Karl Govender

Experience

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  Tongaat Hulett

  Aug 2007 - Aug 2011

  Plant Engineer (Mechanical)

  • Ensuring 96% plant availability through sound engineering practice and maintenance planning• Ensuring optimal operation of boiler house and power station through management of resources• Managing boiler operational team of 25 people including 1 operations foreman• Managing boiler mechanical staff of 9 people including 1 mechanical foreman• Managing fibre production plant staff of 12 people• Continuous improvement of systems and processes through sound engineering practice • Conducting routine inspections on critical plant including NDT and statutory pressure tests • SHE boiler section chairman ensuring OSH act compliance within the plant• SHE executive committee member for entire plant • Plant incident investigator• Responsible for largest plant budget including identification, motivation and spend of CAPEX • Leading SHE representatives and team ensuring NOSA 5 star compliance• Leading SHE representatives and team ensuring ISO14001 compliance• Monitoring and controlling stack emission from boilers• Managing boiler plant effluent and smuts system• Managing fibre production plant• Responsible for project planning for 4 month Off-Crop period • Standby engineer responsible for entire plant once every 3 weeks Show less

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  BSN medical

  Sept 2011 - Sept 2018

  - Maintenance planning and scheduling. - Project management.- Resource Management.- Leadership.- Staff development planning.- Budget drafting and control.- Process control and automation.- Coal fired boilers.- Steam reticulation. - Effluent treatment and control.- Activated carbon bed solvent recovery process control, automation and design.- Alcohol distillation.- Process design.- Process automation.- Automation in packaging.- Lean manufacturing.- Cost reduction implementation. - Energy efficiency auditing.- Industrial HVAC system design.- Clean room design.- Specifying and procurement of equipment. - ISO 14000.- ISO 9001.- Continuous improvement. Show less

  • Site Engineering Manager

    Jan 2018 - Sept 2018

  • Site Engineer

    Sept 2011 - Dec 2017
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  Constantia Flexibles

  Oct 2018 - Nov 2021

  • Engineering and Asset Care Manager, Afripack Cluster

    Jul 2020 - Nov 2021

  • Engineering and Asset Care Manager

    Oct 2018 - Jul 2020
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  Entyce ( National Brands Limited)

  Dec 2021 - now

  Engineering Manager