Refractory installation projects at Cement manufacturing sites:• Supervised and coordinated safe, timeous execution of the refractory reline projects.• Managed inventory and ensured that the budgeted levers are achieved.• Coordinated day to day interactions with plant teams as well as with the Kinoko headquarters.• Participated in the routine shut down planning and progress review meetings.

• Supervised all direct and indirect reports as well as contractors within the production department. • Performed all tasks associated with aiding the production manager. • Directly oversaw production planning, process control, optimization as well as equipment condition monitoring by production teams. • Managed incoming and outgoing inventory through continual interactions with suppliers, quality department, and logistics teams. • Maintained departmental governance standards and continual compliance with PPC minimum requirements and health and safety rules. • Contributed to stage-by-stage implementation of budgeting processes (Capex and Opex).• Achievements:- Directed shutdown planning process for the department, ensuring timely ordering of parts, tools, equipment, and services.- Assisted production manager in successfully relining over $0.8M worth of refractory material in the kiln, preheater system, and cooler.- Implemented performance management procedures for N-1, N-2, and N-3.

• Supervise and manage all direct reports, indirect reports and Contractors within the Production Department.• Assist the Production Manager to implement the Cement Industrial Framework (CIF).• Implement the requirements of the Occupational, Health and Safety Management System (OH&S Management System) and the applicable Environmental Management System (EMS).• Carry out short, medium- and long-term planning for all Production activities (Raw MillQuarry to Dispatch) in order to avail on a day to day basis the required product within the specified quality, cost and time.• Optimise production related performances across all Plant shops (Raw Milling, Kiln, Cement Mills and Dispatch) to meet set technical KPIs, OH&S and EMS and cost targets.• Manage and control product quality and consistency in line with the approved quality control protocol or targets.• Enforce discipline within the team in line with the Employment of Code of Conduct.• Track and manage performances of subordinates and Contractors within the department.• Propose people development priorities for review and approval by the Production Manager.• Implement approved people development actions in line with the annual budgets, IDPs and departmental priorities.

Ensuring that all plant activities are performed in line with the LafargeHolcim health and safety rules.• Actively participating and promoting plant-wide safety Programs.• Implementation of Safe Systems of Work, including implementation of Group Standards and Advisories.• Reporting all safety and environmental incidents occurring on shift to the plant management team. • Leading Serious Event Reviews (SERs).• Ensuring that action items raised through audits, inspections and SERs are closed in accordance with the agreed plan.• Implementation of the process safety management, hot materials handling guidelines.• A member of the burning line refractory management team.• Within the framework of the production objectives, in charge of raw mix preparation, grinding, clinker and cement production, all in accordance with Quality Assurance procedures.• Ensuring that daily production and maintenance activities done on shift are timely planned, coordinated and executed in a manner that ensures optimum safety, runtime and minimum environmental impact.• Conveying to operational staff key information on plant performance, reliability, threats and stock levels of selected materials, cascading the production plan. • Managing an energy intensive plant setup, through maintaining a profitable fuel/heat consumption (kcal/kg) as well as optimum kwh/t through reduced idleness and pushing throughput to the limits. • Providing leadership and guidance to direct reports in the execution of their responsibilities, encourage innovative thinking around process safety and production optimization.• Carrying out mini safety audits, drawing up corrective action plans and ensuring optimum utilization of company's resources.• As Patroller coach, responsible for generating and maintenance of first level inspection reports, records and standard operating procedures.

• Conducting routine mini audits in ball mills and auxiliary equipment.• Performing false air mapping, inleaks management and analysis of results.• Conducting temperature, pressure sensors verification in grinding and burning lines.• Carrying out air flow measurements, fan efficiency measurements and analyzing results.• Carrying out mini audits on the burning line (preheating, burning, cooling and direct firing). • PID and PFD analysis and debottlenecking.• Daily plant input and output reconciliation through mass balance.

• Carrying out daily plant audits through collecting process output data (product, recycle and scrap material) per plant section.• Identifying problem areas in the process; particularly in, the compound mixing, tyre component making, tyre case making and tyre moulding sections. • Carrying out research and experiments at small scale to come up with viable solutions to the problems hence assisting in debottlenecking.• Monitoring and trending output from the plant utilities (compressors, boilers and heat exchanger).