Dave Andrews is a highly motivated and experienced, company director and project and engineering management consultant with over 40 years’ experience in the project management, design, manufacture and construction of process plant and equipment in Australia, the UK, Germany, USA, Canada, South Africa, India, South Korea and Japan.
For the past 7 years, Dave has provided service as an engineering consultant, business development consultant and project manager to smaller Perth-based engineering houses, and as a company director.
Prior to this, Dave spent 13 years as a Director, Senior Project Manager and Engineering Manager for ProMet Engineers Pty Ltd, a Perth based engineering consultancy servicing Australian and International clients in the metals and minerals industries.
ProMet specialised in developing greenfield and brownfield projects from early concepts through feasibility studies into detailed design, project and construction management. The most notable of ProMet’s major projects were Project Magnet (OneSteel, Whyalla) and the Karara Iron Ore Project (Gindalbie Metals), which focussed on ProMet’s leadership in magnetite processing.
His other experience extends to; Major Plant Designs for Mineral Sands, Hematite, Magnetite, Vanadium, Nickel, Manganese, Salt, Alternative Iron Ore Smelting (HIsmelt and Ausmelt), Iron and Steel Furnace and Ancillary Designs, Port Upgrades, Process Reviews, Plant Upgrades, Debottlenecking Studies, and Due Diligence Project Reviews.
Prior to moving to Australia from the UK, Dave worked for 20 years as a program manager, project manager and design engineer in the automotive, iron and steel, mining and construction equipment industries in the North-East of England