What do our graduates really do?

Hear what some of our graduates have to say...

Natasha Roza-Butler, Project Engineer

Greenhouse has emissions, climate change and environmental footprints are words we often hear today and they are also real issues that we must deal with. Well, Natasha is helping to ensure that these issues are tackled everyday.

As a Project Engineer, Natasha has challenged the meaning of diversity in terms of the roles she has had and in the locations she has worked. We inducted her into GRD Minproc with a stint at our Sydney UR-3R™ Facility. Proving herself there, we then shipped her to Manchester to transfer her knowledge of a working UR-3R Process^® to the design of the next generation facility for the Lancashire Waste Partnership PFI Project.

Natasha then wanted to put more of the theory she had into practice, so she took on her now current role as Project Engineer on a nickel laterite project in Brazil. Focusing on the environmental side of the project, including obtaining environmental licenses and ensuring infrastructure and utilities are sustainable, Natasha is also now living close to her family.

On working at GRD Minproc, Natasha says, "I love the diversity of what I do. I liaise with different disciplines; I have traveled extensively and am fairly autonomous. My managers are receptive to my new ideas and suggestions and I have the opportunity to gain experience in project management."

Nevin Scagliotta, Process Engineer

Since joining GRD Minproc, Nevin has been involved in a number of very different engineering projects.

Nevin has working on conceptual and definitive feasibility studies, dabbled in detailed engineering, reported on greenhouse gas emissions, written design manuals, fixed a few leaky pipes with his trusty spanner and commissioned a copper sulphide concentrator and copper oxide leach plant refinery in Zambia.

Nevin's career began with a band when we sent him to Zambia after completing his final year of study and taking up the offer of a job through the GRD Minproc Engineering Scholarship he was awarded. Of his time in Zambia, Nevin says "Working on site in Zambia gave me an extended period of hands on career development. Nothing quite puts the perspective and the importance of mineral plant design as much as working through the problem solving of getting one started!"

We think we are pretty lucky to find Natasha and Nevin, and by keeping them interested and challenged, we are not only ensuring they have great futures, but we know we will too.

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