1. RESUME
Committed to Safety
Peter Heath Merz
MECHANICAL FITTER
645 Glen Forrest Dr, Glen Forrest WA 6071
(08) 9298 9047 / 0438 988 169
Email: peter.merz@bigpond.com
CAREER OVERVIEW
 Mechanical Fitter / Maintenance Technician / Service Man
 Consistently re-employed by major companies working on major projects
 Mining, Oil and Gas, Processing, Rail, Vehicles, Alumina Plants, Vessels, Pumps, Pipes,
Turbines, The Mint, Water Treatment Plants, Pumps, Turbines, Coca Cola Amatil Plant etc.
 Multiple Inductions
 Mentoring trades and training apprentices
 No Lost Time Injuries or Accidents – extensive OHSE training
QUALIFICATIONS & SKILLS
 Trade Studies Certificate Fitting and First Class Machining Midland TAFE
 Service Technician Service and Maintenance of Local & Remote Water Treatment Plants,
Fabrication, Installation, Commissioning Desalination & Brackish Water Treatment Plants
Wembley TAFE
 Hydraulics NM32 Hydraulics 2 NM57 Pneumatics NM31 Manual Metal Arc Welding 2/3 NF05/6
 Water Pumping NM42 Material Science NF15 Electrical Fundamentals NBB08 TAFE
 Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Carlisle TAFE
 CPCCLDG3001A Dogging. CPCCLRG3001A Rigging.
 TLILIC2005A Elevated Working Platform WL0034197
 HLTFA311A Senior First Aid Certificate 1008677
 RIIOHS204A Work Safely at Heights
 RIIWHS202D Confined Spaces
 CPCCOHS1001A OHS Construction White / Blue Card 97266
 MARCSTA 2-39812 DuPont Certificate
 SAP & JD Edwards Planning Software
 Rail Corridor Safety access TLIF2080C, TLIF2062A, Shunting TLIC3017A,
 MSIC Card BPA0002638
 TBOSIET 5501and CSTP training
 Driver Training DTEC RTO7043 & RIIVEH305A Four wheel drive
 Hydratight Bolt Joint Integrity Torque & Tensioning No. HTTCAU1481
EMPLOYMENT
Mechanical Fitter
UGL Operations and Maintenance, Chevrons LNG Gorgon Project
Barrow Island
2015 – Present
 Based in Core Maintenance INLET Team
 On-going maintenance support for Chevron high risk work
 Working on pressurised systems: piping, mechanical seals, valves, vessels and flange
management
 Rotating equipment: pumps, fans and compressors
 Corrective and preventative maintenance, scoping immediate and upcoming work
 Preparation of permits and work packs through to job completion
 Using JD Edwards Planning Software
Maintenance Technician
FMG Rail South Hedland Facility & Mine Sites
 Rolling stock maintenance servicing dash-9, sd70 and sd90 locomotives
 Component change outs e.g. power assembles, turbines, compressors, oil & water pumps, filters,
 Shunting of Locomotives and Ore cars, travelling to mine sites
 Provisioning yard and fixed plant maintenance
May 2013 – May 2015

2. Service Technician
Novatron Australia
May 2012 ̶ May 2013
 Reverse osmosis desalination equipment. Fabrication of Desalination plants Installation and
service, Local and Site. Water treatment quality control.
Mechanical Fitter
Downer EDI
Worsley Alumina BHP, Efficiency & Growth Project
Nov 2011 – May 2012
 Construction of feeders, conveyor gearboxes, alignments, vessel and valve installations
 Installation and commissioning of process pumps (Warman), Pipe flange alignment, Bolt torque
and tensioning.
Mechanical Fitter
Laing O’Rourke – Efficiency & Growth Project
Marradong/Saddleback Site
Feb 2011 – Oct 2011
 Construction of Jaw Crushers, Apron Feeders, Screen Decks Conveyors, Alignments,
Commissioning
Maintenance Technician
DIAB Engineering Boddington Gold Mine
Aug 2009 – Jan 2011
 Maintenance of: Mill, chemical process equipment & continued commissioning of process plant.
 Component change out/overhaul of flotation, concentration equipment pumps and screen decks
Mechanical Fitter
AGC Industries Boddington Gold Mine
Dec 2007 – July 2009
 Construction of Ball Mills (Metso Minerals) Gear and Bearing Alignment, Screen Deck and
Conveyor installations, Pipe fitting and commissioning of plant.
