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Gladstone, Queensland, Australia

Planning of the preventative maintenance of over 300 machines including heavy earthmoving equipment, ancillary equipment and light vehicles. Coordination and scheduling of the parts, service personal and suppliers to ensure the fleet is serviced on time. Keeping accurate service and defect records and working as part of the Plant Department to repair equipment.Key Achievements• Improved the accuracy of oil sample data so we had less fake bad samples, allowed us to focus our attention where it was required.• Created a system of tracking stock on hand of excess parts to allow us to find parts when required and reduce spending.

Calliope, Queensland, Australia

Development of offers for Tenders, Quote requests, and Preferred Supplier Arrangements, working in consultation with internal stakeholders to assist in the delivery of Council’s operational program with the supply of various goods and services.Key Achievements• Restructured an offer to achieve a better response rate to open market tender that previously had no interest.• Received Council and Supplier approval to proceed with many overdue variations.

Gladstone

Operational support to service various customers between Gympie and Mt Larcom, I supported customers with supply of technicians, parts and consumables for all preventative maintenance and breakdown requirements for their air conditioning, refrigeration and electrical work.

Batchfire Coal Mine

Komatsu hired me as a contractor to fix many parts issues and fill in due to staff shortages and train new people at Callide Mine. 4 team members recently left the business and new staff appointed when I become available to start work.Responsibilities • Understanding the current processes followed, site requirements, team ability and culture• Housekeeping, stock takes, credit unused parts, filing, ordering new parts• Transact orders for new parts requirements genuine and aftermarket• Implementation of procedures that involved delegation of tasks to available team members.• Train existing people to be multi skilled and accountable• Train the new Parts Coordinator, Store person and administrator Key Achievements• Clean-up of parts credits to create warehouse space to operate efficiently, parts visible in computer system. • Wrote a guidebook on how to do most jobs required, use of various computer systems, key contacts, set routine tasks for people to follow and trained people to work independently.• Implement various processes for visibility of freight, parts picks, remanufacturing, and pre ordered parts for June 2023 shutdown.

Australia

Tendering, scheduling, promoting and showcasing McCosker Contracting capabilities of various Civil projects across Queensland and the Northern Territory. Projects involve, earthworks, concreting, plant hire, pipelines, road construction, dam maintenance, building construction, fabrication, mud farming, tailings dams and others. Responsibilities • Understanding customer requirements, civil drawings, contracts, and work scopes.• Compile tenders, prequalification’s, expression of interest for projects, promoting McCosker Contracting,• Preparation of schedules in MS Project or Primavera P6 for the estimation process and contract Management.• Review and update schedules to show timeline of a project, it may include, overview planned vs actual production rates, manning histogram, hold points, delays, and completion dates.• Attend site inspections and meetings on site or online to tender for works, planning of people/plant or review progress with internal or external contacts.• Deliver accurate tenders and schedules in line with specific contract requirements • Develop strategies for customer support, follow all processes to conform to quality assurance compliance.Key Achievements• Proactively developed a customer follow up strategy to close out pending projects and document feedback.• Developed a report process to show cost vs actual results matrix.• Played a critical role to get Main Roads Prequalification for McCoskers.

Gladstone, Queensland, Australia

Managing the Komatsu Gladstone and Rockhampton Parts Departments looking after Customers from Bundaberg to Blackwater to Marlborough and leading a team of 7 direct reports. Responsibilities • Hiring, mentoring, and coaching of staff to provide a high level of customer and technical support.• Preparing budgets and maintaining of forecasts and completion of various reports.• Customer service, preparation of quotes, attending sites, site meetings, and making relationships.• Finding parts in parts books and using various computer systems to create solutions for customers.• Creation of exchange parts, service kits to make it easy and enhance reliability of the customers’ fleet. • Parts planning for Service Kits, local supply parts, major rebuild parts, Recommended Spare Part lists for new machines and complete part lists to be stored at the Distribution Centres to minimise freight and time. • Warehouse tasks such as risk assessments, picking and packing parts, maintenance of inventory, stocktakes (rolling to full) and housekeeping using manual and computer systems.• Management of Logistics for delivery and collection of goods to customers and from suppliers from all over the world. • Commitment to knowing and following correct guidelines, policies, and procedures within the workplace, particularly with regard to WHSE.

Gladstone, Queensland, Australia

Provide timely and accurate Estimates to customers, order parts open jobs and ensure the correct people were allocated to the ensure the job was completed safely and met expectations.Responsibilities • Discuss and set work scopes and milestones for both customers and technicians to allow for progressive job costing on large projects for more accurate forecasting of time and money. • Customer service, preparation of estimates, attending sites for inspections, site meetings, making relationships.• Taking the time to understand what the customer expected and passed on information to team members to execute.Key Achievements • Recognised by management for my in-depth knowledge of the business and excellent skills in Excel