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Braeside, Victoria

Braeside, Victoria

This role involved taking a shift to a growing privately owned organisation investing for the future. My prior experience has allowed me to move smoothly to the Pharmaceutical sector. This role has included;Providing technical support and guidance to the Maintenance and Production departmentsIdentification, justification and rectification of production slowdowns and choke pointsManaging small to medium capex projects on site from concept to completion, including coordinating and conducting qualification in a Pharmaceutical GMP environmentProviding expertise and design for the Major Projects group

Longwarry Food Park/Jindi Cheese

This is an expansion to support the Maintenance requirements of Jindi Cheese and a continuation of my present role at Longwarry. It coincided with Lactalis' Completion of ownership of the Parmalat group and the renaming of the organisation.

Longwarry

Korumburra, Victoria

Reporting to the Maintenance Manager in the Maintenance Department. This role was newly created in the organisation to address systemic plant issues. This role included ensuring regulatory compliance, working within the bounds of GMP (Good Manufacturing Practices) in a Dairy Food Production environment, and ensuring works comply with Dairy Food Safety and customer requirements.Achievements:● Managed the mechanical relocation of a bag-in-box packing line to allow for future expansion and significant civil remedial works. This included establishing a new hygienic filling room to meet Dairy Safety Victoria compliance● Conducted an asset review of a satellite Milk Receival plant to determine the future viability of the site. This analysis assisted the business case to decommission the plant.● Developed and implemented a $60k asset revitalisation and reliability improvement exercise to improve the running of Automated Export Packing Line 2. This dealt with significant reliability issues on the machine stemming from an incomplete maintenance regime over several years.● Established the groundwork for a $600k Asset Cleanse Project, including designing and facilitating a $30k external audit of the Maintenance Organisation to benchmark realised maintenance gaps relative to best practice.● Supported the Maintenance Department in maintaining and providing critical review of the Condition Monitoring program, Lubrication program and providing technical support for both major R+M and business as usual R+MThis role, among several others, was made redundant in June 2018 due to a board-level organisation restructure.

Maryvale, Victoria

Reporting to the Senior Reliability Engineer, the role moved from the Fibrelines/Pulping area to the Chemical Recovery area, seconded to a special project team to address significant reliability improvement opportunities in the area.Achievements:● Was invited to speak at the NPI Head Office Technical Conference in Tokyo on a plant-wide quality assurance project. This also included a site visit to Yufutsu mill in Hokkaido to compare maintenance practices and cultures● Conducted reliability improvement activities on Recovery Boiler 5 and 6's Induced Draught Fan System, improving online vibration monitoring and lubrication cooling systems as part of the project team● Conducted reliability improvements on the R5 Boiler Air systems as part of the project team to improve combustion air flow to help meet EPA emissions requirements● Designed and commissioned goods crane unloading platforms on R6 and R5, for the safe and efficient unloading of scaffolding, valves and goods to various floors of the building.Post this role, I was seconded to the Paper Machine 5 Break Frequency PMO, where I headed up the mechanical reliability section of the project, reviewing the rope system, spray pump system and supporting minor improvement tasks as identified by the PMO process

Maryvale, Victoria

● Reporting to the Senior Reliability Engineer, this secondment was to assist the Fibrelines area with finalising commissioning of the new De-inked Pulp Plant and reliability issues in the Fibrelines area. This also included being available on the rotating on-call technical roster to manage immediate issues.● Role moved to developing improved bills of materials and repair procedures for items of plant in the De-inked Pulp Plant● Supervised maintenance activities and made recommendations for repair procedures, both for breakdowns and planned work● Published an article in the Mill-wide newsletter detailing the quality assurance project and "wins" established by the system

Maryvale, Victoria

● Post-undergraduate position, reporting the the Mill Senior Reliability Engineer● Designed and implemented a plant-wide quality assurance project covering common maintenance tasks. This resulted in quantifiable reliability improvements and allowed the development of a "paper trail" for key maintenance activities. This was also integrated to the CMMS, with measurable savings and uptime improvements.● Developed maintenance improvement systems to improve Paper Machine roll changing efficiency and safety through the development of designed lifting systems● Reviewed mill standards for Lubrication, Bearing Fitment and Rotating Assembly Alignment.● Assigned to help commission the $90 million dollar deinking plant at the plant. Involved supervising area personnel during shut activities, conducting preventative maintenance reviews and assisting with identifying and fixing reliability issues around the plant.

Various Locations In Melbourne

Undertook work on a contracting basis at various chemical, logistics and manufacturing businesses in the Greater Dandenong industrial area.

Maryvale, Victoria

● Mid-term internship contract - twelve months, supervised by the Senior Area Mechanical Engineer (Paper)● Wide variety of tasks steadily increasing in complexity - from basic structural design to project management● Developed and managed an online defect monitoring system on Paper Machine 4, running the project from initial design to finalisation and documentation, satisfying all stakeholders.● Developed safety and reliability improvements in the plant area based on feedback from area personnel.● Completed development work for an inline process water filtration system on Paper Machine 2, including conducting experiments to determine solution requirements

Bayswater, Victoria

● Worked full time as a Mechanical Assembler in the Frame Assembly Department, building truck chassis● Working in a lean manufacturing environment, provided exposure as a participant in Kanban "just-in-time" inventory management, 5S factory design and Six Sigma quality control processes

Graduate Diploma Of Engineering Maintenance Management, Industrial Mechanics And Maintenance Technology

Covers study in reliability and application of reliability data, condition modelling (CM) techniques, and risk engineering. This program.

Bachelor Of Business (Bbus), Management

Bachelor Of Engineering (Beng), Mechanical Engineering