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The Blog enables Australian Resource Sector Employers and members of our Expert Panel to communicate information about jobs, projects, sites, awarded contracts, terms and conditions, career tips and advice, and on a range of other topics that can't always be shared on traditional career websites and print advertising. As a job seeker, this enables you to keep abreast of movements and opportunities in the industry.

This week at The Resource Channel - 29 March 2010

OTHER INDUSTRY JOB NEWS

Thiess has recently secured an $800 million contract from Wesfarmers Curragh Pty Ltd to continue overburden pre-strip at its Curragh North Mine in Queensland’s Bowen Basin. The company began operations at Curragh North in October 2004 and was awarded a $260m contract extension in 2008 after exceeding production and safety targets. The new contract will see Thiess at the mine for a further ten years.

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By Jody Elliott, Director at The Resource Channel on 31 Mar 10
TAGS: Blue Collar, National, ACT, Managerial, NSW, Professional, NT, Student/Graduate, QLD, Trainee / Apprentice, Other, SA, TAS, VIC, WA

Vacation Program is no holiday!

The Clough Vacation Employment Program aims to provide outstanding university students with the opportunity to work on interesting and varied projects / scopes of work within the oil and gas and infrastructure industries.

Primarily aimed at engineering students, the program is beneficial to both students and the Company. Through the program the students are helped to meet requirements for their engineering graduation from Australian universities and the Company is potentially introducing future graduate engineers to Clough.

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By Renee Goldsmith, Recruitment Lead at Clough Pty Ltd on 25 Mar 10
TAGS: National, Student/Graduate, Trainee / Apprentice

Sino Iron project welcomes massive grinding mills

The Sino Iron project has taken another giant leap forward with its first massive grinding mill placed on its concrete foundation. The first ball mill and Autogenous Grinding (AG) mill arrived last month to the project’s port from China already pre-assembled. The mills are the largest and most powerful of their kind in the world, with the AG mill featuring a 28MW wraparound motor.

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By Amanda Adams, Recruitment Administrator at CITIC Pacific Mining on 23 Mar 10
TAGS: Blue Collar, Managerial, Professional, Trainee / Apprentice, WA

This week from The Resource Channel - 22 March 2010

OTHER INDUSTRY JOB NEWS

Thiess Kentz has been awarded a site wide specialist instrumentation contract for the onshore components of Woodside’s Pluto Gas Project, located on the Burrup Peninsula, Western Australia. Work on the site will include instrument calibrations, testing of instrument loops and testing the electrical network monitoring and control system. A joint venture between Foster Wheeler and WorleyParsons is the engineering procurement and construction manager.

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By Jody Elliott, Director at The Resource Channel on 23 Mar 10
TAGS: Blue Collar, National, ACT, Managerial, NSW, Professional, NT, Student/Graduate, QLD, Trainee / Apprentice, Other, SA, TAS, VIC, WA

Brockman 4 "One Team Model"

Brockman 4 employs Rio Tinto’s proven “One Team” model for Fixed Plant Operations and Maintenance.
Essentially this combines the traditional Production and Maintenance teams into one focused Fixed Plant team.
This gives the team greater strength and knowledge being dedicated to the ongoing life and production of their plant.

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By Wayne Gibbings, from Rio Tinto on 19 Mar 10
TAGS: Blue Collar, Managerial, Professional, Other, WA

Santos' $50 million apprenticeship and training plan

Santos, together with our partner, PETRONAS recently unveiled a $50 million plan to generate up to 100 new apprenticeships and trainee positions to help deliver our Gladstone Liquefied Natural Gas project, GLNG®.

The plan is in the first stage of planned investment in jobs and training, providing positions in the Roma region in the State’s south west, and in Gladstone in Central Queensland.

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By Recruitment Team, from Santos Ltd on 11 Mar 10
TAGS: Blue Collar, Managerial, Professional, Student/Graduate, QLD, Trainee / Apprentice

Look who is joining us at the Australasian Oil and Gas Expo

Visit The Resource Channel at the Australasian Oil and Gas Expo at the Perth Convention Centre from 24 - 26 March 2010. The Expo is open from 11am - 7pm Wednesday and Thursday and from 11am - 4pm on Friday.

AOG is Australia’s largest Oil and Gas Exhibition and Conference. Exhibitors will cover the entire spectrum of the industry from exploration and production technology to gas processing, pipelines, offshore services, engineering, design and construction.

Joining The Resource Channel at their stand (T25) will be representatives from the following organisations:

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By Jody Elliott, Director at The Resource Channel on 09 Mar 10
TAGS: Blue Collar, Managerial, Professional, Student/Graduate, Trainee / Apprentice, Other, WA

Recognising women in resources

More than 300 people from across the Western Australian resource sector attended the Chamber of Minerals and Energy’s (WA) inaugural Women in Resources Awards held on Monday 8 March in Perth to coincide with International Women’s Day.

Celebrating the outstanding contributions of 78 nominations across three categories, the morning culminated in the surprise announcement of a ‘Lifetime Achievement Award’ for Erica Smyth.

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By Jody Elliott, Director at The Resource Channel on 09 Mar 10
TAGS: Blue Collar, National, Managerial, Professional, Student/Graduate, Trainee / Apprentice, Other, WA

Introducing Rio Tinto’s latest Greenfield Operation – Brockman 4

Brockman 4 is Rio Tinto Iron Ore’s latest Greenfield mine operation, with initial pre-strip mining already underway and commissioning expected to commence by May. Located 26km south west of the Brockman/Nammuldi mine in the West Pilbara, Brockman 4 has an estimated mine life of over 20 years at a 22 mtpa mining rate.

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By David Malkin, Recruitment Superintendent - Project Recruitment at Rio Tinto on 05 Mar 10
TAGS: Blue Collar, Managerial, Professional, WA