Mmakoena Komape

A forward-thinking Industrial Engineer with the ability to adapt to many environments and interact with a diverse group of individuals. Experienced in production management, quality assurance, lean manufacturing, and team leadership, I bring over 8 years of expertise in ensuring operational excellence. Adept at streamlining processes, driving KPIs, managing people, and deploying maintenance and safety strategies to optimize uptime and customer satisfaction.

I possess a passion for continuous improvement and thrive in fast-paced, quality-focused production environments.

Production Manager - VM Automotive - Rosslyn

(2024-02)

• Lead end-to-end blanking line operations including resource planning, shift execution, quality monitoring, and performance tracking.
• Drive daily production meetings to align teams with customer demands, production schedules, and quality expectations.
• Achieved consistent compliance with OEE targets through proactive planning and skill-based operator deployment.
• Coordinated closely with maintenance teams for preventative and corrective maintenance on blanking presses, tooling, and related machinery.
• Ensured operator training and radar chart alignment in accordance with skills matrix, improved versatility and reduced downtime.
• Reduced production losses by leading root cause analyses and implementing sustainable countermeasures
• Upheld health and safety standards, including risk assessments, PPE compliance, and machine safety protocols.
• Monitored shift costs against budget and took corrective actions to remain within financial targets.
• Developed and monitored production department budgets, including forecasts for consumables, overtime, tooling, and maintenance expenditure.
• Controlled departmental costs by analysing usage trends, optimizing manpower allocation, and reducing overtime through shift planning improvements.

Operations Specialist - VM Automotive - East London

(2022-07 - 2024-01)

• Designing production processes that maximize efficiency, reduce waste, minimize costs, and assist process owners to conduct trend analysis, highlighting opportunities of improvements.
• Review production schedules, processes, specifications, and related information.
• Management review information extraction and presentation.
• Assists with audits, quality, and process requirements.
• Enhanced overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) by implementing visual dashboards and engaging shop floor teams in KPI tracking.
• Coordinated daily production activities and shift priorities across both plants to meet OEM schedules and customer quality standards.

Industrial Engineer - Mercedes Benz South Africa - East London

(2019-11 - 2022-04)

• Track and qualify or disqualify suppliers according to organization's standards.
• Project coordination and management for w205 model
• Tracking and reporting parts approval KPI
• Involved in suppliers process audits.
• Report supplier performance and quality to management.

Graduate Trainee - Epiroc South Africa - Johannesburg

(2019-03 - 2019-10)

• Generate, prepare and file monthly financial management inventory reports.
• Review operations schedules and production requirements to ensure timely order fulfilment.
• Respond and resolve sales inquiries and purchase orders.
• Responsible for order fulfilment in the workshop.
• Ensure correct order quantities and process orders for shipments.

Industrial Engineer In Training - Nissan South Africa

(2015-05 - 2016-05)

• Time, Method and Motion Studies
• Plan and establish sequence of operations, create and maintain Standard Work Instructions
• Performance Data Collection and Capturing
• Quality Assurance
• Eliminate waste through the application of lean practices.
• Identify and eliminate causes of equipment downtime.
• Reduce waste motion through the proper design of the work environment.
• Improve material handling in the plants and warehouses.
• Manage continuous improvement action plan.
• Provide sound solutions through effective root cause analysis and problem-solving

BTech - Industrial Engineering - Vaal University of Technology (2019-01 - 2019-12)

National Diploma - Industrial Engineering - Vaal University of Technology (2011-01 - 2016-12)