Andrew Tan, BchEng, (Mech)Hons,1/30 Kingsley GroveMount Waverley Vic 3149Mobile: 0427 013 912Email: andrewtanbp@yahoo.comLinkedIn: https://au.linkedin.com/pub/andrew-tan/79/a32/707

PROFESSIONAL PROFILE

Highly skilled engineer with vast international and domestic experience in the fields of project design and implementation. Strong exposure in water treatment, processes and all the technical methodologies that create a successful business outcome. Hardworking and motivated for success with highly attuned innovative and problem solving abilities.

KEY SKILLS

Technical and Functional Knowledge Good understanding on methodologies of mechanical design and modelling relating of Water and

Wastewater Treatment Plants Strong technical knowledge of vertical flow clarifiers (hopper and flat bottom), horizontal

sedimentation tanks, tube settlers, inclined plate system, dissolved air floatation (DAF), rapid gravity filter, pressure filter, and membrane ultrafiltration (UF) filter.

Knowledgeable in Pre-treatment for desalination plant using DAFF-In-Filter system, desalination process using reverse osmosis (RO) and the demineralization process using ion exchange resins.

Other technical expertise include Sludge pumping, raw water pumping and clean water pumping system, chemical dosing plants inclusive of aluminium sulphate, lime, soda ash, chlorine gas/liquid, sodium hypochlorite (bulk & on-site generation), sodium hydroxide, sulphuric acid, fluorosilicic acid, sodium fluoride, polymer etc.

Strategic Planning Well-developed innovative and problem solving skills. Strong experience in the entire project life-cycle.

Customer and Stakeholder Management Strong understanding of clients’ needs and wants and builds strong and effective working

relationships with all Stakeholders. Vast international and domestic experience.

Time and Task Management Thrives in a fast paced environment, and acts with a sense of urgency ensuring deadlines are met. Excellent Reporting and I.T skills resulting in high level analytical reports and designs. Good organisational skills with the ability to prioritise and balance multiple tasks.

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

Jacobs Senior Mechanical EngineerWater Resources Alliance (secondment) Senior Mechanical EngineerUnited Group Infrastructure, Singapore Engineering ManagerUnited Group Infrastructure, Malaysia Proposal Manager/Engineering Manager/Senior

Engineer/Project Manager/Project Engineer

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EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

December 2008 – April 2015JACOBS GROUP AUSTRALIA PTY LTD (FORMERLY KNOWN AS SINCLAIR KNIGHT MERZ)Senior Mechanical Engineer

Key Roles and Projects

Mechanical Design Review Engineer - Wallan Sewage Treatment Plant Upgrade (VIC) for Yarra Valley Water. I was involved in the detail mechanical design for the upgrading of the existing sewage water treatment to include new inlet screens, SBRs, tertiary treatment and UV system

Senior Mechanical Design Engineer - Silvan Fluoride Plant Upgrade (VIC) for Melbourne Water Corp. I was involved in the detail mechanical design for the construction of a new fluoridation facility using fluorosilicic acid located at Silvan Reservoir which has a total average future flow capacity of 651 MLD

Senior Mechanical Design Engineer - Beaumont Chlorination Relocation project (SA) for SA Water. I was involved in the detail mechanical design for the construction a new booster sodium hypochlorite dosing plant to replace the existing obsolete sodium hypochlorite dosing plant for the water supply distribution up to 4.32MLD

Senior Mechanical Design Engineer - 205W Sludge Drying Augmentation WTP (VIC) project for Melbourne Water Corp. I was involved in the detail mechanical design for the construction a low-energy drying pan facility to transfer and dry 24,000 dry tonnes per year of wastewater sludge at the Western Treatment Plant. This project also cater for the transfer and effective treatment of all related sludge drying inputs and outputs, such as rainfall runoff and sludge supernatant, effectively integrating the drying facility with existing assets and processes. It also involved upgrading the existing supernatant pumps to a bigger flow capacity

Senior Mechanical Design Engineer - LSG/CSG Compressors Renewal ETP (VIC) for Melbourne Water Corp. I was involved in the detail mechanical design for the construction and upgrading and replacing 8 nos. digesters recirculation biogas compressors (each 2040 m3/hr) inclusive of biogas piping and digesters’ pressure relief valves and flame arrestors

Senior Mechanical Design Engineer for the detailed design of Eastern Treatment Plant Odour Reduction Stage 2 project (VIC) for Melbourne Water Corp. The project was for the design and construction of a new foul air extraction system from existing and new aeration tanks settled sewage channels and RAS channel to the existing biofilters with maximum capacity of 62,000 m3/hr

