Jacobus Hodgman

Experience

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  North West University Potchefstroom Campus

  Jan 2006 - Dec 2011

  • Full-time Postgraduate Engineering Student

    Jan 2010 - Dec 2011

  • Full-time Graduate Engineering Student

    Jan 2006 - Dec 2009
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  Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd

  Feb 2012 - Nov 2024

  Report on production, preventative maintenance, plant failures, system performance, delivery as well as providing engineering feedback and suggestions.Review and evaluate system upgrades and manage contractors during outage work.Define scope of work and prepare project proposals, documentation, and engineering instructions as well as defining the tools required to perform the work.Monitor and track maintenance progress and handing issues with regular stakeholder meetings. Meetings typically includes way forward, scope, budgets, and timelines.Participating in regular management meetings discussing project status and deadlines.Performing plant and component design – calculations, drawings, outlay and material.Processing design changes and optimization, improvement proposals.Advising on turbine and boiler discipline issues with proposed solutions. Show less Appointed as competent person of machinery in terms of the General Machinery Regulation (GMR2(7)(a)) and assigned with the duty of ensuring compliance with the OHSAct.Provided engineering during manufacturing, construction and commissioning phases.Technical coordination, interface- and integration management.Performed engineering change proposals, site changes and modifications.Manage pressure vessel compliance and pre-commissioning certification.Performed daily plant walk downs, inspections and client-contractor meetings.Assured progress and code compliance as well as safe workmanship on site.Managing risks, analyzing and mitigating to acceptable levels.Performed technical quality interventions such as inspections, hold points and witness points.Verifying actual plant/asset configuration presented for commissioning conforms to the detail design. Show less Conduct technical investigations and performed root cause analysis.Compiled corrective action reports while driving complex engineering repairs.Reviewing commissioning procedures and plans for completeness prior to safety clearance ensuring it fully encompasses the ‘as built’ asset.Evaluating quality assurance records during the manufacturing and construction phase, verifying that actual plant/asset configuration complies with the relevant standards and specifications.Approved QCP’s, ITPL’s, data books, fit ups, quality documents etc.Reviewed commissioning procedures, qualification tests, quality control plans, site work conformance files etc. prior to safety clearance.Manage interfaces between other engineering disciplines, projects and external technical community to ensure quality service delivery and benchmarking.Resolved technical manufacturing queries as well as reviewed end of manufacturing data packs.Ensured that the technical quality requirements as defined in the baseline design are included in the manufacturing quality control plans and the manufacturing inspection and test plans. Show less Responsible for interim, integrated and pre-commissioning design reviews.Reviewed quality design documentation and focused on the quality, technical compliance, interfacing and integration of documentation being reviewed.Analyzed all interfacing package/plant/system/asset’s design ensuring closure of all issues.Performed interfaces checks both physical and functional reviewing piping terminal points, signal lists, load lists, cable schedules, etc.Conducted routine constructability checks, inspecting equipment installation, tolerances and interfaces assuring plant conform to the “built-to-specification” baseline. Show less

  • Senior Power Plant Engineer (M.Eng (Mech)), Pr. Eng, GCC, SAIW

    Aug 2023 - Nov 2024

  • Power Plant Generation Engineer

    Jun 2021 - Aug 2023

  • Project Engineer

    Mar 2015 - Jun 2021

  • Turbine Plant Engineer

    Feb 2012 - Mar 2015

  • Engineer in Training

    Feb 2012 - Jul 2013
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  SMJ Agri (Pty) Ltd

  Nov 2024 - now

  Director

  SMJ Agri offers a wide range of agricultural solutions within the pecan nut farming sector.