Rendani Mugada

An accomplished and proactive Chemical Engineer, Mining Engineer, Work Management Scheduler and Planner Mining,2.15.1 Legal Appointee, Pit Worker (4.4.1 and 2.9.2 Legal Appointee), Day Shift Supervisor, Technical Officer, Project Leader workplace continuous improvement, Technical Trainer, Regional Trainer with 18 years’ professional working experience in Mineral processing, Explosive and Mining Industries. 2024 Graduate in Programme for Management Development at Gordon Institute of Business Science (University of Pretoria)

Work Management Scheduler and Planner - Mining at Anglo American – Sishen Mine (Mining Technical Services Department) (2025-05 – Present)

• Analyse large datasets related to mining operations, resource availability, equipment performance, and project timelines to draw meaningful insights.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with projects, services, supply chain, and engineering teams to resolve scheduling challenges.
• Maintain effective communication with external partners and contractors.
• Present schedule data in a clear, concise manner through reports, dashboards, and presentations.
• Identify and mitigate risks affecting schedule adherence, budget, and resource allocation across the portfolio.
• Decide between alternative methods to address specific challenges in scheduling, considering factors such as equipment availability, workforce constraints, and safety protocols.
• Provide guidance and support to teams in developing and maintaining a fully Integrated Mining Execution Schedule.
• Identify areas of improvement in existing scheduling processes and systems based on data analysis, practical experience, and alignment with industry best practices.
• Lead scheduling for high-impact, strategic projects, ensuring delivery on time and within budget.
• Recommend improvements to enhance efficiency, reduce downtime, and improve overall work management processes within the 1-3-month planning horizon.
• Develop and maintain schedules with a forward-looking mindset, considering the mining operation's long-term goals and objectives.
• Adapt to changes in the scope, resource availability, or unexpected challenges to ensure the schedule stays on track.
• Proficiently using advanced scheduling software and tools to create, update, and optimise project schedules.
• Incorporate principles from industry scheduling standards or guidelines into the scheduling process.
• Generate accurate, timely reports on project progress, budget compliance, and resource utilisation.
• Monitor mining schedule progress and identify issues or risks impacting the project schedule or budget.
• Ensure alignment between schedule and cash flow/cost management, incorporating industry standards and guidelines.
• Adhere to all applicable legal, regulatory, and internal compliance requirements.
• Proactively identify and mitigate project risks through robust scheduling practices

2.15.1 LEGAL APPOINTEE- BLAST AND DRILLING SECTION at Anglo American - Kolomela Mine (2022-07 – 2025-04)

Appointed as 2.15.1 in Terms of Section 7(4) of the Mine Health and Safety Act, Act 29 of 1996 (“MHSA”), In Mining Department under Drilling and Blasting Section.

• Apply Safety & Health principles in accordance with operational risk management, regulations, procedures, and instructions in all team interactions.
• Taking personal responsibility for safety of self, others to ensure zero harm and team to eliminate injury, production loss, property damage and fatalities.
• Identifying specific risks within working area and adhere to discipline-specific plans/system to avoid these risks.
• Manage compliance to Safety and Health systems within area of responsibility
• Directing production environment through monitoring and controlling production processes to ensure output are within the required specifications.
• Planning, coordinating and setting weekly shift plans to direct and guide shift teams on weekly priorities and work requirements.
• Coordinating, optimizing and improving drill and blast activities to deliver targets and KPI’s.
• Deliver drill and blast weekly plan, considering the need to set up oncoming shifts for success.
• Identify, implement, review contingency plans and conduct over inspections.
• Regularly communicate and monitor current operating conditions and determine any changes that may be required to the plan.
• Managing day-to-day administration activities.
• Assist with monitoring HR-related data and shift handover.
• Support effective cost management across shifts and a reduction of system waste.
• Spend significant face-to-face time in the field with supervisors across to ensure compliance to standards, procedures, regulations, instructions, rules and controls to optimize production efficiencies.
• Execute and delivery of sustainability activities relevant to the discipline.
• Implementing environmental and social risk mitigation techniques.
• Implementing sustainability initiatives relevant for work area and report on progress.
• Ensuring a purpose-led, high performing culture, applying the company values and principles of inclusion and diversity.
• Developing team members through providing coaching, mentoring and appropriate feedback to individuals and teams across all shifts.
• Adhere to Anglo American compliance requirements, ensure compliance of team and escalate non-compliance.
• Conducting investigation of incidents (safety, health, environmental and social) within work area by following appropriate processes and establish root cause and close out incidents, capture and implement learnings.
• Part of Team which deals with Development of Short- and Medium-Term mining planning deliverables responsible for the following:
• Ensure operational mine planning comply to Operating Model.
• Identify and recommend opportunities to improve short -term planning processes to minimize changes and maximize stability.
• Provide technical expertise and input to short term planning.
• Meeting mining objectives and confirm to mining standards, geotechnical and operational physical standards to ensure safe mining operations within legislative guidelines.
• Contributing to continuous improvement and asset optimization initiatives to enhance mining processes.
• Managing a safe and healthy work environment where employees and contractors can deliver their outputs within a controlled risk environment.

