Brendon Westerhout

Brendon Westerhout has a strong background in electrical engineering and project management. Brendon currently works as a Senior Project Engineer at Pilbara Minerals Limited, a position they have held since March 2021. Prior to this, they spent three years at Rio Tinto, where they held the roles of Senior Electrical Engineer/Specialist Electrical Engineer (Client Lead) from May 2018 to March 2021, and Fixed Plant Operations Superintendent (Acting) from October 2019 to December 2019.

Before joining Rio Tinto, Brendon worked as an Electrical and Instrumentation Engineer (Lead) at Hazer Group Limited from March 2017 to May 2018. Brendon also gained experience at Rio Tinto Iron Ore as an Electrical Engineer from October 2016 to February 2017.

Additionally, Brendon has worked as an Electrical Commissioning Engineer at Opus Offshore Pte Ltd from August 2015 to September 2016. Brendon started their career at Austal as a Graduate Electrical Engineer from August 2009 to January 2010, and then joined Lycopodium as an Undergraduate Control Systems and Electrical Engineer from July 2008 to January 2009.

Brendon Westerhout obtained their Bachelor of Electrical Engineering degree from The University of Western Australia. Brendon pursued this degree from 2004 to 2008, specializing in Electrical, Electronics, Communications, Control Systems. In 2013, they furthered their education by pursuing a Master's Degree in Maintenance and Reliability Engineering from Monash University, completing it in 2014.

As of 2021, Brendon Westerhout is currently enrolled in The University of Western Australia for a Graduate Certificate in Entrepreneurship and Innovation. The end year for this program is not specified, suggesting they are either still pursuing it or has not yet completed it.