Alex Opoku Bediako

• Team lead for Project One at Iduapriem during the Business Process Framework (BPF) design and implementation. This involves Setting Operational Budget/Target, identifying Operational and Services strategies, Work Management and Measurement and Analyse & Improve
• Worked with Partners in Performance (PiP) in Operational Excellence design and implementation at Iduapriem. Ideas Generation Sessions (IGS) and Ideas Implementation and Tracking
• Design and implementation of Management Operating Systems for effective business operations.
• Coordinated business operations from inside to keep activities efficient and cost-effective.
• Analyzed trends in key operating areas to identify opportunities (using industrial benchmarking) for operational improvements
• Project Lead for Iduapriem SAP ERP implementation (2015) - coordinating all the departments/functional structures for effective implementation of SAP ERP across the mine.

Leading team of 7 members from various disciplines to work with Business Improvement consultants to look at Iduapriem's operations and advising management on ways to improve on our value creation processes. This led to:

• Improvement in budgeting coordination and implementation
• Identifying synergies across the value chain
• Effective negotiations with Suppliers and Service providers

Planning, organizing, controlling and directing all engineering and engineering related activities in alignment with the strategic vision of Iduapriem.

• Ensuring safety of personnel and equipment
• Ensuring availability of Processing Plant and Ancilliary Equipment for effective mine operations
• Designing, implementation/installation and commissioning of the 2007 - 2009 Iduapriem CIL plant upgrade from 3.8 to 4.5mtpa
• Analyse, design, implementation/optimization of the CIL plant to increase productivity and efficiencies

• Implemented safety protocols for reduced workplace accidents and improved employee wellbeing.
• Established successful procedures for day-to-day operations and long-term planning.
• Ensuring availability of electrical power to the mine site;
• Design, installation and commissioning of CIL Upgrade plant.
• Integration of old CIL plant electrical and instrumentation system into the new/upgrade milling and other circuits.
• Coordinating electrical maintenance at the 3.8Mtpa plant (including automation instruments, PLCs and SCADA system), the tailing dams,
• Implementation and commissioning of electrical projects at the plant.
• Labour schedule and control
• Budgetary preparation and control

• Safety of personnel and equipment electrical maintenance at the 2.8Mtpa plant crushing milling and flotation, and the tailing dams,
• Implementation and commissioning of electrical projects at the plant, labour schedule and control and budgetary preparation and control
• Part of team involved with installation and commissioning of Flotation Cleaner Cell at STP which eliminated the use of H2SO4 at BIOX® reactors after some benchmarking at MACRAES mine in New Zealand and Fimiston mine in Kalgorie, Australia