LAUD AND HAUL SUPERVISOR (2.9.2 LEGAL APPOINTED) at Exxaro - Grootegeluk Mine (2022-03 – 2022-06)

• Planning, coordinating and setting weekly shift plans to direct and guide shift teams on weekly priorities and work requirements.
• Coordinating supervisor and contractor team meetings to engage and align Loading shift supervisors on weekly task requirements of teams, on safety or operational risks or change in conditions that have potential risk to impact production delivery.
• Directing production environment through effective monitoring and controlling production processes to ensure outputs are within required specifications.
• Coordinating, optimizing and improving Loading activities to deliver targets and KPI’s:
• Delivering the Loading weekly plan, considering what is needed to set up oncoming shifts for success.
• Coordinating Loading safety deviation close outs.
• Monitoring and assessing loading performance in relation to task accomplishment, outputs and handovers.
• Making decisions to address activity shortfalls respond and mitigate risks of unwanted events.
• Delivery of the Business Execution Plan through shift-based operational performance and short interval control.
• Ensure that Mining operation are managed, directed to achieve budget plan and schedule compliance metrics
• Managing day-to-day team administration activities.
• Spending significant face-to-face time in the pit with other stakeholders’ supervisors across to ensure compliance to standards, procedures, regulations, instructions, rules and controls and to optimize production efficiencies.
• Identifying challenges and opportunities for improvement.
• Scheduling and conducting loading operational feedback sessions.
• Conducting investigation of incidents (safety, health, environmental and social) within work area.

SUPERVISOR DRILLING AND BLASTING ( 2.9.2 LEGAL APPOINTED) at Exxaro - Grootegeluk Mine (2021-12 – 2022-03)

Purpose of the role is to manage the quality assurance processes and maximise utilisation of equipment in the area of responsibility, ensure Work Management is adhered to, mining schedule is executed and escalate potential risk. Manage subordinates’ activities to achieve section’s set targets and develop them to the prescribed level of competence.

• Ensuring that blasting blocks are prepared & blasted as planned and according to standards.
• Ensuring that blasting schedules are compiled in cooperation with all the relevant role players to ensure optimal safety conditions within the blasting range.
• Ensuring that blasting activities are in accordance with the Mine Health and Safety Act & explosives.
• Ensuring that effective procedures are in place to ensure a continuous availability of explosive material.
• Ensuring that final fragmentation products are in accordance with the required specifications and production section’s needs.
• Liaison exists with the neighboring mining company into coordination and evacuation of the blasting area during blasting operations.
• Secondary blasting is executed when necessary to ensure product acceptance by the loading team and for construction purposes.
• Directing the production environment through the effective monitoring and controlling of the production processes to ensure outputs are within the required specifications.
• Ensure effective procedures are in place to ensure continuous availability of equipment and to achieve production targets.
• Optimise human resources in a way that maximum output is delivered by the section.
• Ensure compliance with all legal, environmental, occupational health and safety and risk management standards and best practices.

SENIOR TECHNICAL OFFICER at African Explosive Mining Services (AEL Mining Services) (2018-07 – 2021-11)

• Optimizing and improving systems and processes in ways that delivered productivity gains, whilst driving an integrated Learning environment.
• Ensures regular improvements to current processes and practices are implemented.
• Initiate manufacturing process reviews and assembly lines to facilitate cost savings, waste reduction and increased production.
• Investigate non-conformances in the specified area of responsibility and ensures conformance during production.
• Generate all documents required before changes are implemented example change proposal, Test and Evaluation and field trial programme.
• Analysis of raw material before processing.
• Analysis of product failures during manufacturing and testing for functionality (misfires).
• Implement projects to reduce scrap factor.
• Implementation of continuous improvement projects.
• Middleman between manufacturing and front end with regard to quality and technical projects.
• Conduct trial work on new raw material for cost saving projects.
• Investigate plant failures and customer complaints from front end.
• Assist Sourcing and procurement department with new suppliers with qualification of new material for process compatibility.
• Comply with Safety, Health and Environment regulations by conducting Take 5 during processing and introduction of new manufacturing process.
• Compile daily production report of new raw material with recommendations.
• Conduct monthly audits plant, machine and legal documents.
• Document control example compliance and renewal of expired licenses.
• Train operators on operating instruction and quality plans.
• Perform random quality checks.
• Interfacing with the process, engineering and project team and accountable for all technical and quality projects of dedicated areas.

