Benjamin Ray Email & Phone Number

Buffalo, New York, United States

Gladstone, Queensland, Australia

• Leader of two project planners who oversee the governance of the capital portfolio for the business. I recruited both planners and have been responsible for their training and familiarisation with the capital projects.
• Development of the integrated project planning dashboard. This dashboard utilises a data pipeline that spans SAP, Primavera P6 and SharePoint. Users can see current schedule and financial data and documentation related.
• Management of master schedule for the capital and major maintenance portfolio in Primavera P6. This includes creating and updating master templates and creating a unified scheduling management standard for project.
• Development of SAP master data for capital project work. This includes the creation and modification of functional locations, maintenance plans, task lists, Bills of Materials (BoMs) and measuring points. Through this.
• Updating SAP master data related to Engineering In-Service Inspection standards. Following the creation or change to an ISI, I complete the changes in SAP to enable execution of the inspections and also create the.

Gladstone, Queensland, Australia

• Direct supervision of ten maintenance planners. This included coaching and guidance to direct the team towards short and long term goals; mentoring and developing the team to increase the overall capability and output.
• Responsible for ensuring the maintenance planning team have presented an achievable maintenance schedule each week.
• Weekly review with Production team leaders to align maintenance activities with Production requirements.
• Monitoring of site resource requirements and sourcing additional contractors to meet the coming week’s maintenance schedule.
• Creation and compliance review of master data held within SAP.
• Weekly review of maintenance schedule compliance data to identify areas of opportunity for the business.

Gladstone, Queensland, Australia

• Acting Planning Supervisor of 9 maintenance planners and shared resources administrator for 3 months (September – November 2016) while concurrently completing my full-time planning role.
• Complete development of weekly execution plan for a maintenance team. This includes scoping of maintenance notifications and creating work orders, engaging stakeholders to ensure all prioritised work is in the locked.
• Annual zero-based budget development for cost centre of my responsible area; including the collation of all planned maintenance items, expected major shutdown costs, reactive maintenance and breakdown costs.
• Preparation of monthly cost forecast for responsible cost centres.
• Identifying and completing SAP master data updates; including task list updates, BoM updates, material justification requests, upkeep of maintenance plan cycles and parameter.
• Completed the overhaul of legacy turnaround plans in H.I.D and Oxalate. Streamlined maintenance item structures and integrated detail PRTs (photographic references) into the turnaround task lists.

Dysart, Queensland, Australia

• Complete maintenance strategy review and redeployment across the Caterpillar 793/797 haul truck and Caterpillar D11R dozer fleets.
• Complete review of task lists including resource requirements and work instructions. Alignment of all maintenance item and maintenance plan naming conventions to comply with the BHP 1SAP model.
• Analysing Caterpillar 793/797 haul truck fleet downtime data including the trending of common failure types, poor performing units; reporting findings and recommendations to stake holders.
• SAP PM module data analysis and trending of common maintenance tasks, machine maintenance requirements and quality of work management practices.
• Stakeholder engagement across multiple mine site to evaluate the most streamlined, consistent and best practice maintenance strategies for Caterpillar 793 truck fleet.
• Initiator and/or approver of SAP master data improvements following feedback from maintainers and planners.

Dysart, Queensland, Australia

• Maintenance planning for pit dewatering pumps using 1SAP.
• Onsite at Saraji during the transition from GSAP to 1SAP. Change process experience with the complexities of a global rollout of a work management process.
• Ensuring adherence to chosen maintenance strategies to maintain budget and equipment availability target.
• Initiate master data requests for task list, maintenance item and plan improvements to SAP master data.
• Stakeholder engagement to meet production requirements while meeting established maintenance strategy.
• Forecasting and sourcing contract labour to execute priority work during peak periods.

Mackay, Queensland, Australia

• Developing competitive tenders (up to $5 million and 10,000 hours) for dragline and coal handling plants from client’s scope of works ensuring all clauses are achievable and all risks to the project are identified.
• Preparing project budget documents and works programs for execution team.
• Mobilising all tooling, equipment and inventory to site as well as managing the establishment of project offices, crib rooms and amenities.
• Management of the project works program through assessment of daily progress and updating the project Gantt chart.
• Shutdown experience on Marion and Bucyrus models as well as planning major maintenance activities such as; swing motor and gearbox change outs, revolving frame and tub crack repairs, fairlead repairs, shoe repairs.
• Tracking project budget through actual completion of tasks against budget cost allocations.

Mackay, Queensland, Australia

Co-op student - started working in coal mining. Participated in planning and managing maintenance shutdowns on draglines and coal handling plants

Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia

Vacation student with George Fisher fixed plant maintenance

Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia

Student engineer in the Site Services Engineering Workshop

Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia

Student engineer in the Site Services Engineering Workshop