CURRICULUM VITAE of DUANE BUTLER

PERSONAL DETAILS

Name: DUANE WELLS BUTLER

Postal Address: 6 Llana court, new Auckland,

Gladstone 4680, Queensland

Telephone: 0405 081 097 Mobile Home0457 568 699 Mobile Work

Email: butts_@live.com.au

Licenses Held: Mechanical Fitter & Turner certificate III Elevated Work Platform Australian CertificationBasic Rigger & Dogger Australian Certification

Forklift Truck Australia Certification Emergency Response Team

Vertical rope rescue LV and BA training

First Aid training (senior and occupational)

EDUCATIONAL HISTORY (Relevant)

1997 to 2001 – Secondary Education OP 12(Year 12) Chanel College (QLD)

2002 to 2006 – Mechanical Fitter & Turner certificate III Gladstone Tafe College (QLD) Garlock Pump and Value Training Course Swagelok Safety Course Pumping Fundamentals Advanced Pumping

2010-Workplace Health & Safety officer-Construction

2011-Diploma of Management- Front Line leadership

2014- Green Belt training in Six sigma

2014- Tap Root Facilitator

CAREER HISTORY

February 2015 – CurrentDigestion Maintenance Superintendent

Rio Tinto Alcan, Yarwun

Principal Accountabilities: Engage, motivate and lead a Maintenance team including 2 mechanical engineers, mechanical and electrical maintenance teams to deliver services consistent with RTA Yarwun’s visions & values (Cost effective, identify efficiency gains & act like owners)

Duties: Specific criteria and tasks performed in this position include- Zero based budgeting, forecasting and executing a budget of 20 million Ensure all statutory maintenance works is completed as per our strategies. Maintain all pressure vessels in Digestion ensuring the compliance with their statutory inspection

and repairs Lead and manage small projects with the Area engineers to improve equipment reliability and

Performance Track and manage schedule compliance along with Notification and work order back log Lead and coach safety interactions with team leaders and fill in team leaders daily Manage incidents, completing actions to ensure the compliance and learnings are captured Manage absenteeism to below <3% within a maintenance team of 21 team members

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CAREER HISTORY (Continued)

January 2012 – December 2014Digestion Maintenance SUPERVISOR

Rio Tinto Alcan, Yarwun

Principal Accountabilities: Engage, motivate and lead Maintenance fitters to deliver services consistent with RTA Yarwun’s visions & values (Cost effective, identify efficiency gains & act like owners)

Duties: Specific criteria and tasks performed in this position include- Assist with the overall compliance and improvement of the maintenance management System Ensure all statutory maintenance works is completed as per our strategies. Maintain all pressure vessels, managing vessel turnarounds ensuring all statutory inspections are

completed Plan, execute, supervise, monitor, evaluate maintainers performance against our maintenance

equipment Identify ongoing maintenance failures and investigate to improve the reliability of equipment Train the maintenance teams in quality maintenance system courses Train and CTO maintenance team members in pump rebuilds, alignments, and core trade training. Temporarily covered a long term planner for 3 months, planning for production and maintenance

tasks Work closely with reliability and maintenance engineers to improve the equipment life Projects manage minor capital civil & structural projects work. Scope, define, plan and manage minor shutdowns with contractor labour on digestion trains and

evaporation trains. Digestion shutdown superintendent role for Unit 1 & 2 managing close to 140 contracting people

including crane, mechanical, hydro blasting, engineering, rope access NDT inspectors crews. Boiler house shutdown superintendent managing 100 contracting people crane, NDT inspectors,

engineering, hydro vac, lagging, mechanical, tube welders and scaffolding teams.

May 2011 – January 2012Turnaround Maintenance SUPERVISOR

Rio Tinto Alcan, Yarwun

Principal Accountabilities: Engage, motivate and lead Maintenance fitters to deliver services consistent with RTA Yarwun’s visions & values (Cost effective, identify efficiency gains & act like owners)

Duties: Specific criteria and tasks performed in this position include- Complete tank turnarounds coordinating cranes, scaffolders and fitters to execute the turnaround

safely and within scheduled timeframe. Complete JPU turnarounds coordinating cranes, scaffolders, HPWB and fitters to execute the

turnaround safely and within scheduled timeframe. Ensure all statutory maintenance works is completed as per our strategies during the turnaround

maintenance window. Maintain all pressure vessels, managing vessel turnarounds ensuring all statutory inspections are

completed Plan, execute, supervise, monitor, evaluate maintainers performance against our maintenance

equipment Train the turnaround teams in developing a clear scope to sign off on completion of work Identify down time to maximise tool time and reduce the overall maintenance window to

maximise production Identify and update procedures to standardise the work to allow the team to focus on improvement

ideas

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October 2009 – May 2011CONTRACT SUPERVISOR

