Jonathan Katz Email & Phone Number

New Zealand

South Africa

MAINTENANCE MANAGER / 3D SCANNER OPERATOR• Designing, planning and carrying out preventive maintenance schedules for the chrome plant, machine shop and factory• Managing floor staff and allocating daily duties• Repairing and maintaining all pumps tanks and associated equipment in the plant• Procurement of equipment and spares• Overseeing and checking of maintenance jobs and ensuring repairs have been done correctly and to correct standards• Conducting internal 14004 quality audit and environmental audits• Scanning engineering parts for reverse engineering with Nikon scanner and utilising Focus software as well as Polyworks software to clean up scanned model• Aligning repair and preparing the scan data for modelling for the manufacture phase• Meeting with customers, discussing their needs and maintaining a good working relationship throughout the process• Liaising with customers and maintaining customer contact after chroming and engineering jobs have been completed, ensuring the possibility of return business• Overseeing the CNC mill and making sure tools/parts are manufactured correctly and to the customer’s satisfaction• Receiving the client’s drawings, quoting and procuring all materials for the job, such as steel grades, fixings and mill tooling • Conducting final quality control checks

Durban, South Africa

• Maintaining close communication with customers and discussing application and design of their equipment and requirements• Maintaining a professional personal and company image at all times • Ensuring close cooperation at all times• Planning manufacture schedule and ensuring that all runs as per schedule and within the quoted time frame and calculated budget • Sourcing of components and suppliers, including piping, valves, E.X.D. rated testing equipment, flow meters, and product pumps • Maintaining close communication with suppliers and manufacturers of various components, processes and manufacture standards• Making sure that all procedures, NDT welding certs and standards, are strictly adhered to and documented• Managing the assembly and testing of the test rigs, including mobile, off shore, open test measures from 3000L TO 40L, and water draw rigs• Overseeing the testing and calibration of the measures at accredited national authorities• Overseeing the safe and secure packing of the client’s equipment and goods, and preparing for shipping and delivery

Durban, South Africa

• Responsibility for sales, marketing and repair of construction equipment and machinery for internal use and external hire• Maintaining existing clients, sourcing potential clients, and servicing key clients including Group 5, Icon, Murray and Roberts, and Grinaker LTA• Purchasing of equipment for re-sale and hiring fleet for both small and large plant equipment• Liaising with customers• Invoicing and general administration• Acting in the capacity of Yard Foreman, responsible for yard control and supervision of construction equipment in head office yard and hire fleet• Managing the maintenance, repairs and site plant machinery as well as external hire machinery• Sourcing and purchasing of the full range of construction machinery and tools• Rendering a 24-hour plant technician call-out service• Organising regular training and safety programmes for correct use and applications of construction machinery, including site safety, and allocating correct personal protective equipment. to site foremen and labour force• Ordering and purchasing of spares for repairs and servicing of all plant equipment and tools including consumables• Ensuring the correct use, transport and storage of Troxler and cable detection equipment