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Mining is inherently uncertain, and while there may be no such thing as certainty, we believe it’s worth striving for. Certainty of quality, performance, delivery and industry leading safety. It’s the driving factor of our purpose – to bring certainty underground.

RUC’s domestic operations are managed from offices in Perth and a regional operations center in Kalgoorlie. Internationally, RUC has offices and branches/subsidiaries in Indonesia, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Hong Kong, New Zealand, and the Philippines.

RUC’s experienced executive management team are highly respected in Australia and maintain RUC’s reputation across the globe for our work in managing major projects.

Greg Miller Managing Director

Greg Miller

Managing Director
Sean Henley Associate Director Shafts & Underground Construction

Sean Henley

Associate Director Shafts & Underground Construction
David Smith Director, People, Risk and the Environment

David Smith

Director, People, Risk and the Environment

Tracey Chan

Chief Financial Officer & Company Secretary
Nick Maguire Manager Mechanised Mining and Raise Boring

Nick Maguire

Manager Mechanised Mining and Raise Boring
Stephen Bennett General Manager Fleet

Stephen Bennett

General Manager Fleet
Robert Pettit Associate Director, International Operations

Robert Pettit

Associate Director, International Operations
Steve Cooke General Manager, Incycle

Steve Cooke

General Manager, Incycle
Nick Chernoff Manager Business Development

Nick Chernoff

Manager Business Development
Greg Miller Managing Director

Greg Miller

Managing Director

Greg is a senior mining professional with 30+ years of industry experience. Leadership responsibility for the Underground Division of a major Australian contractor, encompassing safety leadership, business development, operations management, and general business management activities.

Experienced in the management, preparation and negotiation of successful tenders for contracts with a number of Australian mining companies. Involved with a diverse range of service offerings, mineral commodities, equipment types, contract styles, and geographic regions.

Additional expertise as a member of the senior executive with active involvement in mergers and acquisitions, reporting to the Board of a publicly listed company, Strategy preparation and execution, Budget preparation and crisis management.

Sean Henley Associate Director Shafts & Underground Construction

Sean Henley

Operations Manager

Sean Henley is a qualified mining engineer holding a First Class Mine Managers Certificate with extensive experience in Contracting, Project Management, Business Development, and Estimating on both International and Domestic Projects. With 20+ years’ mining experience and using practical problem solving approach, energetic leadership and excellent negotiation skills to deliver results on a number of complex projects.

David Smith Director, People, Risk and the Environment

David Smith

Director, People, Risk and the Environment

Executive Leader with a zero harm value set and proven ability to strategically vision and plan SHEQ&T, engage and coach, execute and monitor, audit and continually improve risk management policies and procedures, and to introduce globally benchmarked initiatives that exceed business performance expectations and goals and also protects people, the environment, company reputation and assets. Led over 20 group entity and worldwide sites to achieve Best Practice SHEQ&T standards as the Group Manager – Safety, Environment, Quality and Training, for Byrnecut Mining.

Senior Project and Operational Leader with a proven ability to execute SHEQ&T elements and requirements on major capital projects during project study phases and board approvals, construction execution, operational readiness and commercial operation.

In Ghana provided expert health and safety leadership and strategy management for the $1B Greenfield Newmont Akyem construction project which is now in commercial operation. Newmont Akyem was the first mine in Ghana to win the prestigious ‘Ghana Best Safe Mine Award’ two years in a row and was also the first Newmont operation to achieve over 400 days zero harm.

Tracey Chan

Chief Financial Officer & Company Secretary

Tracey is a CPA qualified Accountant with over 22 years’ experience, 9 of which have been with RUC Mining Contractors as Financial Controller.  Prior to her tenure with RUC Mining, she worked in various industries including engineering and construction, property and telecommunications across Perth, Melbourne and London.  Tracey leads the Finance, Procurement, and supply chain functions, supporting internal and external stakeholders, while also managing company secretarial obligations for RUC Mining and its subsidiaries.

Nick Maguire Manager Mechanised Mining and Raise Boring

Nick Maguire

Manager Mechanised Mining and Raise Boring

Since 1996, Nick’s career to date has predominantly involved underground metalliferous mining.
His experience gained during this time has been from the ground up, having spent years working underground at the ‘coal face’ through to statutory and senior management positions on site and at corporate head offices. This has given Nick an in depth knowledge of all aspects associated with underground mining.

Stephen Bennett General Manager Fleet

Stephen Bennett

General Manager Fleet

With a Graduate Certificate in Management and 35+ years mining experience in a number of disciplines, Steve started his underground mining career tapping into his mechanical engineering background from hands on to management in both surface and underground operations covering narrow vein stope mining to shaft sinking , block caving and stoping operations both nationally and abroad.

Steve has extensive experiences with production / development and construction projects, crusher and rail installation, head frame design and construction and he has most recently had experience working with and heading up teams developing some of the industries most advanced automated systems.

Steve has a strong interest in and has been instrumental in setting course content and facilitating numerous leadership, coaching, mentoring, supervisory and maintenance training programs across a number of countries.

Robert Pettit Associate Director, International Operations

Robert Pettit

Associate Director, International Operations

Robert is a seasoned mining professional with 30+ years mining and civil mining experience, with the past 18 years in various management roles. He started his mining career in 1989 on Western Deep Levels in South Africa.

He obtained his National Higher Diploma in Metaliferous Mining in 1993 and his Mine Managers Certificate in 1998. In 1998 he joined Cementation Mining in South Africa and started his mining contracting career as a Master Sinker. Robert joined RUC in 2010 as a project manager for the HATS project in Hong Kong.

He has extensive experience in shaft sinking, decline sinking, development and mining construction.

In his career to date, Robert worked on numerous mining and civil projects in South Africa, Africa, Hong Kong, Indonesia and Mongolia.

Steve Cooke General Manager, Incycle

Steve Cooke

General Manager, Incycle

Steve Cooke (Cookie) has been in the concrete construction industry for 35+ years. Predominately starting his career in the building trade and Managing a number of building company’s. Looking for a change in direction, he entered the concrete construction and underground shotcrete industry.

Cookie has held a number of Operational positions within the shotcrete industry over the past 25 years and has built up a reputation as someone that will deliver a project safely, professionally and on budget.

Nick Chernoff Manager Business Development

Nick Chernoff

Business Development Manager

Nick Chernoff is the Manager of Business Development for RUC, He joined RUC Cementation Indonesia in 2017 as Project Manager at Freeport McMoRan’s underground operation in Papua Indonesia.

The role managed the production and development at the Big Gossan underground mine as well as two cable bolting contracts. Nick led a team of 625 personnel, comprising of an expatriate and majority national workforce. 

A West Australian School of Mines graduate, Nick has an uncompromised priority for mining safety and a passion for development of the business’ most important asset – it’s people.

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