RUSSELL STAGG
Perth,Australia
Summary
Highly skilled Process Operator and Control Room Operator with over a decade of comprehensive experience in the mining and resources sector. Proficient in the operation and maintenance of various processing plants, including gold, copper, and mineral sands. Demonstrated expertise in utilising advanced SCADA control systems. Citect, Factory Talk, Mill Star), equipment isolation, reagent management, and safety protocols. Adept at troubleshooting, commissioning new plants, and leading teams to achieve operational efficiency and production targets. Holds a B Class Electrical Workers License and multiple high-risk work certifications, underscoring a strong commitment to maintaining high standard of safety and operational excellence.
Overview
2026
2026
years of professional experience
Work History
PROCESS OPERATOR
WEST GOLD RESOURCES
HIGGINSVILLE
07.2025 - Current
- Operate and monitor 4-stage crushing circuit to ensure consistent feed to downstream processes.
- Control and optimise ball mill operations to achieve target grind size and throughput.
- Oversee CIL circuit operations, including reagent dosing, carbon movement.
- Conduct routine inspections of crushers, conveyors, pumps, mills, and thickeners to ensure safe.
- Perform process adjustments in the control room using SCADA/DCS systems to maintain plant
- stability and maximise gold recovery.
- Respond to alarms, troubleshoot process upsets, and coordinate with maintenance teams for.
- Collect and interpret operational data, adjusting parameters to optimise metallurgical performance.
- Ensure compliance with safety, environmental, and company standards, completing required.
- Mentor and support new operators in control room procedures and plant operations.
CONTROL ROOM OPERATOR
AURENNE GROUP
MT IDA
12.2024 - 07.2025
- Control Room, Mill Operation
- Use of Citect SCADA control system Factory Talk
- Conduct equipment isolations and issue work permits.
- Safe operation of site machinery
- Cyclone maintenance & Repair
- Control of Electrowinning and gold room elution circuits
- Pre leach thickener Operation
- Assisting set up of spiral plant, Mobile mining unit (MMU), de slime cyclones, Thickener and field pumps
- Operation and training of site machinery
- Assisting to organise crew during shifts to ensure smooth operation and successful commissioning
- Use of SAP, Employment hero and excel
PROCESSING ALL ROUNDER
HILLGROVE RESOURCES
KANMANTOO
02.2024 - 12.2024
- RO Plant & Bore checks.
- Shutdown work & preventative maintenance
- Management of tailings storage facility & Site water management
CONTROL ROOM / LEADING HAND
MURRAY ZIRCON MINING
MERCUNDA
04.2023 - 02.2024
- Control Room / Mill operation
- Manage the shift usage of reagents and consumables
- Carry out equipment isolations and issue work permits for safe conduct of work
- Operation and maintenance of 2 stage crushing plant
- Liaise with metallurgists regarding operating parameters and technical issues
- Copper / lead flotation / Larox filter press operation
- Proficient in SAP & Sky trust programs for ordering and issuing of permits and controlled documents
- Implement operational plans and strategies to achieve production goals while maintaining high standards of safety.
LEADING HAND
CALIDUS RESOURCES
WARRAWOONA
- Mill Operator / Site control room
- Implement operational plans and strategies to achieve production targets while maintaining high standards of safety.
- Direct daily operations – Run crew of four.
- Management of tailings storage facility & Site water management
- Hold shift changeover meetings to maintain operational standards.
- Plant Isolator - including multiple points and lockbox.
- Use of Factory Talk control system to run processing plant.
- General plant operation & Preventative maintenance
- Operation of site machinery
- Manage the shift usage of reagents and consumables.
- Control of Grinding, Thickener & CIL Circuit
- Running of Gold room strip elution circuit and electrowinning.
CONTROL ROOM OPERATOR
GASCOYNE RESOURCES
DALGARANGA
- Mill Operator / Site control room.
- Use of Citect & Mill Star control system
- Whole Plant Operation & maintenance
- General Loader operation, Mill scats, Stockpiling, Clean up.
- Cyanide & Reagent Addition / Monitoring
- Control of Milling & CIL Circuit
- Run/Monitor Gold room from SCADA.
PLANT OPERATOR
OZ MINERALS, PROMINENT HILL
- Crushing / Grinding Operator
- Use of Citect SCADA Float Star control system/ Trend monitoring
- Plant Start-up & Shutdown
- Reagent Mixing, Manage the usage of reagents and consumables.
- Shutdown & Planned maintenance
- Operation of site machinery
- Tailings dam inspections / Tails Management.
CONTROL ROOM OPERATOR
ILUKA - BALRANALD T3 RESEARCH PROJECT
- Control Room Operator
- Plant operation via use of Citect SCADA control system.
