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Brisbane

• Provide office and site-based project management, leadership and coordination of a $25 million per annum campaign maintenance program on Santos’s API storage tanks and Caterpillar gensets across SA and Qld.Key.
• Within 12 months developed and executed a tank inspection and refurbishment program across 25 tanks per annum, aligned with cross functional teams and legislative requirements to drive efficiencies in time management.
• Lead the integration of the Industrial Services contractor change out for the Cooper Basin whilst still maintaining on time, safe work execution and statutory tank inspection compliance.
• Co-lead the project budget analysis and submission for the 2023 and 2024 statutory tank inspection and refurbishment program.Responsibilities
• Focal point for leading, planning, scheduling and day to day coordination of the Cooper Basin tank inspection and refurbishment program and the Caterpillar Genset refurbishment program
• Coordinate contractor-based execution teams and interface with Operations and Permitting teams to ensure timely delivery of scopes, operability and maintenance requirements.

South Australia, Australia

During covid, conduct contract Lead Mechanical fitting-based activities for multiple shutdowns on equipment such as radial blowers, steam turbines, pumps, PSV’s, heat exchangers, spool work, valves, filter presses, crushers, transfer stations, conveyors and screen houses.Companies include: BHP – Olympic Dam, Rio Tinto – Koodaideri, Dyno Nobel - Moranbah

Australia

• Site based focal point for over 20 teams and 400 plus personnel for Shell QGC’s upstream hydrocarbon assets to implement and standardise Shell’s Operational Excellence global processes - Situational Awareness, Alarms.
• Improve day to day reporting and standardising end of shift handovers for all Upstream Operations personnel by developing, training and embedding the use of a new integrated digital monitoring, communications and.
• Greatly improve start of shift situational awareness behaviours and highlighted business risks for all Upstream Operations teams by developing and leading the implementation of a standardised digital team pre-start.
• Communicate local based procedures in alignment with standards, manuals and HSSE policies for operations and maintenance teams.
• Conduct site-based assurance activities with personnel on operational and maintenance processes to identify gaps and develop local supporting procedures.
• Train and develop Supervisors and Leads with efficient pre-start techniques following Shell’s operational excellence process around situational awareness.

Australia

• Lead and supervise a multidisciplined team comprised of mechanical, electrical and hydraulic technicians to safely execute preventative and corrective maintenance on over 600 coal seam gas wellsite’s and ensure.
• Increased the availability of over 600 gas wellsite’s from 55% to 80% in an 8-month period by successfully leading, planning and co-ordinating a quick response, multi-disciplined maintenance team comprised of.
• Developed and lead the standardised execution of safety critical wellhead master valve high pressure greasing including the design, and procurement of high-pressure greasing mobile trailer units for all of Shell QGC.
• Empower and engage my team to achieve and take ownership of site performance and reliability by facilitating maintenance execution improvement sessions and assigning actions.
• Act as the Maintenance Supervisor when they were offsite, on leave or on secondment (often for 6 months at a time)
• Facilitate Shift Team Meetings (pre-start) to ensure team alignment and understanding of the Shift Action plan.

Australia

• Employed to ensure the smooth handover and ongoing maintenance and shutdowns of hydrocarbon assets from Greenfields to Brownfields by contributing to facility punch listing and acceptance walkdowns, compression.
• Safely complete four Eagle Burgmann dry gas seal replacements as well as a compressor bundle replacement on Siemens STC-SV centrifugal gas compressors within the Central Processing Plant
• Reduced the maintenance build scope timeframe for newly constructed hydrocarbon assets by volunteering for a 12-month secondment as a Maintenance Planner whilst fulfilling Mechanical Technician duties as.
• Key member of a small multidisciplined team conducting commissioning and start-up of gas compression assets post construction, turnarounds and unplanned shutdowns.
• Complete preventative, corrective and shutdown maintenance on gas compression and processing plant such as: TEG gas dehydration, centrifugal and screw compressors, dry gas seals, gearboxes, nitrogen generation units.
• Supervise and assist contractors on vendor equipment to ensure compliance to Shell QGC & industry standards and the PTW system.

New South Wales, Australia

• As part of a small team safely operate, maintain and facilitate the refurbishment of three hydro turbine power stations in the Lower Tumut region comprised of generation machinery, auxiliary plant, aqueducts, dams and.
• Improved generation output from 250MW to 300MW for four hydro turbine / pump unit major upgrades by safely leading the commission and Permit Authority duties during the hydro turbine and excitation equipment.
• Increased equipment reliability and reduced the outage time by safely planning, isolating and coordinating the Blowering Power Station and adjacent switchyard major refurbishment.
• Optimised plant efficiency and savings by identifying and implementing continuous improvement initiatives through the Root Cause Analysis process and utilising PI Processbook (computer generated trend analysis program).
• Ensured optimal plant reliability and availability by conducting; first response to abnormal plant situations, routine operational tasks, plant inspections and maintenance tasks.
• Ensured team consistency and understanding of the Daily Production Plan by acting as the Operations Supervisor when they were offsite or on leave.

Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia

• Plan and conduct preventative, corrective and shutdown maintenance on power station and cryogenic air separation plants such as LP centrifugal blowers, HP screw compressors, turbo alternators, cold boxes, molecular.
• Support commissioning and start-up of compression and air separation assets post turnarounds and unplanned shutdowns
• Isolate and restore plant adhering to Xstrata safety rules and safe operating procedures
• Operate and control plant as directed by the Operations Controller
• Undertake regular plant checks and record trends to identify off target equipment
• Identify and implement continuous improvement initiatives to optimise plant efficiency and savings

Advanced Certificate Mechanical Engineering

Fitting & Machining Engineering Trade