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Durban, Kzn, Za

Durban Area, South Africa

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Siyahamba Engineering (Pty) Ltd is a small to medium sized black owned and managed business operating within the Rail sector of South Africa servicing both Passenger and Freight Rail sectors. Siyahamba designs and develops its own range of coach and locomotive rail products. In addition to supplying both Prasa and Transnet it also services multinational OEM’s such as Alstom, Bombardier, GE and China Rail.Functions & Responsibilities:• Key customer account management• Research and Development• Project Management and Industrialization• Sales and operations planning• Procurement and Supply Chain• Manufacturing and Assembly Operations• Logistics and Distribution

Johannesburg

Sealed Air Africa (Pty) Ltd is the African division for the Wall Street listed Sealed Air Corporation. The company consists of three core divisions – Food Care (encompassing food packaging and hygiene chemicals), Diversey Care (institutional cleaning chemicals) and Product Care (protective packaging). The African continent is serviced through corporate hubs in South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria and Morocco.Functions & Responsibilities:• Sales and operations planning• Procurement, materials and inventory management• In house manufacturing in two plants within South Africa• Contract manufacturing in South Africa, Kenya and Morocco• Warehouse, freight and logistics throughout Africa• Imports and exports throughout Africa

Johannesburg

Megapak, a division of Nampak, manufacture large plastic injection moulded crates and large plastic blow moulded drums for the beverage, chemical, agricultural, dairy, bakery and other FMCG industries.Functions & Responsibilities:• General management role, full income statement responsibility• Achieve sales and gross margin targets• Key account manager for beverage sector customers• Sales and operations planning• Manufacturing and warehousing on the Olifantsfontein site• Management of overhead costs to within budgeted limits• All inbound and outbound logistics

Johannesburg

Plastotech was a small to medium sized enterprise operating within the South African automotive component supply industry. Initially privately owned the company was acquired by Venture Otto SA (Pty) Ltd in October 2007. Plastotech achieved 200% growth between 2003 and 2008 through successful localization of components in the then growing automotive industry, supplying all six OEM vehicle assembly plants within South Africa.Functions & Responsibilities:• Member of company executive committee with a minority shareholding• Sales forecasting and execution • Inbound and outbound logistics• Manufacturing and engineering• Quality management systems • Formulation and control of expense and CAPEX budgetsHighlights:Project managed the relocation of Plastotech plant and equipment from the Wynberg factory in Johannesburg to Venture Otto facilities in both Durban and Centurion between July and December of 2008 whilst maintaining continuity of supply to OEM's

Johannesburg

Responsibilities covered all production, engineering and logistics functions.  Implementation of preventative maintenance programs Materials handling automation within the injection moulding section Materials handling automation within the blow moulding section Rationalisation of headcounts as a result of automation projects, inclusive of union negotiations Outsourcing of printing operation to alleviate market seasonality

Johannesburg

Responsibilities included all maintenance; engineering and SHE functions. Successfully completed the following projects: Implemented a preventative maintenance program resulting in significant cost savings Implementation of the manufacturing and plant maintenance modules of the Nampak Compact ERP system Reorganization of factory plant and equipment to accommodate additional production lines

Johannesburg

Previous Positions Held:• Senior Maintenance Engineer• Development Engineer• Junior Engineer

Engineer'S Degree, Industrial Engineering, Graduate Diploma In Engineering Management

Bachelor'S Degree, Mechanical Engineering, Bsc (Mechanical Engineering)

High School, Matric Certificate, Matric

Nampak Management Development Program