Barry Knight has over 20 years of experience in operations coordination for earthmoving, civil construction, and environmental engineering projects. He currently works as a drill crew operator but has previously served as an operations coordinator supervising teams of up to 10 staff on projects throughout Far North Queensland, including for Rio Tinto and RoadTek. Knight has extensive experience operating machinery, managing safety requirements, and supervising crews, as well as qualifications in rigging, scaffolding, truck driving, and more.

1. Barry Knight
Operations Coordinator - Earthmoving/Civil Construction - CAREER RECORD
Gordonvale QLD 4865
ebazz@bigpond.com - 07 4056 2559
WORK EXPERIENCE
Drill crew operator
Trackson directional drilling - Cairns QLD - September 2013 to Present
2004 - THE GROUNDWORK GROUP, Cairns
Environmental engineering solutions (www.thegroundworkgroup.com.au)
Operations Coordinator - Earthmoving/Civil Construction
• Supervise a crew of up to 10 staff, delegating tasks, organising materials and equipment
• Provide Environmental Protection, Earth Retention and Stabilisation, Stormwater Management, Pavement
Stabilisation support and services for all types of industries, for Contractors, Government Departments, Local
Authorities, Mining Companies, Consulting Engineers and Landscape Architects
• Customer liaison on projects, take bookings for earthmoving projects
• Sales of products including gabions, rockfall netting, gabion baskets, geotextile materials and sandbags
• Operate machinery including excavators, bobcats, tandem trucks, forklifts
• Warehousing, loading and unloading trucks
• Manage HSE requirements, ensure equipment and plant is maintained to a safe standard for operators,
monitor safety procedures and ensure staff compliance with safety checks, monitor equipment for breakages/
defects, and organise defect rectification, maintenance, and servicing
• Deliver tool box talks, pre-start meetings, safety briefings, complete risk assessments, JSAs, WMS
• Provide advice to management on training programs for operators and staff, and employment of appropriate
staff for positions
• Monitor cost control and budgets, operational performance of the business, business development and
customer satisfaction
• Projects include: Weipa / Rio Tinto: Construction of spillway for new tailings dam; repair washed out culverts
on haul roads, installation of rock mattresses
• RoadTek: Gabion retaining walls on remote road construction/maintenance sites, e.g. Mt Carbine
• Cape Flattery: Spillway construction
Truck Driver / Scaffolder
RIJCON CONSTRUCTIONS - Cairns QLD - January 2013 to Present
Cairns
Steel erection and general rigging, supply and assembly of all types of scaffold, to leading builders and
construction companies in FNQ
Leading Hand - Truck Driver / Scaffolder, Rigger / Dogman,
EWP Operator / Forklift Operator
• Supervise a crew of 3 staff, delegating tasks, organising materials and equipment
• Erection of steel structures for buildings/scaffolding
• Remote work includes around Cape York including Aboriginal Communities - basketball and sports stadiums
- working on site for up to a month at a time
• Truck driving - Mercedes Benz Heavy Rigid flatbed 10 tonne, with Truck Crane

2. • Operation of scissor lifts, EWP
• Conduct prestart safety checks, participate in toolbox talks and maintain a safe workplace at all times
PROFILE
• Extensive truck driving experience including HR, Body Dump Trucks, as well as 300 hours excavator; 200
hours skidsteer experience
• Significant remote area history on civil construction and mine sites around Far North Queensland, and current
Weipa Contractor Induction
• Expertise in Environmental Protection, Earth Retention and Stabilisation, Stormwater Management,
Pavement Stabilisation works
• Skilled in maintaining all safety requirements, monitoring compliance with safety procedures, defect
notification/rectification, risk assessments, JSEAs, WMS, delivering tool box talks etc.
• Loyal and stable employment history with an excellent safety record
• Keen to learn new skills in a career with the mining industry after working at Rio Tinto Weipa, and hope to
achieve job security
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
• HC, UD, RMDL, PWCL
• Blue Card Construction Industry Safety 165745 Iss 10/11/2004
• Weipa Contractor Induction Card 9164986 Rio Tinto Alcan
• SB Basic Scaffolder 01759240 Iss 14/4/2004
• LF Forklift 01347696 Iss 3/10/1997
• RB Basic Rigger 01797460 Iss 10/11/2004
• DG Dogger 01591201 Iss 7/6/2001
• LE Excavator 01973182 Iss 22/3/2007
• LS Skid Steer Loader 01927209 Iss 19/8/2006
• WP Work Platform 01819508 Iss 19/3/2005
• Level 1 Chainsaw Operations Iss 6/3/2010
. working at heights certificate
2010 Certificate IV in Frontline Management
OUTSOURCE SERVICES
CAREER RECORD
current Drill crew operator September 2013 to Present
Trackson Directional Drilling
2004 -THE GROUNDWORK GROUP, Cairns
Environmental engineering solutions (www.thegroundworkgroup.com.au)
Operations Coordinator - Earthmoving/Civil Construction
• Supervise a crew of up to 10 staff, delegating tasks, organising materials and equipment
• Provide Environmental Protection, Earth Retention and Stabilisation, Stormwater Management, Pavement
Stabilisation support and services for all types of industries, for Contractors, Government Departments, Local
Authorities, Mining Companies, Consulting Engineers and Landscape Architects
• Customer liaison on projects, take bookings for earthmoving projects
• Sales of products including gabions, rockfall netting, gabion baskets, geotextile materials and sandbags
• Operate machinery including excavators, bobcats, tandem trucks, forklifts
• Warehousing, loading and unloading trucks

3. • Manage HSE requirements, ensure equipment and plant is maintained to a safe standard for operators,
monitor safety procedures and ensure staff compliance with safety checks, monitor equipment for breakages/
defects, and organise defect rectification, maintenance, and servicing
• Deliver tool box talks, pre-start meetings, safety briefings, complete risk assessments, JSAs, WMS
• Provide advice to management on training programs for operators and staff, and employment of appropriate
staff for positions
• Monitor cost control and budgets, operational performance of the business, business development and
customer satisfaction
• Projects include: Weipa / Rio Tinto: Construction of spillway for new tailings dam; repair washed out culverts
on haul roads, installation of rock mattresses
• RoadTek: Gabion retaining walls on remote road construction/maintenance sites, e.g. Mt Carbine
• Cape Flattery: Spillway construction
1997 - 2004 RIJCON CONSTRUCTIONS, Cairns
Steel erection and general rigging, supply and assembly of all types of scaffold, to leading builders and
construction companies in FNQ
Leading Hand - Truck Driver / Scaffolder, Rigger / Dogman,
EWP Operator / Forklift Operator
• Supervise a crew of 3 staff, delegating tasks, organising materials and equipment
• Erection of steel structures for buildings/scaffolding
• Remote work includes around Cape York including Aboriginal Communities - basketball and sports stadiums
- working on site for up to a month at a time
• Truck driving - Mercedes Benz Heavy Rigid flatbed 10 tonne, with Truck Crane
• Operation of scissor lifts, EWP
• Conduct prestart safety checks, participate in toolbox talks and maintain a safe workplace at all times