Nadeem Najimdeen
Blackwater
Summary
Developed skills in process optimization and project management in a manufacturing environment.
Currently experienced in plant debottlenecking, equipment trouble shooting, commissioning, forecasting, logistics, sample collection, laboratory work, procurement and data analysis.
Seeking to transition into new field, leveraging strengths in problem-solving and cross-departmental collaboration and innovative thinking.
Overview
2
2
years of professional experience
Work History
Graduate Process Engineer
Whitehaven Coal
04.2024 - Current
- Embedded with the integration team, involved in setting up a stopgap system for the Coal Tracking System (CTS) software to improve logistics, blending, and coal quality tracking.
- Radiation Safety Officer (RSO): Conducting monthly radiation safety and compliance inspections
- Consumables Consumption Reduction Project (Ongoing): Leading a two-pronged initiative to reduce magnetite consumption
- Spirals Improvement Project (Ongoing): Leading efforts to improve spirals by developing a spirals Feed Calculator to analyze feed characteristics, followed by sampling spirals at different splitter settings
- Process Improvement Projects: Implementing improvements across various operations and equipment including FC distribution box, magnetic separators, spirals, and the DMC Spigot change-out process
- Metallurgical Accounting and Balances: Conducting metallurgical balances to optimize processing operations and troubleshoot issues that arise
Graduate Process Engineer
Whitehaven Coal
03.2023 - 03.2024
- Debottlenecking project - Took a secondary and primary role in the final stages of commissioning the Tailings Manifold, and Secondary Flocculation System respectively
- The latter was commissioned independently
- The project led to an increase in theoretical feed rate from 250tph to 480tph, & a practical feed rate to 350tph
- Partook in the development of the control philosophy of the Tailings Manifold to ensure safety of personnel, plant and equipment
- Laboratory Tests – Jar Tests conducted to troubleshoot thickener settling rates and reagent dosage rates
- Logistics and Coal Quality – Forecasted stockpiles and planned railings efficiently to ensure consistent plant operations
- Improved existing Coal Blending model leading to increased accurate coal blend ash estimates
Minerals Processing Engineer
Hatch
11.2022 - 02.2023
- Order of Magnitude Study – Ran 60+ Simulations on 3 separate flotation flowsheets on JKSimFlot forecasting yield, concentrate grade and recovery for 50 years of processing Rio Tinto’s Oyu Tolgoi copper-gold facility in Mongolia. Excel was used to process data
- Developed Macros to reduce repeated manual steps in simulations. This led to increased efficiency in producing accurate simulations
- Recommendations were made to client to reduce recovery rates so as to maintain smelter grade requirements
- Reviewed Olympic Dam’s Flotation Air Blower P&IDs
- Made recommendations for the 2024 Olympic Dam Flotation Circuit Upgrades
Education
BACHELOR (HONS) in Engineering - CHEMICAL & METALLURGICAL ENGINEERING
University of Queensland
Brisbane, QLD11.2022
Skills
- Excel (High Proficiency)
- VBA
- Python 3
- Matlab
- SAP
- JKSimMet
- JKSimFlot
- SCADA
- SysCAD
- PI Datalink
- Auto CAD
- ASPEN Plus
Activities
- Active member of the Australian Coal Preparation Society (ACPS).
- Partook in the 2023 General Coal Preparation Course in Mudgee NSW.
Timeline
Graduate Process Engineer
Whitehaven Coal
04.2024 - Current
Graduate Process Engineer
Whitehaven Coal
03.2023 - 03.2024
Minerals Processing Engineer
Hatch
11.2022 - 02.2023
BACHELOR (HONS) in Engineering - CHEMICAL & METALLURGICAL ENGINEERING
University of Queensland
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