David Thapelo Pitiki

Experience

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  Autoliv (AZA)

  Jan 2014 - Aug 2015

  Junior Industrial Engineer Trainee
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  The South African Breweries

  Jan 2015 - Nov 2023

  • Developed and implemented Lean programmes by establishing lean champions resulting in a 20% reduction in defects and a 10% increase in productivity.• Led cross-functional teams in identifying and eliminating waste, reducing lead times, and improving overall process efficiency.• Manage and identify cost improvement opportunities to achieve cost containment. • Drive relationship management by engaging cross functional teams to identify opportunity improvement. • Conduct monthly Lean department reviews and provide constructive feedback to departments on current status with recommendations to drive continuous improvement.• Served as the Plant lean subject matter expert and provided guidance to Plant Leadership Team.• Conducted training sessions on Lean principles and facilitated process improvement workshops for employees, resulting in a culture of continuous improvement.• Performing audits of current business processes, prepared business cases to identify improvements and redesign business processes.• Managed a team by developing success plans, career progression and recruitment.• Lead, facilitate and coach Root Cause Analysis Problem Solving 5-Why, DMAIC, PDCA, Belts, Fishbone analysis & FMEA.• Build learning solutions and skills development.• Engaged stakeholders to understand business process needs to do process improvement.• Performed as is process analysis to provide improvement opportunities.• Lead and implement project on brewery of the future applications for site.• Identified bottlenecks as well as improvement initiatives. • Developed and implemented KPIs to track team performance and measure or monitor the success of improvement initiatives on process performance. Show less • Train production and logistics teams on lean six sigma manufacturing/management.• Drive and check implementation of 5S, Visual Management, Team Work, FocusImprovement and other World Class Manufacturing pillars.• Conduct World Class Manufacturing Team and Team Leader Workshops on 5S, FacilitateProblem Solving, Leading a Team with Visual Management, Managing 5S, The Role of a Team Leader, Intro to World Class Organizations, Visual Management, Loss and Waste Awareness, Productive Team Meetings and Team Building.• Conduct times studies within raw material warehouse and production.• Implement lean tools such as 5S, SMED, Kanban, ABC analysis.• Participate in implementation projects of warehouse or distribution network• Manage Warehouse and Raw Materials optimization through simulations and value streammapping.• Manage continuous improvement projects, drive problem solving and present business case inraw materials warehouse shop floor.• Ensure alignment to the three year strategic plans within warehouse.• Optimize warehouse cycle time.• Ensure best practices are being done and benchmarking findings are being implemented.• Implement Visual management and dashboards to track all process indicators.• Ensure housekeeping practices are adhered too. Show less

  • Lean Continuous Improvement / Voyager Plant Optimization (VPO) Manager

    Jan 2021 - Nov 2023

  • Industrial Engineer Training Controller (VPO)

    Jan 2019 - Dec 2020

  • World Class Manufacturing (WCM) Facilitator

    Dec 2016 - Dec 2018

  • Industrial Engineer Trainee

    Jan 2015 - Dec 2016
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  Absa Group

  Nov 2023 - now

  Lead Process Engineer: Senior Lean Specialist

  • Lead the Lean Six Sigma program by driving the Lean Transformation agenda toward development of a lean culture.• Lead the efforts of mindset change, sustainment, and education of Lean Six Sigma.• Develop and implement Lean Transformation strategies across the business that build lean capacity to deliver on defined service standards, prioritise and increase value for internal and external customers, and increase focus across the business on process, optimization and service standards.• Responsible for developing and supporting Lean programmes, and the establishment of Lean Champions to assist the programmes within the various business units. • Responsible for defining and establishing best practices to improve and maintain employee efficiency.• Train and coach staff across the organisation on Lean principles, tools and techniques• Introduce Lean programmes and practices within the business and ensure their sustainability and desired impact on the business• Lead targeted interventions at leadership and staff levels to motivate the desired culture change• Establish and introduce systems that will ensure sustainability of the desired culture transformation• Helping managers understand lean principles and how to apply them in their departments• Performing audits to identify waste in processes or procedures and recommending changes to improve performance• Identifying opportunities for improvements in efficiency through the use of technology or other means• Developing, maintaining, and updating standard operating procedures (SOPs) for operational services or other areas of the business• Working with various members of the team to identify problems that could impact performance and developing solutions• Leading events to implement lean practices across the BU• Coordinate and serve as a quality expert in problem solving tools such as DMAIC, 5 Why's, RCA, Show less