Ok Tedi appoints locals to management roles

THE Ok Tedi Mining Ltd (OTML) has appointed four locals to senior positions as part of its vision 2025 to nationalise all management positions by 2025.
Managing director and chief executive officer Musje Werror said the appointments were part of OTML’s ongoing succession planning to see its national employees move into senior roles.
General manager communities and operational support Kedi Ilimbit will assume the additional responsibilities of deputy chief executive officer, a role Werror held prior to his appointment as managing director in June 2020.
IIimbit is from Oksapmin in Telefomin, West Sepik.
He is a mechanical engineer who started with OTML in 1995 as a graduate trainee.
Ilimbit has worked in several BHP mines in Australia performing various roles.
Ilimbit returned to Ok Tedi in 2015.
Harold Duigu moves to general manager corporate affairs from manager external relations.
He is one of the company’s longest-serving employees having joined Ok Tedi in 1996.
David Laulau becomes deputy general manager mining, after over 25 years of mining experience in PNG and Australia.
Lawrence Na’awi, who hails from the Parama Island in the South Fly, will become manager processing projects.
He has been working with OTML since 2019.
“Our journey to realise our Vision 2025 and ensure our national employees are given the opportunity to be leaders in the extractive industry is continuing with several other senior appointments having been made earlier this year,” Werror said.