Gilbert Hamambi

Experience

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  Chevron

  Nov 1999 - Jan 2000

  Undergraduate Mechanical Engineering Student Trainee

  Exposed to the general work ethics of a petroleum industry and gained 'practical' work experience in the following areas:*Production: - Oil Field, Oil Plant & Control Board Operations*Power Generation & Distribution: - Gas Turbines*Maintenance: - Worked with Oil Field Mechanics, Oil Field Electricians & Gas Turbine Technicians*Facilities Engineering: - Worked with Facility Engineers looking after the Oil Field production equipment and facilities.

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  New Britain Palm Oil Limited

  Jan 2001 - Dec 2001

  Undergraduate Mechanical Engineering Student Trainee

  Exposed to the general work ethics of the palm oil industry and the ‘practical’ aspects of these industrial activities:*Production: - Palm Oil Milling Operations*Process & Quality Control: - Using laboratory data as tools in process and quality control*Power Generation & Distribution: - Boiler Plants, Steam Turbines & Power Control Room*Maintenance (Workshop Practices): - Planned and breakdown maintenance, plant modifications, workshop processes and electrical installation & maintenance Show less

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  Ok Tedi Mining Limited

  Jan 2003 - Oct 2014

  Ok Tedi is phasing out Ellipse and rolling out SAP as the new enterprise resources planning (ERP) system. SAP is intended as a tool to enable Ok Tedi achieve its strategic goals that are captured in its FMO (Future Mode of Operation). I report to the Business Process Advisor (BPA) for the Manage Physical Asset (MPA) process stream in SAP. My role as support advisor is as a subject matter expert in MPA. This role requires: 1. Providing business knowledge on the structure and operating approach of Ok Tedi, 2. Assist the business to obtain the best results from the business process operation of 'Maintaining & Managing Physical Assets' and to provide the required knowledge transfer to other members of the business. Show less Provided technical Reliability and Maintenance Engineering support to the Mill Maintenance Department and the Crusher Production & Maintenance Department.*Plant/System Performance Improvements: - Drives the IDENTIFYING then DOING of what needs to be done to improve plant/system Reliability, Maintainability, Availability and Safety (RAMS).*Review/Development of Maintenance Plans: - Drives the reviewing and development of the fixed plant’s Equipment Maintenance Plans (EMPs) based on the RCM methodology using reliability engineering software tool called RCMCost.*Root Cause Analysis: - Drives Root Cause Analysis (RCA) investigations within the Fixed Plant Maintenance Department (often using the Apollo RCA methodology).*Optimize Critical Spares/Components Inventory: - Drives the reviewing and optimizing of production critical equipment spare parts/components holding levels.*Reliability, Availability and Utilisation Statistics Report: - Drives the reporting on production critical equipments' reliability, availability and utilisation statistics.*Component Change-out Optimization: - Drives the recommendations and reports on parts, components and materials trials.*Reliability in Design: - Contributes to ensure that Reliability is included in design in consultation with Engineering Services and external suppliers.*Training/Promoting Reliability Engineering and Condition Monitoring Function: - Contributes in the training of maintenance personnel and promoting the concepts and practices of reliability engineering and condition monitoring.*Mentoring & Coaching of Graduate Trainees: - Mentoring & Coaching Graduate Trainees who rotate through the Reliability Engineering and Condition Monitoring teams.*Cross Functional Training: - Facilitating and encouraging cross functional training within the RE and CM teams. Show less Assisted the Reliability Engineering Team Leader in providing technical Reliability and Maintenance Engineering support to the Fixed Plant Maintenance Department.*Reliability in Design: - Ensure reliability is included in all new designs in consultation with Engineering Services.*Plant/System Performance Improvements: - All critical plant and equipment are operated to their inherent performance levels.*Equipment Maintenance Plans: - Generation of EMPs, input into CMMS (Ellipse) and Implementation of maintenance activities generated from the Ellipse.*Optimization of Component Change-outs: - Major critical components are changed out at the right time to minimize overall maintenance cost.*Component/Material Trials: - Optimize life of components to improve equipment reliability, hence meeting production requirements.*Root Cause Failure Analysis: - Elimination of major and chronic failures on critical production equipment.*Reliability Reporting: - Production Equipment Reliability Reports are issued on a monthly basis to motivate maintenance personnel to take ownership of their contribution in the overall plant performance. Show less Under Ok Tedi's Graduate Development Scheme and was attached with the then Production Maintenance Engineering section in the Mine Pit and exposed to and gained ‘practical’ work experience in the areas of Maintenance and Maintenance Engineering.*Fixed Plant Maintenance: - Worked with Plant Fitters/Boiler Makers and acquired the necessary work practices and skills required for the maintenance of fixed plants.*Mobile Equipment Maintenance: - Worked with HEFs and acquired the necessary work practices and skills required for the maintenance of mobile equipment.*Maintenance Planning: - Worked with Maintenance Planners in carrying out the daily fixed and mobile maintenance planning duties. These include exposure to but not limited to CMMS (Ellipse in particular) and the Setting up of PMs & MSTs, APLs, etc.*Condition Monitoring: - Worked with CM Technicians in carrying out Fixed Plant & Mobile Equipment CM duties and exposed to the ‘practical’ application of the different CM Techniques that are available to monitor the condition of equipment.*Project Scheduling and ManagementSome of these major projects were:1. May 2004 – June 2004: Mine Tyre/Lube Bay Concrete Reworks. Modify/Specify alternate materials for use as dozer rail tracks and supervise contractors during construction.2. February 2004 – May 2004: Coordinate the delivery, assembly and commissioning of OTML’s CAT mining equipment from Brisbane: 3 x 789C Haul Trucks and 3 x D11R Dozers.3. July 2003 – December 2003: Do up MSTs and APLs for flotation optimization project pumps.4. Jan 2003 – Feb 2003: Assist project engineer in project managing the installation of Conveyor 11/12 transfer chute during the 49 days SAG1 shutdown in January 2003. Show less

