Brad Jordan
Mount Coolum,QLD
Summary
Results-driven Mechanical Engineer with 14+ years of experience in mechanical fitting, machining, and fabrication. Proven track record of delivering high-quality solutions, with a strong focus on safety, efficiency, and customer satisfaction.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Self Employed Mechanical Engineer
FlowProz Engineering Ltd
01.2022 - Current
- Company Overview: Specialising in valve & pump service and supply
- Owner/operator of FlowProz Engineering Ltd
- Contracting to various companies on significant shutdown work involving mechanical fitting, welding, and machining within the dairy sector and power generation industry (gas, coal, geo, hydro).
- Project management and team lead on large scale projects
- Utilizing sub-contractors
- Light/heavy welding and fabrication
- Precision machining including lathe, mill, line boring & more
- Proactively obtain and build on professional relationships
Shift Engineer
Fonterra
Hautapu, NZ
09.2021 - 12.2022
- Preventative and responsive maintenance on fixed plant including industrial pumps, valves, gearboxes, separators, PHE's, dairy tube fabrication, general fabrication and the like
- Manning the on-call phone for emergent plant breakdowns
- General workshop duties including fitting, and machining.
- Scheduled preventative maintenance checks using vibration analysis software and fault-finding practises
- Uphold strong relationships with plant operators and supervisors to resolve issues quickly and efficiently
- Always looking at ways to improve the current process and longevity of equipment by sharing ideas and recommendations
Senior Service Technician
Pentair Flow Technologies
, NZ
01.2021 - 09.2021
- Servicing valves, pumps and assets associated with the food/beverage and flow industry
- General mechanical servicing and labour support for various sites across NZ
- Supervise and train apprentices
- IANZ certified safety valve certifications
- General workshop duties including fitting, machining, and fabrication
- Site servicing and planned maintenance shuts
- Uphold strong customer relations
- Identifying faults outside of our job scope to benefit our clients, always going above and beyond
Fabrication Manager
Horne Engineering Co
09.2020 - 01.2021
- Facilitate day to day operations in the workshop as well as project management across various sites and obtain and uphold customer relations
- Management of my team and work entering the workshop
- Quoting and offering engineering solutions
- General workshop light/heavy fabrication and structural welding
- Being promoted to the role after my valued work as a fitter turner.
Fitter/Machinist/Fabricator
Horne Engineering Co
08.2018 - 09.2020
- Interpret drawings and manufacture engineering items to highly accurate tolerances
- Mechanical fitting and fabrication on and off-site
- Common use of a wide variety of jobbing shop machinery and equipment
- Vast variety of fabrication work including start to finish welding projects and repairs
- Daily problem solving of engineering issues brought in by customers
- Senior tradesman assisting and training new apprentices
- Securing new cliental for ongoing business
Mechanical Fitter
Convex
01.2012 - 08.2018
- Responsible for the mechanical maintenance services across our food grade manufacturing site and to provide support through preventive strategies to ensure the site runs at full capacity
- Preventative maintenance of process machinery
- Punctual support 24/7 for mechanical breakdowns
- Innovative product development from initial concept through to finished product
- Gallagher apprentice of the year award 2013
Education
Mechanical Engineering - General Engineering Level 4
Competenz
Skills
- Advanced in manual machining processes
- MIG, TIG, FCAW, Gas welding
- Expansive fitting knowledge & experience across a vast industry
- Heavy plant experience and competent with precision alignments and critical bearing installations
- Computer literate and competent with SAP, Autodesk, and Microsoft office
- Versatile
- Highly motivated
- Reliable
- Punctual
- Team player
- Accountable
- Personable
Hobbies and Interests
- Spending time with my Friends & Family; My wife, two young boys, and dog.
- Outdoors, surfing, trail riding, mountain biking.
- Motorbikes, Cars, and Home Renos!
- Tinkering in my garage with whatever project I have on (currently it's a caravan!)
References
Available upon request.
Affiliations
- Spending time with my family, whether its exploring beaches, riding motorcross bikes with my two sons, or simply having a movie night or building Lego.
- Tinkering with projects in my garage.
- Outdoors enthusiast; surfing, wakeboarding, mountain bike riding.
Certification
- Gas Detection & Confined Space
- First Aid Certificate
- Chemical Handling & Spills
- EWP & Boom Lift
- Load Slinging & Gantry Crane
- Permit Receiver
- Safe Work Systems Certificate
- Hazard ID
- Working at heights
- Full drivers license
Timeline
Self Employed Mechanical Engineer
FlowProz Engineering Ltd
01.2022 - Current
Shift Engineer
Fonterra
09.2021 - 12.2022
Senior Service Technician
Pentair Flow Technologies
01.2021 - 09.2021
Fabrication Manager
Horne Engineering Co
09.2020 - 01.2021
Fitter/Machinist/Fabricator
Horne Engineering Co
08.2018 - 09.2020
Mechanical Fitter
Convex
01.2012 - 08.2018
Mechanical Engineering - General Engineering Level 4
Competenz
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