WMC Resources executive general manager operations, Alan Dundas, has been appointed to the WMC board as an executive director.
Mr Dundas joined WMC in 1994 as resident manager at the Kwinana nickel refinery.
He has also worked for Nabalco in the Northern Territory, in the coal industry in Queensland and British Columbia, and in the tar sand business in Northern Alberta.
Mr Dundas has a formal qualification in civil engineering and is a fellow of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy.