Benjamin Pearson
Calamvale,Queensland
Summary
Committed and accountable employee with over 10 years of experience in mining resources and 2 years in the oil and gas sector. Dedicated to ensuring team safety and maximizing performance for overall success.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
Work History
Operator Maintainer
Santos limited
Queensland
04.2023 - Current
- Company Overview: Oil & gas upstream division, Arcadia Valley.
- Operation of Coal seam gas wells and surface equipment 2/2 roster FIFO
- Safely operating of a well surface equipment and doing maintenance on equipment when required working on Pcp and Lrp wellhead equipment
- Operation of Scada & Rockwell solutions process control software, general operation of Coal seam gas wells complete startups and shut downs
- Maintaining and adjusting well site parameters optimising gas wells to improve well site performance and efficiency
- Analysing results to ensure the well sites have longevity and maximum output capacity and safe operations
- Working alongside production engineers and upper management
- Attending well site trips to troubleshoot and rectify operational issues or damaged equipment
- Verification and implementing permits and isolation aligning within the company’s guidelines and procedures
- Regularly auditing and overseeing contractors job scopes to ensure health and safety guidelines are being followed and that work being taken on is Done in a safe and timely manner
- Working in with schedulers to ensure deadlines and production targets and being meet and keeping great time management skills
- Attending Regular production and management meetings to ensure safety and deadlines are met
- Attending training courses on a monthly basis seeking further knowledge and certification to help me understand different processes and the ability to help my team further more
- Providing maintenance to surface equipment and wells
- Oil & gas upstream division Arcadia Valley
Process Operator/Maintenance Operator
CITIC Pacific Mining
Western Australia, WA
02.2014 - 03.2023
- Company Overview: Process plant commissioning/Control system commissioning
- Controlling the Concentrator Process Plant in a safe and efficient manner.
- Implemented full startups and shutdowns using Citect process control software.
- Maintaining and adjusting plant processes to improve plant performance and efficiency
- Analyzing results to ensure the plant runs to metallurgical guidelines
- Communicating instructions to and receiving directions from the process technicians on the plant
- Interfacing with the other Controllers on site to ensure the whole plant is working in a safe and efficient manner
- Logging plant issues with the Shift Supervisor
- Optimization of plant throughput and maintaining safety
- Competent in AG Mill, Ball Mill, Primary crusher, Cons and tails thickener treatment areas
- Chemical dosing cooling towers / Light maintenance
- Isolations/ permit to work works
- Reviewing and rewriting safe work procedures
- Skid steer exposure
- Housekeeping
- Assisting with maintenance
- Gas testing for confined space works
- Training new workers/ green operators
- Reviewing/modifying daily check sheets for plant areas
- Plant monitoring making changes to plant
- Liaison with shift leading hand and supervisor
- Troubleshooting problems throughout the plant
- Process plant commissioning/Control system commissioning
Contractor Process Operator
Skilled group/Citic Pacific
07.2013 - 02.2014
- Competent in operating and cleanup in Gravity Grinding, Cons treatment and ultra-fine grinding, Floatation area/ Thickener areas
- Monitoring plant status to CCR
- Monitoring pumps/motors
- Training new workers/ Green operators
- Housekeeping
- Operation of mobile equipment including manitous
- Operations of Ewps bob cats and vacuum trucks
- Applying permits for safe maintenance
- Attending breakdowns to plant equipment
- Assisting CCR and other process technicians in operation of every part of plant equipment
- Hazard reporting through KARMAsystem
Process Plant Operator/Technician Open Cut
Rio Tinto
11.2012 - 06.2013
- Operation of mobile equipment such as crushers and screen conveyers systems reclaimers
- Safely operate mobile equipment such as bobcats loaders and manitous Ewp
- Daily prestart meetings
- Operating and maintaining systems such as citec for train loadout
- Maintaining pumps and general plant equipment working alongside fitters and electricians during breakdowns and cleanups
Underground Work
Rio Tinto
04.2012 - 10.2012
