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Wodonga, Victoria, Australia

Oversee and maintain production schedule to drive optimisation and ensure delivery on time to despatch.

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

• Responsible for the day to day operation of the Batch House and Furnaces to ensure the production of consistent high quality glass is achieved and meets forming requirements.
• Coordinating with engineering department to ensure effective maintenance and project works are being performed.
• Ensuring safe working conditions.
• Raw material consumption modelling and forecasting.
• Managing raw material stock levels.

Koeberg Nuclear Power Station - Melkbosstrand, South Africa

• Engineering thermal-hydraulic analysis, deterministic accident and transient analysis using thermal-hydraulic analysis codes
• Validating and verifying processes for a RELAP model
• Documenting intricate technical writings
• Applying quality assurance metrics
• Perusing and updating feed water hydraulic models and secondary cycle heat balance for a thermal power upgrade project

Witbank Area, South Africa

• Producing numerous ferrosilicon grades, in batch processing, after molten ferrosilicon was tapped from furnaces
• Controlling maintenance and operational staff and overseeing daily operations
• Ensuring performance target achievement and unit production optimisation
• Ensuring plant availability through effective maintenance
• Ensuring product specifications are met
• Conducting product stock management

Witbank Area, South Africa

• Managing daily continuous operations of furnace and kilns, including overseeing maintenance and operational employees
• Ensuring unit production is optimised and performance targets are reached
• Ensuring plant availability through effective maintenance
• Ensuring adherence to product specification
• Performing raw materials stock management
• Forecasting, budgeting and cost management

Saldanha Area, South Africa

• Managing daily batch processing operations at the Iron Plant, including overseeing operational employees
• Ensuring unit production is optimised and performance targets are reached
• Ensuring plant availability through effective maintenance
• Ensuring adherence to product specification
• Performing product stock management
• Forecasting, budgeting and cost management

Saldanha Area, South Africa

• Performing secondary metallurgy, in batch processing, of the molten iron tapped from the furnaces
• Updating and tracking operational key performance areas
• Compiling risk assessments and standard operating procedures
• Advancing the consumption of reagents and consumables in the iron plant
• Conducting test work with different injection lances
• Conducting test work with releasing agents

Saldanha Area, South Africa

• Performing secondary metallurgy, in batch processing, of the molten iron tapped from the furnaces
• Conducting statistical analysis of specification attainment for the pig iron
• Updating and tracking operational key performance indicators
• Performing dephosphorization test work
• Performing technical feasibility study on the removal of impurities in the iron
• Evaluating and optimising carbon yields

Saldanha Area, South Africa

• Performing commissioning and optimisation of various highly automated operating plants in continuous manufacturing processes

Post-Graduate Diploma In Nuclear Science And Technology

Cum Laude

Bachelor Of Technology Degree In Chemical Engineering, Chemical Engineering

Cum Laude Awarded by the South African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy for the best final year student of 1997 at the Cape Peninsula.