Gideon Jacobs Email & Phone Number

Cape Town, Wc, Za

Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South Africa

Overseeing general business optimisation and productivity at Hungry Lion

Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South Africa

Cape Town Area, South Africa

Cape Town Area, South Africa

• Managing a team of business consultants to enable a variety of business improvement initiatives across a range of industries. This includes management system implementation, capital and operational valuations, increased operational volume and reduced unit cost reduction. • Specific results include:- Increased throughput by 15% and decrease unit costs by 5% over four months through driving improvement projects and improving management systems at a Ghana gold mine and processing plant- Increased throughput by 35% and decrease unit costs by 40% over six months through driving improvement projects and improving management systems at a Mali gold mine and processing plant

Secunda, South Africa

• Managing the daily operation of three chemical plants, namely Octene Train 3, SafolTM and Rhodium recovery through a team of 88 through with 5 direct reports• Accountable for a combined fixed cost budget of R67 million per annum and a combined variable cost budget of R2.1 billion per annum• Various yearly production improvements (volume records)• Multiple periods of operating injury and incident free across my operational areas of responsibility• Accountable for sustainable fixed cost reductions as per the Project phoenix initiative• Accountable for 400 kg of precious metal inventory (rhodium), forecasting, procurement involvement and off site (European) precious metal recovery contracting• Project business case analysis on capital spend, projected costs, timeline of expected cash flows, benefit projected to be gained, IRR, NPV, payback period• Financial audit post project measuring project deliverables• Business and operational risk ranking of capital items

• Managing the daily operation of a R1.2 billion (capital cost) petrochemical plant that that converts 1-Heptene through three successive reactions steps to a 1-Octene (Octene Train 3)• Managing the interface with the co-monomers business and meeting production demands as per operating plan at an agreed quality specification• Budgeting fixed and variable cost for an operating plant and forecasting these costs as the financial year progresses• Responsible for 54 subordinates’ safety on the operating plant and that they are trained in accordance to their personal development programs, performance agreements and OHS act requirements• To manage the interface between production, maintenance and the Technical support group in ensuring that the goals of the respective teams are aligned for Octene Train 3

Mba, Finance

Cfa, Finance, Level I Exam

Bachelor Of Engineering (Beng) (Chem)