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John Trace

Grantham,QLD

Summary

I've spent over 25 years in the earthmover field in mining and civil construction, Starting in civil construction operating all aspects of plant on constructions sites to mainroads completing road projects. Them moving into mining operating D11 and up to 800 tone excavators on large scale projects then moving into supervisory roles then later superintendent management roles with Tier one contractors, Rio tinto, Leightons, Goldings, Thiess, and Downer on large scale projects looking after large work forces.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience

Work History

Plant Operator \ Supervisor

Newlands Group
11.2021 - Current
  • Final trim Grader operator, 140M and 150M running Earthworks and Trimble 900 GPS and UTS, mostly working on road projects and sub-division work trimming against curb and prepping ashphalt top course layers.
  • Operation of mutable next gen Cat excavators from 15 to 40 tone machines running Earthworks, Trimble 900 and topcon GPS, Trenching sewer lines, boxing out road ways, loading trucks, cuttings batters and excavation of lunch pits for under boring up to 9 mtrs deep setting up excavations with shoring boxes.
  • Operation of Next Gen 6 way blade Cat dozer and D10R on large scale cut to fill projects all with GPS, cutting batters, production slot pushing and and prepping sub-grade road surfaces.
  • Operation of next gen Cat track skid steers and Cat loaders working in sub-division environments loading material off top course layers and trimming finished layers.

Plant Operator /Supervisor

Brixton
09.2019 - 11.2021
  • Supervising small crews completing projects building Industrial sub-divisions.
  • Final trim grader operations with Cat 140M AWD running topcon GPS
  • D9R,D7R,D6R dozers completing all aspects of earthmoving.
  • Cat, Hitachi and Komatsu Excavators trimming batters load trucks and trimming road sub-grade layers with topcon GPS.
  • Cat skidsteers and Cat loaders working base course and top course layers.

Superintendent

Downer EDI Mining
01.2013 - 07.2019
  • Mining Superintendent running large scale excavations supervising a 24hr project looking after 5 OCE supervisors running production dozer operations with 475 super dozers and up 800 tone Hitachi Excavators loading 350 tone rear dump trucks.
  • Managing Drill and blast operations day to day planing and long range planning.

Skills

  • S1,2,3 supervision management
  • RII in Excavator, Dozer, Loader, Grader, Reardump, Roller and scraper operations
  • First aid
  • Front line leader ship
  • OHS tickets, Dozer,Excavator,loader,Grader,Roller,Scraper,Skid-steer and Backhoe

Timeline

Plant Operator \ Supervisor

Newlands Group
11.2021 - Current

Plant Operator /Supervisor

Brixton
09.2019 - 11.2021

Superintendent

Downer EDI Mining
01.2013 - 07.2019
John Trace