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Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia

Chief Operating Officer (acting), Strategy. Business Development. Investment Evaluation. Marketing and Sales. Logistics. Negotiations. Major Projects. Company Director.

Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia

• Company Director.• Strategy, Marketing and Logistics.• Business planning.• Operations, projects, procurement and HSEC.• Performance tracking, corrective measures. • Reporting and forecasting.• Continuous improvement.• Board reporting.

Newcastle, Australia

• Company Director.• Develop business plans that align to the company’s strategy.• Directly oversee operations, engineering and projects.• Manage capital investment across the business.• Monitor performance with tracking and establish corrective measures as needed, and prepare detailed reports, both current and forecasting.• Drive continuous improvement.• Board reporting

Newcastle, Australia

Brisbane, Australia

• Responsible for Hatch's Coal & Port business in Australia-Asia.• Realigned Hatch’s business strategy to be client focused and meet industry needs. • Successfully implemented the business strategy, resulting in a broadening client base, strengthened client relationships and improved business metrics.• Developed a client engagement process using lean principles resulting in early opportunity identification and significant increase in win rates.• Developed and implemented a proposal improvement program.• Successfully negotiated commercial arrangements with a broad range of clients.• Developed a network of strategic partners to broaden and strengthen Hatch’s services.• Developed an optimisation consulting service to unlock latent capacity in client businesses.• Responsible for all projects executed within the region from tendering through execution and completion.• Project Director / Sponsor on all critical projects.• Reshaped the coal & port team to align with the strategy.• Fostered a culture of collaboration and excellence within the coal & port team, resulting zero staff turn-over and significant growth within the team.• Improved internal coordination across functional groups by strengthening communications process.

Newcastle, Australia

• Responsible for Hatch’s Newcastle and Hunter Region operations including: P&L, employee management, client relations, safety, regional reporting and communications. • Managed the office through the completion of 2 major projects. • Reshaped the regional organisational structure to meet market needs.• Developed new clients in a depressed market to ensure office viability.• Developed a lean engagement process to open communications and foster employee commitment to the regional strategy.• Established high value engineering services as standard practice to ensure market competitiveness.• Provided leadership and mentoring to engineers and support staff

Newcastle, Australia

Seconded into the owners team, I was responsible for the overall development of an Expansion Master Plan (EMP) for a major coal Australia Coal Terminal from initial concept to selection of a single go-forward option (Pre-Feasibility). The objective of the EMP was to develop a staged expansion program, increasing the terminal capacity by more than 36Mtpa. The EMP was to provide the best possible return on investment, allow scalability to meet market growth demands and be delivered to the market in the shortest feasible timeframe. To achieve these objectives, the Study was divided into two distinct phases; Optimisation and Expansion. The phases allowed me to assemble a study team with expertise aligned specifically to these objectives. The phases also allowed the Environmental Approval strategy to be aligned to the execution strategy and hence providing the lowest execution schedule risk.To recommend a go-forward EMP program, the study included complex option scenario analysis and trade off studies through the integration of logistics modelling, risk profiling, capital cost estimation, operational losses due to construction and market demand forecasting.The Optimisation Phase resulted in an additional 8Mtpa or 12% capacity increase, delivered using the existing operational budget over a 2 year period through reallocation of existing funds with a corresponding decrease in the terminal’s toll charge.The Expansion Phase comprised of 5 incremental stages. Each stage was delivered for a comparatively low capital investment cost resulting in a reduction to the terminals operating toll charge for each stage. The incremental stages allowed for single execution or combination execution to ensure alignment with the market demands. The overall capital value of the project was $1.5B and each Study was delivered on-time and on-budget.

Brisbane, Australia

Held the role as Execution and Construction Lead on a brownfield underground longwall development ($650M CAPEX + $300M mining pre-works) in the Feasibility Study (FEL3) phase. The study was delivered as an owner's integrated team for Anglo American. Responsibilities included all construction and execution activities related to the preparation of the project execution plan and management of all Hatch scope items (as the Hatch Project Manager).The execution planning included integration of all construction and mining activities, schedule preparation, constructability, cost control, change management, procurement strategy development, engineering review, project organisation structure and delivery team costing.As the Hatch Project Manager, I was responsible for delivering the civil, hydrologicial, geotechnical designs, de-bottleneck capacity modelling, procurement, risk management, document control, scheduling and cost control and reporting for the Study. The Hatch scope items were completed on time and on-budget, the overall study was completed within the allocated timeframe and on-budget. The integrated team approach was embraced by the study team and a strong unified culture developed.

Newcastle, Australia

Responsible for all works in relation to the construction of a 465m coal loading berth on the NCIG Project. This includes safety performance, contract and construction management, and quality compliance. Project highlights include management of 2500ton of overseas supplied steelwork (Indonesia), 2500ton of overseas supplied piles (Indonesia) delivered on time and to budget. Site installation works including civil, earthworks, structural steelwork and mechanical works completed on time and to budget LTI free.Management of EPCM Construction team in line with the EPCM contract requirements – inclusive of all financial management, cost control and quality control.Management and award of all contracts in relation to the works – This includes collation of all drawings, technical specifications, schedules and contract documents. Review of all tender documents from the Contractors and recommendation to award to the client.Management of several Principal Supply packages to ensure completion in line with the client’s requirements – including tendering, contract negotiations, contract award and contract management.Independent structural verification of the berth design – review all load cases, ensure structural model is accurate and effective, verify all calculations are completed in accordance with the appropriate standards, review and approve all drawings and technical specifications

Newcastle Area, Australia

In this role, I had full responsibility for the execution of the mobile machine contracts ($250M) on the NCIG Project. I was responsible for all activities including overall safety, quality, schedule, and budget from design through to client hand over and performance testing. The mobile machines comprised of four (4) Stacker Reclaimers which were the largest in southern hemisphere and two (2) shiploaders. The execution of this multi discipline project was identified as a key element to the performance of the overall plant. During this work, I developed and lead a construction team onsite, a QC/QC team in Korea and Czech Republic and managed a full design audit of the mobile machines by a third party. The project was delivered on time and within budget.

Sydney Area, Australia

As the Lead Wharf Design Engineer, I was responsible for the design of the NCIG wharf infrastructure.Responsibilities included:- Detailed design of the wharf structure, including; structural analysis, development of drawings and verification by an independent Auditor. - Management of the interface between structural, geotech, mechanical, civil, mobile equipment and electrical designs. - Development of the tender documents including; scope of works, quantity schedules and technical specifications. - Engineering support to the wharf construction team through the tender and construction phases.

Newcastle, Australia

Newcastle, Australia

Education record

Gaicd

Graduate Australian Institute of Company Directors

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Organizational Leadership

Bachelor Of Engineering - Be, Civil Engineering, Hons

Bachelor Of Engineering - Be, Environmental Engineering, Hons