Manager Engineer
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RESUME
Matthew K. Conklin
Saskatoon, SK S7K-3J8
306-***-**** cell
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EDUCATION:
Montana College of Mineral Science and Technology, Butte.
Montana.
Bachelors of Science, Geological Engineering (1987)
Bachelors of Science, Mining Engineering (1986)
Associates of Science, Computer Science (1983)
Associates of Science, Engineering (1983)
Flathead County High School, Kalispell, Montana.
Graduated in 1980 with Academic Distinction.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
11 years of underground mining experience.
18 years surface mine experience.
13 years crushing and sizing experience including mill and screening
plants.
18 years of mobile and fixed maintenance experience.
18 years of Engineering and Geology experience including management of
Technical Service departments.
Directed exploration, engineering studies, and managed feasibility
studies crucial to company strategic planning and growth
Championed, supported and managed "Continuous Improvement"
methodologies which resulted in increased efficiency, decreased costs
and ultimately greater profits.
Replaced ineffective employees with highly productive and happy
personnel.
Conducted property evaluations and due-diligence studies.
Owned and operated a successful mining consulting company.
Supervised various construction projects, both in-house and contracted
services.
Complete responsibility for the developing, implementing and
completing multi-million dollar annual capital and operating budgets.
EMPLOYMENT:
March 2014 to February 2015
Fortis - Mining Engineering Manufacturing, Saskatoon Saskatchewan.
Fortis provides contract services primarily for the mining industry in
Saskatchewan but also throughout Canada, the United States and now
internationally.
Chief Mining Engineer (Corporate)
The primary responsibility of the Chief Mining Engineer is to develop and
implement advanced and efficient way to address customer requests allowing
Fortis a distinct advantage in the contract mining marketplace. The Chief
Mining Engineer envisions methodologies and assists developing the
methodology into quotations. The Chief Mining Engineer is a vital team
member through the clarification and evaluation period and then ensures
implementation of the methodology through his Superintendents as part of
the operations period after the contract has been awarded. As a result the
Chief Mining Engineer is responsible for multiple sites each with unique
requirement over a wide variety of mining activities and infrastructure
projects.
April 2012 to May 2013
Golden Band Resources Inc., Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
Golden Band is a junior gold mining company focusing on operations in
northern Saskatchewan.
Vice President Operations
The VP Ops / COO position is an executive leadership position providing
direction and vision to the company whilst ensuring safe mining operations,
environmental stewardship and corporate social responsibility. The
position oversees operations and maintenance of all corporate assets
including milling, open pit and underground mines, is financially
accountable for operation results and exchanged with developing plans to
carry the company forward. In this regard the VP/COO oversees and directs
exploration activates to ensure delineation of resources is completed in
accordance with corporate strategy and plans. Key responsibilities include
establishing a culture of safety and efficient mine and milling operations,
minimizing impact to the environment in all aspects of corporate activity,
and ensuring compliance to all legal obligations. The VP/COO
responsibilities include day-to-day operations management of internal and
contractor activates and all technical services required for the success of
the company. The VP/COO is also responsible to assist in development and
implementation of annual and long term corporate budgets and forecasts.
2010 to April 2012
International Relief and Development, Afghanistan
Under contract to United States Agency for International Development
(USAID)
Liaison to USAID and Senior Mining Advisor to the Ministry of Mines,
Afghanistan
The Senior Mine Advisor is imbedded within the Ministry of Mines as a
direct technical advisor to the Minister. Duties include advising the
minister on modern technology used in extracting minerals, liaison with
mining companies to promote investment, assist the ministry in the bidding
process, negotiate contracts with successful bid winners, and monitor
contract progress once work has begun. Other activities include preparing
Terms of Reference on various contracts for the ministry, writing and
reviewing reports and speeches for the ministry, proposing areas of
investment and improvement for the government and non-government donor
community, and organizing activities of the donor groups to prevent
duplication and monitor progress. Highlight of activities include
monitoring and propagating the Aynak Copper Project and the successful
negotiation of a $7 to $10 billion railway project through north east
Afghanistan.
2009
EP Minerals, Northwest Nevada.
EP Minerals is a subsidiary of Eagle Picher Mining. EP Minerals
specialized in the mining and processing of Diatomaceous Earth for numerous
applications.
Manager of Mining, Nevada
The Manager of Mining, Nevada is responsible for the safe, efficient
operation of 13 active surface quarries located throughout Nevada as well
as the definition and development of numerous new deposits being considered
for production. Duties include in-region exploration including resource
modeling and development; mine engineering including mine design,
planning, surveying, slope stability, and environmental monitoring; mine
operations including safety, quality control, scheduling, day-to-day
activities, mobile equipment maintenance; over-the-road truck fleet
operations including scheduling and maintenance; administrative activities
including reclamation, environmental monitoring, operations reporting and
interaction with state and federal agencies.
