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Department

Process Operations

Operates the Kwinana reactor building, solvent recovery column and utilities continuously from the central control room and the field, keeping the plant within its safe operating limits, responding to alarms and abnormal situations and handing over accurately between shifts.

Production Superintendent48 staff
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Responsibilities

What the team is accountable for

  • Operate reactors, distillation, heat exchangers, pumps and valves within limits
  • Monitor the control system and respond to alarms
  • Complete field rounds and record readings
  • Start up and shut down process units to procedure
  • Hand over the plant accurately at every shift change
Performance measures

How we know it is working

99.2 percent
Time within safe operating limits
5.8
Alarms per operator hour
96.4 percent
Batches to specification first time
People

Who works here

BK

Bruce Kalinowski

Production Superintendent

Bruce runs the four-panel operations roster and has spent nineteen years at Kwinana, starting as an outside operator on the reactor building.

WD

Wayne Djakovic

Shift Supervisor, Panel C

Wayne supervises panel C from the control room, issues permits for operations and has worked shifts at Kwinana for fourteen years.

TB

Tahlia Brennan

Outside Operator

Tahlia completes field rounds on the reactor building and solvent recovery unit, takes samples and supports isolations, and joined Hydra three years ago.

Systems

Where the work is recorded

Control Room Shift Log

Records every operating event, batch, reading, sample result, override and handover from the control room and the field for each shift.

Incident and Process Safety Event Register

Logs injuries, near misses, losses of containment, safety system activations, limit excursions and environmental events with tier, investigation and actions.

Permit and Isolation Register

Tracks every permit to work, isolation certificate and blind from request to close-out and records permit audits.

Scenarios

Assessment tasks in this department

Intermediate

Start up the solvent recovery column after the pump repair

You are the panel operator for the solvent recovery unit on day shift, Panel C.

Intermediate

Respond to a reactor high temperature abnormal situation

You are the panel operator for the reactor building on Panel C during a simulator exercise.

Documents

Documents the scenarios use