Rio Tinto Alcan, Yarwun

Principal Accountabilities: Engage, motivate and lead Contractors to deliver services consistent with RTA Yarwun’s visions & values (Cost effective, identify efficiency gains & act like owners)

Duties: Specific criteria and tasks performed in this position include- Assist with the overall compliance and improvement of the Contract Management System Create scopes of work/Tender documents for contracts Pre-qualify, Pre-mobilise, conduct performance and HSEQ audits as appropriate Plan, execute, supervise, monitor, evaluate contractor performance & payment of invoices Investigate contractual breaches/queries/issues, HSE incidents and variations to contracts Ensure work performed by contractors is injury free & no damage to property or enviro’ occurs MRU & team HSE representative reporting and following up on safety concerns. Projects manage minor capital civil & structural projects work up to $1 million dollars capital. Co-Ordinate Veolia hydro blasting contractors on minor maintenance turn a rounds

Duties: Emergency Response member – Occupational first aid trained Rope rescue trained Trained in HAZMAT incidents triage systems BA trained for HAZMAT rescues

November 2007 – October 2009MAINTENANCE SHIFT FITTER, Central Maintenance TeamRio Tinto Alcan, Yarwun

Principal Accountabilities: I was moved into a central maintenance team in December of 2007 and we concentrate on un-scheduled maintenance to achieve reliability, quality & efficiency gains and progression towards an interdependent safety culture within our team.

Duties: Specific criteria and tasks performed in this position include- Assist in team leader roll, filling in on both day and night shift duties, reporting to a shift

superintendent, leading a crew of 6 in un-scheduled maintenance covering all aspects of the refinery.

Reliability HSE representative for our shift crew, attending meetings on days off in some instances, covering safety concerns within reliability/refinery.

Organise and execute HSE meetings weekly within our team, raising and resolving safety issue. Equipment maintained included FFE ball mills, backpressure stations; warman underflow pumps

and Gould overflow pumps, Vacuum pumps, High pressure blowing compressors, ship unloader and loading equipment, coal pulverizing mills, disc and drum product filters.

Overhaul PA and FD fans on the job and aligning the equipment. Remove and overhaul soot blowers, primary and secondary burner nozzles.

Fault finding instrumentation along with shift E & I technicians on control valves, flow tubes and rotork valves.

Fault finding on complex high pressure oil and pneumatic system for the ball Mills. Overhaul of fuel valves in the boiler house and calcinations gas system, replacing nozzles and leak

testing gas flanges before start-up. Extensive diagnosis of Aker Wirth triplex piston diaphragm pumps with a fault code panel and

automation charge system, identifying bypassing suction and discharge NRV’s and diagnosing failure of diaphragms before destructive failure. Diagnosis on the complex hydraulic system.

Overhaul and fault finding on Prime royal positive high pressure instrument pumps.

Duties: Emergency Response member – Occupational first aid trained Rope rescue trained Trained in HAZMAT incidents triage systems BA trained for HAZMAT rescues

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CAREER HISTORY (Continued)

CAREER HISTORY (Continued)

October 2006 – March 2007MECHANICAL INSPECTION FITTERNorth Curragh Overland Conveyor Construction, Blackwater

Principal Accountabilities: Inspect all mechanical equipment fitted during construction phase against engineering specifications and general quality of the fitting techniques. Creating punch lists of equipment that didn’t meet the contractual specifications.

Duties: Specific criteria and tasks performed in this position include- Checked alignments of carry and return idler frames using piano wire, trammels, smart level and

a board and square to check centerlines, heights, vertical and horizontal squareness, along a 22km conveyor belt using construction check sheets with tight tolerances.

Checked final alignment using dial indicators on high speed and low speed drives, assisting fitters to set the drives at a certain temperature to factor in thermal growth on the pulleys.

Read gearbox, brake systems and fluid coupling manuals to comprehend operation specifics. Checked that the correct lubrications, torques settings, shims and seals were purged where necessary, were all within specification as per the manuals.

Cross reference drawings to structural and mechanical construction layout. Checked labyrinth clearances on all 93 pulleys using feeler gauges. Removed at random plumber

block covers and checked bearing clearances and the correct lubrication was used and flanges were sealed correctly. Checked locking nuts were tightened and lock tabs were down and fixed and non-fixed rings were on the drive side of the conveyor belt.

August 2006 – October 2006MECHANICAL FITTER, Shutdown/maintenanceNRG Power station, Gladstone

Principal Accountabilities: Performed shutdown and maintenance tasks on mechanical equipment within the Pulverizing section of the coal fired power station.

