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Australia

Port Operations Port Hedland

Port Operations Port Hedland

Geraldton Western Australia

The primary role of this position is to oversee the safe efficient operations of the Bulk handling facilities, which comprise of.1. Train unloading and associated conveyors to storage sheds.2. Truck unloading for the mineral sands circuit to berth 4 shiploader 4.3. Concentrates loading circuit to berth 4 shiploader 4.4. Loading of Iron ore to, berth 5 shiploader 5 from storage sheds.The Operations supervisor is responsible for seeing that all incidents are reported, all delays are recorded and to be first point of contact for all issue dealing with the Bulk Handling Facility for the Contractors, who operate and manage the Bulk Handling Facility for the Geraldton Port Authority By the following duties.• Issue authority to work in the BHF• Issue hot work permits, working at heights, permits.• Providing group isolations when required.• Conduct BHF inductions.• Provide training and assessment for personal isolator training• Attend pilots meeting to discuss shipping movements• Monitor and record wind conditions during concentrates loading ensuring no loading is done outside of the allowable wind parameters.• Review all work procedures for the BHF ensuring they are up to date, and that the BHF operators are working to these. Make changes to these procedures as required, ensuring that changes are rolled out to BHF operations and maintenance contractors.• Raise Maintenance work request for repairs to BHF equipment.• Encourage and develop positive relationship with BHF contractors, and other port users in creating a strong continuous improvement ideas generation and implementation• Inform all relevant stake holders of delays during shiploading operations.• Conduct daily operations meetings• Record all incidents, breaches and major delays In STEMS• Assist, encourage and support the Rail Operations supervisor in their duties in managing the port rail yard.

Worsley Alumina Refinery

This role is with the Worsley expansion project. As the area interface representative, I am responsible for the safe access to work areas by the project contractors. Ensuring they have current clearance to work for the facility that they are working in.Participate in Hazop, risk assessments, model & design reviews, this is to see that all areas of concern in the development of new plant for existing facilities are captured and controls put in place.Conduct work place inspections, where contractors are working, this is to make sure all safety protocols are being adhered to and non-conformances are reported and followed up.This is a very challenging role, involved with interactions and communications with contractor management area management, design, electrical and mechanical engineers. As well operations work force and the contractor work force.The areas I am responsible for are, overland bauxite conveyor new chute upgrades, replacing existing twin boom stackers with new slewing boom stackers, upgrades to existing bridge reclaimers, reclaim conveyors to transfer conveyor chute upgrades, transfer conveyors to shuttle conveyors chute upgrades, drive motor upgrades to reclaim and transfer conveyors.Replace 2 shuttle conveyors and install another 2 new shuttle conveyors as to allow bauxite feed into new bin to feed rod and ball mills.The installation of conveyor system’s and bio mass system to feed coal and bio mass to new MFC power station.The building of new alumina rain loading silo, to increase existing silo capacity form 2 wagon loading to 4 wagons loading.Upgrade to port rail unloading facilities, to allow faster unloading of the alumina wagons, as to meet terminal time with trains so rail windows can be met

Berth 6 Bunbury Port

Supervising 2 operating shifts at Worsley’s Bunbury port facility. Ensuring all activities were done following safety procedures and that all non compliances were followed up and acted on. Ensuring all visitors to port comply with the MSIC regulations. Liaising with ships officer, Agents, Pilots, Draft surveyors to ensure safe loading or discharging of vessel at Worsley port facility. Loading alumina into vessel’s, which is reclaimed from storage silos and conveyed to shiploader to be loaded into holds via a cascade chute. Discharging liquid caustic into caustic storage tanks.Unloading alumina trains at rail unloading facility and conveying into storage silos. Loading of caustic trains for transportation of caustic to Refinery operations.Run Shift KPI meeting daily, ensuring actions items were raised for KPI's that were in the red.Carry out clearance to work audits, safety visits.Report on breaches of safety and procedures,conduct investigations and enquiry’s on these breaches.Trained in isolation and lock out procedures, hot work permits and confined space entry.Rail shunting activities, make and break trains and shunt into sidings to be loaded with caustic.Complete EPDR on may direct reports

Worsley Alumina Refinery/Berth 6 Bunbury Port

After the successful commissioning and start up of our new port facilities.I am now the relief supervisor for refinery and port operations.This is because I have a diverse skill set which allows me to provide coverage at both facilities allowing me to utilise all my skills.

