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Sydney, Nsw, Au

Sydney, Nsw, Au

Australia

• Ensure asset purchasing & disposal processes are carried out under appropriate contracts, in line withcorporate process & maximise commercial benefit;• Day-to-day accountability for the integrity, use and development of Asset Systems;• Provide support to the business on CoR matters and processes pertaining to assets;• Maintain data sets and conduct analysis to track cost to operate and provide insights;• Monitor KPIs across the asset portfolio to highlight improvement, waste or developing risks;• Develop strategies to improve utilisation and fluidity of assets;• Lead the delivery of Asset Services across fuel, statutory compliance/licencing, fine management, hire control & accident claim management to improve standardisation and reduce complexity.

Greater Sydney Area

• Ensure that machine build & spare parts inventory holdings are optimal by directing analyses of min/max levels, usage patterns & re-ordering strategies;• Determine budgets & track KPIs;• Build & maintain relationships with suppliers, vendors & state distribution branches;• Search & source new/alternate suppliers & vendors as well as negotiate lower pricing;• Oversee the recruitment, hiring & training of new staff;• Provide regular progress reports to CEO;• Adhere to laws, rules & regulations for importing/exporting equipment & parts.

Greater Sydney Area

• Manage all inbound international air & sea freight parts shipments; • Coordinate the dispatch of parts nationally liaising with freight companies for all receiving state branches & dealers;• Utilise the most cost-effective means of freight to branches or direct to customer; • Prioritise & inform branches concerning the dispatch of parts in accordance with their requirements - i.e. vehicle breakdown parts & shelf stock replenishment; • Review warehouse procedures & systems to continually strive to eliminate non-value adding activity from daily process; • Manage staffing levels to meet service delivery SLAs; • Coordinate regular cycle counting for keeping part availability accurate; • Instil a culture of attention to detail, accuracy & maintaining visual order; • Responsible & accountable for a safe working environment including reporting safety issues; • Coach direct reports to follow required processes & collaborate with peers to improve.

Canberra, Act

• Run a 24 hr x 6 day x 50,000 t/yr materials recovery facility [MRF] - sorting, recycling & selling of commingled & return scheme glass, plastics, metals;• Manage a multi-cultural workforce (with 50% casual labour) of 47 including hiring, training & development;• Analyse equipment downtime to track OEE [using Excel / Power BI] to recommend & implement select capital works improvement projects to increase production throughput from 11 to 17 t/hr;• Implement hazard control safe work procedures to protect line workers;• Manage an $8M annual budget with monthly P&L / EBIT responsibility;• Improved monthly EBITDA by $250k in 2019 through daily OpEx cost control;• Monthly reporting for Board level of production rates, SLAs & safety KPIs;• Create strong stakeholder relationships for ensuring service delivery; • Develop, support & grow direct reports to be effective leaders.

Uralla, Nsw

• WH&S management of a non-ferrous foundry;• Leadership & development (training) of all manufacturing staff;• Plan production capacity to match time sensitive customer delivery;• Ensure cast manufactured products meet quality standards & specifications;• Development, monitoring & monthly reporting of production & safety KPIs;• Maintain key plant (compressor, furnace, forklift, spray booths) for maximum availability;• Control & optimise production inventory as well as vendor selection;• Maintain a culture of excellence to ensure customers experience the highest levels of service delivery;• Manage staff rosters, attendance & allocation of tasks (including R&D efforts);• Identify process inefficiencies, recommend & implement plant upgrades.

Hunter Valley, Nsw

• Identify & prioritise opportunities for business improvement to close performance gaps for Mine Manager - e.g. continuous haul truck fuel consumption;• Applying continuous improvement methodology to analyse problems & develop solutions;• Analyse root causes of performance gaps, process failures & production time operating delays adding no-value (i.e. wasting time);• Apply strong change management & influencing skills to assist in delivering sustainable cost effective solutions to transform the operation;• Develop, coach & grow a Lean culture in site superintendents & supervisors.

Newcastle, Nsw

• Analyse failure incident data to recommend cost/benefit changes to overhaul strategy for parts such as fans, air cons, pumps, governors, motors & wheels to optimise run life between scheduled change outs;• Following FMEAs, validate subsequent engineering reliability improvements using 8D process to give customer confidence in fleet reliability & competitive advantage to fulfil delivery contracts.

Newcastle, Nsw

• Analyse, optimise & manage a $25M heavy rail parts inventory across 8 regional NSW/QLD warehouse locations for maintaining a fleet of of 350 locomotives to maximise asset availability & achieve cost centre savings;• Streamline daily inventory planning of consumables & overhaul parts picking per work order with associated logistics processes;• Maintain high accuracy with configuration of heavy rail assets;• Re-design workshop & storage layouts for improved work flow;• Seek & develop new parts supplier & contractor relationships for products or services for better cost/benefit to the business;• Mentor maintenance staff undertaking Lean education & learning activities.

Gosford, Nsw

• Maintain compliance to site ISO9001 quality management system;• Conceived & rolled out a new Visual Management initiative as part of site wide Lean business transformation including: ► Teach a 5S culture to create & maintain visual order on production floor; ► Introduced concept of 8 Wastes to process thinking as part of desired business improvement outcomes; ► Created daily accountability culture where work is monitored via Information Centres for clear communication & goal setting; ► Created a Visual Factory production scheduling system to more efficiently schedule resources which successfully reduced average product cycle time from 14 to 8 weeks in 6 months creating extra production capacity; • Lead cross-functional department Green Belt teams completing cost saving projects to improve business profitability.

Gosford, Nsw

• Visit paper mill customers in technical design, applications & service capacity to recommend & close sales on custom paper machine belting solutions as well as supervise manufacturing quality of supplied products [AUS & NZL];• Apply statistical analysis [Minitab] to production data to sell product upgrades;• Use R&D process to develop product solutions for customer requirements.

Gosford, Nsw

• Manage quotations, sales orders, production schedule & delivery logistics for largest customer group.

B.E. (Mechanical), Mechanical Design

Bachelor of Engineering (Mech) - Class 1 Honours

Certificate Iii In Competitive [Lean] Manufacturing, Business Improvement

Activities and Societies: Certificate III - Competitive (Lean) Manufacturing

Certificate Iv In Pulp & Papermaking Technology