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Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Leadership of the Operational and Production teams responsible for Logistics, Production Workshops and Centralised Services for Western Region.Development and delivery of strategic projects for Western Region.Key achievements• Design, development and delivery of a business improvement program to improve operational efficiency including on-boarding, training, process improvement and system improvement.• Development and change of the organisational structure to better support customers.• Extensively engaged the workforce to understand responses to the organisational health survey and developed a strategic program of work to address areas of concern including business vision, objectives, performance management, development and succession planning and addressing system and process issues.• Strengthened the Health and Safety Culture through greater engagement of the team members in proactive safety activities.• Engaged and developed relationships with key customers to deliver increased value through wholistic tyre management.• Improved the reliability of equipment through better management of assets.

Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Full time MBA studies focusing on strategy, leadership, operations management, business transformation and change management.

Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Lead a multisite and interdisciplinary team of 45 Engineers responsible for maximising asset performance, including the delivery of a transformational organisation change.Key achievements• Increased the reliability of the equipment through systematic and prioritised interventions. This reduced unscheduled downtime by ~10% across the system leading to significant production gains.• Lead a transformational change to the organisation which centralised site engineering resources and standardised work practices between sites.• Identified, scoped and delivered a system wide improvement project that delivered additional capability and maturity to the asset management function. This included projects to improve the preventative maintenance instructions, higher quality condition monitoring, data cleansing in the asset management system (SAP), capturing more accurate asset performance data and improvements to the fuel and lubricant management. • Established the systems, routines and reports to enable the effectively delivery of Reliability Engineering.• Engaged and developed relationships with stakeholders to establish trust and mutual accountability.• Partnered with suppliers to create value for both businesses through joint problem solving, improvement projects and leveraging the experience of the vendors. This also helped to accelerate the adoption of new technologies.

Perth, Australia

Lead a team responsible for establishing the long-term contracts to support HME, Processing, Rail and Port with the objective of purchasing the best value spare parts and maintenance services and facilitating a smooth and sustainable transition between suppliers.Key achievements• Delivered $AUD30M per annum of sustainable savings.• Lead a team that delivered a project on-time, under budget and to a high quality.• Project management including scope and schedule development, progress tracking, quality assurance for project deliverables, reporting and project budgeting.• Developed and executed a project to form strategic supplier relationships for key service vendors.• Negotiated contracts with support from commercial and legal specialists.• Established continuous improvement projects to reduce costs and extend equipment life.• Mentored five engineering students and graduate engineers.

Perth, Australia

Assist with the development of the Operational Readiness Program including detailed schedules for Business Functions, progress reports and readiness forums for the start-up of a $10B greenfields Mine, Port and Rail Project.Winner of the CEO Recognition Award Oct'14

Dampier, Western Australia

• Lead a team that facilitates the smooth, safe and sustainable integration of new assets into Rail Division including Rolling Stock, Production Systems and Track Infrastructure.• Development of the tools and systems for Operational Readiness in a brownfields rail environment.

Perth, Wa

Principal Function• Lead and project manage a team to create Asset Management solutions for clients.• Provide specialist advice to clients in Operations and Maintenance Management and Operational Readiness.

Perth, Western Australia

Principal Function• Leadership of developing operational capability for the safe, smooth and sustainable ramp-up of new projects.• Advisor for developing and implementing Operational and Maintenance Management systems.

Perth, Australia

Principal Function• Leader responsible for the technical interface between design team and Mine Operations.

Dampier, Wa

Principal Function• Provided technical input into the study and design of the Dampier Port Expansion and to be the technical liason for Port Operations.

Dampier Wa

Roles in the Hamersley Iron Port Including:- Process Improvement Superintendent (leading a multidisciplinary team of 8 engineers and technical officers to provide safe, efficient and effective technical advice to Port Operations);- Marine Supervisor (Lead a team of 10 tradesman to safely and efficiently maintain the marine infrastructure assets);- Operations Supervisor (Lead a team of 10 tradesmen and operators to safely unload trains, build stockpiles and berth, load and sail ships for Port Operations); and- Maintenance Engineer (provide technical support and project management to an iron ore port).

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Business Administration And Management, General

Flwa

Masters Of Engineering, Maintenance Management And Reliability Engineering, Honours

Bachelor Of Engineering (B.Eng.), Mechanical Engineering, Honours