Berth 6 Bunbury Port

Develop operating discipline for new berth and ship loader at the Bunbury port.Contact point for project group on points of concern with construction of new berth and ship loader facility.Recruit and develop training for the 12 operators to run this facility.Involved in the commissioning of this project through to successful operations that we have today.Assess’ operators for Hot work permit and CSEP competency.Isolation and clearance to work officer practicable assessments.Assess operators on competencies against SWI's

Worsley Alumina Refinery

Raw Materials department.Operating shift of 5. Supplying raw materials to Alumina refinery process. Operating to achieve ZERO HARM at All times.Reclaiming Bauxite from stockpiles to area 1 Mills.Supplying coal to power house, Unload trains into coal pit, then reclaim to power house.Unload liquid caustic from rail wagons then transfer to refinery when required.Load finished alumina product into rail wagons.The shift crew also operated bull dozers to manage coal pit, front end loaders for emergency feed of bauxite to refinery and area clean up, bobcat and water cart for area clean up.Provide isolations to allow maintenance and contractors to safely access plant for shut down work and scheduled maintenance.Run Shift KPI meeting daily, ensuring actions items were raised for KPI's that were in the red.Carry out clearance to work audits, safety visits.Report on breaches of safety and procedures,conduct investigations and enquiry’s on these breaches.Trained in isolation and lock out procedures, hot work permits and confined space entry.Complete EPDR on may direct reports.

Port Hedland

In my role as Operations shift Supervisor, I safely and effectively ran a shift consisting of 18 operators, 3 electricians and 2 fitters.Adherence to the 24 hour plan was upmost to ensure the trains were dumped, and then the iron ore was screen crushed re-screened and then stacked in to the stockpiles.The iron ore was then reclaimed and loaded on to ships for delivery around the world.As well as managing the shift I was required to liaise with ships officers and agents, to ensure vessel were loaded safely and efficiently.As iron ore was delivered by trains communications with the rail department was vital to ensure the safe and efficient turn around of these trains.The operators on my shift operated all fixed plant, (Car Dumpers, Stackers, Crushing plants, Bucket wheel reclaimers, ship loaders and all associated conveyors and sample plants).Mobile plant (Bull dozers, Front end loaders, Graders, Bobcats)Conduct safety visit on all work activity in my area.Ensure Plant isolation was done correctly to allow contractors and Maintenance safe access to maintain the plant.Complete incident reports on breaches, conduct appropriate enquiries and investigations as required.

Port Hedland

Assist shift supervisor with the day to day running of the shift.Ensure that fixed plant was stacking and reclaiming on the correct stockpiles.Mobile Plant operators were working machines in the correct locations.Assist with the berthing and sailing of vessels by liaising with port pilot’s ships crew and agents.Ensuring that Contractors and company employees followed safe work procedures and wore the correct PPE at all times.

Port Hedland

As a mine worker level 4 on shift I was required to operate the following equipment. Stackers, Car dumpers, Ship loaders, Bucket Wheel reclaimers, Sample Plants Crusher and screen plants.I was also, shift Job instructor & Trained control room operator.MARCH 92 - MARCH 94MOBILE PLANT OPERATORMobile plant operator with the railroad based earth works group.Maintaining the rail formation and access roads, operating the following equipment.Front end Loaders, 950,966,988.Komatsu 155, 355 bulldozersRollers compactors,140g and 160 g Graders.