PROJECT LEADER ( Continuous Improvement Department ) at African Explosive Mining Services (AEL MINING SERVICES) (2010-09 – 2018-07)

Converting mines from old blasting system (Shock Tube) to new blasting system electronic System):

• Implement plans and systems to avoid specific risks within the working area, review and assess the impact of critical risks, monitor critical control performance within teams, and embed critical controls into teams' daily work practices.
• Ensure compliance with AECI Safe Working Practices, the OSH Act, Explosive Act and Mineral Act.
• Ensure safety by managing systems, assessing capabilities, conducting safety checks, creating reports, analysing KPIs, reporting deficiencies and facilitating safety audits.
• Provide special advice on reducing cost and mitigate blasting related risks.
• Assist the magazine master with ordering of initiating systems needed during the blast.
• Manage blasting operations in terms of safety, health, environment, and quality aspects during conversion process.
• Recommendation of drilling design plans to satisfy required fragmentation.
• Interpretation of blast design data for safe and efficient blasting.
• Communication of blast design to Supervisor/Customers and blasting crew.
• Conducting pre and post blast evaluations.
• Routine mine visit to the customer sites to evaluate product performance.
• Risk Management: Identify, assess, and mitigate project risks to minimise their impact on the project's success.
• Quality Assurance: Ensure that project deliverables meet quality standards and conform to project requirements.
• Implementation of continuous improvement team of the product for better efficiency and process.
• Establish blast plans and designs to improve production processes.
• Modelling of blast software and designing.
• Manage and monitor teams' compliance with external and internal regulations, conduct site inspections, participate in audits, investigate incidents, and share learnings.
• Customer Satisfaction: Ensure that the client or end-users are satisfied with the project's outcomes and that their requirements have been met.
• Compliance: Ensure that the project adheres to relevant laws, regulations, and industry standards
• Implement and oversee successful execution of a learning and Development plan WSP for the respective site.
• Adhere to the predefined training and development framework.
• Diagnose learning and performance gaps, recommend, design, develop and deliver innovative solutions and evaluate business impact.
• Project Planning: Create a comprehensive project plan that includes objectives, scope, timelines, resource allocation, budgeting, and risk assessment.
• Scope Management: Define and control the project's scope, ensuring it stays within the defined boundaries and any changes are appropriately documented and approved.
• Stakeholder Management: Identify and engage with project stakeholders, including clients, team members, sponsors, and other relevant parties, to ensure their needs and expectations are met.
• Schedule Management: Develop and maintain project schedules, monitor progress, and adjust timelines to meet project milestones and deadlines.
• Resource Management: Allocate and manage project resources, including human resources, materials, and equipment, to ensure efficient execution.
• Budget Management: Estimate project costs, create budgets, track expenditures, and manage financial aspects to stay within budgetary constraints.
• Change Management: Manage and document changes to project scope, schedule, or other aspects and ensure proper change control processes are followed.
• Closure: Oversee the successful completion and closure of the project, including finalising all documentation, conducting post-project reviews, and ensuring a smooth transition to operational status, if applicable
• Continuous Project applying lean/Six Sigma approach

TECHNICAL OFFICER IN TRAINING at African Explosive Mining Services (AEL Mining Services) (2009-06 – 2010-08)

• Implementing world class manufacturing practices in keeping with creating a continuous improvement culture.
• Blast connection during testing.
• Compile technical report.
• Analyze machine downtime related to product quality.
• Problem solving efforts to improve quality and eliminate unnecessary costs.
• Data collection and analysis to support management to make informed decisions.

TECHNICIAN IN TRAINING at Mintek (A Global leader in mineral and metallurgical innovation) (2007-07 – 2009-04)

• Testing samples using different types of mineral separation equipment’s at the laboratory.
• Compile Experimental results, reports after tests with recommendations chemicals and machines the mine can use optimize ore grade separation.
• Sample preparation example Crushing, Blending, Splitting, Screening, Pulverization, milling using rod mill and ball mill.

Matric Certificate – Patrick Ramaano High School (2002)

National Higher Diploma in Chemical Engineering – University of Johannesburg (2020)

National Certificate: Rock Breaking, Surface Excavations, Surface Mining and Quarrying (Blasting Certificate) – Mining Qualification Authority (2016)

Higher Certificate: Occupationally Directed EDT Practices (OD ETDP) – Maccauvlei Learning Academy (2019)

National Higher Diploma in Mining Engineering – University of South Africa (2022)

Project Management – Maccauvlei Learning Academy (2019)

Advanced Diploma in Mining Engineering – University of South Africa (2023)

Programme for Management Development – Gordon Institute of Business Science (University of Pretoria) (2023)