Management of all Maintenance and Engineering Projects and Teams involving:
Budget preparation and cost analysis
Personnel and Contract Resource planning and management
Major project Management/ Specification Development, review and control
Process Improvement involving Management, Production and Engineering Teams
Equipment safeguards and safety procedures
Team building sessions involving production and engineering/maintenance teams
Equipment uptime, productivity, profitability, analysis/review and detailed reporting
Preventative maintenance development and review
Short and long term capital planning relating to trends, production and sales forecasts

3 years  1996 - Manager Engineering Projects:

Preparation of long and short term capital project development plans and budgets
Preparation of capital expenditure submissions
Detailed studies of production bottle-necks, development and implementation of improvement plans

2 years  1993 - Manager of Research and Development:

Review of productivity and quality issues across multiple sites
Transition of best practice procedures and processes across multiple sites
Development of product costing models to accurately reflect individual product productivity and profitability

4 years  1991 - Timber Processing Plant Manager - 2 sites:

Direct Management of work force in excess of 200 employees
Management and control of major plant upgrade
Negotiation with employees and representatives on conditions and production commitments
Production planning and monitoring Systems
Product cost and sales return monitoring to maximise site profitability
Assessment planning and implementation of capital improvement for site budgetary needs
Significant productivity lift through team building and personnel involvement
Review of production and sales plans to lift profitability of product mix

7 years  1987 - Management of Maintenance and Engineering Workshops in a major sawmilling operation including:

Design drafting
Site Engineering
Maintenance Management
Construction Engineering
Engineering Services Management
Regional Machine Shop
Carpentry construction and maintenance department
Electrical maintenance and Construction team
Overall Management of the operation and maintenance of power and steam generation plant
Motor vehicles fleet maintenance

4 years  1980 - Design Drafting - Regional design office of a large sawmilling complex:

Detailed design/drafting
Supervision and training within a team involved in major upgrade of plant and equipment
Capital expediter planning, assessment and implementation

6 years  1976 - Fitting and Turning/Detail Drafting:

Fitting and Turning and Design drafting within State office of major service organisation.

Technical/Management Skills:

Management Development Program - Mt Elisa
Executive Staff Course - Australian Institute of Management
Graduate member of The Institute of Engineering Australia (IEA)
Hydraulic and Pneumatics