  • Business Process Support Advisor_SAP Strongim Future Project

    Apr 2014 - Oct 2014

  • Senior Business Improvement Analyst

    Aug 2010 - Mar 2014

  • Senior Reliability Engineer

    Jan 2008 - Jul 2010

  • Reliability Engineer - Mechanical

    Jan 2005 - Dec 2007

  • Graduate Mechanical Engineer Trainee

    Jan 2003 - Dec 2004
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  Puma Energy

  Nov 2014 - Jun 2018

  Reporting to the refining business unit General Manager in a dynamic management team and provides reliability engineering leadership and strategic support to the frontline maintenance and operations by facilitating the identification, justification, prioritization and implementation of improvement initiatives to sustain and improve on the refinery’s reliability, maintainability, availability and safety.Also in this role I am working collaboratively with the Global Head of Maintenance in a team that is driving maintenance systematic improvements throughout Puma Energy’s sites worldwide. Show less

  • Reliability Improvement Coordinator

    Jul 2016 - Jun 2018

  • Maintenance Manager

    Mar 2015 - Jun 2016

  • Asset Integrity Manager

    Nov 2014 - Feb 2015
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  Ok Tedi Mining Limited

  Jul 2018 - now

  Reporting to the General Manager Strategy Business Development & Optimisation (SBD&O) Business Unit and involved at the Strategic Business Level in driving the reinvigoration of the Business Improvement Function at Ok Tedi as part of the new MD/CEO's 3R (Reset, Restore and Reinvigorate) Strategy and supporting the 'OTML Transformational Project' roll out across the business. These focus on 'Operating with Excellence' through the three key theme areas of: 'Production Improvement', 'Process Efficiency Improvement' and 'Cost Containment', which are to be underpinned by an 'OTML Operating Model' as part of our aspired transformation initiative. Show less Reporting to the General Manager Strategy Business Development & Optimisation (SBD&O) Business Unit and involved at the Strategic Business Level in driving the reinvigoration of the Business Improvement Function at Ok Tedi as part of the new MD/CEO's 3R (Reset, Restore and Reinvigorate) Strategy and supporting the 'OTML Transformational Project' roll out across the business. These focus on 'Operating with Excellence' through the three key theme areas of: 'Production Improvement', 'Process Efficiency Improvement' and 'Cost Containment', which are to be underpinned by an 'OTML Operating Model' as part of our aspired transformation initiative. Show less Reporting initially to the MD/CEO (during the formative transitioning period of executive and frontline management re-organisational changes) and later to the General Manager Strategy Business Development & Optimisation (SBD&O) Business Unit and involved at the Strategic Business Level in driving the reinvigoration of the Business Improvement Function at Ok Tedi as part of the new MD/CEO's 3R (Reset, Restore and Reinvigorate) Strategy and supporting the 'OTML Transformational Project' roll out across the business. These focus on 'Operating with Excellence' through the three key theme areas of: 'Production Improvement', 'Process Efficiency Improvement' and 'Cost Containment', which are to be underpinned by an 'OTML Operating Model' as part of our aspired transformation initiative. Show less

  • Manager Business Improvement

    Aug 2024 - now

  • Acting Manager Business Improvement

    May 2024 - Jul 2024

  • Superintendent Business Improvement

    Jun 2023 - Apr 2024

  • Principal Reliability Engineer

    Apr 2020 - May 2023

  • Manager Processing Reliability

    Apr 2019 - Mar 2020

  • Acting Manager Processing Maintenance

    Oct 2018 - Mar 2019

  • Manager Asset Reliability

    Jul 2018 - Sept 2018