James White Email & Phone Number

Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Cloudbreak

Supervision of the Engineering and Reliability Team.

Solomon Hub

• Management of the reliability engineering team• Delivery of major reliability improvement projects• Development and implementation of reliability data systems, including fully automated reporting, plant performance tracking and predictive systems.• Plant shutdown strategy optimization and interval extension studies• Many detailed Root Cause Investigations for major failures

Solomon Hub

Delivered hundreds of multi-disciplinary projects across the OPF’s, Stockyards and Train Load-out. These include many large chute and bin upgrade and insert installations, extensive conveyor upgrades, grizzly modifications, apron and belt feeder change-outs, sizer upgrades, custom isolation gate installations, crusher modifications, centralized lubrication systems and many more. Delivery of critical safety projects including large guarding systems, powered overhead cranes, custom hydraulic isolation gates, access platforms and many others. These all included full project lifecycle management from problem identification, concept development, scheduling, budget management, detailed design, procurement, execution and performance measurement.

Perth, Australia

Mechanical Engineer for the Firetail Ore Processing Facility at the Fortescue Metals Group Solomon Hub.Operations and maintenance mechanical engineering for all major equipment including primary, secondary and tertiary crushing, stackers, reclaimers, train loadout and conveyors.

Perth, Australia

Field Service Engineering for the Australasia Region. Aftermarket services including maintenance and repair, root cause analysis, installation and commissioning of a wide variety of pump makes and types across the mining, minerals processing and oil and gas sectors. This includes specific experience in Sea Water Desalination, Nickel Refining, Titanium Dioxide, Diesel Fuel Systems, Off-shore applications and others.Experience with large rotating equipment including multistage pump overhauls and failure root cause analysis.

Cloudbreak & Christmas Creek

• Engineering, Design, Construction Coordination, Contractor Management, Schedule Management, Scope Definition and Variation Management of various projects. Coordination of on-site engineering activities.• Long term team member of the Global Grand Winner of the International Water Association’s (IWA) prestigious Project Innovation Award for 2012.• Quality management including overall quality assurance process development and definition of contractor ITP and MDR content.• Development of site standard commissioning strategies and procedures as well as many project specific commissioning plans.• Management, supervision and direct implementation of the commissioning activities for various projects covering the full commissioning cycle from plan development to construction verification, system startup, testing, troubleshooting, performance verification and project completions and closeout.• Identification and implementation of many innovations and business improvement initiatives.• Safety audits, JHA reviews, work site inspections with demonstrated safety excellence.• Development of materials management system for all project parts and equipment.• Development of site standard construction procedures including valve installation procedures.• Trials and evaluations of new equipment including management of the upgrade and performance assessment.

Perth, Australia

Flinders Mines Pilbara Iron Ore PFS - Greenfields Iron Ore Mine & Processing Facility Project• High level design and compilation of the initial CAPEX and OPEX estimates for theprocessing facilities. This included all vendor data compilation and management of thebid evaluation process.• Design of the water systems including mine dewatering, process, potable andwastewater systems.• Analysis and engineering to deal with various surface water problems.• Development of the Screening, Conveyors and Stockyard Facility Work-Packs, andsignificant involvement in others including Primary, Secondary & Tertiary Crushing.• Lead, coordinated and implemented the risk assessment strategies and procedures forthe project.• Development and review of the option studies to develop the preferred engineeringcase. This work effectively defined the final engineering proposal.

Perth, Australia

• North Rankin 2 Project Case Study to analyse and assess the effectiveness of the workshare models and execution strategies.• Development of standardised deliverable work-split guidelines including project execution and system establishment strategies for four different workshare models.

Perth, Australia

SinoSteel Midwest Corporation Weld Range Iron Ore Project• Compiled the Piping Specification Document• Engineering and design for various services and utilities including all water relatedequipment and systems. E.g. specifications, datasheets, functional specifications, TBE,MTO etc.• Design of large water systems including a 70km pipeline, in-pit dewatering systems andwastewater treatment package.• HAZOP Co-ordinator for all sessions in the BFS, including HAZOP scope definition, sessionorganisation, report generation and following up on action items.• Management of Project Risk Assessment Process and Risk Register• Conveyor Calculations

Perth, Australia

BHP Billiton Worsley Alumina Efficiency & Growth Project - Whiteside, Redside & Infrastructure• Involved in the design of many facilities across the refinery included extensive detailed involvement in the Precipitation, Filtration and Calcination areas.• Piping system design including large, complex clean fluid network calculations in PipingSystem Fluid Flow. This included the design of a very large and complex process watersystem.• Various Slurry, Water, Liquor, Sump and Positive Displacement Pump Calculations.• Conducted an extensive overpressurization investigation.• Heat Exchanger Sizing Calculations• Mechanical Equipment Datasheet Preparation & Vendor Data Reviews• P&ID Support List Checking• Development, implementation and management of the project database software(INSPEC) for all the lists including Lines, Valves, Mechanical & Electrical Equipment, Tie-Ins, Actions, HAZOP, Holds, Preassemblies, Pipe Supports and Structural Interfaces.• Conducted System Capability Reviews of existing utility and process systems includingdetailed investigations and water network calculations.• Preliminary design for equipment in the Bauxite Grinding facility.