SUMMARY
Hands-on and process-oriented mining engineer with over 14+ years work experience in production management and quality control in union workplace with Fortune 500 companies. Worked in cement and gypsum wallboard manufacturing, open pit aggregate quarries, metallic & non-metallic mines. Experienced in mine operations (drilling, blasting, crushing), short / long-term mine planning, mine pit reclamation, process optimization, mobile equipment maintenance and capital budgeting / profit and loss. Worked with MSHA, DEP. Computer literate and familiar with SAP, ERP, PeopleSoft, AutoCAD, Lean Six Sigma certified, Project Management. Other expertise are in ISO 9001 auditing, control room operation, cement chemistry, particle size analysis, alternative fuel for cement process, concrete, ASTM. Innovative and Out-of-Box Thinker.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
LAFARGE NA - Aggregate (A Fortune 500 cement / building materials giant)
Plant Supervisor 2011- 2012 (Position eliminated)
•Manage a shift in a 10,000 tpd (1.0 - 1.6Mt annual) Frederick Maryland open pit quarry operation, crushing (gyratory, Hazamag and cone crushers), crushing and screening of aggregates to different ASTM sizes.
•Manage 10 union personnel in a shift.
•Keep track of maintenance of crushers, conveyors, mobile equipments.
•Implement and manage company environmental, safety and health policies.
•Managed front yard/sales loading of different aggregate products to customers.
ITALCEMENTI (A Fortune 500 Cement Company)
Mining Engineer / Quarry Manager 2010 – 2011
•Managed a 19-20 quarry supervisors and hourly employees department producing 1.5-1.6M tons per year crushed limestone including capital budgeting for a cement plant
•Supervised operation of a 1000 tph Hazemag impact crusher and contract drill and blast operation.
•Handled mine engineering / pit design / reserve estimation using AutoCAD.
•Managed the maintenance of quarry mobile equipment (CAT 775, 990s) and Hazemag crusher circuit in SAP-based maintenance system.
•Project Manager on the reclamation of mine-out quarry pit to PA DEP standards.
•Worked with PA DEP and MSHA agencies on mine safety and environmental monitory of the operation.
TILCON New York Aggregate Operation - (Oldcastle Material – Fortune 500 Materials Group)
Pit / Plant Engineer 2007 – 2008
•Safely managed a 1.2M t/y (10,000 t/d) truck–loader granite open pit quarrying, primary crushing (using Kobelco jaw crusher) operations and maintenance.
•Scheduled & supervised contract drill and blast (ANFO) operations, maintained pit dewatering ponds (using dragline) and front yard sales loading.
•Led 15-17 union employees under department.
•Conducted regular plant-wide safety audit to keep par with MHSA Safety standards.
LAFARGE NA – Gypsum
Process Engineer 2007-2003
•Troubleshoot boardline process & quality deviations that affect final product from raw material (gypsum rock, paper, additives) to drying operation in 300,000 m2/yr high-speed gypsum wallboard manufacturing.
Mill Engineer
•Managed safely operation and maintenance with 2-3 union production and heavy equipment operators of 700 t/d Claudius Peters Vertical Roller Mill flash calciner in a shift to supply stucco feed to main boardline operation.
•Managed operation of mill baghouse dust collector system.
•Developed and implemented safety emergency SOPs for the 100-man plant operation.
HOLCIM (Philippines) Inc (HOLCIM Group – Fortune 500 cement giant)
Quarry Engineer 2002 – 1994
•Managed 10-15 personnel in 4,000 t/d (0.9-1M t/y) open pit limestone drill-blast-haul-crush operation to supply in a 19M bags/y Type 1 and P cement plant.
•Drill - used tracked rotary-percussion drills; rotary down-the-hole, hydraulic drifter drills.
•Blast: - used ANFO-slurry explosives.
•Mine planning: using Holcim QSO and manual methods.
•Managed open-circuit jaw crusher-impact crushers and
Plant Environmental Health and Safety Engineer and Internal ISO9001 Quality Auditor
•Successfully implemented comprehensive safety programs in a 150-man cement plant
•Documented operational SOP as ISO9001 Document Initiator and Internal Quality Auditor for the successful ISO9000 certification of the plant.
Senior Cement Research Engineer (Corporate-based)
•Worked in a multi-plant to present, implement plant-specified R&D, process projects.
•Conducted successful characterization of cement raw material, use of alternative fuel and raw materials (AFR) for company’s 8.7M t/y cement operation.
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