Senior Engineers

» Brian Bennett
» David Johnston
» John Gillies
» John Lawrence
» John Ryan
» Craig Smith
» John Elliott
» Malcolm Blue

Brian is a Senior Electrical Engineer with twelve years experience in Steel, Power Distribution, Manufacturing and Chemical Industries performing Project Management, Contract Negotiation, Maintenance Management and Hazard and Operability Studies.

Brian’s experience includes design, installation, commissioning and maintenance of a wide variety of industrial equipment and processes. He is also experienced in the design of process control systems including programming and commissioning of industrial process instrumentation and control systems. In recent years Brian has managed a small team of multi disciplined trades and staff in a high volume manufacturing environment.

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David Johnston is a senior electrical engineer with 15 years experience in control system design specification and commissioning, mainly in manufacturing industries.

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John Gillies is a senior instrumentation engineer with 20 years experience in the manufacturing, oil and gas and chemical industries. John's experience includes design, installation, commissioning and maintenance of a wide variety of industrial equipment and processes.

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John is the Senior Mechanical Engineer with twenty-seven years’ experience in the Oil and Gas and Resources Industries. John has significant experience with rotating machinery particularly gas turbine and reciprocating compression equipment and the operation and maintenance of facilities. During his time as an engineer John has gained experience in all aspects of engineering studies, feasibility studies, risk assessment, cost estimating, project management, project engineering, ISO 9000 Quality certification and maintenance with particular emphasis on high-pressure oil and gas pipeline systems and gas compression.

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John Ryan is a senior mechanical engineer with 20+ years experience in the manufacturing, oil and gas and chemical industries.

John's experience includes design, installation, commissioning and maintenance of a wide variety of process and mechanical engineering projects, and brings vast knowledge of procurement and construction methods and site supervision experience.

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Craig Smith is a senior instrumentation engineer with 25 years experience in the manufacturing, oil and gas and chemical industries.

Craig's experience includes design, installation, commissioning and maintenance of a wide variety of industrial equipment and processes.

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John Elliott is an electrical engineer with eight years experience in the Oil and Gas, Water, Manufacturing and Refining industries. Mr. Elliott has experience in the specification and programming of SCADA systems, programmable logic controllers and PC based operator interfaces such as Intellution FIX, Citect and WonderWare. He also has an in-depth understanding of a range of computer operating systems such as Windows NT with experience in the configuration and networking of such systems.

This knowledge is further enhanced by his experience with Windows based programming languages such as Visual Basic and databases such as Access and SQL Server. John is an experienced project Manager in the oil, gas water and mining arenas with his most recent role as Project Manager for Phase 2 of the SA Water SCADA upgrade project.

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Mr. Blue has over 30 years experience in Industrial Process Control Instrumentation, 27 of which have been in the oil and gas industry. He was a key contributor in the development of the Cooper Basin oil and gas facilities in Central Australia from commissioning of the first facilities in 1969 through the liquids development projects.

Experience includes oil and gas metering, gas turbine driven compressor controls and liquids recovery plant, fractionation plant Burner Management Systems and lube oil refinery instrumentation and controls.

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