- I worked for 6 and a half months underground at the Argyle Diamond Mine
- I was trained in emergency procedures and worked shifts of 10 and a half hours on a 4 weeks on one week off rosters
- My duties were assist wiring up transfer stations and crushing equipment and general duties, reporting to the leading hand and helping with their needs in any way possible
- In this position I learnt valuable team working skills as well as skills to broaden my experience with refinery and process plant operation/building
Shutdown Operator
Rio Tinto & BHP
11.2011 - 02.2012
- I was involved in shutdown plant maintenance such and reliners brake packs rollers shoots assisting boilermakers and fitters with fabrication and fitting of components for the area of a processing plant
- Assisting with logistics plant maintenance fabrication to apron feeders crushers rollers shoots assisting in all day to day plant operation and maintenance and operating machinery such as telehandlers Manitou’s
- Crushing equipment and all mobile plant equipment
Process operator/Control room operator
BGC-Sawyers Valley
07.2011 - 11.2011
- Fixed Plant Operator which specialised in 10/7 crushed rock
- Day to day maintenance and general cleaning duties
- Operating crushers screens and conveyers fitting and fabrication
- Running control room systems and traffic control with pit operators
Factory/Process worker
AusDrill
01.2010 - 06.2011
- I operated blasting and heat induction machines also fabrication to r/c drill rods and drill hammers
- Assistance to the assembly line and day to day general cleaning duty of machines etc., and general labouring work
Education
NCEA - Accounting, Economics, English, Physical Education, Computing, Mathematics
Waitaki Boys High School
Oamaru, New Zealand08.2009
Skills
- STRONG COMMUNICATION SKILLS
- HIGH UNDERSTANDING FOR SAFETY AND OTHERS WELFARE
- POSITIVE OUTLOOK ON ANY SITUATION
- MANAGE MY TIME EFFECTIVLY
- WORKS AUTONAMSLY
- ADAPTABLE TO ONGOING CHANGES & CHALLENGES
- WORKS WELL IN TEAM ENVIROMENTS
- RESPECTFUL AND HONEST
- ALWAYS FOLLOWS PROCEDURES AND SAFETY CRITICAL INFORMATION
Accomplishments
Waitaki Boys High School, Pass endorsed with Merit, Pass endorsed with Merit, Pass endorsed with Merit, Pass, Pass with Merit, Pass endorsed with Merit
References
For a list of Referees and contact details please advise and I shall forward a full list of referees for you to contact.
Hobbies and Interests
- Rugby
- Basketball
- Motorsport
- Gardening
- Computers
Professional Development
- Engineering certificate Cert II
- Certified in mineral processing in all areas
- Site inducted
- Cn Crane ticket licence
- Basic rigging ticket
- Working Safely at Heights
- National Licence to Perform High Risk Work
- Licence to perform Dogging
- Confined spaces
- Gas detection testing certificate
- Forklift ticket (high risk licence)
- Rio Tinto inducted HSE lockholders
- Fire extinguishing Cert 2
- Personal Isolation officer v2.2
- Rio Tinto BHP WAIO and site HSE inducted
- Mine Workers Surveillance
- Elevated work platforms Ticket (high risk licence)
- CPCCOHS1001A - Work Safely in the Construction Industry
- RIIOHS2044 Work Safely at Heights
- RIIOHS204A Work Safely at Heights
- RIIOHS202A Enter and Work in Confined Spaces
- TLILIC25005A Licence to operate a boom type elevating work platform (boom length 11 meters or more)
- Certificate II in Engineering MEM20105
- Certificate in Engineering PRMPFWSO5B Portable Fire fighting Equipment
- PUAWER008B Confined Small Workplace Emergencies
- MSAPMOHS217A Gas Test Atmospheres
- TLILIC3006A Licence to operate a non-slewing mobile crane (greater than 3 Tonnes capacity)
- TLILICIO8A Licence to Operate a Forklift Truck
- Construction Whitecard
- Construction Blue Card
- St John Senior First Aid Certificate
- Light voltage rescue
- Swagelock training installation and fitting
- Permit holder isolator training
Timeline
Operator Maintainer
Santos limited
04.2023 - Current
Process Operator/Maintenance Operator
CITIC Pacific Mining
02.2014 - 03.2023
Contractor Process Operator
Skilled group/Citic Pacific
07.2013 - 02.2014
Process Plant Operator/Technician Open Cut
Rio Tinto
11.2012 - 06.2013
Underground Work
Rio Tinto
04.2012 - 10.2012
Shutdown Operator
Rio Tinto & BHP
11.2011 - 02.2012
Process operator/Control room operator
BGC-Sawyers Valley
07.2011 - 11.2011
Factory/Process worker
AusDrill
01.2010 - 06.2011
NCEA - Accounting, Economics, English, Physical Education, Computing, Mathematics
Waitaki Boys High School
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