Bruce Botha Email & Phone Number

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Durban Area, South Africa

• Required to provide technical support to the manufacturing facility to ensure fabricated items are delivered on time to GE specifications. Job function requires functioning in a matrix job environment. RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Setting up: - Complete BOM’s broken down per work station - Work station instruction sheets - Station readiness sheets - Quality procedures
• Quality and inspection of welding and painting
• Technology… Show more Required to provide technical support to the manufacturing facility to ensure fabricated items are delivered on time to GE specifications. Job function requires functioning in a matrix job.
• Technology transfer
• Fabrication jig design

• Hired to fulfil the role of a senior mechanical engineer in a EPCM contractor.RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Report writing
• Customer liaison and presentation of reports
• Costing schedules
• Specifications
• Mechanical equipment lists

• I started a design consultancy to service the South African manufacturing industry by supplying quality engineering design packages at a cost effective rate. The focus was on heavy engineering in the materials.
• 11m Thickener fabricated and erected in Australia
• 450kNm Tippler drive
• Low cost 14m 400t/h waste… Show more I started a design consultancy to service the South African manufacturing industry by supplying quality engineering design packages at a cost effective rate. The focus was on heavy.
• Low cost 14m 400t/h waste dump spreader, head end jacking system, expandable conveyor and rail clamp.
• 65t Gas holder for KwaMashu Waterworks

• Takraf Tenovo, then BET Process Equipment, at the time I was employed, was a supplier of high rate thickeners, ultra high rate thickeners, Pinned Bed Clarifiers and flotation cells.RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Redesign of products and costing methodology to increase the competitiveness of all the products
• Preliminary design to accuracy required for tenders
• Detail design of componentry
• Redesign exiting machinery for cost effective fabrication
• Redesign and installation of… Show more Takraf Tenovo, then BET Process Equipment, at the time I was employed, was a supplier of high rate thickeners, ultra high rate thickeners, Pinned Bed Clarifiers and flotation.

• Then GL&VI was responsible for detail design of equipment to the process engineer's specification. I generated the 3D models which were then normally detailed by a draughtsman. Much of the technology was centred in.
• Design and drawings of all thickener projects
• Preliminary design to accuracy required for tenders
• Detail design of… Show more Then GL&VI was responsible for detail design of equipment to the process engineer's specification. I generated the 3D models which were then normally detailed by a draughtsman. Much of the.
• Detail design of componentry
• Liaise with engineering offices around the world to determine best practice

Elandsfontein, South Africa

• Engineer responsible for the following company products- Track Mounted Crushing Stations- Jaw Crushers- Cone Crushers- Double Roll Crushers- Apron Feeders- Rotary Coal Breakers- Mineral Scrubbers
• Sizing and design of apron feeder drives
• Design of drives for all equipment
• Cost reduction
• Failure analysis
• Technical competence for sales staff and workshops

• Supreme Spring Holdings are the only South African producer of spring steel components for OE supply in motor industry. RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Manage new parts from OE drawings to approved parts including: - Tooling - Production of test sample - Dimensional tests - Fatigue tests - Corrosion tests - Final OE approval
• Technical assistance to the factory
• Development of excel based calculation program for the complete design… Show more Supreme Spring Holdings are the only South African producer of spring steel components for OE supply in motor industry. RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Development of excel based calculation program for the complete design of leaf springs Show less

• Haggie Rand Ltd is a leading supplier of steel wire, strand and rope to the South African and international mining and construction markets.RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Project management
• Design of certain items
• Purchase requisitions, including tendering
• Gantt charts
• Machinery installation