Materials Engineer Plant Operator
Resume:
CURRICULUM VITAE
Emmanuel Kwasi Ackon
Address: P.O. Box 2565 sunyani B/A.
Email address: ***************@*****.***
Phone No.: 024******* / 024*******
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
Safety conscious and dependable materials engineer with experience in both short and long-range mine planning. Extensive experience of exercising supervisory control over plant personnel and providing guidance and assistance to them. Proactive professional familiar with day-to-day mining operation and skilled in cost budgeting and reporting.
CORE COMPTENCIES AND SKILLS
Develop, supervise and mentor junior engineers and technical staff in the skills and procedures needed to effectively deliver engineering and consulting assignments.
Demonstrated leadership skills and project engineering experience.
Excellent verbal and writing skills with strong interpersonal abilities and willingness to work in a team atmosphere.
Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with good presentation skills.
Proficient in Microsoft word, excel, PowerPoint, and other software ( Cintellate, ChemAlert, SAP and Citect).
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
2017-2020 Sunyani Technical University
HND Materials Engineering
2018 Alison, Galway - Ireland
Diploma in Workplace Safety and Health
2009 University of Mines and Technology Tarkwa-Ghana
Certificate of Proficiency Metallurgical Plant and Control
2013 City and Guilds London
Certificate III in metallic ferrous mining operations
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Company Newmont Ghana, Ahafo South.
Position Acting General Foreman
Year 2015 - 2020
Duties
Supervise efficient operation of all plants equipment to achieve all plants objective.
Maintain plant equipment and perform troubleshooting on same to resolve all issues.
Conducting PSI meetings before start of the shift and participate and contribute to the development and review of the process operations Standard Task Procedures / Jobs Analysis and standard operating procedures.
Prioritize the activities of the process operation to achieve optimum plant.
Ensured Plant utilization target was met to achieve production target.
Ensured progression of process plant operators to achieve
Plan with metallurgical, and maintence teams to determine the critical path for plant shutdowns.
Attend unplanned stoppages and ensure faults are identified, corrected to ensures its utilization.
Company Newmont Ghana, Ahafo South.
Position Shift Supervisor
Year 20013 - 2020
Duties
Contributed to the development and implementation of maintenance strategies based in RCM techniques, budgets and plans to deliver optimum Process Plant availability.
Determine suitable and automation methods
Lead PSI meetings for the shift, assign specific task to plant operators.
Monitors the activities of plant operation in the crushing, milling, carbon-in-leach, elution, CCD, Reagent and Tailings area to ensure their safety and achieve optimum productivity.
Conduct isolation for plant personnel i.e. plant operators electricians, mechanics and instrumentation technicians to perform their task safely.
Issue permits required for specific tasks in the processing area, perform and review job hazard analysis for the team to ensure safe execution of work.
Ensure samples are taken at the designated sample points and submitted to its appropriate destination.
Perform PTO for plant operators to ensure their competence and identity gap.
Liaise with training department to conduct required training for plant operators.
Company Newmont Ghana, Ahafo South.
Position Plant Operator
Year 2006 - 2012
Duties
Crushing Area
Monitored the Gyratory crusher, MMD Sizer operation and other associated auxiliary equipment, such as hoist lube system, grease system, dust collector.
Conduct prestart checks, operational chesck of Apron feeders, conveyors system.
Conduct housekeeping of the Crusher area.
Use Citect SCADA to monitor and controlof the operations of the equipment in the Crusher area.
Communicate with field operators correct faults and ensure optimum operation of the crushing circuit.
Mill operator.
Operated and monitored the milling circuit to achieve the daily tonnage and, maximized the mill through put to achieve a fine grind of 85% passing microns.
Monitored and operated the mill cyclone feed pump, cyclones performance, Mill Lube system.
Milling/ Grinding Area
Operated and monitored the milling circuit to achieve the daily tonnage and, maximized the mill through put to achieve a fine grind of 80% passing 106 microns.
Monitored and operated the mill cyclone feed pump, cyclones performance, Mill Lube system.
Monitored the gravity circuit equipment i.e. Knelson concentrators to ensure optimum operation.
Monitored the mill feed size, water addition sound to ensure its optimum efficiency.
Carbon In Leach Area
Checked and monitored PH at the CIL, cyanide concentration and Cyanide analyzer, Densities, dissolved oxygen, carbon concentraion in CIL tanks.
Monitor CIL Equipment, such as agitators, intertank screens and established flow into the tanks under counter current carbon movement and enhance Gold recovery.
Monitor the thickener parameters such bed mass, rake torgue and bed bevel to ensure optimum density for leaching.
Elution Area
Operated the Anglo AMERICAN Research Laboratories (AARL) method of Elution circuit proficiently.
Perform Acid column recovery of carbon and conducted acid sequence.
Performed Eluate solution mixing and stripping of Loaded carbon and attained pregnant solution for Electrowing.
Monitored pressures, temperatures, flows on the Eluate to Gold room cells in a closed circuit to heat exchangers, elution column, strip solution tank and electrowinning cells.
Performed housekeeping for routine and unplanned shutdown.
Monitored the parameters of the regeneration kiln to achieve optimum performance.
Counter Current Decantation (CCD) Area.
Monitor the thickener parameters such bed mass, rake torgue and bed bevel to ensure optimum density and reagent recovery.
Performed regular circuit checks of the area.
Reagent Area.
Perform sodium cyanide offloading, sodium hydroxide mixing and hydrochloric acid preparation for use in the plant. Take and submit samples to the laboratory and compliance checks.
Monitor equipment in the area by performing preoperational and operational checks on them to ensure optimum performance.
Tailings Area.
Monitor tailings area parameters to avoid spillages, seepages, and ensure uniform discharges of tailings to the tailing dam to avoid channeling.
Take sample for weak acid dissociable cyanide (WAD) cyanide determination.
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REFEREES
Mr. Daniel Egya – Mensah
Process Manager
Newmont Ghana Gold Limited B/A – Ghana
Mr. Deri Alesobo Ziem)
General Foreman
Newmont Ghana Gold Limited B/A – Ghana
Process Operation.
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