Experience

Grinding Media South Africa
• South Africa
• Mining
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Quality Manager

  • Oct 2021 - Present


SGS

• Algeria
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Business Unit Manager

  • Jan 2016 - Sep 2021

  Managing of the commercial testing laboratory and product quality services including Sales & marketing (BD), finances (P & L, Capex and ROI), HR, SANAS ISO 17025 accreditation, ER, SHEQ, risk management, legal and statutory compliance, etc. Responsible for setting the Marketing and Business Development strategy for the Laboratory and implementation of the Operation and Tactical plan aimed at achieving the strategy. Managing of the commercial testing laboratory and product quality services including Sales & marketing (BD), finances (P & L, Capex and ROI), HR, SANAS ISO 17025 accreditation, ER, SHEQ, risk management, legal and statutory compliance, etc. Responsible for setting the Marketing and Business Development strategy for the Laboratory and implementation of the Operation and Tactical plan aimed at achieving the strategy.



Evraz Highveld Steel and Vanadium

• South Africa
• Mining
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Acting Steel Plant manager

  • Mar 2015 - Dec 2015

• Manager, Metallurgical Services and Quality Control & Production Planning and scheduling

  • Dec 2011 - Feb 2015

  Providing metallurgical services to Steel Plant and rolling mills: process control, process development, new product development and yield optimization. Manages analytical, chemical, water, coal, physical metallurgy and mechanical testing laboratories, QC inspection and NDT. Final testing and certification of vanadium slag and steel products. Contract review, quality planning, maintenance of SHEQ system, compliance to rules and regulations of third party product and system accreditations (DNV, Lloyds Register, CPD, PED, EU Construction Product Regulations) and retention of product accreditations, customer liaison – new product development, customer complaints and rejections, technical assistance. Lean manufacturing & yield improvement projects. Production planning and scheduling for Ironmaking, Steelmaking and two hot rolling mills; inventory management of semi-stock and mill feedstock; optimization of block & slab and rolling yields. Complete implementation of Flat products order execution system and completed specification and design of Structural mill order execution system. Show less

• Unit Manager Quality Control

  • Mar 2007 - Nov 2011



Highveld Steel and Vanadium Corporation

• South Africa
• Real Estate
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Unit Manager Structural Mill

  • Dec 2003 - Feb 2007

  Processing structural sections, rails and rounds, quality control & inline final inspection, logistics and dispatch of structural steel products. Ensuring compliance to international product and inspection standards. Customer liaison i.e. complaints, contract review, product development, etc. Cost control, budgeting and capital expenditure. Implementation and maintenance of integrated SHEQ system, compliance with legislation, ISO 14001, ISO 9001 and OSHAS 18000. Industrial relations, HR and EE planning. Managing ,organising and control of engineering activities within unit ensuring effective preventative maintenance and compliance to engineering availability targets.Involved in mapping and specification of MES/ERP system. Process control, fault review, reporting on financial performance and continuous improvement initiatives Show less

• Senior Metallurgist

  • Dec 1999 - Nov 2003

  Supervision of physical metallurgy laboratory and non-destructive testing department; Certification of steel products; Maintaining ISO 9002 quality assurance system Customer complaints – customer visits and metallurgical investigations; Supervising and co-ordinating all metallurgical investigations undertaken by Laboratory; Co-ordinating projects undertaken for process improvements and trials; Hardness testing, grain size measurements, cleanliness assessments.

• Metallurgist

  • Dec 1998 - Nov 1999