Experience

Stanwell Corporation Limited

• Utilities
• 500 - 600 Employee

• General Manager Renewable Maintenance Services

  • Mar 2022 - Present

• Maintenance & Services Manager - Renewables

  • Oct 2021 - Mar 2022

• Asset Performance Manager

  • Jun 2019 - Mar 2022



TW Power Services

• Australia, New Zealand and South East Asia

• Manager Operations - Power Generation

  • Jan 2012 - Jun 2019

  Overseeing the management of TW Power Services Operations & Maintenance Alliance Agreements with Ratch Australia's. • Opex & Capex budget control; • O&M Analysis and reporting; • Client Relationship/interface • Manage the effective and efficient operation of the workforce; • Risk, Health, Safety, Quality, Environment and Contract KPI management; • Implement and maintain safe systems of work; • Development statutory compliance audit programs; • Engineering and Asset management plan development and implementation, capital investment and major project implementation and major outage planning; • Staff guidance, development, performance, mentoring and coaching. Ratch Australia's Generation Assets:- • Collinsville Power Station, Qld: 180 MW Coal Fired Power Station • Townsville Power Station, Qld: 240 MW Combined Cycle Gas Fired Power Station • Kemerton Power Station, WA: 320 MW Open Cycle Peaking Plant – Gas & Diesel • Wind Farm Assets, Vic; SA; Qld: 66 MW of wind turbines at 3 Sites in Australia Show less



Broadspectrum

• Australia
• Facilities Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Power Station Manager

  • Jun 2010 - Feb 2012

  • Managing the operations and maintenance contract at Collinsville Power Station, in accordance with statutory, corporate and contractual requirements;• Development statutory compliance audit programs;• O&M quality and budget control;• O&M Analysis and reporting; • Manage the effective and efficient operation of the workforce;• Risk, Health, Safety, Quality, Environment and Contract KPI management;• Implement and maintain a safe working environment;• O&M systems development for maintaining the asset;• Staff guidance, development, mentoring and coaching;Engineering and Asset management plan development, capital and major project review and major outage planning and review on Power Generation Assets for which Transfield Services holds O&M Contracts. Show less

• Asset Manager

  • Jun 2009 - Jun 2010

  Asset Management - this includes:• Development of plant Asset Management Plans• Asset Life plans and life cycle costing• Plant life extension studies• Specification Development and Tendering• Contract and Project Management• Route Cause analysis on plant incidences• Plant risk management process and evaluationCollinsville Power Station. 180 MW Coal Fired Power StationTownsville Power Station. 240 MW Combined Cycle Gas Fired Power StationKemerton Power Station. 320 MW Open Cycle Peaking Plant – Gas & DieselWind Farm Assets. 137 MW of wind turbines at 4 Sites in Australia. Show less



Verve Energy

• Collie WA

• Facility Asset Manager

  • May 2006 - May 2009

  Contract Manager for the Collie Power Station O & M Agreement. Representing the company’s interests and ensuring the asset is operated and maintained cost effectively while maintaining plant reliability. Technical accountabilities are as follows: • Formulate and implement the Asset Management Plans for all of Verve Energy’s existing assets in accordance with their Asset Mission • Ensure an optimal maintenance regime is devised and implemented in a manner that minimises Verve Energy’s long term portfolio production costs while maximising personnel safety • Formulate and manage the capital investment plan for all of Verve Energy’s existing assets • Manage the formulation of the annual labour, materials & services operating budget for all of Verve Energy’s existing assets and any required expenditure above the approved budget • Manage all 3rd party operations & maintenance contracts for assets for which Verve Energy has responsibility • Manage the performance of Verve Energy’s generating assets against Asset Management’s KRA’s Collie Power Station C/D. 1 x 340 MW Coal Fired Power Station Show less



