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Newport, Victoria, Australia

Newport Terminal

Altona, Melbourne Victoria

• Qenos is a subsidiary of ChemChina/Bluestar and the only manuafcaturer of PE in Australia located in Altona and Botany.The Resins Plant is a Major Hazard facility producing 110 kt of PE by polymerising ethylene gas.
• Improvement of SHE systems and processes resulting in zero recordables for 3 years and no significant incidents in 2 years.
• Improvement of Quality systems and processes resulting in annual right first time conformance improvements from 97.3% to 98.4%
• Improvement of Systems and Processes across all functions of IR, Asset management, Training and development, as well as Improved capex process to engage project engineers with ‘end users’.
• Completion of team Restructuring providing cost savings of $ 450 k in Labor.
• Support Product development teams in improvemnets to product technology resulting in $ 1 M savings in raw material costs AND reducing Site Safety Risk.

Melbourne, Australia

• Site Operations Manager for the BioEthanol facility at Yarraville. The position includes a broad range of responsibilities such as Production Distillation, HSE & Quality risk management, Maintenance & Engineering.
• Improved WHSE behavioural culture with a reduction of site recordables from 2 per year to nil over the last 3 years. Triennial NAT audit increasing in 2012 from 48% to 78%.
• Managed all aspects of our site distillation plant closure and facilitated the restructure across the site. Redeployment of operators to WH positions enhancing flexibility.
• Achieved annual cost budget targets. Led the 2015 OIP program resulting in 10% fixed cost reduction.
• Initiated and led cross functional training programs across the site in 2016/7 to cross skill and create backups for flexibility resulting in increased productivity in 2017.
• Established a national supply chain network of third party ( 3PL ) Warehousing & Logistics partners across Australia, to assist our Sales & Marketing team triple sales volumes of Imported Chemicals over 2 years..

Melbourne, Australia

Operations Manager for a PVC, ABS and PE 24x7 extrusion facility producing pipes and fabricated fittings for the water industry. Responsibilities included the safe, clean, cost effective operation of the extrusion plant supporting the business with an annual turnover of $ 30 Million.

Melbourne, Australia

Site Manager for the Major Hazard Facility (MHF) site at Laverton Melbourne, responsible for the safe operation of a continuous formaldehyde plant as well as four batch plants producing Urea formaldehyde and Phenolic formaldehyde resins supporting a business with annual turnover of $ 50 million.

Melbourne, Australia

Commenced with Huntsman Chemical Company ( MHF formely Monsanto ) as a Project Engineer and progressed into Production Management through the various Batch and Continuous plants at West Footscray. These plants included:* Styrene Monomer Plant (100kT ): Plant Process included Ethane to Ethylene, BTX to Benzene with both reacting to Ethyl Benzene through.