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Arnot Colliery Mine - Rietkuil 1097 South Africa.

Matla Coal Mine - Mpumalanga Region - South Africa

Matla Colliery Mine - Mpumalanga Region South Africa

Duties:• Conceptualizing all Aspects of Capital Projects, the Definition, Design, Feasibility and ensuring that they are all engineered to acceptable Standards and Implemented to Commissioning stage.• Ensure that the knowledgeable Areas of Integration, Scope, Time, Cost, Quality, Human Resource, Communication, Risk and Procurement Management are applied through the project cycle which include Initiation, Planning and Design, Implementation / construction and Closure.• Risk assessments based on External and Internal influences.• Procured and Monitored Performance of Consultants and contractors.• Compilation of Projects Documentation to support projects processes.• Manage Project according to budgetary and time constraints.• I have participated extensively into discussions on the following: 1. Geological exploration (planning, techniques, material recovery, borehole survey, loggings, sampling, analytical methods and RD’s with reference to documents such as exploration strategy and work procedures where details exist).2. Accuracy of borehole and sample location control.3. Material recovery.4. Quality assurance and quality control systems.5. Resource estimation and data validation.6. Mineral resource statement.7. Annual Inventory statement.8. The geological modeling of mineral using JBS first to capture data from the field and finally exporting it into MINEX for resource modeling.9. The Life of mine plan

Mafube Colliery Mine - Mpumalanga Southafrica

Duties:• Reporting to Mine Manager / General Manager.• Reviewing and introducing mining best practices to improve efficiencies and support Zero Harm Tolerance, Target Zero (Otto) Safety Programme on the mine.• Delivery of Quality Coal to the plant as agreed with customers.• Preparation of budget estimates and continuous monitoring on achievement of Revenues budgeted.• Doing operational studies to maximize efficiencies and enhance productivity.• Management of existing projects and evaluation of new Capital projects.• Manage contracts and outsourced work. • Negotiating Capital with eskom to achieve coal production volumes and qualities.• Responsible for implementing Anglo / Exxaro coal strategic plans into Mafube business unit.• Integrating short and long term plans.• Optimal human resources allocation / redeployment and development in line with strategic unit contribution objectives.• Achievement of performance through high, cohesive team work and adherence to legislation and mine standards. • Compliance to mine health safety Act and EMPR.• Leadership and Talent management: appointments and management of talent taking into consideration sustainable development and other government criteria.• Training management of all subordinates.• Negotiation and management of contractors regarding contracted work such as top soil, blasting , rehabilitation, aquilla system, contracted engineering work agreement over mining equipments• Ordering equipment from suppliers with GSAP.• Leading performance into the following areas:o Mining operationso Maintenance of mining equipmentso Processing of coalo Human Resources managemento Budget and costs control.o Mine Health, Safety and Environment.

Arnot Colliery Mine - Rietkuil 1097- South Africa

Duties:• Reporting to Pit Superintendent / Section Manager.• Aligning Arnot strategic plan within the contractor business unit (Diesel Power contractor).• Compliance to SHE• Capital and projects management.• Budgets and costs control.• Negotiating with Eskom to have capital for projects achievements.• Leading performance and achievements into the following mining operations:o Top soil operationso Drill and blast operationso Dozing operationso Truck and shovel operationso Coaling operationso Open cast auger mining operationso Rehabilitations.• Achievement of production targets.

Arnot Colliery Mine - Rietkuil 1097 - South Africa.

Duties:• Reporting to Section Manager.• Leadership and change management. Training and transfer of skills to subordinates with view to improve safety and production.• Self starting and initiation of mining processes (choosing good mining ground, planning mining layouts and relocation of equipments to start mining good ground) with view to achieve short and long term production targets.• Implementation of the mine health and safety Act with view to achieve zero harm tolerance.• Alignment of Arnot Coal strategic plan within the business unit.• Budgets and costs control.• Leading performance and achievements into board and pillar extraction (using drill and blast, Continuous miners), Auger mining.• Appointed back by mine captain with view to maintain all main trunk conveyors, tractor roads, refuge bays, main ventilation roadways and air crossings as well all main pumping devices( dams and pipes).• Capital and projects management.

Arnot Colliery Mine

Duties:• Report to Mine Captain • Self starting and initiation of mining processes with view to achieve short and long term production targets.• Re enforcing the mine health and safety Act No50 of 1996 in order to achieve zero harm target. • Train mining employees in order to achieve safe behaviors when performing their duties.• Lead and guide section miners in order to achieve monthly production targets.• Personally Leading performance and achievements into short wall mining as a face boss.• Planning of short wall moves.• Planning and cutting of chain roads and short wall panels.• Organizing back by support with to sustain constant coal cutting on the face.• Planning of continuous miner sections moves.• Planning and construction of new continuous miner sections and short wall sections.• Planning of belt extensions in continuous miner sections.• Planning of slack removal and structures recovery on short wall conveyor belt.• Planning of section ventilation and construction of all ventilation appliances.• Construction and maintenance of tractor roads leading to production sections.• Planning of water reticulation, construction and maintenance of dams and pipes.• Control on calibration of safety devices, lamp room instruments and their usage.• Training of subordinate with view to improve safety skills, cutting and hauling skills, roof barring and supporting skills, ventilation control and finally belt and switch gears extensions…• Costs saving and control exercises.

Arnot Colliery Mine - Rietkuil 1097 - South Africa

Duties:•Report to section shift boss.•Responsible for drill and blast in a board and pillar mining operations before the introduction of continuous cutting miners in south African coal industry.•Responsible for board and pillar mining extraction using continuous cutting miners (CM and Voest).•Train subordinate with view to improve their skills on the different machines and processes leading to achieve mine targets.•Enforcing adherence to safety as required by the mineral Act No 50 of 1956 or the Mine Health and Safety Act No 50 of 1996.•Capturing the team’s administrative data and reporting to control room for management decision making.•Costs saving and control•Responsible for achieving monthly production targets by applying correct mining sequences and machines allocations to the different coal faces in a production section.•Maintaining discipline in the section in order to achieve safety and production targets.

Riekuil - Mpumalanga Province

Duties: • Report to the section Miner and out bye shift boss.• Learned how to initiate a plan, implement and control a process.• Learned and understood the drill and blast as well as the board and pillar extraction mining methods used underground.• Learned and practiced planning, organizing and controlling of section blasting procedures.• Learned and practiced planning, organizing and controlling of effective underground ventilation.• Learned and practiced planning, organizing and controlling of section belts extensions.• Learned and practiced communication skills with the mining crews.• Learned and practiced how to implement the mineral Act No 50 of 1956.• Learned and practiced costs saving exercises in a production section.• Learned and practiced gas testing, strata control as well as first aid intervention in an underground production section.• To achieve coal monthly production targets.• Plan the sequence for mining operations in order to achieve monthly production targets.• Applying the mineral Act No 50 of 1956 in order to prevent incident and accidents.

Master'S Degree, Mining And Mineral Engineering, Master In Mineral Resource Management

Activities and Societies: Voluntary Work at town counsel. Church Administrator.

Program In Project Management, Project Management, Project Manager

Management Development Program, Business Administration And Management, General, Business Administrator

Master'S Degree, Mining And Mineral Engineering, Master Of Applied Science M.Sc

Activities and Societies: Voluntary work at town counsel. Church Administrator.

Bachelor Of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Mining And Mineral Engineering, Mining Engineer

Activities and Societies: Voluntary work at the town counsel. Church administrator.