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A professional with Diploma in Mining & Mine Surveying with 25 years of experience, 17 years in mining based manufacturing & Construction industry and over 8 years as the Project Head to start up Green Field & Brown Field Mining projects.
Currently Working with Dangote Industries Limited, Lagos, Nigeria as Assistant General Manager, Mining Projects (Mining Engineering). Heading the Dangote Granite Mines project planning and operation and reporting to Group General Manager.
Career Experience -
- New Mine Opening - Machine & Manpower planning for new projects - Quality Management
- Departmental Budget - Drilling & Blasting, Loading & Hauling - Pumping & Dewatering arrangement
-Training & Development - Mine KPI reports Design - ISO 9001, 14001&OHASAS18001 - Project Planning & execution
Projects Handled
Four projects as Head of the site team for opening new mines including planning and execution.
Planning and execution of 10.8 KMs single long belt conveyor route from mines to plant.
In charge for ground preparation work for erection of cement plant in close proximity of operational plants which includes blasting, river diversion and soil cutting, filling & compaction.
Diversion of River flowing in the mining area for 3.2 kilometers long and 22 meter depth.
Currently Heading A 15,000TPD Production Aggregate Stone Mines of Dangote Industries Limited, since April 2013 right from the Green Belt Project to production stage
ISO 9000 and 14000- 18000 implementation team member for Dangote Industries Limited (Mines Department).
Career Highlights
Experienced in “HIGHLY MECHANIZED” limestone opencast mine with deep hole drilling & blasting and surface miners. Experience of working with all the Heavy Modern Mining equipment’s like Wirtgen, Caterpillar, Komatsu, Terex, Hitachi, Atlas Copco, Sandvik, Liebherr & BEML.
Worked with a mine bearing capacity of 10.0 million tons per annum. Responsible for the deep hole drilling and blasting, production and quality of limestone to meet the plant requirements with respect to day-today planning, productivity of machines, cost analysis, safety and development of mine, MIS reporting.
Started career as engineer mines at Jay pee Cement, Rewa, MP in May’1991 unit of Jay pee Group. A mine with deep hole drilling and blasting and total production of approx.15000 TPD.
Greenfield project handled for Prism Group in September 1997. Exposed to the challenges of opening a new mine, community issues and government liaison.
Involved in planning and procurement of mining machinery as per the plant capacity.
Worked as shift coordinator and handled the manpower of more than 75 people & stabilized the mine operation. Active participation in Mines Safety and Environment week.
Involvement on day to day operation (Blasting and Shift planning) of mine and quality control department for supplying the required grade material to plant.
Exposed to contractor working for raising & hauling of raw material and overburden.
Professional Profile
Employer : Dangote Industries Limited
Title : Assistant General Manager, Mines
Date of Employment : 1st April 2008 till date
Roles & responsibilities as Assistant General Manager, Mines
Responsible for planning & execution of a green field mining project which includes geological study of deposit, selection of site for installation of crushers, conveyor belt route, workshop, offices, magazines, dump yards and other required facilities.
Mining Machine and manpower planning & selection as per the plant capacity requirement.
Construction of haul road to deploy 100 Tons capacity dumper to crusher and reject dump, development and opening of new pit / mines for production.
Responsible for complete mines operation (Preparation of working plans, scheduling, development, drilling & blasting, loading & hauling) in cost effective manner to meet the required qualitative limestone & additive production target of cement plant.
Operation & maintenance of crushers & 10.8 Km single long belt conveyor.
Mines Annual Budget preparation & execution of the same.
Co-ordination with Govt. Offices like Federal Mining Office, SSS, Anti-bomb Squad for Blasting & Royalty department.
Implementation & development of International standard of Health, Safety & Environment Awareness amongst the workforce & community.
