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Brussels Area, Belgium

Consulting in the field of steel making and continuous casting, as well as quality improvement in steel factories. Have already done assignments in China, Sweden, Russia and the Middle East. Clients include the Chinese group HBIS, the refractory company Vesuvius and MET/Con (the consulting division of SMS Siemag). One assignment entailed residing full time.

Ittre, Belgium

Quality manager of the factory which produces steel plate from purchased slabs.Responsibilities included the technical aspects of customer enquiries, determining and prescribing metallurgical production parameters, metallurgical testing of samples and technical interaction with customers (techical advice, customer claims). The team managed consisted of 3.

Charleroi Area, Belgium

Responsible for continuous process improvement of the casting operations at Duferco Carsid. This factory stopped producing due to the oversupply of steel in Europe.

Ittre, Belgium

Plant Manager of the factory, rolling and heat treating steel plates from purchased slabs.Responsibilities included production and maintenance (including automation) with 409 employees in this department.Two major installations (cold leveller and accellerated cooling, fully automated) were commissioned during this period. Technical inputs for decisions on.

Vanderbijlpark Area, South Africa

Plant Manager of the plate mill, a "factory within a factory", being a part of the integrated steel mill. The full cycle of rolling, cutting, heat treating and despatching of plates to customers were done by the plant organisation.Responsibilities included production and all internal engineering services.The department had around 350 employees, most of.

Vanderbijlpark Area, South Africa

Responsible for the quality management of the complete production chain and for all products of the Vanderbijlpark integrated steel factory.The factory had more than 4000 employees, producing plate, hot and cold rolled coils, tinplate, galvanised and painted strip. The customer base included automotive customers, principally Toyota, Mercedes and BMW.The.

Vanderbijlpark Area, South Africa

Responsible for Production Planning and Delivery Transport (supply chain management) of the Vanderbijlpark factory described above.

Vanderbijlpark Area, South Africa

Responsible for the continuous improvement of the Vanderbijlpark factory as described above. The department had 5 senior specialists to cover the scope of the factory, one each for steel making, hot rolling, cold rolling, production planning and finance.Was team leader of the product portfolio team and a member of the core team during a major McKinsey.

Pretoria Area, South Africa

Plant Manager of the Electric Steel Plant consisting of two 125t Arc Furnaces, Ladle Treatment facilities, a Continuous Caster and a Slab Yard.The plant had a staff of more than 500 people which performed the production and all internal engineering services (maintenance).During this period, converted the plant from carbon steel production to stainless.

Pretoria And Vanderbijlpark

Production Manager of various production units as the manager of the shift foremen. These units typically consisted of between 80 and 120 operators, working rotating shifts 24 a day, 7 days a week.

Pretoria Area, South Africa

Engineer, firstly in the Quality Department doing product improvement and then at the Steel Melting Plant doing process improvement.

Master In Engineering, Metallurgical Engineering / Materials Science

B. Eng., Metallurgical Engineering / Materials Science