suppliers from Sweden and successfully reduced costs on products that could have been locally manufactured without sacrificing mining efficiency.Responsibilities• Providing technical support services, auditing reports on equipment, and training artisans on technical and electrical techniques to repair mining equipment.• Collaborating with business units to develop business plans that achieve company revenue goals, and to develop strategies for identifying new customers and retaining existing customers.• Overseeing PDI commissioning, demonstrations and maintenance schedule planning on AC Equipment.• Coordinating with engineering and manufacturing teams for product development activities, including establishing pricing strategies and guidelines.• Collaborating with the marketing team in developing sales and marketing strategies for profitability, which included leading product and sales training to the marketing team.• Providing support for marketing collaterals, advertising materials, marketing campaigns, tradeshows and other promotional activities.• Coordinating with cross-functional teams to provide product engineering, development, management and sales solutions.