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Johannesburg Area, South Africa

The teaching post was accomodated in a Chair for Maintenance Engineering and the salary was set at the maximum of an Associate Professor. Work done during this period includes: The introduction of an undergraduate course in Maintenance Engineering. The introduction of post graduate broadening course in Maintenance Engineering. The introduction of a full post graduate Masters degree specialisation in Maintenance Engineering within the Department of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering.

Seconded to Group Information Services, Sasol One as Manager, Maintenance Project with the instruction to establish a maintenance management information system for the Sasol Group of Companies. Controls a team of 20 specialists, who did a full systems analysis with a Functional Specification Report for a custom made system as end result. Due to a change in company priorities this was followed by a complete package survey and selection.

Appointed as Manager, Mechanical Department, Sasol One with statutory responsibility for all mechanical and civil equipment. Responsible for all mechanical and civil service workshops, infra-structure and area maintenance using in the order of 1500 people. Achievements include the establishment of a specialised mechanical services division, the initiation of a study into the adequacy of the factory's maintenance facilities as well as a pilot study in the analysis of plant historical data to achieve an improvement in plant availability, the improvement of the department's team cohesion using organisation development techniques and the improvement of budget/cost control dissipline.

Appointed at Sasol's Sigma Colliery as Resident Engineer. Carries full statutory responsibility for all machinery and is also responsible for the execution of all capital projects, all engineering design work, the operation of all coal transport systems and the surface crushing and screening plant as well as the maintenance of all equipment (underground, surface and infra- structure). Achievements during this period includes the building and installation of a computerised maintenance system, a decrease in maintenance costs of 10% in real terms, high average availability of equipment (80% plus) and the lowering of the engineering department's accident frequency to well below the industry average. The engineering department in this way contributed to the achievement of long wall and continious miner world records as well as an National Productivity Institute award for productivity improvement.

Appointed as Assistant Resident Engineer with full statutory responsibility for a part of the mine. During this period manages various parts of the mine's engineering department, including the design office, various construction projects (including the installation of a large underground crusher plant), capital purchases for the whole mine, service workshops as well as the maintenance of the ore beneficiation plant, underground mining equipment, open cast mining equipment and all infrastructure.

Phd, Industrial Engineering

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M Eng, Industrial Engineering

B Eng (Honours), Industrial Engineering

B Com, Business Economics

Bsc Eng, Mechanical Engineering