Scott Phegan Email & Phone Number

Fremantle, Western Australia

• Leveraging 20+ years of hydrometallurgy expertise to offer targeted solutions in design, technology, and strategy, fostering sustainable and cost-effective production of battery minerals and precursors. Currently.
• Development of technology approaches for the purification of a range of metals including High Purity Alumina, Rare Earths and actively pursuing patentable pathways for Manganese extraction and purification.
• Technical review and benchmarking of Worsley Alumina’s performance in the context of upcoming major projects supporting the decarbonisation of the Refinery.
• Due Diligence on an Indonesian Alumina Refinery Project for a project partner wishing to validate project risk and likely outcomes.Operational Excellence & Performance Improvement:
• Strategic and Tactical review of the restart philosophy for the idled Jamalco Alumina Refinery in the Caribbean with active support and troubleshooting for the restart team. The restart strategy and tactical plan was.
• Identified gaps in Worsley Alumina's decarbonisation strategy and advised on improvements.

Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Board member in Canyon resources developing a world class bauxite resource in Cameroon.

Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Senior Principal Consultant in Bauxite and Alumina business unit.

Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Senior Principal Consultant in Alumina and Hydrometallurgy

Perth, Australia

• KEY ACHIEVEMENTSStrategic Planning & Business Development:
• Key contributor to strategic initiatives for nine refineries, including conversions and retrofits, as well as curtailments and end of life planning, shaping future investment decisions.
• Supported new business initiatives in; - Vietnam to leverage value from Alumina technology and expertise involving ~20 relationship building and technical outreach visits over a four-year period. - In China pursuing.
• Member of the peak operational oversight body in the business unit, called the Manufacturing & Technology Council, taking directional decisions in matters of both tactical and strategic importance. Leadership & Team.
• Maintained, developed and mentored a team of 25 engineers and subject matter experts in project governance, technical support, and flowsheet development and deployment of innovative technology and process.
• Lead the process design, flowsheet development and process optimisation in multi-billion-dollar complex brownfield and greenfield hydro metallurgical projects from concept, through execution to commissioning.

Toronto, Canada Area

• KEY ACHIEVEMENTSStrategic Planning & Business Development:
• Representing Alcoa’s Technology and Operational expertise in business development and diversification initiatives including in Vietnam and China.Leadership & Team Management:
• Built and empowered high-performing global teams of engineers, fostering their growth, development, and retention.
• Spearheaded the transformation of the global process design function, expanding its capabilities and driving technology standardisation and robust design processes.Project Management & Delivery:
• Production upgrades in Jamaica and Australia, increasing Production by 10-20% at each location, reducing cash cost and increasing EBITDA by 5-10%.
• Managed seven concurrent greenfield Alumina Refineries designs for Africa, Brazil and Australasia to position new capacity in a growth or low-cost region, positioned in 1st-quartile cash cost.

Greater Pittsburgh Area

• KEY ACHIEVEMENTSLeadership & Team Management:
• Provided expert technical support and design guidance to five operational facilities in Brazil, Jamaica, Spain and USA involving process optimisation, technology deployment, and operational practice transformation to.
• Fostered knowledge transfer and talent development within technical teams using my own skills and experience directly as well as leveraging global technical teams to deliver focussed solutions, mentor, and upskill.
• Lead the process design for a large-scale >USD3B, complex, full production line addition at a major alumina refinery in Brazil, bringing it from concept to execution phase on time and within budget after project.
• Drove a ~$120M plant expansion in the Caribbean, overseeing design and commissioning involving deployment and bedding-in of new process technology and equipment to improve process efficiency while maintaining product.
• Initiated concept and feasibility studies for a total of ten (10) additional major projects for other regions, greenfield and brownfield, all >USD3B, for Africa, Vietnam, Indonesia, and Suriname.Adaptability &.

São Paulo Area, Brazil

• KEY ACHIEVEMENTSLeadership & Team Management:
• Relocated from Australia to Brazil to lead the process Design for a >USD3B expansion to an Alumina Refinery in Northern Brazil.
• Commenced the process design and developed and mentored a local process design team of ten local engineers from both Alcoa and the engineering provider, until the project was paused.Project Management & Delivery:
• Identified the need for upskilling and support to the local Refineries and executed a technical and operational support programme, travelling routinely to the two operating locations in Brazil. Performed training.
• Learned Portuguese and assimilated into the local culture while travelling frequently within Brazil and overseas.

Western Australia, Australia

• Scoping and feasibility of a full Production Line expansion at an Alumina Refinery responsible for overall design.
• Lead Process Design Engineer for the Precipitation area in the detailed design phase of the above project. The flow sheet to incorporate outcomes of development work conducted by me since 1992.
• Study and assessment of options for de-bottlenecking of the existing Refinery.
• Lead Design responsibility and Commissioning Manager for an impurity removal process (~$60M).

Western Australia, Australia

• Daily Technical management, control and optimisation of a Precipitation and Calcination areas Alumina Refinery.
• Definition, execution and assessment of field trials.
• Development and implementation of process enhancement projects.
• Participation in major plant upgrade project design and commissioning.