Senior Mechanical Design Engineer - Reliability Upgrade at Winneke Water Treatment Plant (VIC) for Melbourne Water Corp. I was involved in the detail mechanical design for the construction of two additional gravity sand filters (lateral floor) to compliment the existing14 filters to give a total plant capacity of 560 MLD. Each filter consists of duplex beds and each bed size is 18m length x 4m wide

Senior Mechanical Design Engineer - Sugarloaf RPS Upgrade Motors & Drives, Winneke Water Treatment Plant (VIC) for Melbourne Water Corp. I was involved in the detail mechanical design for the construction and upgrading the existing raw water pump’s slip ring motors to 6.6kV 1600kW variable frequency motors inclusive of motor cooling system

Senior Mechanical Design - Winneke Sludge Management project (VIC) for Melbourne Water Corp. I was involved in the detail mechanical design for the construction and selection of all the pumping requirements for sludge treatment from clarifiers & filter washout water up to sludge feeding centrifuge and supernatant water. The sludge load is up to 38500 kg/day DS produced from Winneke 580MLD water treatment plant

Senior Mechanical Design Engineer - Winneke Caustic Absorption Upgrade project (VIC) for Melbourne Water Corp. I was involved in the detail mechanical design for the construction and upgrading the existing chlorine gas absorption system using caustic. The caustic storage and chlorine absorption tank has a volume of 2250 litres capacity

Senior Mechanical Design Engineer - Monbulk Fluoride and Lime Upgrade project (VIC) for Melbourne Water Corp. I was involved in the detail mechanical design for the construction of a new sodium fluoride and sodium hydroxide (caustic) chemical dosing systems to replace the existing sodium silicofluoride and lime dosing systems. The new dosing plants have capacity for dosing the water supply up to 24 MLD

Senior Mechanical Design Engineer - Yarra Glen Pump Station & Chemical Renewal project (VIC) for Melbourne Water Corp. I was involved in the detail mechanical design for the

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construction of a new treated water pump station to replace the existing obsolete pump station. The new pump station has a pumping capacity of up to 60 L/s. The project was also to design and construct a new sodium hypochlorite dosing plant to replace the existing obsolete sodium hypochlorite dosing plant

Senior Mechanical Design Engineer - Lusatia Park Hypochlorite Plant Upgrade project (VIC) for Melbourne Water Corp. I was involved in the detail mechanical design for the construction of a new sodium hypochlorite booster dosing plant to replace the existing obsolete sodium hypochlorite dosing plant

Senior Mechanical Design Engineer - Martyr Road Hypochlorite Plant Upgrade project for Melbourne Water Corp. I was involved in the detail mechanical design for the construction a new sodium hypochlorite dosing plant to replace the existing obsolete sodium hypochlorite dosing plant. This plant has dosing capacity of up to 10.6 MLD of potable water.

Key Achievements Was seconded to Water Resources Alliance for 4 ½ years and was a key mechanical design

engineer based at Winneke Water Treatment Plant and Eastern Treatment Plant as part of the Water Plan 2.

Successfully worked on more than 20 big and small projects (multiple projects at one time) for the alliance in water and waste water treatment plants upgrading, refurbishment and new plant construction all over Melbourne area for Melbourne Water Corp.

Established a strong relationship with all stakeholders in Melbourne Water in meeting all their requirements during the life cycle of the design phase.

April 2006 – April 2008UNITED GROUP INFRASTRUCTURE, SINGAPORE (FORMERLY KNOWN AS THAMES WATER PROJECTS, SINGAPORE)Engineering Manager

Engineering Manager- Project Aurora, Ammonium Nitrate Facility, WTP for Dyno Nobel (QLD). I was responsible for the detail engineering design of a water treatment plant to supply water for the ammonium nitrate facility. The plant comprises of Dissolved Air Floatation, Ultra-Filtration, Reverse Osmosis, Mixed Bed, Condensate Polisher, chemicals dosing plants, neutralisation plant, pumpings, storage tanks and etc

Engineering Manager – Tamar Valley Power Station Water Treatment Plant (TAS) for Alinta Energy. I was responsible for the detail engineering design of the water treatment plant to supply water to cooling towers and demin water for the power generators. The plant comprises of Ultra Filtration, Reverse Osmosis, Mixed Bed, chemical dosing plants, neutralisation plant, pumpings, storage tanks and etc.

Engineering Manager – Alinta Wagerup (Power Plant), Demineralised Water Treatment Plant project (WA) for Alinta Energy. I was responsible for the detail engineering design of the water treatment plant to supply water to cooling towers and demin water for the power generators. The plant comprises of Activated Carbon Filters, Anion Exchanger, Cation Exchanger, Mixed Bed, chemical dosing plants, neutralisation plant, pumpings, storage tanks and etc

Key Achievements Lead and manage the engineering office staff comprises of mechanical engineers, electrical and

control engineers and drawing office staff comprises of ACAD drafters. Assist the proposal office in technical proposal during projects tendering. Provide technical support for the project managers in project execution and construction.

