• Managed maintenance department consisting of 16 workers, made up of engineers, supervisors, boiler makers, fitters and graduate engineers.• Changed maintenance strategy from purely reactive to a preventative and predictive system, resulting in reduced down time.• Identified and implemented continuous improvement opportunities throughout the factory and implemented projects which resulted in significant safety, energy and up time improvements• Initiated and managed various capital expenditure projects throughout the factory • Set, monitored and controlled maintenance department budget. SAP used for purchasing system. • Implemented and managed CMMS system.• Reengineered machine components in order to reduce costs, increase machine reliability and increase safety • Significantly improved employee engagement results for engineering department.

• Managed and implemented condition monitoring improvement projects throughout mining and heavy machinery industry. Provided predictive maintenance strategies and services such as critical spares analysis, lubrication solutions, vibration analysis, and thermography.• Provided engineering solutions to maximize machine and plant productivity. • Manage projects requiring machine redesign and sub contractor management.

• Managed outsourcing of existing and new plastic products to China OEM suppliers from initial tendering phase through to supply handover.• Developed and initiated relationships and communication between overseas suppliers and Caroma. • Ensured quality standards were being maintained by liaising between R&D, QA, Production, Marketing and Upper management, on all aspects of outsourced products.• Prepared budgets and obtained capital expenditure approval for projects and managed cost throughout the projects.• Monitored and reported on project status to upper management and production, through reports and regular project meetings.