2007 to 2008
Ledcor CMI, Douglas Arizona.
Ledcor is a contract mining and construction company with operations in the
throughout the United States and Canada. The Douglas operation is a
surface operation that includes drilling and blasting, mining and crushing
processes contracted to Chemical Lime Corporation.
Operations Superintendent / Site Manager
The Site Manager is responsible to administer all aspects of the contract
between Ledcor and Chemical Lime Corporation including mine planning, all
aspects of mine operation, and crushing. The Site Manager is obligated to
conduct business in a professional manner adhering to Ledcor as wall as
Chemical Lime policies and best management practices resulting in a safe,
efficient and profitable operation.
1999 to 2007
Unimin Corporation, Voca Texas.
The Voca Plant produces over 250,000 tons shipped, (1,250,000 ton mined)
annually of silica sand of high compressive strength used primarily in the
propagation of oil wells and other filter applications. The operation
consists of surface quarries, crushing, wet sizing, tailings disposal,
drying, dry sizing, bagging and bulk product distribution.
Plant Manager, (General Manager) Voca Plant
The Plant Manager is responsible to oversee all aspects of the plant and
quarry from mine planning to budgeting, operational and capital, and daily
operations including safety, permitting, environmental, maintenance as well
as profit and loss. The Plant Manager is charged with executing activities
within the guidelines of corporate structure, to maximizing plant profit by
maximizing the utilization company assets and minimizing operation costs.
Product sizing, strength and purity are of paramount importance to Voca
customers therefore quality control plays a significant roll, and is
intricate part of Voca's Continuous Improvement and Monitoring Process.
This in turn becomes a significant part of the plant operating procedure.
The plant also works closely with Sales and Customer Service to match sales
of products with the ability to produce committed volumes. In addition,
the Plant Manager is responsible to build a team of professional managers
by reviewing individuals, creating development plans and addressing
continuing education needs. The team in turn manages the operation,
identifies problems or improvement areas and develops solutions.
Unimin Corporation, Guion, Arkansas.
The Guion Plant produces nearly 1,000,000 tons annually of high quality
silica sand for industrial use such as foundry and glass production. The
process includes a Room and Pillar underground mine, crushing processes,
conditioning and floatation, drying, dry sizing and bulk and bagging
distribution by truck and rail.
Plant Superintendent, (Operations Superintendent) Guion Plant
The Plant Superintendent position is responsible for safe production from
the mine and physical plant. Included are safety, permitting, mine
planning, mine operations, plant processing, shipping, quality control, and
all site maintenance, fixed as well as mobile. The Plant Superintendent is
responsible to conduct operations within the budget parameters and develop
capital projects that will improve the overall plant performance. The
Plant Superintendent is a critical part of the management team and is
charged to review and develop subordinate managers and address training as
needed. The management team is charged to present capital proposals
including incorporating the latest technical innovations as well as address
daily operational problems and solutions. As Plant Superintendent I was
asked to and participated in numerous activities with in the local
communities representing Unimin and the mining industry including speaking
events at schools and civic meetings, as well as participation in sponsored
sports teams, local fire fighting department and special education
programs.
1996 to 1999
Nevada Goldfields Inc, Hawthorne, Nevada.
Nevada Goldfields Inc. was a junior gold mining company which had
operations in Nevada, North Carolina, Alaska and Southern Mexico. The
Aurora Project consisted of both an open pit and an underground gold mining
operation, which fed a 200 ton per hour crushing/milling process, a carbon
in pulp recovery process, refining process.
Mine Superintendent, Aurora Project
The Mine Superintendent was responsible for geology, mine planning,
engineering, and daily operations of the mine and crushing equipment as
well as maintenance of the crusher and mobile equipment. The Mine
Superintendent was responsible to assume the Project Manager duties in his
absence. As a member of upper management, the position requires a strong
interaction with employees and governmental agencies. Duties include
coordination and direction of the feasibility study for the Martinez
deposit including reserve calculation, mine design and report writing.
1993 to 1996
Miramar Mining/American Eagle Resources, Virginia City, Nevada.
Miramar Mining is an international Canadian mining company. Miramar had
operations in Canada, Nevada as well as properties in Cuba and Argentina.
The Golden Eagle Mine was an open pit operation in conjunction with a
crushing/agglomeration process that fed a heap leach pad.
