Phil McNamara B Eng

Vice President – Corporate Development

23 Years Industry Experience

Trainee Mining Engineer with RW Miller / Coal and Allied

Mount Thorley Mine, Wallsend Borehole Underground, Liddell Colliery Underground.

Mining Engineering Degree – University of New South Wales.

Project Mining Engineer / Development Co-ordinator– German Creek Southern Colliery

Installation and commissioning of the new Southern Colliery Longwall, Project management of gate road continuous haulage system.

Management of mine development operations at Southern Colliery

Mine Manager / Operations Manager - Wambo Underground

Productivity improvements to Longwall and development operations at Homestead mine.

Industrial relations reform to introduce first Certified Agreements to site.

Management of the design, construction, development and operation of the Wollemi Underground Mine.

Mine Manager – United Colliery

Conversion of United Colliery from a Continuous Miner operation to a low cost Longwall mine at 3.4M tonne per year capacity.

Increase in Mine productivity performance to 24 000 tonne per employee / year.

Mine Manager – Austar Coalmine

Re – commissioning of the mine after 18 months of closure.

Introduction, commissioning and operation of the first Longwall Top Coal Caving (LTCC) face into Australia.