Electrical Plant
Resume:
David Hamilton
PERSONAL INFORMATION
NAME: David Hamilton
RESIDENCE: Pattaya, Thailand
TELEPHONE:
Thai Mobile +668********
Aust Mobile +614********
New Mobile +667753641 (Work New Caledonia)
Home email *****.********.**@*****.*** ( Best Contact)
Work email *****.********@********.***
CERTIFICATIONS
Industrial Instrumentation Certificate III
ATEX Hazardous Area Certificate
Electrical Supervisors Certificate
Working at Heights Certificate
Industrial Radiation Gauges
Confined Space Certificate
Senior First Aid Certificate
Gas Detector Calibration
EXPERIENCE
Positions Held
Electrical & Instrumentation Supervisor
Electrical & Instrumentation Engineer
Electrical Maintenance Planner
Instrument Fitter
Y2K Consultant
Leading Hand
Licensed Electrician
Instrument and Electrical Work Variations
Organic & Chemical Fertilizer Plants
Chemical Manufacturing Plants
Coal Mine & Preparation Plants
Aluminium Processing Plants
Nickel Mine & Refinery Plant
Water Treatment Plants
Food Processing
Oil & Gas Rigs
Fire Systems
Commercial
Domestic
Current Employer - Transfield Worley Parsons starting on April 2008 Present Position - Instrument Electrical Supervisor
Goro Nickel Plant in New Caledonia
The Goro Nickel plant is owned and operated by Vale. The plant is located on the South Pacific island of New Caledonia and is one of the largest mining projects in the world.
Goro is considered among the world's best-known undeveloped laterite ore bodies, with 55 million tonnes of estimated measured and indicated mineral reserves.
The expected annual capacity of the Goro Nickel project is 60,000t of nickel and 4,300 to 5,000t of cobalt, which represents around 20% of global production.
Goro Nickel Plant in New Caledonia - October 2011 - Ongoing
Instrument Electrical Maintenance & Operations Supervisor
Duties included
• Rostered Shift work Day and Nights to offer technical support during the Refinery and Nickel Oxide plant production campaigns.
• Supervision and training for Phillipino and French Instrumentation and Electrical Technicians.
• Assist engineering with new modifications and upgrading existing installations.
• Instrument & Electrical maintenance planning on Ellipse, creating work orders and purchase requests.
Goro Nickel Plant in New Caledonia - October 2010 - October 2011
Instrument Electrical Completions Supervisor
Duties included
• Installation of new projects and modifications to plant, then commissioning and testing with the PCS before handover to operations.
• Inspect constructed installations and punch list and repair any faulty components or non compliant work.
• Handover of as built commissioned drawings.
• Supervision and provide training for Phillipino Electrical and Instrumentation Technicians.
• Purchasing of additional spare parts to upgrade installations and add spare parts to plant store.
• Source manuals and data sheets for instrumentation
• Arrange scaffolding, Isolations and work permits.
Goro Nickel Plant in New Caledonia - January 2009- October 2010
Instrument Electrical Supervisor commissioning Fire Systems
Duties included
• Ensure the complete fire system packages operated as per the manufactures and fire engineers recommendations and the system complied with the French Fire Regulations.
• System pressure and live foam testing
• Training the on site French fire brigade.
• Fire and Gas Detection Calibration
• Commissioning fire detection and protection systems.
• Mark up as built drawings and ensure all component technical data is contained in the Fire System Dossiers
• ATEX verification and certification of the fire system.
• Supervision and training for French and Phillipino Electrical and Instrumentation Technicians
• Inspect construction installations and punch list any faulty components or non compliant work.
Goro Nickel Plant in New Caledonia - April 2008 – January 2009
Instrument Electrical Supervisor commissioning Nickel Refinery
Duties included
• Mark up as built P&ID and electrical drawings and ensure they are filed in the master drawing system.
• Commissioning of 3 electrical switch rooms, plant instrumentation, lighting and power and control systems.
• ATEX verification and certification of electrical equipment.
• Supervision and training for French and Phillipino Electrical and Instrumentation Technicians
• Inspect construction installations and punch list any faulty components or non compliant work on WinPCS system.
• Replacement of faulty equipment and procurement of spares and consumables.
• Night Shift Electrical and Instrumentation technical support.
Electronic Software Packages used on site.
o WinPCS
o Microsoft Office.
o CAD Drawing package
o Smart Plant Foundation (SPF)
o Ellipse maintenance management system
Previous Employer - Port Waratah Coal Service from November 2005 Position - Electrical Maintenance Planner
Port Waratah Coal Service (PWCS)
Is the world’s largest coal handling operation that is located in the port of Newcastle.
