Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
SOFTWARE KNOWLEDGE
Training
Languages
Certification
Affiliations
References
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MARIE GARO VANIAN

Carindale,QLD

Summary

Dedicated Equipment Strategy Standards Specialist with 7.5 years of experience in the mining industry. Quick learner and adept at overcoming challenges. Collaborative team player with strong relationship building and negotiation skills, seeking a role in an inclusive environment to drive desired outcomes.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Specialist Equipment Strategy Standards

BHP
BRISBANE, QLD
08.2024 - Current
  • Documented processes for pilot projects and found efficient ways of manipulating data in Microsoft Excel to fast-track progress of the project.
  • Identified areas of opportunity in Asset Performance Management (APM) software and have raised improvement initiatives.
  • Engaged with stakeholders to identify and document project scope boundaries.
  • Utilizing 'MECoE APM nomenclature changes and integration with standardized work' document to ensure equipment strategies have compliant nomenclature data.
  • Utilized Snowflake to gather material data and identified a discrepancy in the data set of 17 million rows, which was redundant in the system and has since been removed.

Strategy Optimisation Fixed Plant

BHP
08.2022 - 08.2023
  • Implemented asset maintenance strategies and conducted asset criticality tests in collaboration with site reliability engineers.
  • Review value tracking from sites on equipment types, benchmarking and maintenance function requests to create business cases for initiating asset/maintenance strategy process improvements.
  • Refine asset management strategies based on assessments of safety, environmental cost, and risk considerations, and validation of asset warranty requirements and possible impacts.
  • Extended vibrating screen major component replacement maintenance strategy from 24 monthly to 96 monthly for Peak Downs Mine Saving Wave initiative #304035 initiative.

Work Management Planner for Mobile/Ancillary Fleet

BHP
04.2017 - 08.2022
  • Help ensure understanding and compliance to the 1SAP work management processes
  • Facilitated the weekly Scheduling Meetings in scheduler's absence to ensure alignment of all work management activities to production or other operational plans
  • Create and plan 1SAP work orders that enable effective deployment of work management resources, including personnel and service providers for non-contractor managed equipment and processes
  • Build and communicate accurate weekly work schedules reflecting all work management activities, ensuring that they are adequately resource levelled and aligned to the corresponding 12 week planning window
  • Request and govern work management master data changes as required, based on equipment strategy reviews, failure analysis and identified quality errors
  • Develop corrective task lists for relevant reoccurring work to support effective planning and safe execution
  • Review work management process compliance across sub-functions and engage relevant stakeholders to ensure adherence.

Asset Management Planner (secondment)

03.2021 - 08.2021
  • Verify and optimize strategies using historical data of equipment and liaising with the Strategy Owner to recommend a course of action.
  • Monitor the asset health dashboard to identify maintenance requirements not yet in 1SAP or opportunities to align bodies of work where necessary for an asset or asset class.
  • Review all PM01 Work Orders on a routine basis to ensure correct sequencing within plans
  • Review all work when planning an outage and sequences relevant Work Orders into the outage
  • Review PM03's to determine plans that need to be restarted and liaises with A&I to ensure this is actioned
  • Deliver sequenced work packages for complex maintenance activities
  • Plan, sequences and schedules packages of work identified as an Outage, with support from the nominated execution Outage Coordinator, handing over the scheduled package of work to site at the +2 week handover
  • Arrange specialist resources (where required) to support the completion of complex work
  • Liaise closely with Supply to ensure parts and materials are delivered on time
  • Improve SAP Master Data to embed Standard Work Packages into Task Lists
  • Create and modifies Master Data when required
  • Provide system support to develop the broader team
  • Support the automation of planning processes

Aged care pharmacist

Your Chemist Hillcrest
12.2015 - 03.2017
  • Processing nursing home orders, which include interpreting changes initiated by a general practitioner
  • Inputting medication changes into packing software with great attention to detail and into generating signing sheets
  • Checking medication sachets packed for nursing home patients
  • Liaising with hospital pharmacists and doctors at pre-admission and on discharge of nursing home patients
  • Other relevant services including, conducting clinical interventions, staged supply, request scripts for nursing home patients, solving nursing home account issues

