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Harry Wilcox

Perth

Summary

Accomplished Civil Engineer with a depth of experience in civil design, project management, construction management and civil supervision. Recently finished the Cunderdin Solar Farm, a 128MV hybrid battery storage Solar farm, with a 132/33kV Substation, 132kV Transmission Line and three communication towers as the main EPC contractor.


Personable, with a skill in relaying information to all workers of the project. Love the outdoors and learning on the way.

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Project Engineer

Monford Group
11.2024 - Current

GPG Glenellen Solar Farm 260MW (current) - Site supervisor.

APA Port Hedland Solar Farm 45MW - Civil Supervision and Engineering for road and wider civil construction, for final 3 week push on construction activities. Works involved directing site personal and working on design and construction issues, identifying machine control issues, as-builting via GPS, rover and base, concrete ramp installation for 13 inverter stations, set out for final trim earthwork operators, material procurement, client liaison, excavator, loader and skid steer operation for site clean-up and blue metal surfacing.

Civil Engineer / Supervisor

Monford Group
11.2022 - 11.2024

Cunderdin Solar Farm 128MW - Civil Engineer and Supervisor on project from clearing through to hot commissioning. Works involved management of site and site personnel, daily prestart, execution of works, procurement of construction materials, scheduling, estimating, design and drafting of composite UC steel bored pile foundations for 33kV switchroom, cable ladder designs for 33kV switchroom and Western Power relay room, driven pile foundations for inverters, batteries, electrical cabinets, design of creek crossing box culverts, creek crossing cable sections, road pavement.

Supervision of subcontractor Genus for construction of 12 x 2.0m diameter bored pile foundations to 8.5 and 11.0m depth, for the construction of the 132kV Transmission Line to Western Powers Network (Western Power Asset).

Civil supervision and engineering for construction of 132kV/33kV substation, bulk earthworks, civil foundations, structural steel assembly, utility pits and duct installation, item of note was construction of bund and landing of 125 tonne main transformer. Substation consisted of client and Western Power yards.

QA for the wider package of works, completion of ITCs and sign-off on as-builts and compiled ITPs.

Punchlisting and defect resolution.

Operation and maintenance facilities, including container dome, warehouse, back up generator, house transformer and bollards.

Management of subcontractors.

Site survey setout and asbuilting using GPS rover and basestation.

Civil Engineer

Aurecon
04.2019 - 07.2022

Engineer to Contract Technical Representative - $15 million enabling works contract for the Arlington housing development in Wellington New Zealand. Site was particularly challenging due to the high ground water table, variable underground rock profile and contaminated soils, notably asbestos.

Civil and Geotechnical Engineering Design - Wide range of civil and geotechnical design including retaining walls, flexible and rigid pavements, earthworks, three waters design and utilities (gas, telco and electrical routes). Projects of note include

  • Arlington Development (vertical build works). 301 dwelling Wellington brownfield development.
  • Wellington Parliament Future Accomodation Strategy. Managing design and drafting of the enabling works for proposed highrise development at NZ parliament
  • Fonterra Wastewater Treatment Plants Whareroa and Te Awamutu. Flexible and ridgid pavement design.
  • 2 - 12 Aitken Street National Archives building. Civil connections and utility Design Engineer for National Archives Hire Rise building.
  • Trentham to Upper Hutt Double Tracking. Stormwater and Utilities for 2.7km railway development. Project won awards for innovation due to the model first approach, where workflow used Civil 3d and Navisworks software to interface with other Architectural packages such as Revit, Sketchup and ArchiCad.

Civil Engineering and Construction Monitoring for the Wellington Children's Hospital.

Site investigation and Reporting

Civil Drafting

Demo Ski Rental Technician

Alterra Mountain Company
11.2018 - 03.2019

Completed repairs and processing payments and sale contracts for demo ski shop in Mammoth mountain California.

Club President

Volunteer Experience
10.2017 - 10.2018

President of 19 member executive committee for Canterbury Boardriders Association (CUBA). Overseeing event management, budgeting, chaired meetings and club succession.

Undergraduate Geotechnical Engineer

Aurecon
11.2017 - 02.2018

Site investigation and reporting via hand augering, dynamic cone-penetrometer testing and piezometer measurements for sub-division developments.

Preparation of Geotechnical Engineering Reports.

Slope stability analysis using software Geoslope

Retaining wall design.

Machine Operator /Construction Laborer

Fulton Hogan
11.2016 - 02.2017

Production Machine Operator

Furnware Ltd
11.2015 - 02.2016

Horticulture and Landscape Labour

Variety
02.2013 - 11.2015

Night Manager

Video Ezy
04.2009 - 10.2014

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Civil Engineering

University of Canterbury
Christchurch
10-2018

Skills

    Bachelor of Engineering (Hons): Civil Engineering, University of Canterbury

    Civil 3d

    Bluebeam Revu

    Microsoft Office Suite

    Carlson Survey PC

    Telescopic Handler ticket

    Skid Steer Loader ticket

    Excavator Operations ticket

    Wheeled Front End Loader ticket

    EWP Under 11m ticket

    Working at Heights ticket

Timeline

Senior Project Engineer

Monford Group
11.2024 - Current

Civil Engineer / Supervisor

Monford Group
11.2022 - 11.2024

Civil Engineer

Aurecon
04.2019 - 07.2022

Demo Ski Rental Technician

Alterra Mountain Company
11.2018 - 03.2019

Undergraduate Geotechnical Engineer

Aurecon
11.2017 - 02.2018

Club President

Volunteer Experience
10.2017 - 10.2018

Machine Operator /Construction Laborer

Fulton Hogan
11.2016 - 02.2017

Production Machine Operator

Furnware Ltd
11.2015 - 02.2016

Horticulture and Landscape Labour

Variety
02.2013 - 11.2015

Night Manager

Video Ezy
04.2009 - 10.2014

Bachelor of Engineering - Civil Engineering

University of Canterbury
Harry Wilcox