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Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Accomplishments
Additional Information
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Christopher Beresford-Sinclair

John
Bligh Park

Summary

Electrician, working at Suez as junior technician maintaining plant assets and performing operations at prospect filtration plant, looking for next role as a service technician working in controls

Key Capabilities

  • Independent and Reliable, a team player and enjoys a challenge.
  • Knowledge and experience in electrical controls systems such as motor controls and process control systems
  • Extensive experience in fault finding various control and electrical circuits and process issues with the plant.
  • Ability to read and understand electrical schematics, comprehensive understanding of AS3000 and knowledge of other electrical and communications standards.

Overview

5
5
years of professional experience
8
8
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Junior Technician

Suez
04.2023 - Current

Perform inspections, attend breakdowns and perform day to day operation tasks as maintenance/operator at Prospect Water Filtration Plant

  • Key achievements
  • Serviced and installed various valves, solenoids and motors and other devices
  • Calibrated 100's of analog and digital instruments including pressure switches, temperature switches and load cells
  • Use SCADA to control and fault find on various valves, motors etc
  • Perform inspections on various plant equipment, fault find PLC cards, install new PLC cards
  • Work on control circuits and process controls such as chemical dosing pumps etc

Apprentice Electrician

All Plant Engineering
04.2022 - 03.2023

Service and Maintenance Electrician attending breakdowns of conveyors, pumps and various other industrial equipment inside concrete plants.

Key Achievements

  • Attend various call outs and breakdowns resolving problems in record time and getting concrete plants back in operation.
  • Serviced and installed variety of pumps, motors and control equipment for concrete plants including load cells, VSD's etc
  • Installed and commissioned from start to finish a traffic control circuit with a road loop for safety to notify people a truck is tipping.
  • Installed and serviced safety control systems, including control panels for diesel pumping stations, lanyards and other class 4 safety systems
  • Upgraded and installed numerous CCTV systems inside concrete plants other IOT devices such as a docket scanner, WAPS etc

Electrical Apprentice

Suann Electrical
10.2021 - 04.2022

Install and service various industrial equipment including motors, fans and various instruments for production lines in food processing environment at Kellogs.

Key Achievements

  • Installed and commissioned various fans and motors for production including isolators, thermistors and motor control circuits
  • Installed various motor control circuits such as DOL and safety circuits such as lanyards using a dual input pilz relay
  • Installed and wired various distribution boards including RCBO's, main switch's and an emergency test switch
  • Installed cable tray such as NEMA 1 and cable basket, steel conduit
  • Installed RCD's for IP65 series outlets and isolators for power and Installed 3-way and 2-way light switching

Casual Trades Assistant

Stride Electrical
02.2020 - 01.2022

Domestic and Commercial ongoing weekend work, installing split system air conditioning systems, Lights and PowerPoints

Achievements

  • Terminated, tested and commissioned communications racks for voice and data system at Anytime Fitness in Casula and Oran Park.
  • Installed various Light switch's, PowerPoints and lights at various houses in the South-West.
  • Installed Spilt-System Air-conditioning, including mechanical isolators and roughing in the AC circuit in various houses
  • Fault finding various power and lighting circuits at housing premises within the South-West such as incorrect corrections, faulty appliances and replacing cut or nicked cable

Electrical Apprentice

Penske Power Systems
10.2020 - 10.2021
  • Assist with commissioning and installation of High Voltage and Low Voltage generators. Previous projects include, CDC data centers at eastern creek, Canberra and MacquarieTelecom IC3, IC4 and Air trunk at Lane cove.

Achievements

  • Installed, tested and commissioned various automatic transfer switches, control panels and other switchgear including RMU's
  • Experienced in fault-finding and fixing various generator control panels including the replacement of relays, limit switches, Thermocouples and generator control equipment -
  • Intermediate understanding of critical power equipment, measuring devices such as voltage transformers and current transformers
  • Programming skills through minor changes to generator controllers and various control instruments including transducers, fuel flow meters and temperature probes
  • Installed and programmed various communication devices such as MOXA switches, RS-485 modbus and communication racks -Installed BMS modules on generator controllers and tested SCADA systems on generators.

Electrical Apprentice

IMEA Group
01.2019 - 04.2020

Installed various fire control equipment such as WIP, Smoke Detectors and Vesda Systems. Programmed and wired various fire control panels such as Ampac Firefinder plus and tested various emergency lighting systems.

Achievements

  • Roughed in detection and speaker feeds for all of 54 miller to all floors, installing WIP points and detector isolators on each floor.
  • Over 100 hours of fault finding at ANU North Sydney fixing incorrectly addressed detectors, rewiring incorrect connections and finding short-circuited speaker systems.
  • Installed and addressed various fire equipment including fire trips for Mechanical, Aircon units and security panels among various fire protection systems.
  • Read and Interpret electrical drawings and follow instructions from tradesman

Education

Certificate 3 in Electrotechnology - Electrotechnology

TAFE
Sydney, NSW
02.2019 - 11.2023

Diploma in Networking (Cloud) - Information Technology

TAFE
Sydney
02.2024 - Current

Certificate IV in Networking -

TAFE
Meadowbank
01.2021 - 11.2021

Certificate IV in Programming - Programming

TAFE
Petersham
02.2022 - Current

12 High School Certificate -

Arndell Anglican College
Oakville
10.2014 - 10.2014

Skills

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Accomplishments

  • Installed, tested and commissioned an 18 pole distribution board.
  • Modified, installed and commissioned and Automatic Transfer Switch including the control panel for a High Voltage Generator.
  • Run and commissioned two Low Voltage generators at a CDC datacentre in canberra in my 2nd Year by myself, fixing various issues with most of the instrumentation equipment.
  • installed and programmed a fire panel by myself during my first year.
  • Installed a DOL control circuit for a granola line at kellogs during my third year.
  • Decommissioned two VSD's and rewired the corresponding motors to a stop/start station.

Additional Information

> White Card 03/2019

> EWP license 08/2016

> Full Drivers License 11/2018

> Electrical license 458529C 15/01/2025

> Forklift license 24/10/2028

> Confined Space

> Working at heights


Interests

Scouts

Fitness

Information Technology, Electrical and Electronics

Timeline

Diploma in Networking (Cloud) - Information Technology

TAFE
02.2024 - Current

Junior Technician

Suez
04.2023 - Current

Apprentice Electrician

All Plant Engineering
04.2022 - 03.2023

Certificate IV in Programming - Programming

TAFE
02.2022 - Current

Electrical Apprentice

Suann Electrical
10.2021 - 04.2022

Certificate IV in Networking -

TAFE
01.2021 - 11.2021

Electrical Apprentice

Penske Power Systems
10.2020 - 10.2021

Casual Trades Assistant

Stride Electrical
02.2020 - 01.2022

Certificate 3 in Electrotechnology - Electrotechnology

TAFE
02.2019 - 11.2023

Electrical Apprentice

IMEA Group
01.2019 - 04.2020

12 High School Certificate -

Arndell Anglican College
10.2014 - 10.2014
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