Experience

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  ABC Refinery

  • Australia
  • Mining
  • 1 - 100 Employee

  • Laboratory Technician

    • Sep 2023 - Present

  • Junior Laboratory Technician

    • Sep 2022 - Sep 2023

    ▪ General maintenance, ad hoc repair, occasional bespoke CAD design and fabrication using personal 3D printer for rapid turnarounds. Replicated a $1.5k part within 24 hours preventing a 2-week 50% production bottleneck.▪ Time management to ensure streamlined workflow to complete orders on time while factoring high priority jobs. Often working in tandem with other team member’s workflows to batch process and avoid overlaps.▪ Processing spreadsheet data entry for final analysis and checks prior to outturning results to clients.▪ Introduced and implemented amendments to SOPs to increase workflow efficiency and lower margins of error.▪ Safe handling and preparation of hazardous materials including nitric acid, lead and fire assay waste.▪ Acting WHS officer carrying out weekly facility safety checks and attending quarterly WHS meetings.▪ Excellent fire assay competency with great results compliant with NATA and LBMA standards.▪ Brief experience with a semi-automated mill, ARL iSpark, ICP OES and varying levels of automated titrators.▪ Training and supervising lab assistants in all Laboratory Assistant responsibilities listed below.

  • Laboratory Assistant

    • Feb 2022 - Sep 2022

    ▪ Cold working precious metal samples in preparation for heated acid digestion.▪ Loading and unloading of porous crucibles into 800-1000°C furnaces.▪ Precision sampling, cutting and weighing of precious metals within 1mg tolerances with use of microbalances.▪ Preparation of materials and documentation for fire assay inquartation.▪ Operated XRF equipment with client’s precious metal samples and used resultant data to calculate inquartation ratios to determine the analysis procedures required for that specific chemical composition.

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  CSIRO

  • Lindfield

  • Industrial Trainee - Undergraduate

    • Jul 2017 - Jan 2018
    • Lindfield

    ▪ Demonstrated competency to learn new skills over short periods of time by assisting lab technicians in the operation of SEM, XPS, XRD, EDX, UV-vis spectroscopy and transferred plasma arc synthesis equipment.▪ Analysed raw data from experimental trials while simultaneously improving efficiency of future experiments.▪ Interpolated useful data into spreadsheets and graphs for peer-review, documentation and presentations.▪ Collaborated with senior researchers to achieve project deadlines and goals of a dynamic project.▪ Managed thesis project to produce technical documents including literature reviews, reports and presentations.

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  Mega Lighting

  • Castle Hill

  • Showroom Salesman

    • Jan 2016 - Jan 2018
    • Castle Hill

    ▪ Conducted sales with customers on showroom floor while providing technical and interior design consultation.▪ Managed sales orders, ensuring timely transactions according to the time frame provided to customers.▪ Adjusted item pricing while accommodating volume of sales, profit margins and wholesale costs.▪ Acquired customer service skills working with industry professionals and everyday customers.▪ Assembled, installed, wired and dismantled fixtures including complex chandeliers and downlights.▪ On occasion, have assisted licensed electricians in installing or repairing lights in client’s homes.▪ Basic warehouse management skills of organising and monitoring stock levels.