Experience

NOKENG FLUORSPAR MINE (RF)

• South Africa
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Plant Supervisor

  • Aug 2018 - Present

  · Ensuring Quality production standards and objectives are achieved · Managing assigned employees and equipment for optimized production efficiencies · Facilitating superior individual performance and fostering a team environment · Preparing and supporting production plans that establishes priorities and sequence for processing in the plant · Enforcing housekeeping initiatives · Take all reasonable measures to ensure the safety and healthy state of employees and keep proper discipline · Liaise with Mining and other Engineering departments to ensure effective running of the plant · Metallurgical plant operation, monitoring, troubleshooting and optimization (crushing, Screening , Milling, Flotation, Thickening, Whims, Filtration, waste and product handling) · Show less



Sylvania Metals (PTY) LTD

• Mining
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Metallurgical Plant Foreman

  • Oct 2017 - Jul 2018

  · Ensuring the safety and healthy state of employees· Ensuring that Mine health and Safety act , and its regulations are complied with specifically relating to machinery, contract management and assigned shift · Communicating any amendments of applicable legislation and regulation to assigned shift· Keeping all legal documents up to date· Metallurgical plant monitoring, troubleshooting and optimization (crushing, Dense medium separation, Mills, Spirals, Flotation)· Production reports Show less

• Metallurgical Plant Operator

  • Feb 2017 - Sep 2017

  · Metallurgical plant operation, monitoring and troubleshooting· Liaising with Foreman, supervisors and Metallurgists on issues concerning the plant performance, breakdowns, challenges and others· Shiftly spot-checks on reagents dosages and strengths, pressures, densities, water quality, stockpiles measurements, grind tests and product loading



Sylvania Metals (PTY) LTD

• Mining
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Graduate Metallurgist

  • Feb 2015 - Dec 2016

  · Metallurgical plant monitoring, troubleshooting and optimization (crushing, Dense medium separation, Mills, Spirals, Flotation) · Laboratory test works and assisting suppliers when on site for reagents testing · Monitoring and ordering plant reagents · Submission of proposals and participating in various projects · Conducting daily densitometer calibrations, weekly belt cuts, particle size analysis, and shutdown inspections · Assisting in co-coordinating the movement of final products · Guiding plant personnel and in service trainees · Ensuring shift log sheets are readily available, filled correctly and updated regularly Show less



Anglo Thermal Coal (Greenside Colliery)

• Witbank

• Extraction Metallurgy Experiential Trainee

  • Mar 2012 - Dec 2012

  My responsibilities included • Plant field and control room operation as a plant attendant, plant operator, control room operator and team leader o Extensive familiarization with the process plant involving run of mine section, crushing and screening, beneficiation of coarse, medium and fine coal, flotation and filtration, product and discard handling, process water flow , magnetite flow circuit and flocculant addition. o Sampling and quality analysis: Laboratory test works o Conducting safety meetings with shift members. o Checking and monitoring operational parameters such as field densities of all the modules in the plant (medium and thickener underflow), pressures, tank levels o Checking the problems in an operating system, pumps, flows; settings etc. and participate in troubleshooting and problem solving, general diagnostic plant investigation Show less



Denel SAAB, Johannesbourg

• South Africa
• Aviation and Aerospace Component Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Physical Metallurgist

  • Jan 2008 - Dec 2009

  My responsibilities included Acceptance of incoming raw material • Quality control and inspection on heat treated parts, steel shots, glass beads, composite parts. • Metallographic examination: grain size evaluation, coating thickness measurements, thread rolling, decarburizing assessment, carbide network assessment, corrosion assessment • Special process development and qualification • Alternative material recommendations My responsibilities included Acceptance of incoming raw material • Quality control and inspection on heat treated parts, steel shots, glass beads, composite parts. • Metallographic examination: grain size evaluation, coating thickness measurements, thread rolling, decarburizing assessment, carbide network assessment, corrosion assessment • Special process development and qualification • Alternative material recommendations



Mintek

• Randburg

• Trainee Technician to Technician

  • Jun 2004 - Dec 2007

  My responsibilities included: • Laboratory training: metallography, mechanical testing, • Corrosion testing and materials performance evaluation • Projects involvement: Characterisation of different materials such as grinding balls, scrapper blades; deposit weight analysis, porosity and grain size measurements, corrosion rate determination of various materials, failure investigations of gears, cans, boiler tubes, mantles etc. Development of alloys • Research • Service work for mining, automotive and manufacturing industries etc. (failure investigations, Metallurgical evaluation and characterisation of various components • Report writing: Investigations, service work and projects Show less