I am responsible for establishing and implementing business systems and new manufacturing technology to distinguish the business going forward. My responsibilities include strategic procurement, Quality management, management of the Boilermaking workshop and Project and Maintenance support.

I was appointed as Operations Director for Rocla, responsible for managing all 13 business units for the group. (±1000 employees) This include management of Production, Sales/marketing, Finance/admin, Human capital and Technical. During this period the challenges faced were a complete business transformation to embrace a competitive environment where the numbers of competitors doubled in the last 5 years, margins eroded and costs came under pressure.

I joined Rocla as the Operations Executive, responsible for managing 7 of 13 business units in Southern Africa. This include management of Production, Sales/marketing, Finance/admin, Human capital and Technical. During this period the challenges faced were a complete business transformation to embrace a competitive environment where the numbers of competitors doubled in the last 5 years, margins eroded and costs came under pressure.

Polyoak produces various plastic containers and sell these into the South African market. In my career at Polyoak I managed the PET factory as Operations manager. This factory manufactures Plastic containers of various sizes through a process of Blow moulding. The biggest challenge facing the factory was to transform the business unit from a loss to a profit situation within a year. As Operations manager my responsibility include, managing the factory as a business unit inclusive of the marketing, production and maintenance functions.During the period we have doubled existing plant output, reduced customer complaints by 75% and implemented additional capacity by adding two new container blowing lines.

Columbus Stainless is a Stainless steel manufacturing plant situated in Middelburg, Mpumalanga. In my career at Columbus I have had the opportunity to gain experience in the maintenance and production part of the business. I joined the company in the Engineering discipline and have established and run the condition monitoring and central planning departments. I have been involved in three implementations of computerised maintenance management systems.I progressed in my career into the Production leg of the business. As manager production planning, my responsibility included, the development of the production plan, capacity declaration, order intake and improvement projects in the supply chain. I was also responsible for establishing the supply chain function in the company.Columbus decided in 2003 to re-establish a centralised Engineering leg and I joined the team responsible for the implementation of such initially as project Engineer and subsequently Manager Engineering systems.During this period I gained experience in:• Project management• Management• Lean management• Delivering tangible results improving the business bottom line.• Integrated Systems

Foskor is an opencast Phosphate mine situated in Phalaborwa, South Africa. I started as an Engineer in training at Foskor in Phalaborwa. I functioned as a Project Engineer for capital projects. During this period I completed a lot of single and multidisciplinary projects and designs. From working on the Zirconia project I functioned as the plant Engineer for the zirconia plant. After this I assumed responsibility for the maintenance of the tailings sections. The last six months I was involved in implementing and responsible for running the computerised maintenance system. Whilst working at Foskor I also registered as a Professional Engineer.