Wayne Brooks Email & Phone Number

Denver, CO, US

Denver, Colorado, US

• Responsible for support to Operations, projects & M&A targets for all D&B activities.Maintain a high focus on safety by the implementation of industry best practices at all Newmont sites.
• Collect industry standard processes and share with sites. Monitor trends in the industry to anticipate future opportunities and risks, facilitate technology and knowledge transfer between operations.
• Review available rock characterization data (compressive strength, block size, density, fracture frequency, RQD, Young's Modulus, Poisson's Ratio, geotechnical structures, etc.) for each domain and support the.
• Lead key critical initiatives, focused on delivering measurable improvements to projects and operations.
• Provide guidance to mine design parameters, such as level spacing, bench heights, void and slot creation, that both optimize the mine and overall production performance.
• Actively engage with sites in optimizing underground stope performance to minimize overbreak, underbreak and dilution to improve stope reconciliation across all underground sites.

Denver, Colorado, US

• Responsible for the Management of the site’s Drilling & Blasting activities and Operations
• Site SME for Explosives
• Management of 9 drills and approx. 60 personnel Inc. Drillers, Blast crew, D&B Engineers, leads & Supervisors.
• Coaching and development of employees in explosive safe and efficient use and global best practices.
• Provide training to drill and blast engineers in CC&V and support to other regional sites.
• Provide site guidance for voids management, respect to drilling & Blasting as well as shovel movement

• Responsible for Managing Technical Excellence & Capability for the North American Business
• North American representative for Orica’s Global Surface Expert PanelPublic
• Development & delivery of the Technical Services vision and strategy
• Technical Services team development & capability across the North American business
• Deliver standardized process into our business
• Identify & Introduce Global best practices across NA Technical teams

• Responsible for Managing Operational Excellence and Operational training for the North American Business
• Identifying and implementing best practices into our field operations across the North American business
• Implement LMS into the North American business & Develop training curriculum for individual position profiles
• Deliver standardized process into our business – produce a set of standard operating procedures for operations team
• Analyses of data against KPI and report back to the business for areas of improvement
• Ensure training is delivered to the company’s global standard, whilst maintaining compliance with local governing bodies and delivered within budget.

Responsible for technical training and skills development for the North American Technical Services Team. Produced Surface Blasters course for delivery to both external and internal customers giving participants a greater understanding of the blasting process. This course has been approved in some states as qualifying Blasters Training. Produced Open Cut.

East Melbourne, Victoria, AU

Responsible engineer for a large global mining groups 3 large open cast coal mine operations situated in the Hunter Valley, NSW Australia. Project Management on new patented mining techniques such as Stratablast™ & through–seam blasting, delivering cost savings and leading to ongoing projects with this large group. I received accolades and bonus payments.

East Melbourne, Victoria, AU

Responsible for product stewardship, new product development, trials, training and Introductions of the electronic blasting suite. Product development, worked with global technology group on projects for the better understanding of and improvement of detonator desensitization. These findings have resulted in a reduction in misfire rates. Delivered.

East Melbourne, Victoria, AU

Responsible Drill & Blast engineer for Orica’s “Rock on Ground” (complete blasting service including engineering) & “Total Load Service” (complete blasting service) contracts at 3 Open pit coal mines  Increased mine productivity & blasted inventory by introducing and implementing new mining techniques and blast designs. These changes resulted in.

East Melbourne, Victoria, AU

Responsible for safety and management of a Total Load Service Site.  Provided the customer with a well maintained fleet of bulk trucks and highly skilled blast crew, resulting in the operation consistently meeting its production targets. Operation held the title of largest ikon™ user in the world, this resulted in having a highly skilled, motivated and.

East Melbourne, Victoria, AU

Responsible for the mines on-bench blasting activities. 2IC or team lead, consisted of day to day supervision of on bench activities and acting site manager when required. Mine was a through seam coal operation with a challenging ore body, providing a unique opportunity to develop specialized blasting skills. Electronic detonating systems were employed.

East Melbourne, Victoria, AU

Responsible for the safe and efficient delivery of bulk explosives to the areas “Down The Hole” (product manufacture & supply only) customers. Part of a team of 12 operators, servicing 5 open cut mines with a fleet of 11 bulk trucks. Actively participated in new product trials throughout the region and served as a relief operator around the country where.

Newcastle, NSW, AU

Field Service mechanic, provide maintance support and servicing of a fleet of vehicles and plant equipment.

Canberra, ACT, AU