Steven Ratima

Primarily operating Cat graders 16-24M/H

Excellent truck operator, potential to be a truck trainer. 773, 785, 789, 793, 797 and

electric truck experience also.

Also operate 982 loaders of which I’m fairly handy in amending intersections and desgining safe flowing areas.

• Company Overview: Occupational services BMA
• I was employed at Poitrel as an operator in pre-strip
• My main role was the operation of mechanical trucks (CAT 793's) carting overburden to tip heads working alongside dozers
• Loading units consisted mostly of excavators and some loaders
• I also assisted in the clean up and grading operations operating a CAT 18m grader
• Occupational services BMA

• Company Overview: Chandler Mcleod BMA
• This has been my most extensive role in mining thus far
• Saraji is an open pit coal mine that I worked primarily as an overburden, haul truck operator
• I am competent under all loading units, loaders, shovels (rope and electric) and excavators
• My main duties included the operations of a small loader making intersections, bunding and keeping the maintenance of the circuits to a high standard
• I spent the last year working at saraji on a grader
• I'm competent on 18 and 24 M's and H graders
• Chandler Mcleod BMA

• Company Overview: Evolution mining
• Main duties: Open pit haulage of ore and burden, feeding crusher, tip head and paddock dumping
• Trucks CAT 789 and 783
• Loading under diggers and loaders
• Evolution mining

• Company Overview: Flourish Plants NQ
• Merchandise for three Bunnings locations over Townsville, Stock control, Procurement
• Design and implement effective strategies to increase sales
• Assist sales manager
• Flourish Plants NQ

• Company Overview: Flourish Plants NQ
• Throughout my time in this role I saw a potential to see this business boom with new innovative technology and practices
• I later took up the responsibility as an innovative producer and oversaw the planning and introduction of the Urbinati and Demtec machines as well as incorporating better Coyer and media practices
• Having gone through this developmental stage it has given me great insight and experience for the horticulture industry
• Manage a cross-functional team
• Oversee product and production quality to an excellent standard
• Organise daily/weekly schedules to ensure operation requirements
• Implement the organisations Workplace Health and Safety
• Machinery maintenance, pre-starts and operation, Stock control, media mixes, soil solutions and testing
• Design work strategies and improvise under pressure
• Operate Forklift and front-end loader
• Develop work relationships and communication with all employees, managers and supervisors
• Support dispatch operations and organise effective production chain management
• Develop technique and correct practices to increase productivity for future growth and development
• 40+million seedlings transplanted
• Production produced 35-50,000 seedlings per day via a Tea/500 finger/pick up transplanter
• Liaise with production growers and assist production quality maintained for best practices
• Flourish Plants NQ

• Company Overview: Marley mine services
• Main duties: Haulage of burden in prep for haulage roads
• CAT 773's and 777's
• Removal of burden from box-cuts
• Assist building of the tailings
• Compacting materials with compactor and utilising water carts to suppress dust
• Marley mine services

• Company Overview: Golden Triangle Bananas
• Lead de-hander operation inside packing shed, operation of tables for production and de-handing bananas
• Other duties included farm maintenance, utilizing bagging machinery, picking, packing and dispatch duties
• Operation of forklift
• Golden Triangle Bananas