Experience

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  Eskom

  Jan 2005 - Apr 2008

  Mechanical engineer

  Worked at the turbine plant as a Maintenance and Project Engineer

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  Kumba iron ore mine

  May 2008 - Jun 2012

  Project engineer/manager

  •Run and Manage the Capital Projects from the concept, pre-feasibility, feasibility, executing, controlling to the hand over phase•Manage Project Team (People) from concept, pre-feasibility, feasibility, executing, controlling to the hand over phase•Manage Contractors from pre-feasibility, feasibility, executing, controlling to the hand over phase•Draft and Manage Projects Capital budget through SAP•Write technical scope of work for the Projects and draft the project health and safety plan•Ensuring that contractors are complying with the health and safety regulations•Evaluate the tenders based on technical scope of work and cost.•Manage the cost flow of the Capital Projects through SAP•Implement, supervise or manage the projects and people at the same time taking health and safety into consideration during implementation of the projects•Take decisions on technical issues for the projects.•Involved in the Plant for Technical Issues, i.e. Failure analysis investigations, take decisions on technical issues etc.•Involved with Maintenance department on the maintenance issues for the plant. I ran and managed various capital projects such as Conveyor Drives, Weba Chutes, Designing and upgrading Slurry Pumps and Slurry pipes, Dust Suppression Systems, and Hydraulic Drives. Show less

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  Rotek engineering

  Jul 2012 - Aug 2014

  Mechanical engineer

  My roles and responsibilities are to: Provide professional service, engineering service on the full maintenance cycle from the development of scopes of work, spares identification, inputs in to planning, execution of scope, close out, routine maintenance monitoring for input into the next cycle scope of work, and the development of service engineering skills and experience to ensure plant availability, reliability and performance improvement on turbine center lines, feed pump turbines, Generators mechanical and associated auxiliaries on steam, Gas and hydro turbines, Generators and related plant ranging from 100MW to 1000MW. •Provide an Engineering support services•Provide a quality Engineering services•Development of scopes of work and input into the planning process•Provide a service engineering function during outages•Ensure the development and enhancement of service engineering skills•Customer and interdepartmental relationships•Comply with safety health environment and quality requirements Show less

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  Rand water

  Sept 2014 - now

  Operations manager (gmr 2.1)

  Ensure effective operations of the machines, ensuring the daily production and quality are met. Complying with the blue drop standards. Complying with the health and safety standards. Taking care of health and safety of People, Environment and the Machines ( appointed as a GMR 2.1). Managing People, Capital plant projects and Budget.