Senior Consultant

• Aug 2021 - Present

Coached a Mining Section at Dishaba mine consisting of a Mine Overseer and 16 Shift Supervisors to improve Performance. At the start of a 16-week cycle, the Section were the worst performing section. At the end, they were the best performing section. Facilitated Training & Coaching sessions with middle and senior Management. Focusing on Structured Management, Visual Management and Team Values. Improvement came through changing Mindsets and Behavior in the use of technical toolsets and skillsets. As Stream Lead on the Northam Zondereinde Project, I am setting direction to the team, Engaging as well as Enabling them on implementing a Structured Management approach. Focus is on the Morning Meeting where all stakeholders are present following a process / agenda. 20% is looking at past performance with 80% forward looking with the focus on Actions to address constraints. Show less

Continuous Improvement Specialist

• Dec 2019 - Aug 2021

> Assist Small and Medium sized Enterprises ensuring they achieve their Vision and Goals. > Training & Coaching Management in art of Continuous Improvement Methodologies & Techniques. > Assist SME's to Implement Continuous Improvement Systems. > Assist businesses to de-Risk and build growth plans. > Assist Clients to Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve and Control Continuous Process Improvement / Management Systems. Prepare Business Cases with Problem and Goal Statements. > Developed a Continuous Improvement Program for the United Nations (International Trade Centre - ITC) to be deployed amongst SME’s in Africa that want to be trained and coached on how to custom design, implement and manage a Continuous Improvement System. It is designed to address the Voice of the Customer and aimed at empowering Employees to be accountable for Continuous Improvement. Show less

Factory Manager

• Mar 2019 - Dec 2019

> Managed the entire day to day Manufacturing Operation. (10 Manufacturing departments, ± 275 employees, 15 Section Managers) > Established Continuous Process Improvement Systems addressing Product Quality and Efficiency. Making the Quality Assurance Systems work for the Process Owners. (ISO 9001 & ISO 3834) > Coached, Trained and Developed Managers and Team Leaders in Managerial Skills as well as Process owners. > Setup and Maintained a Planned and Preventative Maintenance System. Show less

Head Of Operations

• Jan 2018 - Feb 2019

> Reduced the Reconciliation Process Cycle Time per Account with ± of 45%. Eliminated non-value-added process steps like Printing and dual data capturing. Designed and Implemented a Standardized and simplified Excel Macro Based Recon Tool across 14 Account Groups.> Assisted CIB Team with standardizing and cleansing ± 10000 Corporate Client data and migrating the data from SAP to SalesForce and Goldtier databases.> Implemented an error detection system to detect, record, correct, prevent, and report errors detected throughout the automated end to end Reconciliation process reconciling 5000 accounts over 11 African countries.> Designed and oversaw the building and Implementing of a Query Logging Workflow System to manage queries from clients. Show less

Senior Process Engineer

• Jul 2014 - Jan 2018

Industrial Engineer

• Aug 2002 - Jun 2014

> Project Leader of a team: Designed and implemented a Lean Manufacturing system in the Cold Mill Roll Shop resulting in the reduction of WIP by 20%. Increased availability of Backup Roll to Cold Rolling Mills with 50% and improved Operator Efficiency by 18%. > Project Leader of a Lean Six Sigma team: Increase the Vessel Lives of the Convertors in the Steel Plant from 74 to 95 with an estimated annual saving of ± R1.75 Million. Retention Time and Slag Formers identified as 20% of the rout causes responsible for 80% of the problem. Actual Saving of R727181.34 in five months. > Part of a Project team: Designed and implemented a Process Management System to Detection, Correction, Recording, Reporting and Prevention of Identified Critical Points in the process with accountability at the source resulting in a reduction of ± 40% in the Chemistry Variation. R90 million saving per annum. > Part of a Project team: Designed and implemented a Process Management System to Detection, Correction, Recording, Reporting and Prevention of Identified Critical Points in the process with accountability at the source to ensure Clean Steel (Defect Free) being casted, resulting in a reduction of ± 10% in Defects detected at the Grinders. > Part of a Project team: Designed and Commissioned a new Operating System for the Slab Grinders that enabled the measurement of Grinder performance more accurately as well as controlling the % Steel removal rate. First Time Yield reduction ± R 6.5 million per annum. Reduced Grinding Wheel Cost by ± R 4.6 million per annum. Show less

Consultant

• Dec 2001 - Jul 2002

Distribution & Operations Manager

• Aug 2001 - Nov 2001

Production Manager

• Apr 2000 - Jul 2001

Industrial Engineer

• Mar 1995 - Mar 2000

Production Foreman

• Feb 1994 - Feb 1995

Quality Assurer

• Apr 1993 - Jan 1994

Farm Manager

• Oct 1991 - Mar 1993

Industrial Engineer Technician

• Jan 1991 - Sep 1991

Lieutenant: Instructor & Productivity / Loss Control Officer

• Feb 1988 - Dec 1989