Western Power

• Australia
• Utilities
• 700 & Above Employee

• Process Engineer - Instrumentation & Control

  • May 2003 - May 2006

  Providing engineering direction and technical support in the development of power station plant, including its operations and maintenance techniques, to achieve cost effective operations, maintenance and plant management for Generation assets. The key areas of responsibility include the development of design philosophy, detail design, cost estimation, preparation of specifications, technical assessment of tenders, project management, contract management, plant investigations and modification recommendations. Major Projects Complete: • Muja Hazardous Area Classification • Site water supply upgrade - Bore field refurbishment • Muja Power Transformer ½ life review and rest of life action/spend plan • Muja C&I Upgrade Safety Integrity Level (SIL) Review • Emergency Diesel Generator Refurbishment (Control and AVR) • Fire detection system review and rest of life action/spend plan • Muja Stage C AVR Upgrade • Muja Stage C/D Precip Voltage Controller Upgrade Muja Power Station A/B. 4 x 60 MW Coal Fired Power Station Muja Power Station C/D. 4 x 200 MW Coal Fired Power Station Collie Power Station C/D. 1 x 340 MW Coal Fired Power Station Worsley Cogeneration GEC ALSTHOM Frame 9 with HRSG providing process steam to the Alumina Refinery. 120 MWe, 174 - 381 t/h of HP steam (10Mpa @ 512C) Show less



Stanwell Corporation Limited

• Utilities
• 500 - 600 Employee

• Control System Technologist

  • Feb 2002 - Apr 2003

  Project Overview:The Stanwell Energy Park was to supply process steam (extracted from the Power Stations unit cycle), Electricity and various qualities and quantities of water to the Australia Magnesium (AMC) Plant.Responsibilities• Design & Specifications development• Control and Instrumentation Design.”Siemens DCS” TXP AS 620B and ET200 remote I/O. • Development Control System and Instrumentation Standards for the project.• Co-ordinate control systems design philosophy for supplying AMC with Water, Steam and Electricity.• Develop specification for Control System hardware infrastructure.• Coordinated the Water Treatment Plant Infrastructure Specification.• Risk Management and HAZOP/CHAZOP Processes. Show less

• Instrumentation & Control System Technologist

  • Feb 1996 - Jan 2002

  Turbine and Boiler Control and Protection SystemsResponsibilities:• Asset and Risk Management processes.• Long Term Plant focus of Plant control systems ensuring that the power station plant is operating and performing as designed and maintained in accordance with relevant standards and code.• Plant modification from the conceptual designs stage through to their commissioning stage.• Business Development involvement: Sugar Mill Co-generation proposals. • Hazop and AS 61508 (Functional safety of electrical/electronic/programmable electronic safety-related systems) processes.• Development of control and instrumentation standards• Investigations and fault finding/root cause analysis: Plant trips, problems on unit restarts, defects raised on all areas of the unit plant.Tuning of both the boiler and turbine control loops which required the correlation of data from open loop step responses then closed loop tuning.Calibrations of various instruments: Pressure/Vacuum/level/flow transmitter, meters, electric and pneumatic actuators, pneumatic controllers/positioners• Modification, design, programming, installation and commissioning of distribution control systems (DCS). Show less

• Production Technician (Boiler/Turbine Plant Operator); Electrical Technician

  • Feb 1992 - Jan 1996

  Boiler & Turbine Operations & Maint



Callide Power B Station (QEC)

• Biloela

• Engineering Services, Technical Officer (Electrical)

  • 1991 - 1992



Siemens

• United Kingdom

• Field Service Engineer

  • Aug 1989 - Aug 1991

  Siemens, Energy & Automation, England • Commission of New Equipment & Plants (as listed under Major Equipment) • On-site Break-down Repairs on both new and old equipment, to Component Level on Analogue Systems, and Board Level on Digital Systems • Telephone Technical Support to customers with Technical problems in Design, Commissioning and Equipment Breakdowns • Assist the design centre in programming & testing software for Siemens S5 Simatic PLC's Instruct in On-site Courses on process applications using Siemens' equipment Show less