David Ketel

Copper, Nickel, Gold mining and smelting: Provide strategic leadership and expert guidance for managing assets effectively at FQM's Trident, Enterprise, and Kansanshi operations in Zambia, which are world-class copper and Nickel mining and smelting operations. Lead a team of professionals to develop and implement FQM Asset Management Framework, best practices, and strategies to maximize asset reliability, minimize downtime, and enhance operational efficiency. State of the art Mining, Crushing, Milling, Processing, and Smelting Equipment includes largest crushers and SAG mills currently manufactured: copper, gold, and nickel processing and refining. Ultra-Class Mining equipment including: Hitachi, Komatsu, CAT, Liehberr, Sandvik, Epiroc

Nickel & Cobalt mining and refining, Anhydrous Ammonia, Ammonium Sulphate Fertilizer: Implement ISO5500X Asset Management Framework to effectively prioritize CAPEX portfolio with the goal to improve capital efficiency over the long term outlook. Implement robust systems for equipment care, including improved maintenance management process, improved scoping rigor for major turnarounds and sustaining capital projects, resulting in reduced OPEX spend and improve equipment availability. Drive a culture of teamwork and shared ownership and decision making between Operations, Maintenance, and Technical groups so all teams are aligned and working towards the same business objectives of safety, profitability, and responsible production. Lead a team of 4 directors, and 2 SME's, with a total contingent team of 325 under my accountability.

Zinc, Lead, Germanium, Indium, Cadmium, Silver, Gold smelting and refining; Ammonium Sulphate Fertilizer, Sulphuric Acid: Operations Manager for Zinc Roasting, Zinc Pressure Leach, Sulfuric Acid Production, and other ancillaries. Accountable for safe and environmentally responsible production, managing to the operating budget, and developing my team. ~~ Zero LTI's ~~

Maintenance Manager accountable for maintenance work control, planning, scheduling, and major turnarounds (shutdowns). Develop, implement, and operationalize systems of work. Lead a team of 47 staff members. Highlight: successfully plan, staff, and execute significant turnaround work across multiple plants totaling over $140MM value in 2022, 1600+ workers, with ZERO LTI's. Execute significant turnaround work during 2020 & 2021 COVID-19 pandemic restrictions, including events requiring 400+ workers. The Trail operation is one of the worlds largest fully integrated Zinc and Lead smelting and refining complexes, located in southern British Columbia, Canada.

Co-author IAEA technical document titled ‘Asset Management for Aging Uranium Mines and Processing Facilities’ Workshop with expert team 2018 & 2019 at the IAEA Headquarters, United Nations, Vienna

Uranium mining and refining, Ammonium Nitrate: Manage all Maintenance and Engineering functions at Cameco's Key Lake uranium processing facility. Key Lake is the world’s largest high grade uranium ore processing facility by volume. Scope: all mobile and fixed plant assets, infrastructure, CAPEX and OPEX portfolios, major shutdowns, plant engineering, reliability engineering, planning and scheduling, warehouse management, 135 unionized trades workers, 45 technical staff Implement management systems to improve performance and profitability including key metrics monitoring, which resulted in 10% reduction in maintenance expenditure while maintaining long term asset health. Implement Operational Reliability best practices within the Engineering function; preventative maintenance plans, lubrication programs, vibration monitoring, structural integrity, pressure vessel integrity, tank integrity, pipe line integrity, etc. Chair of Cameco's Reliability Engineering Community of Practice.

Potash Fertilizer mining and refining: Lead the safety and health program for the Inflow Department, consisting of roughly 150 employees and 200 contractors, located underground in the K1 and K2 mine and on the surface grout site. Significant reduction in LTI and TRIF through cultural shift and behavioral changes.

Lean six Sigma Black Belt projects, Root Cause Analysis (RCA), 5S standardization programs, prepare business cases for those projects. Develop standardized process and procedures. Facilitate and lead the Esterhazy site Energy Management Program to reduce the intensity of natural gas and electricity use. Develop core team with members from all operations groups, gather baseline data and trends to compare improvements against, and develop 2014 quarterly objectives for the program. Present plan of attack to the VP and the senior leadership team. Prepare scope document for request for proposals (RFP's) for the securing of an Energy Management Consultant. Gather proposals and make recommendations for selection. Initiate and support LEAN programs to reduce cost overhead and increase overall equipment effectiveness. Perform Lean Six-Sigma Black Belt project towards understanding the business case on improving de-brining centrifuges and subsequent natural gas drying operations on the K2 heavy media circuit.

Provide project management, construction management, and leadership to cross functional teams consisting of contractors and Mosaic staff to accomplish maintenance objectives in a safe and timely manner. Provide technical engineering support to the maintenance, reliability, and planning groups. Analyze past performance of mill assets and identify improvements for increased future reliability.

Passenger Rail Car Manufacturing: Continuous Improvement, Process Optimization, Analyze work areas and procedures to reduce total production time and increase profitability. Develop business cases to support investments. Meet with the Vice President on a monthly basis to provide updates on projects.

Reforestation Specialty Equipment: Designed and built a prototype spray trailer unit on tracks pulled by a small catipillar style tractor for mine tailing re-vegetation and dust suppressant. This unit was designed for high floatation over sandy terrain and utilized GPS speed sensors to control the flow rate to the application boom. Designed and built mounting equipment to attach an industrial seed spreader onto an ATV in order to apply seed over rough terrain. Design and built a tank farm to unload, store, circulate, and reload liquid dust suppressant material.

Diesel Electric Power Generation: Part of a team that provides engineering support and project management for 21 Northern Ontario "off grid" fly-in remote communities. In this role I had the opportunity to frequently travel to northern sites via bush plane where Hydro One manages deisel generating stations to provide power to the communities. I performed design work for generator house ventilation, new generator retro fits, exhaust stacks, and cooling radiator piping layouts. I field managed part of a project to errect a 30KW wind turbine at one of the sites. I had the opportunity to perform a cost/benefit analysis on an exhaust heat co-gen system to be used at three trial communites and present the findings to upper management.

Specialty Equipment Design and Manufacturing: Manage production and improvement strategies including Lean Manufacturing with a strong focus on continuous improvement. Design, prototype, and manufacture equipment for agricultural use, oil & gas, and forestry. Lead a team of 30 people. Work directly with clients to build new business, and expand on product offerings.

Executive Masters in Business Administration Graduated - May 2022

3 years of university level distance education courses to gain more knowledge in accounting, business leadership, economics, and operation management. This education has helped me to make better financial decisions both at work managing projects / purchases and in my personal life.