• Provide inspired leadership for the organization.• Make important policy, planning, and strategy decisions.• Develop, implement, and review operational policies and procedures.• Assist HR with recruiting when necessary.• Help promote a company culture that encourages top performance and high morale.• Oversee budgeting, reporting, planning, and auditing.• Work with senior stakeholders.• Ensure all legal and regulatory documents are filed and monitor compliance with laws and regulations.• Work with the board of directors to determine values and mission, and plan for short and long-term goals.• Identify and address problems and opportunities for the company.• Build alliances and partnerships with other organizations.• Support worker communication with the management team.

• Full inbound and outbound logistics operations and resources management.• Monitoring the quality, quantity, cost and efficiency of inventory movement and storage.• Directing the implementation and improvements in operating processes and systems to optimise b warehouse and transport efficiencies.• Collaborating with internal stakeholders to ensure the delivery of integrated supply chain services according to company objectives.• Overseeing the Transport Managing System.• Implementing and managing logistics projects.• Providing input regarding the rural logistics budget and managing relevant costs.• Guiding teams in meeting national strategic objectives.• Building and maintaining both stakeholder and employee relationships.• Encouraging and ensuring adequate employee training and development.

• Planned and directed optimal Plant operations using an effective ERP system.• Increased the Cape Town Plant’s blending and storage capacity by 15%.• Implemented, reported on, and reviewed the revival of the On Time in Full (OTIF) measure.• Assumed the strategic collaboration of a packaging cleaning company and the Protea Chemicals Cape Town site, which resulted in a cost-saving of ZAR4.1million over eight months.• Tracked Plant operational outputs and expenses and pursued a 1% monthly increase and decrease, respectively.• Increased manufacturing capacity from 15 tons to 45 tons per batch through the design and implementation of a Sodium Hydroxide dilution system.• Reduced the Cape Town Plant’s overtime by 89% within eight months.• Oversaw the reduction of the Cape Town Plant’s Recordable Case Record (RCR), from 0.85 to 0.43 within eight months.• Developed systems and processes that tracked and optimised productivity and operational standards, metrics and performance targets.• Oversaw and mentored employees to increase operational productivity, including the mentoring of six engineering students.• Managed the implementation of the Omnia Group’s safety and engineering programme for the Cape Town site.• Led the team that produced 850 metric tons of chemical products for the Cape Town site, a regional record.

• Led the implementation of the production and quality section as well as achieved the lowest budget expenditure of an ERP (AX) project on a national level.• Directed the implementation of the production and quality section of an ERP (AX) project for the East African region.• Achieved the highest number of employees trained and tested on the ERP (AX) project nationally.• Rated as the top ERP (AX) User for Protea Chemicals nationally.• Implemented the national SharePoint library that now houses 86% of customers intellectual property.• Designed and oversaw the building and accreditation of the Kenya Laboratory.• Formed part of the engineering project team that designed and installed an automated filling station in Protea Chemicals’ largest factory as well as designed and built the first East African blending facility in Kenya.

• Measured the performance of Protea Chemicals sections at the Johannesburg factory thought the implementation of an onsite metric system.• Oversaw the daily operations of the blending section – Johannesburg Plant.• Developed an employee’s innovation reward scheme - Johannesburg Plant.• Exceeded a production record for the blending section by manufacturing 456 tons of product in one month.• Initiated the employee support programme for further studies and the cross-training programme on the Plant.