Chief Engineer and Production Manager, Golden Eagle Mine
The Chief Engineer/Production Manager was responsible for the safety,
engineering, exploration, environmental and geology functions. Duties
include reserve studies, feasibility reporting, budget accounting, mine
design and planning, surveying, production blasting, ore control, mine
geology, production operations, monthly reporting, environmental
monitoring, life-of-mine reclamation and government agency interaction.
Additional duties include interpretation and evaluation of other company
projects and due-diligence for acquisition targets.
1992 to 1993
Conklin Consulting Services, Winnemucca Nevada.
Consulting Mining Specialist
Contracted to Santa Fe Pacific Mining, Miramar Mining/American Eagle
Resources, Chemical Lime Corporation, and other companies as a consultant
specializing in geology and mining. Expertise includes geological
interpretation, resource valuation, mine design, project economics and
feasibility study reporting
1989 to 1992
Santa Fe Pacific Mining/Gold, Rabbit Creek Mine, Winnemucca, Nevada.
Santa Fe Pacific Mining was a mining subsidiary of the Santa Fe Pacific
Railroad, which had land holding from New Mexico to California, now a part
of Newmont Mining Company. The Rabbit Creek Mine was a large open pit
operation utilizing heap leach as well as milling to recover gold. Mine
production was near 75,000,000 tons per year utilizing electric and
hydraulic front shovels as well as large loaders and a large production
backhoe.
Senior Mining Engineer
The Senior Mining Engineer was responsible for Long range mine design,
including designs for progressive "push-backs", mine access, mill and leach
pad feed, and overall mine economics. Responsibilities include production
scheduling, feasibility studying, cash flow analysis and rate of return
accounting for the $400 million project.
Mine Engineer Design/Production
Design and production engineer assigned to develop and implement short and
intermediate range mining plans. Duties included organize and supervise
survey crews, implement mine design, coordinate maintenance, mining and
milling activities. Other duties included outside contractor negotiation
and supervision for startup construction and on going projects.
Production Geologist
Establish and implement a production geology program at the newly opened
Rabbit Creek Mine. The program included in-pit geologic mapping, reserve
correlation and ore control methodology. The program included supervising
a team of 5 others.
Exploration Geologist
Worked on various exploration targets focused on development into mining
projects. Final assignment was the Rabbit Creek Exploration to define and
model the ore body and to facilitate transfer of the project from
exploration to mining production. Duties included drilling supervision,
geologic modeling and interpellation, on-site staff and contractor
supervision as well as presentations and updates to upper management.
1987 to 1988
Santa Fe Pacific Mining / US Borax Inc., Trinity Silver Project, Lovelock
Nevada.
US Borax is a subsidiary of RTZ with emphasis in borax production in
southern California. In the 1980 US Borax ventured in to precious metals
mining with the Trinity Silver Project a small open pit high grade silver
project.
Project Foreman
The Project Forman was in charge of project operations including the heap
leach, process mill, and refinery including their respective personnel.
Project Engineer and Ore Control Geologist
Responsible for mine site geology and engineering including mining and
assay contractor supervision, surveying, orebody detailing, mine design,
end of month reporting as well as overall project reporting.
1981, 1982 and 1983 (summer and semester)
Asarco Incorporated, Troy Project, Troy, Montana.
Asarco is an international mining company targeting lead and silver mining
throughout the US and Mexico. The Troy Project was a room and pillar
underground operation feeding a 700 ton per day copper/silver recovery
plant.
Special Project Geologist
Completed a comprehensive study detailing location, size, and grade of
additional orebodies within the underground mine vicinity through logging
and assaying of existing core samples and new core drilling.
Crew Chief
Duties included organizing and supervising a crew of 5 miners for general
mine maintenance duties such as hanging water pipe, electric cable, and
ventilation tubing.
Engineer Technician and Assistant Geologist
Assisted the Mine Geologist and Engineering Department where needed
including surveying, drafting, geologic mapping, and environmental
monitoring.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND ACHIEVEMENTS:
Good standing with Society of Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration.
Surpac mine software training, 2009.
Unimin Corp. Drying training, 2006.
Unimin Corp. Density Separator training, 2005.
Unimin Corp. Continuous Improvement Process training, 2004.
Unimin Corp. Project Management and Floatation trainings, 2003.
Unimin Corp. Process Automation and Control, Environmental Compliance and
Management Development trainings, 2002.
Unimin Corp. Low Velocity Dust Collection training, 2001.
Unimin Corp. Labor Relations training, and Statistical Analysis and
Evaluation trainings, 2000.
Dale Carnegie training. 2001.
Vistar Leadership and Human Relations training, 1998.
Surpac 2000 mine software training, 1998.
MSHA Instructor Certificate, 1997.
MARC Labor Relations Training. 1996.
Mintec MedSystem mine software training, 1988.
Engineer in Training, 1986
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