Mechanical Fitter
AGC Industries CSBP AN2 Project Kwinana
Jun 2007 – Dec 2007
 Construction of Vessels, Pumps, and Conveyors
 Installation of MAN Compressor, Gear Type and Steam Turbine
 Pump coupling alignments, Pipe Fitting
MECHANICAL FITTER AND/OR SERVICEMAN CONTRACTS 1991 – 2007
 Monadelphous KalPumps, PRP, Canning vale – Warman Pump overhaul & assembly
HI Smelt Shutdown – Maintenance to boiler, FGD and turbine plant
 RCR Tomlinson Ravensthorpe Nickle Project Construction of desalination plant, pump & vessel
installation, pipe fitting – stainless / poly
 Positron Group Telfer Gold Mine Infrastructure: bore fields, pumping stations, and diesel
generator maintenance
 Total Turbine Services Turbine shutdown Murrin Murrin, ABB overhaul bearing assembly
 Stafftek Pty Ltd Woodside Shutdown, Safety valve shutdown systems
 Monadelphous Perth Mint: Coin press maintenance, new caster fabrication
 Stafftek Pty Ltd Pipe Fitting Construction of cooler/lubrication modules for gas turbines
 Thiess / Worsley Alumina Expansion Project construction and shutdowns: pump, compressor,
blower and vessel installations and alignment, commissioning of process plant (re-employed)
 Stafftek Pty Ltd Woodside Shutdown, Safety valve shutdown systems (re-employed)
 Stafftek Aker Kvaerner Pipe Fitting Construction of cooler/lubrication modules for gas turbines
 Monadelphous Telfer Gold Mine Commissioning 2nd Train, Shutdowns and Maintenance of
Gyrator Crushers, Ball Mills (Metso Minerals)
 Thiess Pty Ltd HISmelt Site Kwinana: Construction, fitting, and commissioning
 Foodline Stainless Installations Chemeq Kwinana, Construction, pipe fitting, commissioning,
maintenance of the process plant
 Coca Cola Amatil Beverage process, packaging machinery, , shutdowns, installations, plant &
preventative maintenance, conveyors, quality control, water treatment etc. (7 years)
 Monadelphous Engineering Applecross Cadjebut Zinc/Lead Plant: maintenance, shutdowns
 Newcrest Mining Ltd Telfer Gold Mine again: Mill and Crusher Heap Leach & CIP Flotation
 Advanced Engineering Maintenance & Fabrication: Coca Cola, Kewdale
 Metro Brick Company Crusher, Mill, Brick machine setter and unloader

3.  Australian Resources and Mining Company Gidgee Gold Mine: crushers, water pumps, bore
fields, pipelines flotation & concentration equipment etc.
 Newcrest Mining Ltd Telfer Gold Mine, Gidgee Gold Mine: crushers, water pumps, bore fields,
pipelines flotation & concentration equipment etc. Poly Pipe welding
 Civmec Construction & Engineering Telfer Gold Mine: welding, underground & surface fixed
plant maintenance
 Skilled Engineering Transperth commissioning of new trains, Bristile Clay Tiles, CSBP, Farmers
Ltd, Hardie Iplex PVC, WMC, CSR Gyprock, Corinthian, Newcrest Mining Telfer Gold Mine, ICI
Crop Products
 Monadelphous Group Kwinana Shutdown
 Perth Contract Personnel Eltin-Ferro Gully Iron Ore Mine
 Integrated Workforce Newman, Pneumatech Air Hosemasters
 E & L Metcalf Pty Ltd Bores and Pumps Manufacturing.
 Water Authority WA Pump station & bore field installation etc.
 Hard Chrome Sales Primary & Secondary Crushing, Mills etc.
 Whiteman’sBrick Co. WA
 Quarry Industries WA Group
Fitter / Machinist Four Year Apprenticeship + Tradesman Jan 1981 – Dec 1985
Midland Brick Company WA
REFEREES
 FMG Rail Ashley Simpson 0419 652 408
 FMG Rail John Wotton 0429 159 552, 0437 910 889
 Novatron Australia Paul Calneggia 08 9352 8100
 RCR Tomlinson Joe Reid 0467 984 210
 Downer EDI Jason Williams 0427 615 949
 Boddington Gold Mine Steve Simpson 0408 524 042, Paul Wenn 0408 090 761
 Rio Tinto Lindsay Jones 0437701788