Rodney Banama

Dynamic professional with extensive experience at BHP, specializing in reliability-centered maintenance and asset management. Proven ability to optimize maintenance strategies and enhance fleet performance, resulting in significant cost reductions. Expertise in applied failure analysis and effective team management, driving operational excellence through high-performing teams.

• Certified Maintenance & Reliability Professional (CMRP) 2018
• Certificate in Reliability Systems Modelling 2012

Fluent in English and the Papua New Guinea local dialect, pidgin

Details will be provided upon request

• I enjoy working in a new and challenging environment in the field of Mechanical Reliability Engineering. Experiencing new challenges in my profession, especially in projects design, scheduling and planning, Reliability, decision making etc really motivates me to prosper in my career., Apart from my profession, other activities that I enjoy doing are community works, encouraging fellow colleagues to think and work positively in whatever tasks given to them, problem solving whether technical or even social., I am always passionate in social works, actively working with the PNG community in Perth setting up different social activities for the community members. Facilitating cultural activities to pass on to younger generations. Provide guidance and support to new families relocating to Perth and many more
• Playing sports such as touch football and soccer. Organising social activities with social networks, whether it be work colleagues or community base groups., Organise outdoor activities/sports with my kids, Crabbing and Fishing

In the last 4.5 years since joining Fortescue, my career highlights are., Initiated OEM/vendor engagement on product performance issues. Setting out clear goals and expected outcomes on respective stakeholders., Introduce and fully embed a consistent and standardised maintenance strategies across Liebherr excavator and Epiroc drills across FMG operations., Introduce a Liebherr R996B and R9400HP/E end of Life (EoL) extension proposal, fully embedded., Introduce a standardised defect elimination process and maintenance tactics and technics across Fortescue sites., HME Decarbonisation studies – Excavators & Drills TCO modelling of R9400E vs R9400HP (Diesel vs Electric) TCO Modelling of PV27E vs PV271 Diesel (Diesel vs Electric vs battery), Performing a physical audit on Liebherr diggers to identify any gaps on latest improvements that were supposed to be install on the machine; hence, set up minimum standardisation on the rest of the fleet across the FMG sites., An improvement on servicing kits and standard servicing/inspection templates that are used across multiple sites., Additionally, introduce Senior Reliability Engineer position across all Fortescue sites. The introduction of Senior positions is to establish site reliability leadership and empower the reliability team to drive reliability solutions; thus, improving fleet performance overall., While with BHP MECoE, I develop and deploy the Liebherr R9800 BH Excavator total equipment strategies, Utilising jack-knife analysis to identify chronic and acute systems on the equipment and recommend maintenance tactics and practices to prevent and eliminate those failure events., Perform statistical analysis and strip down component reports to identify optimal characteristic life of major components; hence, put in place change out maintenance strategies., Developing financial impacts and Whole of Life of the Asset base on optimised maintenance strategies, Deploying the BHP Operating Discipline System roll-out (ODS) to the MEM Field Execution Supervisors, Deployment and Execution of BH Excavators Daily Inspections using standardised work principles, Initiate and deployed the standardised work strategy on the R9400 and R996B daily zone servicing at Yandi Load & Haul Execution team, Initiate and deployed the PV271 Autonomous Surface Drill equipment strategies and Whole of Life Extension, 45000H to 60000H with a realization of capital replacement savings of $11.52M in FY21 and $53.91M in FY22, Initiate the modification and redesigning of the PV271 equalizer bar centre pin sacrificial bushing. Convert the equalizer bar into a repairable item instead of throwaway component.

• Society of Maintenance and Reliability Professionals (SMRP)
• Australian Institute of Management Member (AIMM)