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>> PERSONAL DETAILS
Name : Charles Atkinson
Languages : English and Afrikaans
>> EDUCATION
Year Institution
1979 : Higher National Certificate – NTC 6 – Structural /
Mechanical
Technical College – Bloemfontein
1991 : Diploma Technology – Civil Engineering –
Structural
Wits Technikon
Computer Skills : PDS Frameworks, 2013
Microstation,
Triforma Structural,
Modeler 3D,
CADD,
Xsteel
>> SUMMARY EXPERIENCE
Charles has a total of thirty years’ experience in Structural layout and detailing, Mechanical layout and
detailing, Mining and plant layout. From the thirty years in total, Charles has ten years in mechanical
field as millwright and fitter foreman and twenty years in drawing office on various projects. Mining and
industrial plants and site work. Working on designing programs such as Microstation, Triforma
Structural, Modeler 3D, Xsteel detailing, AutoCAD, Frameworks and PDMS
>> RELEVANT EXPERIENCE
• Husab new Uranium Plant, Swakopmund, South West Africa, AMEC, South Africa, Senior
Structural Designer
• CNRL, CNRL Trains 4 & 5, Calgary, Canada, Senior Structural Designer. Hatch Canada Calgary,
Senior Structural Designer, CNRL expansion
• Tasiast Mauritanie Ltd, Tasiast, Mississauga, Canada, Senior Structural Designer. Hatch Canada
Mississauga Canada. Senior Designer - Structural. Tasiast mill structure
• El Morro, Santiago, Chile, Senior Structural Designer 3D. Hatch Santiago, Chile, Senior Designer
- Structural, El Morro project H/336325 , Mina Ministro Hales H/336073
• Bluescope Steel, Port Kemble extensions, Wollongong, Australia, Senior Structural Designer.
Hatch SE Australia, Wollongong, Australia, Senior Designer - Structural, Westcliff extensions,
BlueScope steel, Port Kemble extensions
• QIT Madagascar Minerals, QMM Ilmenite Project, Madagascar, Senior Structural Designer.
Engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) and commissioning services
for the QIT Madagascar Minerals ilmenite mineral sands project near Fort Dauphin, Madagascar.
The project included a dredge mining plant, a concentrator, a minerals separation plant, a power
station, more than 20 km of roads, 300-plus housing estate, a quarry, and an export port facility.
The project earned the Rio Tinto 2009 Chief Executive’s Safety Award; and technical auditors for
QMM and Rio Tinto have told the QMM team that the optimal use of space, ergonomic layout and
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general quality of engineering provided by Hatch for the project have resulted in the best
designed mineral mining and separation plant the auditors have ever seen. The project was
delivered through the Mandena Joint Venture with Fluor.
• Various, Various, Woodmead Johannesburg, South Africa, Senior Structural Designer. Hatch
Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa. Senior Designer - Structural. Alcoa extensions, Feasibility
study for DeBeers C-cut, QMM Madagascar minerals - Wet plant and conveyors.
• Hatch Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa. Senior Designer - Structural. Highveld steel
Johannesburg, South Africa, Structural Designer. MDM. Design Draughtsman Structural. Various
small structures for various smaller mines.
• Mozambique, Structural Designer. Contracting at Mozal, Mozambique. Design Draughtsman
Structural. Feasibility study for Mozal II and Hillside III (Aluminium Smelter) extension.
• Welkom and Johannesburg, South Africa, Structural & Mechanical Designer. Contracting at ACC
CTO. Design Draughtsman (Mechanical and Structural). Konkola Deep Mining Project, layout and
details of headgear and underground crushing stations. Elandsrand shaft deepening – layout
details of underground shotcrete plant. Western Deep Levels South No. 1 sub-shaft deepening,
details of loading station measuring flasks and chutes. Upgrade of casting bay steelwork to install
a 70 foot crane at Zimbabwe Alloys and four weeks of site work to supervise upgrade. Layout and
details crushing and screening plant for Zimbabwe Alloys. Feasibility studies for Hunters Road,
Shangani and Unki Mines in Zimbabwe and Cuiba shaft deepening in Brazil. Layout and detail of
dump conveyors for Western Deep Levels. Mine and Namdeb, Elizabeth Bay.
• Hatch Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa. Design Draughtsman Structural. ACP Project for Anglo
Platinum, Mortimer Furnace Reline (19.7 MVA 6 Inline Elkem Furnace), Mortimer Merensky
Flotation Upgrade walkways and access stairs. Structural steel buildings pump support frames
and pipe bridges.
• Johannesburg, South Africa, Structural & Mechanical Designer. Contracting at Rio Tinto, South
Africa. Design Draughtsman (Mechanical and Structural). Phalaborwa underground mining
project – layout and details of production and service shaft headgears and surface conveyors
• Johannesburg, South Africa, Structural & Mechanical Designer. Contracting at EMS,
Johannesburg. Design Draughtsman Structural. Mozal – layout and detail silos, steel buildings
and support structures for tender and construction purposes. Foskor – Fosx8 (after hours).
