Eltton Veras

Experience

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  Cia de Ferro Ligas da Bahia - FERBASA

  Feb 2011 - Jul 2011

  Trainee

  • Monitoring of all unit mining processes in underground mines;• Monitoring of large diameter drilling to open shafts using Raise boring;• Underground mine ventilation optimization project;• Update of the computer model of the ventilation system when compared with the reality of the Mine;• Simulation to increase ventilation system efficiency.

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  Vale

  Jan 2012 - Sept 2024

  Team leader made up of 9 direct leaders, team made up of 400 people (own employees and partners).● Implemented management of high potential risks existing in the area, eliminating 75% of the risk exposure of employees working in the explosives store facilities. Also acting as sponsor of the board's risk element, facilitating the implementation and governance check of critical controls;● Delivered zero CAF-type accidents through the implementation of accident preventive policies;● Coordinated actions to leverage GG's Operational Excellence in mine operations through improving 5S, encouraging the development of CCQ and Six Sigma projects;● Facilitated the lever of diversity and inclusion by hiring the 1st female supervisor in the management's history (22% of female leaders), creating an identity for the drilling and blasting management;● Built a solid relationship with federal agencies that monitor dangerous products;● Mobilized and managed large contracts for the internal movement of sterile (budget of 450 MR$/year) and manufacturing and application of explosives (budget of 150 MR$/year);● Management of physical utilization KPIs (6% increase), drilling rig productivity through monitoring of critical variables and drilling quality indicators: xyz adherence to planned holes (adhesion going from 80% to 94%) and indicator of transfers from holes; ● Led the project for the implementation and operation of 9 (nine) autonomous drilling rigs, increasing the productivity of rotary drilling rigs by 22%; Show less Responsible for the planning and operational control and reliability process. Team leader made up of 10 leaders and 14 direct staff and 10 engineers.● Implemented FMDS of supervision for the pillars of safety, people, cost and productivity;● Contributes directly to the formation of the team of coordinators to work in the PCO (operational planning and control), with 50% of the team being female leaders;● Created scope of action for Engineering in the mine operation, centralizing all GG deliveries in coordination, before Engineering was divided into supervision. Important delivery to reduce the percentage of unproductive hours due to lack of operator (5% to 1.5%) through study of times and movements of the production process;● Defined roles and responsibilities between the PCO and mine planning to deliver the weekly, monthly and quarterly mining plan, generating product to direct mine operations (adherence from 30% to 85% of plan execution);● Created identity for the autonomous mine by creating concepts for this type of operation. Initially, I held a workshop with all the leadership and staff to define this model, followed by Gembas to map and define the actions;● Facilitated studies to increase productivity in the Carajás mines: Increase in the average speed of autonomous trucks (14 in total) by 12% through the implementation of routines to eliminate operational restrictions on access; increased the physical utilization of excavators by 3.6% by increasing the average mass per shot; as well as increased excavator productivity by 60 t/h through resizing drilling meshes; ● Conducted innovative testing in Brazil for rock fragmentation without the use of explosives through the use of a Continuous Surface Miner. Results contributed to the release of a mass of 50 Mt that previously could not be mined using the traditional method. Show less Responsible for Planning and Control of the Carajás Operation. Management of a team of 14 direct staff. Main deliverables:● Facilitated studies to increase productivity in the Carajás mines: Increase in the average speed of autonomous trucks (14 in total) by 12% through the implementation of routines to eliminate operational restrictions on access; increased the physical utilization of excavators by 3.6% by increasing the average mass per shot; as well as increased excavator productivity by 60 t/h through resizing drilling meshes;● Conducted innovative testing in Brazil for rock fragmentation without the use of explosives through the use of a Continuous Surface Miner. Results contributed to the release of a mass of 50 Mt that previously could not be mined using the traditional method.● Visited the Toyota factory – São Paulo; Show less Worked as a Rock Drilling and Blasting Engineer. Main deliverables:-- Vibration control for approaching dismantling in cavity regions - development of short and long field elementary wave studies to prepare vibration simulation curves (2019);-- Study for the application and acquisition of Continuous Surface Miners in environmentally sensitive regions (2019);-- Validation of a mathematical model to optimize costs in the drilling, dismantling, loading, transport and primary crushing chain of the Carajás iron mine (2019); -- Elimination of the use of fuses in Carajás dismantling operations. 100% use of electronic fuzes (2016), tireless search for people’s safety;-- Good relationship with federal agencies for process continuity;-- Change in drilling mesh geometry - application of the equilateral triangle model - global standard;-- Structuring the Rock Drilling and Blasting process - elaboration of technical process standards;-- Development of new blasting techniques to increase mine loading and transport productivity;-- Reduction of R$0.162 per ton dismantled (2015);-- 18% reduction in premature lifting cable exits from Shovel cable excavators (2015);-- Reduced exposure to risk in the Rock blasting process (Reduced rework);-- Reduction of 804 blasting in 2015, without reducing the total blasting mass (only increasing the mass per blasting);-- 3.6% increase in the physical use of Excavators (Reduction in impacts due to stops for blasting) (2015);-- Visit Enaex factory in Quatro Barras - Curitiba;-- Visit to the Los Bronces mine - Anglo American - Chile. 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  • Drilling, Blasting, Signaling and Mine Monitoring Manager

    Aug 2023 - Sept 2024

  • Temporary Manager of Autonomous Mine, Reliability, PCO and Basic Guidelines

    Feb 2023 - Aug 2023

  • Operation Planning and Control Coordinator

    Dec 2022 - Feb 2023

  • Operational Reliability Coordinator

    Dec 2021 - Dec 2022

  • Rock Drilling and Blasting Coordinator

    Jul 2020 - Dec 2021

  • Senior Mining Engineer

    Feb 2018 - Jul 2020

  • Full Mining Engineer

    Dec 2015 - Jan 2018

  • Mining engineer

    Jan 2012 - Nov 2015
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  Vermeer Corporation

  Nov 2024 - now

  Segment Manager Latin America - Mining

  Regional operations in the specialized excavation segment of Vermeer Corporation:-- Develop new service opportunities within the specialized mining excavation segment;-- I act as the company's main contact for matters related to the segmentwithin the Latin American region;-- I promote solutions to the market;-- Monitor and follow the goals established for the mining segment.