GREG KENNEDY

Greg Kennedy is a Principal Engineering Geologist at PSM with over 17 years' experience delivering various domestic and international mining and civil engineering projects. Greg holds Bachelor and Honours degrees from the University of Canterbury, along with a Master of Engineering Science in Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology from the University of New South Wales.

Greg specialises in providing operational support, open pit slope design advice, and failure and risk management for open pit mines across all commodities. His expertise spans geological and geotechnical studies for both underground and open pit mining, as well as large-scale civil projects. He has worked on numerous major mining developments across Australia, Asia, and the Pacific including a number of technically complex projects such as Ok Tedi, Porgera, Frieda River (Papua New Guinea) and Batu Hijau (Indonesia).

Greg has undertaken multiple secondment roles on mine sites including covering the Geotechnical Superintendent position at Ok Tedi Mine. This on-site experience has given him a strong understanding of the day-to-day geotechnical and mining challenges faced by mining operations. As a result, Greg is able to provide practical, achievable and cost-effective advice, which considers implications from a mine planning perspective.

Throughout his career, Greg has maintained a strong commitment to professional development. This includes authoring academic papers, presenting at industry conferences and technical meetings, and delivering guest lecturing at the University of Queensland, University of Canterbury, and the University of Arizona Geotechnical Centre of Excellence.

Greg is an accredited RPEQ (Mining and Civil), a Registered Engineer in Papua New Guinea (IEPNG) and Slope Risk Assessor under the NSW RMS (formerly RTA) Slope Risk Assessment program.

Greg's fields of special competence include:

• Operational geotechnical reviews and support
• Open pit slope design
• Slope failure management
• Geotechnical site investigations
• Geotechnical / engineering geological modelling