Clive Bernard Mead

Engineering SuperintendentFull Time

• Job Details:Experience Summary I have extensive Hands On & Supervisory experience on Underground & Surface Mining Machinery & Auxiliary Support Machinery including Bull Dozers, Front End Loaders, Road Graders, Road Compacters, All sizes of Articulated & Rigid Trucks, Cranes, Fork Lifts, all makes of Pick Ups & Stationary Generator Sets. Expertise Summary To summarize, for the past 30 years I have been working predominantly on Caterpillar, Komatsu, Sandvik & Atlas Copco & Surface & Underground Mining Equipment being Drills, Scooptram Loaders, Trucks & Utility Machinery employed in the Mining & Tunnelling industries the last 3 years of which being spent at Acacia Mining, previously known as African Barrick Gold, at Bulyanhulu Mine in the Kahama district in Tanzania. Most Recent Work Experience I have been working in the Asset Reliability Department as their Failure Analyst, Machinery & Component Commissioning Technician. I have set up this section of the department to an extent to be now locally self-sufficient. Prior to working for Acacia Mining in Tanzania I was employed for 20 years at Anglogold Ashanti's Obuasi Mine in Ghana which has been all but closed with regards to production & put under care & maintenance until development of viable mining areas are performed. My original assignment at Obuasi as a Mechanical Training Coordinator was generating & presenting machinery training courses which were handed over to local instructors for implementation. My latter 15 years have been as the Machinery Reliability Analyst & Auditor & the Mining Machinery Workshop Superintendent where I assisted to set up the Mining Machinery Surface Workshops. Prior to working in Ghana I was employed in South Africa working for Gold, Coal Mining Companies & Contractors. I was also employed as a Mining Machinery Product Support Technician for both Sandvik & Atlas Copco Drilling Machinery where I supported Gold, Coal, Diamond & Copper Mines & the Highlands Water Tunnelling Project in Lesotho Southern Africa. Throughout my working life I have also had extensive experience of overhauling complete machines & machinery components including Engines, Transmissions, Axles & Rockdrill Hammers. Prior to working in Tanzania & Ghana I work I was employed in South Africa at Sishen Iron Ore Mine situated in the Northern Cape & the Monastery Diamond Open Cast Mine at Marquard in the Orange Free State situated close to the border of Lesotho where I had cause to work on many diverse types of machinery employed in open pit mining. Prior to emigrating from the UK to South Africa I worked in Saudi Arabia as Airport Fire & Crash Vehicle Supervisor where I was responsible for the maintenance of Airport Fire & Crash Vehicles on five airports along the borders of Iraq, Iran & Kuwait which serviced five towns & the Oil Pipeline which runs along the entire northern border of Saudi Arabia from Kuwait to Iran most of which is considered to be a very remote area. At the onset of my working life I was apprenticed in the UK as a Heavy Vehicle Mechanic where I worked for my first 12 years of employment. Education I served a 5 year apprenticeship the first year being in attendance at the Salisbury & South Wiltshire College of Technology where I attended the first year course for Motor Vehicle Mechanics. I attended the same college during the further 4 years of my apprenticeship but on a one day per week basis.I have passed the following examinations, City & Guilds 168 Parts 1, 2 for Motor Vehicle Mechanics with Credit City & Guilds 168 Part 3 for Compression Ignition Engines with Heavy Vehicle Applications with Credit I also hold the National Craftsman's Certificate for Heavy Vehicle Mechanics. Certifications I have attended the following Product Courses for machinery that I have been involved with being; • Detroit 50 & 60 Series • GM2 Detroit Diesels • Allison Transmissions • Sandvik Drilling Rigs • Atlas Copco Drilling Rigs • Secoma Drilling Rigs • Wagner Scooptram Loaders • Chubb Major Airport Fire Vehicles • Heavy Vehicle Breakdown Recovery • Gas Testing for Fiery Mines • Flame-proofing for Fiery Mines • Oil Filtration, Contamination & Condition Monitoring I am conversant with the use of the following Engine & Transmission Diagnostic Equipment; • Caterpillar ET • Detroit DDEC • Cummins Insite 5 • Mercedes Benz Minidiag 2 • Deutz Murphy Diagnostics • Volvo Voda Engine Diagnostic Equipment • I am also OBD2 conversant for Light Vehicle Applications incorporating CAN & SCP Systems. General I am computer literate & have generated presentations & any other communications such as audit reports as required. I have cause to liaise with machinery suppliers & in retrospect in the past have been the machinery supplier liaising with the customer. I hold a British Passport & am a Permanent Resident of South Africa & Ghana.