Duties: Specific criteria and tasks performed in this position include- Overhauled and re-furbished coal pulverizing mills, replacing armored plates, which had to be

torque to the correct setting and die checked for cracks. Each armored plate had to be weighed and match marked with another armored plate to allow easy static balancing.

Built up worn areas with weld in the casing and bogged certain prone wear areas using a two part epoxy bog.

Overhaul fuel control valves, PA and FD fans. Laser aligned electric motor with mill. Overhauled the rotary turbine system. Static Balanced rotary mills using a specified weight and stop watch to cross reference to a chart to

verify the correct weight needed to balance the mill.

July 2006 – August 2006MECHANICAL FITTER, Shutdown Clyde Hitachi BabcockQueensland Aluminium Limited, Gladstone

Principal Accountabilities: Perform shutdown maintenance on mechanical equipment within the Boiler house section of the Aluminium refinery to meet a timeline schedule.

Duties Specific criteria and tasks performed in this position include-

Changed out air heater seals on both hot and cold side. Changed out all control valves and safety valves. Overhaul and remove primary and secondary burners. Remove and overhaul all soot blowers, fuel valves and gas nozzles. Gas leak test before commissioning the boiler upon return to service. Overhauled two coal feeders, changing out bearings, seals and drums where severely worn.

CAREER HISTORY (Continued) Overhaul steam turbines, scraping in white metal bearings and blue surfaces for contact film.

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June 2006 – July 2006MECHANICAL FITTER, Shutdown Schmider EngineeringQueensland Aluminium Limited, Gladstone

Principal Accountabilities: Perform shutdown maintenance on mechanical equipment in the materials handling section (Wharf), in the Aluminium refinery to meet a timeline schedule.

Duties: Specific criteria and tasks performed in this position include -

Overhauled mechanical drives drum and idler drum on bauxite unloading pan feeder. Changed out drive chains, rollers and return rollers, flights and sprockets. Aligned hydraulic drive

system and tensioned chain. Changed out trolley tracks and overhauled trolleys.

January 2006 – June 2006Mechanical Fitter & Turner, Precipitation north crewQueensland Aluminium Limited, Gladstone

Principal Accountabilities: Responsible for performing maintenance tasks within a new crew creating an interdependence culture with regards to safety and setting maintenance systems.

Duties: Specific criteria and tasks performed in this position include -

Working to Safe Work Procedures, involved with QSAFE observation cards and Job Safe Practice cards.

Working independently and in team situations.

Job planning. Quality control of overhauls and maintenance job sheets. General maintenance of pumps, gearboxes, filters tables; filter drums and agitators, which

included rebuilding all these equipments listed along with laser alignment of motors and gearboxes.

Completed a red taggers course to successfully tag out equipment for other crews members.

COMMITMENT TO SAFETY: MRU & Contract Management crew HSE representative-Yarwun 2009-2010 Working at Heights Committee member Yarwun 2010 Vehicles and Driving standard committee- Yarwun 2010 Team HSE representative maintenance crew for reliability-Yarwun 2007-2008 Emergency Response Team member, achieving most improved-Yarwun 2008-2010

LEADERSHIP: Training, developing & coaching Operational & Maintenance Teams towards creating an

interdependent culture for continuous improvement. These skills were collectively acquired in my roles as a maintenance team leader and Supervisor roles

Proven diverse leadership ability, demonstrated from previous multi skilled Mechanical & contractor Supervisory roles undertaken

Support can also be demonstrated by frequent and active participation in a range of activities, including; volunteering on several consultative Teams, as a Comalco Employees Benefit Organisation Director and Coordinating/President of several work related social clubs.

PLANNING: Excellent computer skills, SAP, planning, ZB budgeting, reporting & communication skills have

been complemented from a contract supervisor role being in direct control of contractor spending. Statistical analysis of operational & maintenance expenditure, trends & reports have been

advantageous in identifying the Root Cause for LEAN & Maintenance improvement initiatives Systematic and structured approach towards developing sustainable systems of work. Examples of

this include some of LEAN 5S and Autonomous Maintenance packages, induction & competency based training procedures.

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Shane WembridgeOperations Superintendent ClarificationRio Tinto Alcan, YarwunShane.Wembridge@riotinto.comMobile: 0477 732 476

RODNEY LYNCHSuperintendent Maintenance Calcination Rio Tinto Alcan, YarwunRodney.lynch@riotinto.comMobile: 0477 306 398

GLEN SMITHMaintenance SupervisorOrigin EnergyPhone: (08) 8987 8426Mobile: 040 888 1714

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