Name: Graham Webb
AM Council Title: Newcastle Chapter Chair
Brief work history:
I trained and worked in maintenance trade and management positions at BHP Steelworks, Electric Lamp Manufacturers, Alcan Aluminium Smelter and Tomago Aluminium Smelter sites over 22 years. In the late 1990s I moved into contract Condition Monitoring and worked in underground and open-cut coal mines, a copper mine, various power stations, manufacturing sites, grain handling facilities and equipment repair workshops in NSW and Queensland, and have been doing so over the past 17 years.
Why did you first join the Asset Management Council?
I joined an active Condition Monitoring group which sat under MESA in the early 1990s and have been a part of the organising of events over that whole period in various roles gaining much in contact with many people in many types of industries in many fields of technology.
I joined to learn more in the condition monitoring and maintenance management fields and make contact with others in those fields in the Newcastle Region.
Why did you take on the role of Chairman?
The role was vacated in 2009 and I was treasurer at the time and assumed the role working with a few others in organising events infrequently.
My thoughts on: the importance of asset management
Asset Management is a field of activity which is the heart-beat of any industrial or mining facility which is not well understood by those not directly involved. When it is done well, it contributes significantly to the long term viability and profitability of the company but when not done well it is a major factor in the poor performance and even demise of any site.
Three interesting facts about me:
1. Have been Board Chairman of a Christian School Company in Maitland for the past 7 years
2. Manager of 12 Consultants providing Condition Monitoring services to Hunter Region mines and industries.
3. A proud, born and bred Novocastrian who enjoys Surf Ski riding at Nobbys Beach whenever I can.