September 1994 – April 2006, April 2008 - November 2008UNITED GROUP INFRASTRUCTURE (FORMERLY KNOWN AS THAMES WATER PROJECTS/ PATERSON CANDY MALAYSIA)Proposal Manager/Engineering Manager/Project Manager/Senior Engineer/Project Engineer

Key Roles and Projects

Engineering Manager – Johor River Water Works Upgrading project (Malaysia) for Public Utilities Board Singapore. I was responsible for the detail engineering design of UV disinfection system

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and the upgrading of existing sand filtration backwash/air scouring and related processes such as filter control and chemical dosing

Engineering Manager – Temburong Water Supply (Brunei) for Public Works Department, Brunei. I was responsible for the detail engineering and process design of a potable water treatment plant with a capacity of 5.75 MLD. The process comprises of aerator, flocculators, sedimentation tanks, gravity sand filters, filter backwashing and air scouring system, clear water tank, alum, lime, chlorine and polymer chemical dosing plants

Engineering Manager – Bukit Barun Stage 6 Water Supply ( Brunei) for Public Works Department, Brunei. I was responsible for the detail engineering and process design of a potable water treatment plant with a capacity of 63MLD. The process comprises of flocculators, lamella plate clarifiers, gravity sand filters, filter backwashing and air scouring systems, chlorine contact tank, treated water tank, alum, lime, chlorine and polymer chemical dosing plants

Engineering Manager – Hulu Terangganu Water Supply Scheme (Malaysia) for Public Works Department, Malaysia. I was responsible for the detail engineering and process design of a potable water treatment plant with a capacity of 30MLD. The process comprises of flash mixing, flat bottom clarifiers with tube settlers, gravity sand filters, filter backwashing and air scouring systems, clear water tank, alum, lime, chlorine and polymer chemical dosing plants

Engineering Manager – Limbang Water Supply Phase 2 (Malaysia) for Public Works Department, Malaysia. I was responsible for the detail engineering and process design of a potable water treatment plant and treated water pump station with a capacity of 25MLD. The process comprises of flash mixing, flocculators, sedimentation tanks gravity sand filters, filter backwashing and air scouring systems, clear water tank, alum, lime, chlorine and polymer chemical dosing plants, treated water pump station and sludge treatment using centrifuge

Project Manager – Bintulu Water Supply Phase 3 (Malaysia) for Public Works Department, Malaysia. The project involved the construction of a new water treatment plant to augment the existing plant with additional capacity of 100 MLD. The process comprises of flash mixing, flocculators, In-Filter DAF, filter backwashing and air scouring systems, clear water tank, alum, lime, chlorine and polymer chemical dosing plants. The chlorine system is of the on-site hypo generation using salt

Senior Engineer – Nakon Pathom-Samut Sakhorn (West Bangkok) Water Supply Project (Thailand) for Thai Tap Water Company Ltd. The project involved the new water treatment plant of 320MLD to supply water to the West Bangkok area. I was involved in the design and construction of the lime and chlorine gas plants

Project Engineer – Sg.Merotai Pumping Station (Malaysia) for Timatch Sdn Bhd. The project involved the plant design and construction of 40MLD river water intake pumping station

Project Engineer – Sandakan Pumping Station (Malaysia) for Timatch Sdn Bhd. The project involved the plant design and construction of 80MLD river water intake pumping station

Project Engineer – Tawau Waster Supply (Malaysia) for Timatch Sdn Bhd. The project involved the design and construction of a new water treatment plant capacity 40 MLD. The process comprises of flash mixing, flocculators, sedimentation tanks, gravity sand filters, filter backwashing and air scouring systems, clear water tank, alum, lime, chlorine and polymer chemical dosing plants. The project also involved the construction of a river intake station and treated water pumping station

Tendering/Proposal Manager/Engineer – Preparing and submitting more than 40 water treatment projects.

Key Achievements Started as a project engineer and quickly gained sufficient technical knowledge and experience to

be promoted to Senior Engineer, then Project Manager and eventually Engineering Manager. Was transferred to Singapore office as Engineering Manager to lead the engineering team in the

demanding working environment in Singapore. After 2 years working in Singapore, returned to the Malaysia office to lead and take charge in

bidding for projects.

QUALIFICATIONS

Bachelor Degree in Eng. (Mech) Hons. University of Technology Malaysia

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REFEREES

Available on Request

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