PWCS facilities provide train receival, stacking, reclaiming and shiploading for the Hunter Valley export coal industry. PWCS shiploading capacity exceeds 102 million tonnes annually that provides coal to ports around the world.
The site is supplied by 33kV that is transformed down to 6.6kV and 415/240-volt distribution systems. There are over 100 conveyors on site with 65 motors either 800 or 630kW supplied by 6.6kV.
Employed on site as the electrical maintenance planner to prioritise and plan the preventative and corrective electrical maintenance being carried out by our team of 20 PWCS maintenance electricians.
Daily review of work orders to analyse all reported defects and develop clear scopes of work organising the labour, spare parts and resources to safely complete each task.
Coordinating planned and unplanned work with other trades and service providers to avoid conflict, to aid completion of all trades and services and minimize plant down time.
Other duties include the planning and managing specialist contract maintenance services for HV Motor overhauls & testing, vibration analysis, HV circuit breaker protection relay testing, Transformer oil testing and environmental instrumentation.
Kooragang Coal Terminal - November 2005 to April 2008
Electrical & Instrument Maintenance Planner
Duties included
• Maintain a high commitment to Safety
• Plan preventative and corrective electrical maintenance.
• Site inspections to audit and plan work.
• Ensure isolation of plant & equipment.
• Hire equipment, cranes, scaffold, generators, EWP’s, lighting towers, barricades.
• Manage specialist contract maintenance services for HV Motor overhauls & testing, vibration analysis, HV circuit breaker protection relay testing, Transformer Oil testing and environmental instrumentation.
• Plan and schedule training
• Always look for methods to improve maintenance safety, strategies and procedures.
Previous Employer - MULTISKILLED RESOURCES
July 2001 to November 2005
Position - Electrical & Instrumentation Engineering
Multiskilled Resources Australia
Whilst employed by Multiskilled Resources Australia (MRA), three years were spent on site performing a site engineer’s role at a Hunter Valley Coal Preparation Plant (HVCPP) site that also managed Howick and Newdell Coal Preparation Plants and the Hunter Valley Train Loading Plant. The initial job at the preparation plant was to evaluate all instrumentation then set up and program a scheduled instrument maintenance scheme. When the project was complete and handed over to HVCPP maintenance I was transferred to the Reliability Team where I continued in maintaining all instrument and electrical maintenance procedures as well as revising the instrument and electrical CAD drawings. Other tasks included creating electrical scopes of work and managing the installation of air conditioning on stackers, reclaimers and plant switchrooms as well as converting 110V & 240V instrumentation to 24VDC. Another project I was assigned was to create and programme a scheduled condition monitoring maintenance system with a similar structure as the electrical and instrumentation maintenance systems.
Hunter Valley Coal Preparation Plant July 2001 to November 2004
Electrical & Instrument Maintenance Planner
Duties included
• Programme and schedule Instrument & Electrical Maintenance Scheduled Tasks (MST)
• Create Instrument & Electrical maintenance procedures
• Provide risk assessments and link to the (MST)
• Analyse SCADA and log all site instrument data and parameters into Access Database
• Audit instrument and electrical drive installations
• Revise instrument and electrical CAD drawings
• Australian Standards compliance works e.g. ensure electrical equipment has power supply source information or the appropriate warning signs for High Voltage or Radiation etc. Correct IP or Hazardous area rating.
• Upgrade and standardize the instrumentation on site.
• Electrical Project Works-Yard Machine Air Conditioners etc
• Programme and schedule Condition Monitoring Maintenance Scheduled Tasks (MST)
• Create (Oil & Vibration) maintenance procedures
• Analyse Condition Monitoring reports and manage the corrective actions during planned maintenance shutdowns.
Subcontracted to Tyco Flow Control Maintenance
Control Valve Technician
Sites worked on
• Phosphate Hill – PSA Shutdown Jan 03
• Redbank Power Station – Shutdown Feb 03
• Phosphate Hill – PSA Shutdown April 03
• Quenos (formally ICI at Botany) – Shutdown June 03
• Phosphate Hill – Major Plant Shutdown July-August 03
Previous Employer HUNTER CONTROL Jan 2001 to July 2001
Hunter Control
Is a process control company that is now called Matrikon. At Hunter Control I was employed as an instrumentation technician, a majority of the work involved maintenance to calibrate conveyor belt weighers, control valves, level, pressure and environmental measuring instruments for several Hunter Valley Coal Preparation Plants.
Below is a brief summary of project work conducted at each site that is listed below.
Bulga Coal Preparation Plant, the job was to change out 18 Programmable Logic Controllers and field instrumentation from 110V AC to 24V DC.
