My Mineral processing covering letter, providing background including the origin of my skills.
There is no way "Human Resources" can recruit high-level persons - they are inherently "people persons", which is almost mutually exclusive to diving deep into narrow technical conundrums whose solutions lead to sources of revenue.
Now at 60 years of age, I can see that around my 30th year I as overwhelmed by too many concurrent problems on too many different fronts, shattering self-image and thus self-confidence. But did instinctively do the right thing simply working and setting up a rhythm in life as a welder and steel-erector.
Three points I will follow with:
I was "awake" during that time, finding and recognising commercially significant discoveries; though I could not "swim against the prevailing current":
Hence - to the job(s) - manufacturing. As an endeavouring person I know that what you want you don't necessarily get first-off, so a discussion can be had. That said, your clientele are multi-national and I have what it takes to stride in as an equal in a global endeavour.
I would like to highlight that I taught welding, the Trade skill, to
welding apprentices of West Cornwall at Truro College in the week
before Christmas 2023.
In particular to the first years I taught the fundamentals of welding
fillet-welds
- in which they had not been trained before and will be
in the high-90's% of welds they will make in their careers. The
students were grateful.
This is to give context to my obvious skills that I can present seminars to expert audiences and produce detailed articles conveying in an understandable way complex ideas.
I have previously worked in engineering companies and boatyards in Cornwall.
I started my career working a lot in the metallurgical laboratories of
steelworks. This was quite complex in the Sheffield steel industry as
these steelworks produced hundreds of grades of different alloyed
steels, for different applications where different properties are
paramount.
I gravitated to tests involving some degree of difficulty, finding
procedures which gave consistent results. For example a very
sensitive hardness test I "picked-up" when on the night-shift, when
the ground and the building shook much less.
Doing well at technical college then doing a Degree, I went onto
research on a project for the steel industry, where I had to lead into
an area where there was negligible prior knowledge, and no existing
useful experimental methods.
This took me to being awarded a Doctorate. The general skill a
Doctorate should teach you is to be able to make a good guess of how
the Universe is likely to work on this issue you are looking at at
that moment. The evidence is that I very much obtained this ability;
which is very useful in industrial endeavours.
I have accrued experience running into decades.
Looking to programmes of work which the role will entail, there is
abundant illustration of ability in pushing-forward projects and
programmes.
A spectacular example, seen on my CV for 2015, is working on the
3rd bridge over the Bosphorus
in Turkey, spanning Europe<=>Asia. This US$2.7Billion project had
stalled at the steel structures phase. I was brought-in to sort-out
this matter and did so.
A lot of the ability to sort-out this was the ability to devise tests
which it could be seen would work, causing silence on what had been
strident insistences on the matter the test addressed.
This maps onto your "scoping", "feasibility" and "pilot" tests.
Most of my projects have been "pilot studies" for the simple reason that this plays to my most extraordinary abilities and strengths. As explained with an illustration in my web-based "covering letter"; this is "early stage" at the "from zero" high-returns stage of the diminishing-returns curve (much esteemed academic research is far towards the horizontal near-level).
The notable abilities are understandable when surveying my combined industrial background with study then research and industrial applications.
There are examples of being diligent and carefully non-biasing in running already-refined procedures.
On mathematics, what is true is that when I work with concepts and
equations I can make significant contributions.
I found a useful derivation of the (Euler-Bernoulli) beam equations /
calculations, giving a "short-cut" between
deflection<=>stress
,
for which the beam's design information is unnecessary. As all but
beam height cross-cancels. The beam height can always be had with a
tape-measure.
Circuits...
I could certainly analyse mineral processing involving circuits (the
ore circulates around a ring of process stages, being progressively
separated into concentrate and gangue)
Contact me : Contact form passes your contact details to me.
Regards,
Richard Smith CEng, PhD, MSc etc.,
23Apr2024