Layout and detail silos, tanks and bins, steel buildings and support structures.
• Contracting at AATS, Johannesburg. Design Draughtsman (Mechanical and Structural). Konkola
deep Mining Project – Feasibility on shaft and underground, Hudson Bay Mining and Smelting
Co., Ltd, Project 777 (Canada), conceptual layouts of underground conveyor, loading station,
shaft bottom and shaft steelwork.
• Contracting at ACC Freegold Regional Design Office. Design Draughtsman (Mechanical and
Structural). Layout and details of underground conveyors and ore silos at Freddies Mine No. 4
Shaft. Modifications to headgear steelwork for equipping at Saaiplaas Mine No. 5 Shaft. Rehab of
Vecor winder house for President Steyn Mine No. 3 Shaft. Also various smaller layouts and
details
• Anglo American Corporation Freegold (Operations) – Regional Design Office. Major Learner
Engineering Draughtsman. Worked with Senior Designers on various projects such as Freddies
No. 1 Shaft, President Brand No. 5 Shaft and various projects on the gold plants.
• Anglo American Corporation, President Steyn Mine – Foreman Fitter. General maintenance, work
at hostels, including boilers, pumps and compressor maintenance.
• South African Transport Services – Millwright. General maintenance of cranes, pumps,
hydraulics, boilers and general work on lathes and milling machines as well as erection of steel
structures
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>> EMPLOYMENT
Company : Hatch – Woodmead – South Africa
Position : Senior Designer – Structural
Period of employment : 2014 - 2015
Company : Amec
Position : Senior Designer – Structural
Period of employment : 2014 - 2014
Company : Hatch – Calgary – Alberta, Canada
Position : Senior Designer – Structural
Period of employment : 2012 - 2013
Company : Hatch – Mississauga – Ontario, Canada
Position : Senior Designer – Structural
Period of employment : 2012
Company : Hatch – Santiago – Chile
Position : Senior Designer – Structural
Period of employment : 2011
Company : Hatch – Wollogong – Australia
Position : Senior Designer – Structural
Period of employment : 2010
Company : Hatch – Woodmead – South Africa
Position : Senior Designer – Structural
Period of employment : 2002 - 2010
Company : MDM – South Africa
Position : Senior Designer – Structural
Period of employment : 2002
Company : Hatch – South Africa
Position : Design Draughtsman – Structural
Period of employment : 2000 - 2002
Company : Mozal – Mozambique
Position : Design Draughtsman – Structural
Period of employment : 2000
Company : AATS – South Africa
Position : Design Draughtsman – Mechanical and
Structural
Period of employment : 2000
Company : Hatch – South Africa
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Position : Design Draughtsman – Structural
Period of employment : 1999 - 2000
Company : AATS – South Africa
Position : Design Draughtsman – Mechanical and
Structural
Period of employment : 1999
Company : EMS – South Africa
Position : Design Draughtsman – Structural
Period of employment : 1998 - 1999
Company : AAC CTO – South Africa
Position : Design Draughtsman – Mechanical and
Structural
Period of employment : 1997 - 1998
Company : Rio Tinto – South Africa
Position : Design Draughtsman – Mechanical and
Structural
Period of employment : 1996 – 1997
Company : AAC CTO – South Africa
Position : Draughtsman – Mechanical and Structural
Period of employment : 1995 - 1996
Company : Anglo American Corporation Freegold – South
Africa
Position : Draughtsman
Period of employment : 1988 – 1995
Company : Anglo American Corporation – South Africa
Position : Foreman Fitter
Period of employment : 1987 - 1988
Company : South African Transport Services – South Africa
Position : Millwright
Period of employment : 1985 – 1987
Company : South African Transport Services – South Africa
Position : Apprentice Millwright
Period of employment : 1982 - 1985
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Position : Design Draughtsman – Structural
Period of employment : 1999 - 2000
Company : AATS – South Africa
Position : Design Draughtsman – Mechanical and
Structural
Period of employment : 1999
Company : EMS – South Africa
Position : Design Draughtsman – Structural
Period of employment : 1998 - 1999
Company : AAC CTO – South Africa
Position : Design Draughtsman – Mechanical and
Structural
Period of employment : 1997 - 1998
Company : Rio Tinto – South Africa
Position : Design Draughtsman – Mechanical and
Structural
Period of employment : 1996 – 1997
Company : AAC CTO – South Africa
Position : Draughtsman – Mechanical and Structural
Period of employment : 1995 - 1996
Company : Anglo American Corporation Freegold – South
Africa
Position : Draughtsman
Period of employment : 1988 – 1995
Company : Anglo American Corporation – South Africa
Position : Foreman Fitter
Period of employment : 1987 - 1988
Company : South African Transport Services – South Africa
Position : Millwright
Period of employment : 1985 – 1987
Company : South African Transport Services – South Africa
Position : Apprentice Millwright
Period of employment : 1982 - 1985
