Curriculum Vitae

Charles Atkinson

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>> PERSONAL DETAILS

Name : Charles Atkinson

Languages : English and Afrikaans

>> EDUCATIONYear Institution1979 : 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 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.

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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

>> EMPLOYMENT

Company : Hatch – Woodmead – South Africa Position : Senior Designer – Structural Period of employment : 2014 - 2015

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Company : AmecPosition : Senior Designer – Structural Period of employment : 2014 - 2014

Company : Hatch – Calgary – Alberta, CanadaPosition : Senior Designer – Structural Period of employment : 2012 - 2013

Company : Hatch – Mississauga – Ontario, CanadaPosition : 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 AfricaPosition : Senior Designer – Structural Period of employment : 2002

Company : Hatch – South AfricaPosition : Design Draughtsman – Structural Period of employment : 2000 - 2002

Company : Mozal – Mozambique Position : Design Draughtsman – Structural Period of employment : 2000

Company : AATS – South AfricaPosition : Design Draughtsman – Mechanical and

StructuralPeriod of employment : 2000

Company : Hatch – South AfricaPosition : 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

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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 AfricaPosition : Foreman Fitter Period of employment : 1987 - 1988

Company : South African Transport Services – South AfricaPosition : MillwrightPeriod of employment : 1985 – 1987

Company : South African Transport Services – South AfricaPosition : Apprentice Millwright Period of employment : 1982 - 1985