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Erica Fernandez

Elko,NV

Summary

Highly-motivated employee with desire to take on new challenges. Strong work ethic, adaptability, and exceptional interpersonal skills. Adept at working effectively unsupervised and quickly mastering new skills.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience

Work History

Reliability Engineer

Nevada Gold Mines
Elko, NV
04.2024 - Current
  • Conduct investigations to minimize/eliminate equipment failures, develop action plans and oversee the implementation of these actions
  • Analyze condition-based maintenance data including oil analysis as well as equipment history data to determine business cases to recommend and action solutions to chronic problems and to extend asset and component life
  • Provide guidance and training to maintenance personnel, as needed, including developing safe work procedures
  • Resolve queries from operations, maintenance, or others as applicable by providing information on work product and the related policies, referring to others where necessary for interpretation of policy.

Contract Specialist

Nevada Gold Mines
Elko, NV
07.2019 - 04.2024
  • Responsible for delivering contracts that cover the requirements of the user areas in response to urgent and ongoing operational needs; identify and develop suppliers in the market to support commercial and operational needs
  • Managed tender process, facilitate the selection of service providers, develop contract documentation and support ongoing contract management as well as coordination of information to evaluate proposals with the user areas
  • Ensured timely and professional service to user departments in the preparation and evaluations of bids, negotiation with suppliers, and recommendation to management for approvals, preparation of contract documentation, issuance of award of contracts and regret letters, and, management and close out of contracts
  • Implement, and oversee the procurement components of the ERP Forward Purchasing Agreement/Outline Agreement materials and/or services management systems
  • Develop, compile and analyze statistical data for management reports
  • Performs research and analysis to determine market potential and impact
  • Organize, facilitate and participate in supplier and internal customer meetings
  • Train and develop personnel in a mentoring role to form an effective supply chain team.

SCM Business Analyst

Newmont Mining Company
Elko, NV
02.2018 - 07.2019
  • Support of regional stream specific projects and/or deployment of new functionality, future upgrades, or patch releases
  • Facilitate, coordinate and support regional deployment of new functional enhancements once approved by the Global Governance team
  • Maintain regionally based documentation, functional specifications/design and process compliance
  • Understand the ‘in production’ regional ERP (SAP) application configuration including any/all customizations, integration, interfaces and functional dependencies within Newmont regionally
  • Support the implementation of local and regional functional and/or functionality related changes to ERP (SAP) modules
  • Conduct, coordinate and facilitate formal/informal training and mentorship as relates to application functionality, utilization or business process enablement
  • Acts as a liaison between Newmont end-users and application technical staff in the functional analysis, design, configuration, testing and maintenance of ERP modules to ensure optimal system performance is delivered and sustained.

Direct Charge Buyer/Coordinator

Newmont Mining Company
Elko, NV
11.2014 - 02.2018
  • Support the continuous improvement and execution of Newmont purchasing strategy, policies and guidelines in regard to materials categories and contracts
  • Be accountable for value-added, cost savings, and other performance metrics
  • Acquire materials according to the operations requirements, obtaining the best total cost of ownership, term of execution and quality conditions
  • Provide suggestions to improve transactional practices for activities related to the materials purchasing process
  • Resolution and root cause analysis on Cashman Equipment Quadrem System
  • Implement and maintain purchasing policy, procedures and systems, and monitor the adherence of these procedures within Nevada operations and its suppliers.

Administrative Assistant

Barrick Goldstrike
Carlin, NV
02.2012 - 11.2014
  • Read, interpret and input data from work orders, vendor reports and other sources and transfer into Oracle eAM and Viziya scheduling tool
  • Create requisitions for parts and services on behalf of the Maintenance Technicians and contractors
  • Order and report fuel usage data on a monthly basis
  • Generate work orders based on highlighted items, noted on the Pre-Operational Check list and/or Modular reports by Maintenance Supervisors
  • Ensure no frivolous spending is taking place by getting supervisor approvals.

Education

Associates of Applied Science - Business Administration

Great Basin College
Elko, NV
05.2017

Skills

  • Asset Management
  • Documentation Management
  • Team Collaboration
  • Problem-Solving
  • Customer Service
  • Root Cause Analysis
  • Documentation And Reporting

References

  • Alison Itza, (775) 374-1481
  • Ashley Borden, (775) 397-1167
  • Kyle Lawhorn, (775) 385-3172

Timeline

Reliability Engineer

Nevada Gold Mines
04.2024 - Current

Contract Specialist

Nevada Gold Mines
07.2019 - 04.2024

SCM Business Analyst

Newmont Mining Company
02.2018 - 07.2019

Direct Charge Buyer/Coordinator

Newmont Mining Company
11.2014 - 02.2018

Administrative Assistant

Barrick Goldstrike
02.2012 - 11.2014

Associates of Applied Science - Business Administration

Great Basin College
Erica Fernandez