Experience

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  Self-employed

  • Johannesburg

  • Consultant

    • Aug 2014 - Present
    • Johannesburg

    Consulting in Management and Human Resource Strategy. Available for 3 year or 5 year contract in a full time General Management position in industry or service industry.I have consulted in a wide range of industries and companies.

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  Eigenbau (Pty) Ltd

  • General Manager

    • 2009 - Aug 2014

    I was employed to manage the office, administrative and compliance functions like Human Resources, Labour Relations, the Construction Industry Development Board and BBBEE. This allowed the Managing Director to give his full attention to the contracts and construction operations. The family-owned business had a non-compliant BBBEE rating. The first year it moved up to level 7. The next year to level 6, where it is at present.Key performance areas were developed for all of the staff and a "Conditions of Service" manual was developed.Conditions in the Construction Industry resulted in me leaving Eigenbau at the end of July 2014.

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  Human Resource Strategies

  • HR Strategist

    • 2005 - 2009

    Consulting to companies on strategic HR issues. Alignment of HR practices with the developing HR environment. I matched job performance criteria from the workplace with the competence outcomes on the National Qualifications Framework for performance appraisal and to identify training needs for a major company.I was contracted to set up a project office for assessment of competence of workers for the Bombela Consortium for the construction of the Gautrain infrastructure.I carried out an attitude survey for a construction company in a neighbouring state to inform management on policy and practices.

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  FIETA

  • CEO

    • 2001 - 2005

    Contracted to be interim CEO after serious fraud at FIETA. Took steps to stabilise FIETA and restore credibilty. The SCOPA report to Parliament a year later commended the management and staff of FIETA for achieving a clean audit. Chaired Steering Committee for a R104 million National Skills Fund project for the development of SMMEs in furniture manufacturing.FIETA was rated by the Department of Labour against the National Skills Development Strategy (NSDS) objectives for the first five year period. On a five point scale, it was rated 5 for achieving its NSDS targets, 5 for governance and management and 3 (the maximum that any SETA could score with the criteria that were in force at the time) for financial management.

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  Building Industries Federation of South Africa (BIFSA)

  • Midrand

  • General Manager Education and Training and Deputy Director

    • 1992 - 2000
    • Midrand

    I was responsible for two BIFSA Colleges that trained over 80% of the apprentices in the building industries, as well as a management development programme to develop management skills and entrepreneurship.I initiated a move from institutional skills training to on-site and on-the-job training, without compromising standards, in order to better serve the industry.I was the key negotiator for the formal building industry in accessing a R50 million grant from the European Union to establish a housing company in central Johannesburg to provide affordable housing and rental stock, with the involvement of emerging contractors, communities and formal sector contractors. This was during the political transition to democratic government. I assisted the construction industry in Botswana and Zambia to implement the competncy based modular training programme developed by BIFSA at their training centres.I represented BIFSA on the Education and Training Committee of Business South Africa and various other committees. I chaired the National Standards Body for Physical Planning and Construction at SAQA for six years.

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  Timber Industries Manpower Services (TIMS)

  • Manager; General Manager; Managing Director

    • 1977 - 1992

    I started a Forestry Training Centre in Sabie for the Section 21 Company owned by the Forestry Council. I was promoted to General Manager, then Managing Director. During this time I brought Trainability Testing to South Africa, after a visit to the British Forestry Commission and the Industrial Training Research Institute at Cambridge University.The cost of training was consistently contained to an average of 1.4 percent below the CPI over a period of eleven years. Improvements in productivity after training were monitored. Significant results were achieved.

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  Youth for Christ

  • Pretoria

  • Regional Director

    • 1970 - 1977
    • Pretoria

    Regional Director for Pretoria and Northern Transvaal. Director of National Film Library in the days before television in South Africa.

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  Department of Forestry

  • South Africa

  • Student Forester; Forester; Harvesting Forester (now Forest Engineering)

    • 1963 - 1970
    • South Africa

    After achieving my Diploma (cum laude) I spent a yaer in plantation managed and then was transferred to work with a highly respected expert in forest engineering at the Department of Forestry's Head Office in Pretoria. From there I was involved in trouble-shooting harvesting problems country-wide. I also designed and pegged out road plans for two new areas of over 2500 Ha each.