- General plant maintenance & repair
- Plant Commissioning
- Feed Plant from Horizontal Drill / Mining Rig
- Separation of Heavy Mineral via Spiral Plant, Deslime cyclones / Thickener
- Assisting engineers with Citect Automation and interlock systems during plant Commissioning
- Operation of site machinery
- General loader operations, Push Stockpile, feeding Sandvik Screening plant.
- Loading and Operating Pug mill for adding lime to sands.
- Operation of Hydraulic Backfill Plant.
PROCESS TECHNICIAN
KIRKLAND LAKE GOLD, UNION REEF
- Control Room Operator
- Use of Citect SCADA control system
- Plant Operation Start-up & Shutdown
- General plant maintenance & repair
- Cyanide & Reagent Addition
- Control of CIP/CIL tank leaching & Thickeners, Kelson's
- Plant Commissioning and Shutdown work.
- Operation of site machinery
- General loader operations, push up Road trains, loading ROM bin, Stockpiling.
- Control of Electrowinning and Elution gold room circuits.
PROCESS TECHNICIAN / CONTROL ROOM OPERATOR
WEST GOLD RESOURCES, FORTNUM GOLD PROJECT
- Milling & CIL Operator
- Use of Citect SCADA control system CITECT
- Trend monitoring
- Plant Start-up & Shutdown
- Cyclone maintenance & Repair
- Cyanide & Reagent Addition & Density control
- Control of CIL tank leaching
- Shutdown & plant maintenance
- Operation of site machinery (Loader, Skid Steer, Forklift, IT Loader)
- Tailings dam inspections, Maintenance, spigot & pump adjustment.
- General loader operations, Loading ROM bin, mill scats.
- Emergency Response Team
- Completing Certificate III in Mine emergency response and rescue
- Gold room assistant
- Use and understanding of Concept’s Knelson Concentrator
- Use and understanding of Gekko's Inline Leach Reactor (ILR)
- Running Electrowinning circuits, Stripping cells, Calcine Prep
- Maintaining chemical & reagent addition to the gold Elution circuit.
PROCESS TECHNICIAN
KINGSGATE CONSOLIDATED / WPG RESOURCES, CHALLENGER GOLD MINE
- Milling & CIL Plant
- Cyanide & Reagent control & Addition
- Plant Start-up & Shutdown
- Thickener Operation
- CIP/CIL tank leaching
- Shutdown work & preventative maintenance
- Operation of site machinery
- RO Plant & Bore checks.
- Tailings dam inspections.
- Fixed Crushing plant
- Plant Operation
- Jaw & Rotary crushers, Gap check & adjustment
- Routine maintenance, Screens, Scrapers, Skirts, Rollers
- Gold room
- Use of Consep’s Acacia & Knelson Concentrators
- Running Electrowinning circuits
- Calcine Prep and smelting
- Maintaining chemical & reagent addition to the gold Elution circuit.
LABORATORY TECHNICIAN
- Sample Prep
- PAL - Pulverize and Leach Machine
- Collecting & Ensuring samples are provided to the laboratory.
- Processing samples for gold analysis including titrations.
- Taking gold sample Readings with an Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer
- Completing Daily Mill report
- Efficiently controlling reagent addition to the elution circuit.
Licensing And Tickets
- C R Driver's License
- Safe Work at Heights - Completed 03/2023
- Confined Space - Completed 03/2023
- Front End Loader
- Skid Steer
- Telescopic handler
- High Risk License EWP - Knuckle Boom 11m+ & Forklift
- EWP- Scissor Lift
- Orica & AGR Cyanide Safe Work training
- B Class Electrical workers license SA
- White Card - OHS
- First aid, CPR, LV Rescue
Timeline
PROCESS OPERATOR
WEST GOLD RESOURCES
07.2025 - Current
CONTROL ROOM OPERATOR
AURENNE GROUP
12.2024 - 07.2025
PROCESSING ALL ROUNDER
HILLGROVE RESOURCES
02.2024 - 12.2024
CONTROL ROOM / LEADING HAND
MURRAY ZIRCON MINING
04.2023 - 02.2024
LEADING HAND
CALIDUS RESOURCES
CONTROL ROOM OPERATOR
GASCOYNE RESOURCES
PLANT OPERATOR
OZ MINERALS, PROMINENT HILL
CONTROL ROOM OPERATOR
ILUKA - BALRANALD T3 RESEARCH PROJECT
PROCESS TECHNICIAN
KIRKLAND LAKE GOLD, UNION REEF
PROCESS TECHNICIAN / CONTROL ROOM OPERATOR
WEST GOLD RESOURCES, FORTNUM GOLD PROJECT
PROCESS TECHNICIAN
KINGSGATE CONSOLIDATED / WPG RESOURCES, CHALLENGER GOLD MINE