Gosford Water Treatment Plant involved upgrading the instrumentation to monitor the quality of the drinking water supplied to the Central Coast.
Odonahue Fish Hatchery job was a small operation that required a motor control panel to be installed and instrumentation to monitor pumped bore water on an inland rural property that bred jewfish, perch and bass for the N.S.W Fisheries Department.
Mangrove Mt Fruit Processing Plant is an industry that processes fruit for all types of food flavouring. The company required all the Programmable Logic Controllers on site to be linked with to a SCADA system to monitor all functions of the business from a central control room.
Instrument Maintenance & Installation Work Jan 2001 - July 2001
Instrument Technician
Sites worked on
• Bulga Coal Preparation Plant
• Mt Owen Coal Preparation Plant
• Howick Coal Preparation Plant
• Newdel Coal Preparation Plant
• North Parkes Gold Mine
• Gosford Water Treatment Plant
• Odonahue Fish Hatchery
• Mangrove Mt Fruit Processing Plant
Previous Employer ABB INSTALLATIONS from Mar 1988 to Jan 2001
ABB Installations
This company has changed names several times over the last few years, when I commenced employment the company was called James Watt Electrical the name was changed to ABB Installations and is now called Downer Engineering.
During the twelve years of service with the company there were several changes of role but most of my time was spent with ABB Installations on site at the Orica Plant at Kooragang Island (NSW) in the position as an Instrument & Electrical Supervisor. ABB have a permanent office and a workshop on site to carry out instrument and electrical construction and maintenance work.
The Orica site has an Ammonium Plant, Aqua Ammonia Bottling plant, 3 Nitric Acid Plants and 2 Ammonium Nitrate Plants. Due to the high work rate of these plants running 24 hours a day there are regular minor and major shutdowns on all plants.
As the site supervisor in control of a team of approximately 30 tradesmen during the shutdowns and construction of several of these plants, has provided me with extensive knowledge of Orica site’s electrical, instrumentation and hazardous area equipment.
Redbank Power Station Project was a new and innovative approach to power generation with this plant being the first of six planned to be constructed in Australia. The super efficient mini power stations are fuelled on the coal tailings retrieved from the filtering of run off water.
The ABB Newcastle manager at the time asked me to leave the Orica site to assist leading the instrumentation team consisting of 15 instrument technicians and 5 plumbers on the construction and commissioning of the Redbank Power Station Project.
Redbank Power Station Jan 2000 to July 2001
Instrumentation Supervisor
Duties included
• Bench Testing instruments before installation
• Instrument Installation
• Confined Space Access Co-ordinator
• Commissioning
• Instrument Maintenance
Orica Chemical Plant July 1999 to Jan 2000
Y2K Consultant
Duties included
• Site Audit Kooragang Is (N.S.W) & Cockle Creek Plant (N.S.W) control & communication equipment.
• Manage Gibson Island (QLD) & Port Kembla Plant (N.S.W) control & communication equipment compliance documents.
• Log Orica data in Access Database
• Provide documentation of Y2K compliance
Orica Chemical Plant July 1992 to July 1999
Instrument & Electrical Site Supervisor
Duties included
• Power control and site services consultant
• Tender & Budget Estimation
• Construction Supervisor
• Maintenance Supervisor
Estimated & Supervised Projects whilst Instrument / Electrical Site Supervisor
Ammonia Plant Fire (1995) Approx 500K
Aqua Ammonia Bottling Plant (1995) Approx 700K
Truck Weighbridge and Office,
Ammonia B-Double Truck Loading Stations
Ammonia Plant Safety Showers
Ammonia Plant Cooling Tower, Chemical Dosing Controls
Sulphuric Acid Tank Level Controls
Weather Station Controls connected to Incitec PC Network
Works Emergency Alarm Sirens
Ammonium Nitrate Vibrating Prill Head Amplifier
Nitric Acid Plant 2 Expander Vibration Probes
Nitric Acid Plant 1 Cooling Tower pH Control & Chemical Dosing
Nitric Acid Plant 2 Cooling Tower PH Control & Chemical Dosing
Orica Chemical Plant Mar 1988 to July 1992
Instrument & Electrical Leading Hand
Duties included
• Bench Testing instruments
• Instrument Installation
• Calibration
• Construction
• Maintenance
• Commissioning
Major Projects worked on as Instrument / Electrical Leading Hand
Ammonia Plant Shutdowns and plant upgrades
Boiler Shutdown (1990)
Ammonium Nitrate Plant construction from start to finish (1989)
Nitric Acid Plant construction from start to finish (1990)
Aluminium Plant Upgrades at Tomago, Burwood, Rosehill and Cabramatta (1989)
Oil Rig construction of the Bream plateau. (1988)
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