Since April 2013, working for Dangote Industries Aggregate Quarries Planning & operation. Presently Heading Operation & maintenance of Aggregate Quarry of 15,000 TPD for construction of Refinery Project
Employer : Athi River Mining Limited
Title : Manager, Mines
Date of Employment : 19th September 2005 to 15th March 2008
Roles & responsibilities as Manager, Mines
Land acquisition and dealing with the different government bodies & village communities.
New Mine Opening layout designing and execution.
Ore reserve estimation
Planning and execution for the location of stock yards, dump yards and development of nursery.
Planning and selection of men & machineries to meet the target production.
Annual Budget preparation and execution on monthly basis
Drilling & blasting activities to meet the plant requirement.
Planning & execution of Limestone & shale mines and laterite quarry for production and dispatch of qualitative material as well as Hammer Crusher operation and maintenance.
Coordination for maintenance & repair of heavy earth moving machineries.
Conducted training program for mines staff and operators on Safe operation of various earthmoving machineries and with provision of OHSAS & HSE.
To maintain the conformity of ISO 9002 and ISO 14001
Responsible for environmental aspects and plantation in and around mines and plant area.
Employer : Dangote Industries Limited
Title : Assistant Manager, Mines
Date of Employment : 21st October 2003 to 9th August 2005
Roles & responsibilities as Assistant Manager, Mines
New Mine Opening layout designing and execution.
Ore reserve estimation (detailed exploration using core drills and sample pits).
Planning & selection for location of crusher, stock yards, reject dump yards.
Execution of 7.7 Km long belt conveyor route for transporting of Limestone.
Planning and selection of men & machineries to meet the target production of 21000 MT of Limestone & 5000MT of additives and overburden handling @ 1:0.25 (Limestone: OB) per day.
Mine utilities planning i.e. location & design of haul roads Mines-office, Mines workshop, Magazine of 100 MT capacity and Ammonium Nitrate Store of 200 MT capacity.
Planning, design & conducting the Drilling & Blasting operation for plant as well as mine requirement
Training program for operators on Safe operation of various HEMM and general safety.
Employer : Prism Cement Limited
Title : Assistant Manager, Mines
Date of Employment : 1th September 1997 to till 14th October 2003.
Roles & responsibilities as Assistant Manager, Mines
Unique experience of opening the new mine for green filed project
Machine requirement planning as per the plant capacity
Manpower planning for department and contractual working
Provide training to all the workmen and junior staff with respect to safety and Environment.
Liaison with government officer for legal issues
In-charge for drilling and blasting operation to meet targeted quantity & quality requirement of ROM
Reports development in coordination with in house IT team
Monitoring the contractual working and certify the quantity bills of raising & hauling
Employer : Jay-pee Cement Limited
Title : Engineer Mines
Date of Employment : 1th May 1991 till 31 August 1997.
Roles & responsibilities as Engineer, Mines
Shift Coordinator, each shift of 20 -25 people with 140**-***** tons/day
Blasting Assistant, planning the blast to meet plant quality requirement
Overall responsibility of safety for mining operation and as per the standards
Coordinator for the Quality of raw material supplied from mines to plant.
Assistance to Manager, Mines.
Educational Qualification & Training
Diploma in Mining & Mine Surveying, BTE, MUMBAI, India with 1st Division
Passed 1st Class Mines Manager (R) Exam under Directorate General of Mines Safety, India.
Affiliated Member of “NIGERIAN MINING & GEOSCIENCES SOCIETY”
Registered Member of “COUNCIL OF NIGERIAN MINING ENGINEERS AND GEOSCIENTISTS (COMEG)
Various training on Management, Safety and Environment.
Training on ISO 9001:2008, ISO 14001.
Personal Dossier:
Date of Birth : 20th October 1971
Linguistic Abilities : English, Hindi
Marital Status : Married
Permanent Address : S/o Shri Gulab Chand Bernwal, EWS 204-205,
Maharana Pratap Nagar, Bhujauli
Deoria (U.P.) 274001
Mobile: +91-976*******