Bruce Ham
Principal Technologist
Melbourne
Professional Background
Over 30 years' experience in plant assessment, fitness for service, regulatory compliance, risk identification, tailored welding, and run/repair/replace options across a range of industries including power generation, mining, infrastructure, transport, and minerals processing.
Combining extensive plant and technical knowledge with considerable hands-on experience in visual and tactile inspection, NDT, welding standards and weld repair, he provides technical and business aspects to strategy development and review to meet legislative requirements, on time and within budget.
Areas of Expertise
- Welding Engineering and Technology
- Operation and Maintenance of power generation plant including conventional black and brown coal fired, supercritical, gas turbine and HRSGs, wind and hydro plant
- Metallurgical evaluation and failure analysis
- Development and application of specialised non-destructive testing (NDT)techniques
- Development of inspection strategies to achieve life extension or plant optimisation
- Inspection, engineering assessment and repair main steam piping failures
- Risk based inspection programming and documentation of inspection schedules, procedures and training manuals
- Statutory inspection of boiler plant and pressure vessels for code compliance, documentation of plant condition
Key Strengths
- Welding Engineering
- Fitness for purpose inspection and assessment of plant ensuring compliance to OH&S and plant regulation / legislation
- Development and implementation of inspection and maintenance regimes, particularly in regard to high pressure / high temperature plant, including risk assessments
- Managing and leading teams, including engineers, technical officers and tradespeople to inspect and maintain industrial plant within budget and in accordance with legislative requirements
- Asset optimisation to meet business needs including investigation, condition assessment, analysis and plant life extension
- Expert witness
Qualifications
- B. Applied Science - Metallurgy
- Grad Dip Engineering - Maintenance Management
- AICIP Senior In-Service Inspector - pressure equipment
- International Welding Specialist (IWS): Diploma No. AU/IWS/0815
- WTIA AS 1796 certificate 10 and AS2214 welding supervisor
Professional Associations and Memberships
- Standards Australia - Working group member for update of:
AS/NZS 3788 - Pressure Equipment - In-service inspection
AS3992 - Pressure Equipment - Welding and brazing qualification - Australian Institute of Non-destructive Testing (AINDT)
Member of NDT certification board - Materials Australia - Member
Certified Materials Professional - Weld Australia - Member
International Welding Specialist
