Maarten Leo De Vries

• I am responsible for all electrical engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) work for new and existing projects, ensuring quality, safety, and efficiency. Electrical design from concept phase through to commissioning and operation of power plants.
• As requirement for project work interstate, now registered as Professional Engineer in Queensland (RPEQ) and Victoria (RPEng).
• Electrical design includes detailed calculations such as cable sizing, power system analysis and protection studies to ensure new power station will operate as required and as per national regulators.

• Responsible for all electrical, instrumentation and control maintenance and capital projects work
• Single point of authority on all electrical matters especially High Voltage
• Team comprises of 3 Electrical Maintenance Engineers, 2 Projects Engineer, E&I design drafter and Electrical Compliance Officer
• Manage capital projects on annual basis to value of at least $4 million.
• Manage all site services such as 33kV, 11kV and 6.6kV electrical infrastructure,
• Development of programs to maintain compliance on existing equipment including, but not limited to, hazardous areas, fire protection systems and electrical safety equipment.

• Responsible for Electrical, Mechanical and Reliability teams, Condition Monitoring teams, Compliance, master data and maintenance planning
• Responsibility includes central services workshop, training of 3 graduate engineers and 39 apprenticeships.
• Manage capital projects on annual basis to value of at least $3 million.
• Risk management for asset reliability, compliance to statutory requirements and capital optimization.
• Development of programs to maintain compliance on existing equipment including, but not limited to, hazardous areas, fire protection systems and electrical safety equipment.
• Conducting preventative and post safety and production incident investigations for major events including ICAMs, Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and 5 Why's

In capacity of principal engineer for all electrical, instrumentation and process control standards, procedures, and specifications
Modernization of all electrical, instrumentation and PLC control systems, particularly conversion from Oil Circuit Breakers to modern Vacuum.
Initiated and implementing 5 to10 year strategic technical, maintenance and capital improvement strategies for all existing process control systems and electrical infrastructure.

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• Accomplished improve labour structure and maintenance strategies of all major smelter equipment
• Decentralized maintenance planning to better engage planners in plant activities which lead to improved production through less downtime maintenance work which improved quality of maintenance work on site
• Modifying organizational structure to include both mechanical & electrical supervisors on all major

• I had been responsible for all Electrical, Instrumentation and Process Control technical support, maintenance and capital strategies.
• Main work was technical asset management, maintaining and ascertaining compliance, development of statutory specifications and as follows:
• Major project management (in order of $10 million annually)
• In capacity of principal engineer for all electrical, instrumentation and process control standards, procedures, and specifications
• Modernization of all electrical, instrumentation and PLC control systems, particularly conversion from Oil Circuit Breakers to Vacuum breakers.
• Initiated and implementing 5 to10 year strategic technical, maintenance and capital improvement strategies for all existing process control systems and electrical infrastructure.

• Heavy mineral sands extraction and refining operation and was in role of Electrical Engineer to provide technical support for all Power Electronics, High Voltage (HV) systems, major electrical plants.
• Major achievement was completion of Master’s degree of which was to study impact of new variable speed drives on older motors. Thesis comprised study of impact of new variable speed drives on older motors and introduction of specialized designed filters, which saved over $100k by reducing need to procure new motors.

• As project engineer responsible for all E&I projects including Control systems and High Voltage Systems
• Major project accomplished included converting a single busbar substation to dual busbar configuration, which reduced downtime and improved supply reliability.

• After completing my graduate program, I was appointed as Section Engineer, which was a legal appointment, for two coal production underground shafts and over 27km of railway line connecting an open cast and underground coal mine with the coal processing facility.