SYDNEY: Latrobe Magnesium Limited (LMG) has appointed Ronan Gillen as its new Chief Operating Officer for its initial 3,000 tpa magnesium plant at 320 Tramway Road Hazelwood North.

Mr Gillen will be responsible for the construction and operations of the plant. Since 2009 Mr Gillen has been employed by Fluor working in positions of senior responsibility on a number of significant projects.

These included the proposal, program, process engineering, operational and construction management with companies and projects such as BHP’s Mineral Australia Program, MMG, Ma’aden, Newcrest’s Cadia East project and Waisoi studies.

Prior to Fluor Mr Gillen worked in operational and project roles with Bechtel (Senior Process Engineer), Rio Tinto Alcan (Process Engineer), Bulong Nickel (Project Manager and Metallurgist) and Minara Resources (Graduate Engineer). He graduated in 1999 from Murdoch University Perth with a Bachelor of Science (Extractive Metallurgy). In 2017 he was also selected for the Fluor future leadership program at Harvard University.

CEO David Paterson said “We are very pleased that we have been able to attract a person of Ronan’s character and experience to take control of the construction and development of our initial plant.”