Mike Uhlmann Email and Phone Number

Reporting to the Maintenance Superintendent, I am the highest-level team lead on site, responsible for 16 staff, contractors and Apprentices in predictive, preventative and on-call maintenance requirements supporting plant operations and production of Ammonia, Urea, Granulation & Bulk Distribution across Gibson Island Works. In this role, I have been proud to have:• Played a leading role in the redundancy and closure process of the IPL Manufacturing Plant, from planning plant phases to supporting E&I Technicians in transition to new employment over an 18-month period• Devised the "Safe, Calm, to the End" motto, embedding within the team, and across the site, to guide daily behaviours, attitudes and continued focus on quality and safety during an ambiguous, and tumultuous transition period approach • Ensured the combination of conducting maintenance, maintaining production targets, limiting plant downtime, and ensure zero harm safety focus• Played a key role in implementing continuous improvements in all aspect of the day to day running of maintenance teams with a focus on continuous improvement. • Created a Zero Harm environment, continually and proactively reviewing Job Safety Analysis (JSA) documentation and performing Permit to Work quality checks, auditing compliance, accuracy and compliance in application • Created, planned, and implemented outage rosters including managing team member fatigue and safety standdowns when required• Assessed mental health and wellbeing of team members and arrange work to suit situation in conjunction with company medical staff

In this role, I assisted the Team Lead and led a team of four responsible for coordinating planned works, reactive jobs, outages, and maintenance days. I assumed the ‘single point contact’ for larger works, ensuring work pack documentation recorded in SAP and played an active role in leading prestart meetings, providing insight to planning and safety meetings. I enjoyed liaising with and supervising external contractors, engaging with company vendors and regularly reviewed and updated safe work procedures and machine records.Above and beyond daily tasks, I was proud to have:• Led teams of 20 – 30 multi-disciplinary members (E&I, Mechanical, Welders, Scaffolders and Plumbers) for both outages and maintenance days conducting up to 100 jobs within the planned period, meeting timelines, maintenance budgets and ensuring zero incidents• Partnered with Accountant to develop hourly spend on production of GRAN-AM, identifying lost production cost of $5600 loss ph. Providing team members with visibility of this figure increased productivity, as team members could see their decisions directly impacting uptime and therefor the bottom line • Built and implemented a "Product Hardness" indicator machine that became the yard stick used for product quality of granulated products in a time of high market competition. Ultimately leading to IPL retaining market share through experimental product design

Acting as Team Leader during periods of absence, I played an active role in daily team task allocation, resolution of issues and escalations. Identified for “steady hand approach” and leaned on to promote team culture following team restructure and redundancies. I was also proud to have:• Successfully implemented IPL’s "Business Excellence Programme (Bex)", embedding program targets, procedures and redesigns into the teams operating culture leading to efficiencies in productivity and embedding WIN (What’s important Now) Principles which endure long after• Rapidly realigned team priority and focus from ‘storming phase’ to acceptance and drive toward the future. Implementation daily focus, individual performance management personal leadership, example setting and aligned goals improved the team's base culture

In this role I performed highly diversified duties from installing, repairing, maintaining, and troubleshooting faults on production and facility equipment on instrument and electrical systems. Adhering to site safety, predictive and productive maintenance systems, and processes to support the achievement of the site’s business goals and objectives.