Pharmacy Manager

Springsure Pharmacy
07.2014 - 10.2015
  • Maintaining appropriate stock levels of both pharmaceutical and front-of-shop stock
  • Supply, dispense and counsel on medicines, including prescription and non-prescription medication
  • Maintain up to date knowledge of medicines and pharmacy practice
  • Report all dispensing errors and near misses and any other incidents in a timely manner
  • Oversee customer accounts and send out customer accounts on a monthly basis
  • Maintaining pharmacy security as well as medicine security in accordance with legislative requirement
  • Providing any reports required by the pharmacy owner in a timely manner (e.g
  • Till reports, monthly sale reports and script reports)

Various roles within the pharmaceutical industry

01.2011 - 07.2014

Education

Graduate Diploma of Asset Management and Maintenance -

Central Queensland University
12-2025

Graduate Certificate of Asset Management and Maintenance -

Central Queensland University
01.2023

Master of Pharmacy -

University of Sydney, Faculty of Pharmacy
01.2012

Bachelor of Medical Science - Pharmacology,Pathology

University of New South Wales, Faculty of Medical Sciences
01.2010

Higher School Certificate -

Catherine McAuley Westmead, Sydney
01.2007

Skills

  • Data based Decision Making utilising Snowflake
  • Optimization of maintenance tasks
  • Stakeholder management
  • Continuous Improvement
  • Compliance with standards
  • Failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA)

SOFTWARE KNOWLEDGE

  • Microsoft Office Package
  • 1SAP
  • Asset Performance Management (APM)

Training

  • OneNote for Windows 10 Essential Training LinkedIn August 2022
  • How to make strategic thinking a habit LinkedIn April 2022
  • Excel Skills for Business: Essentials Macquarie University-completed May 2019
  • Provide First Aid St John's Ambulance
  • Graders 16M/24M machine familiarization Hastings Deering June 2019
  • Excavator 6060/6040 Overview course Hastings Deering June 2019
  • Scheduled oil sampling techniques Hastings Deering May 2019
  • Loaders 854K & 994H Overview course Hastings Deering May 2018
  • Mining Motor Grader Overview Hastings Deering May 2018
  • Mining Tracked Dozer Overview Hastings Deering May 2018

Languages

Arabic
Professional
Armenian
Native/ Bilingual

Certification

  • Reliability Centred Maintenance and Preventative Maintenance Optimisation course with Assetivity
  • The General Coal preparation course with Australian Coal Preparation Society
  • Australian Institute of Management - Women in Leadership
  • Mental Health First Aid

Affiliations

  • Vice President Education for B-toasty Toastmasters Brisbane Club
  • Organize Lunch and Learn sessions for the broader team which I am in (60 team members) on a monthly basis
  • Learning how to swim
  • Regular Tennis player and have been playing badminton recently

References

References available upon request.

Timeline

Specialist Equipment Strategy Standards

BHP
08.2024 - Current

Strategy Optimisation Fixed Plant

BHP
08.2022 - 08.2023

Asset Management Planner (secondment)

03.2021 - 08.2021

Work Management Planner for Mobile/Ancillary Fleet

BHP
04.2017 - 08.2022

Aged care pharmacist

Your Chemist Hillcrest
12.2015 - 03.2017

Pharmacy Manager

Springsure Pharmacy
07.2014 - 10.2015

Various roles within the pharmaceutical industry

01.2011 - 07.2014
  • Reliability Centred Maintenance and Preventative Maintenance Optimisation course with Assetivity
  • The General Coal preparation course with Australian Coal Preparation Society
  • Australian Institute of Management - Women in Leadership
  • Mental Health First Aid

Graduate Diploma of Asset Management and Maintenance -

Central Queensland University

Graduate Certificate of Asset Management and Maintenance -

Central Queensland University

Master of Pharmacy -

University of Sydney, Faculty of Pharmacy

Bachelor of Medical Science - Pharmacology,Pathology

University of New South Wales, Faculty of Medical Sciences

Higher School Certificate -

Catherine McAuley Westmead, Sydney
MARIE GARO VANIAN