Miles Blake Turpin

• Currently operating Liebherr 9250, 9400, 996, Caterpillar 6030 and 6040 excavators to a high safe and efficient standard, loading a fleet of autonomous Caterpillar 973 and manned 973 dump trucks using the Caterpillar Minestar system. I meet daily targets regularly, mining iron ore, low grade, waste etc through conventional, double benching and top loading techniques, mining to plan and designs following daily snapshots of dig areas.
• Currently operating Caterpillar D10T and Leibherr 776 dozers to a high safe and efficient standard, planning and pushing dumps for autonomous Caterpillar 793 dump trucks, and manned dump trucks. I also perform such tasks as clean ups and flat topping areas for production excavators.
• Previously on site I have also operated to a high standard Caterpillar D11T, D11R dozers, Caterpillar 16m, 18m and 24m Graders, Caterpillar 336D and 349D support excavators and Caterpillar 980H, 988H support loaders.

Myself and select group of former Brierty employees that were working on Optus Stadium were employed by Citywide Civil Contractors to complete the project after Brierty went into voluntary administration and Citywide Civil took over the stadium contract. We delivered the completion of earthworks, road and under ground services package on time and to a high standard after being a month behind after the collapse of Brierty and with only half of the total employees that Brierty had previously.

Employed as an all round operator my duties were but were not limited to:

• Operating up to 90 tonne excavators in a bulk earthworks environment. Excavating hard rock. Conventional, double benching and top loading 40 tonne articulated dump trucks and meeting daily load targets and loading in excess of 200 trucks per 10 hour day.

• Digging and back filling common trench, deep sewer and storm water using the aid of laser or Topcon GX60 GPS system some times in wet ground, and/or around live services making for difficult conditions.

• Craning in of pipes, pits etc with excavator for storm water, and craning in trench boxes where benching for trenches was not achievable.

• Pulling batters in excavators using GPS.

• Boxing out material for road works with excavator. • Final Trim posi-track operator trimming sub grade, sub base and base course for road pavement, car parks, footpaths, house pads on subdivision sites, and creating batters around site with posi-track.

• IT/Loader with bucket, forks, and crane/jib attachments forking and craning materials around site as required, loading trucks, leveling material and clean up with bucket attachment.

• Caterpillar D6 bulldozer pushing out articulated dump truck loads to level in a bulk earthworks environment.

• Filling in for other operators on various other pieces of mobile plant like articulates dump trucks, 6 wheel tippers, water carts, rollers etc to help out when was required to do so.

I operated a variety of mobile plant, working on small to medium scale projects at Pinjarra and Wagerup Alcoa sites. Duties at such projects have included - loading trucks with excavators and loaders, drainage works, laying limestone blocks, trenching for electrical conduits, leveling pads, rock breaking concrete with excavator attachment, and floating small mobile plant on a heavy rigid truck from Waroona head office to site.

Operated a 30t-90t excavators full time loading trucks, doing final trim work, pulling batters, trenching, and sand stock piling at Pinjarra Alcoa's residue tailing dams.

I was part of a team building a section of rail formation for the FMG Solomon mine project to the Train Load Out hub. My duties mostly involved operating scrapers and D10T Dozers.

I was part of the construction crew that built from start to finish: A heavy vehicle river crossing, a light vehicle river crossing, three heavy vehicle tunnel crossings that the conveyor belt and mine access road ran through, and also various other drainage and roadworks jobs.

I was part of bulk earthworks operations mainly and helped in drainage crew when needed as a digger operator. Mainly my job entailed bulk fill earthworks for new bridge abutment and construction of new road dual carriageway.

I was a digger operator part of the culvert crew that laid 19 major culvert drainage systems for the new rail duplication. These culverts ranged, from several 1.2m diameter round concrete pipes setups to larger diameter galvanized culvert systems. My duties were to dig, lay and backfill these culverts.

I was part of the team that laid 16 km of storm water drainage with drainage crew, Laid round concrete pipes, installed pits, set lids etc, Back fill concrete tilt up panels on three bridge abutments using earth strap system. Cut and fill bulk earthworks, and also built 4 km of dual carriageway road works. my duties were to operate articulated dump trucks, loaders, bobcats, and excavators.