Self Employed at Mokhelco LTD Pty (2025-01 – Present)
Specializing in process equipment sales, process optimization and the project management
Plant Manager (2023-11 – 2024-12)
- The role carries 3.1a legal appointment in terms of Mine Health and Safety Act (MHSA)
- Ensures adherence to legislative requirements and the company's Health and Safety Standards
- Ensure effective operation of the plant as an efficient business unit to an agreed business plan and process parameters
- Develop a 2–5 years resource and mining strategy and coordinate ore and services to the plant
- Responsible for compilation and control of production, quality and cost budgets
- Creating a high performing team and a conducive employee relation climate – people management in a unionized environment
- Financial Management (operational and capital cost budgets)
- Responsible for research and development
- Maintain a good relationship with the clients at host-mine and liaise on all relevant plant issues
Surface Plant Superintendent at South32 Hotazel Manganese Mine (Wessels) (2018-09 – 2023-11)
- Legal appointee under Mine Health and Safety Act (MHSA). Responsible to ensure that MHSA requirements are met, and compliance is maintained by continuous plant inspections and taking corrective measures on deviations, training and coaching Employees on legal requirements
- Managing daily production challenges and ensures set targets are continuously and consistently met and ensures process plant achieves budgeted availability and utilization are achieved always
- Drive process improvement initiatives as to ensure efficiencies and technological improvements are sustained
- Manage daily direct reports and correct resource exceptions. Continuously regulates metallurgical settings for optimum plant performance and assure customer needs are met
- Administer costs of production by harmonizing expenditure and production
- Manage labour stability by minimising labour turnover and ensure labour complement in line with budget. Achieve and maintain social labour plan (SLP) commitments targets for the Section
- Manage and enable the team and individual performance against set targets and competencies
- Communicate clearly with people outside the organization and represent the organization to customers and other external sources. Coordinate commodity transportation information to customers, using transportation management (Loading Plans) and improve efficiency and quality of transportation services also ensure transporter compliance with company policies and procedures for product movement and delivery
- Effectively assuring compliance of customer requirements by managing quality policies, standards, procedures, programs and practices while driving and facilitating continuous improvement
Plant Superintendent at Lanxess Chrome Mine (Rustenburg) (2016-01 – 2018-12)
- Legal appointee under Mine Health and Safety Act (MHSA). Responsible to ensure that MHSA requirements are met and compliance is maintained by continuous plant inspections and taking corrective measures on deviations, training and coaching Employees on legal requirements
- Managing daily production challenges and ensures set targets are continuously and consistently met and ensures process plant achieves budgeted availability and utilization are achieved at all times
- Drive process improvement initiatives as to ensure efficiencies and technological improvements are sustained
- Manage daily direct reports and correct resource exceptions. Continuously regulates metallurgical settings for optimum plant performance and assure customer needs are met
- Administer costs of production by harmonizing expenditure and production
- Manage labour stability by minimising labour turnover and ensure labour complement in line with budget. Achieve and maintain social labour plan (SLP) commitments targets for the Section
- Manage and enable the team and individual performance against set targets and competencies
Metallurgical Superintendent (Millsell and Waterkloof) at Western Chrome Mines (Samancor Chrome) (2014-01 – 2016-12)
- Managing daily production challenges and ensures set targets are continuously and consistently met
- Drive process improvement initiatives as to ensure efficiencies and technological improvements are sustained
- Manage and enforce compliance on safety, health and environment required standards
- Manage daily direct reports and correct resource exceptions. Ensure process plant achieves budgeted availability, utilization and production targets are achieved at all times
- Continuously regulates metallurgical settings for optimum plant performance and assure customer needs are met
- Administer costs of production by harmonizing expenditure and production
- Manage labour stability by minimising labour turnover and ensure labour complement in line with budget. Achieve and maintain social labour plan (SLP) commitments targets for the Section
- Manage and enable the team and individual performance against set targets and competencies
Logistics, Quality and Projects Superintendent at Western Chrome Mines (WCM) (2011-01 – 2014-12)
Continuously manage and drive improvements of logistics, laboratory and projects processes at WCM through reporting on and evaluating process performance, making recommendations and implement projects in a safe manner and improving and managing the onsite material handling.
- Ensure the mine Health and Safety Act, 1996 (Act No.29 of 1996) requirements are met and compliance is maintained. Responsible to align logistics processes with ISO 9001 and 14001 standards and participate in quality and environment audits respectively
- Communicate clearly with people outside the organization and represent the organization to customers and other external sources. Coordinate commodity transportation information to customers, using transportation management (Loading Plans) and Management Execution System (MES) to improve efficiency and quality of transportation services also ensure transporter compliance with company policies and procedures for product movement and delivery
- Effectively assuring compliance of customer requirements by managing quality policies, standards, procedures, programs and practices while driving and facilitating continuous improvement. Maintain accreditation of ISO 17025
Metallurgical Superintendent (Mooinooi) at Western Chrome Mines (Samancor Chrome) (2010-01 – 2011-12)
- Managing daily production challenges and ensures set targets are continuously and consistently met
- Drive process improvement initiatives as to ensure efficiencies and technological improvements are sustained
- Manage and enforce compliance on safety, health and environment required standards. Managing day to day direct reports such as complains; leaves; suggestions and other arising matters on daily basis
- Managing customer satisfaction by ensuring budgeted production and planned product quality are achieved
- Run production by accurately forecast and control production and accurate metallurgical reconciliations, schedules of production and plant maintenance work according to the defined production requirements. Ensuring targeted plant utilization and availability to achieve production targets at low costs and constantly administer costs of production by harmonizing expenditure and production
- Manage labour stability by minimising labour turnover and ensure labour complement in line with budget. Achieve and maintain social labour plan (SLP) commitments targets for the Section. Manage and enable the team and individual performance against set targets and competencies
Metallurgical Specialist (Mooinooi) at Western Chrome Mines (Samancor Chrome) (2007-01 – 2010-12)
Develop and update the process strategy to optimize throughput and recovery. Ensuring the efficient coordination of activities by effective scheduling and the establishment of clear priorities; organizing activities for and others to ensure best use of time and resources.
- Identifying and understanding issues, problems and opportunities; comparing data to draw conclusions; using effective approaches for choosing a course of action or developing appropriate solutions; taking action that is consistent with available facts, constraints and probable consequences
- Support the Metallurgical Superintendent in the implementing projects
Graduate in training at Western Chrome Mines (Samancor Chrome) (2007-01 – 2007-12)
To safe and cost-effective implementation of metallurgical work as well as execute minor investigative projects for process improvement purposes.
- Monitor process performance to identify areas of improvements
- Investigate quality non-conformances and ensure that corrective action is taken immediately. Relieve as a supervisor when required
- As a plant metallurgist collect, analyse and interpret process data and make recommendations. As a supervisor, deliver on daily duties expected from a supervisor
Plant Shift Supervisor at Western Chrome Mines (Samancor Chrome) (2004-01 – 2007-12)
- Managing safety; environment and risk standards within the plant and its related areas, to meet zero harm targets to people and environment. Operate plant within designated limitations; of achieving quality and production targets
- Actively supervise planned and unplanned tasks to be completed during shift. Investigate and interpret production results, identify, and assess deviation, initiate and take corrective action using available resources
- Manage staff related issues in the team. Provide inputs for compiling the operations and maintenance budgets, and adhering budget constraints. Provide technical support to subordinates during fault finding and improvement work
