Project Director - Lindasiviwe
(2023-12)
- Manage budgets and negotiate contracts
- Oversee the Manganese and Coal loading and shipping project in Saldanha Bay
- Reporting on project progress
- Manage and Allocate project resources
- Ensuring legal compliance
- Monitoring progress
- Defining project objectives and scope
- Evaluate project performance
- Identifying and mitigating potential risks
- Manage relationships between clients and stakeholders
- Project planning and implementation
- Create and maintain comprehensive project documentation
- Manage project expectations
- Review proposals for approval or denial
- Risk management
- Make strategic decisions and provide direction
Production Supervisor - Sappi Saiccor
(2023-10 - 2023-12)
- Ensure and implement safety programs
- Assigning responsibilities to production employees
- Ensuring all equipment is functioning properly
- Preparing work schedules
- Check production output according to specifications
- Evaluate production efficiency
- Submit reports on performance and progress
- Compiling production records
- Maintain the production schedule
- Coaching employees
- Communicating with other manufacturing departments
- Enforces company policies and guidelines
- Ensuring and maintaining safe work environment
- Implements recommended manufacturing cost reduction strategies
- Oversee the production process
- Personnel training to the production team
- Review workers performance
Operations Shift Leader - Vopak Lesedi Terminal (Petroleum)
(2019-06 - 2020-09)
- Manages the plans and shift team resources as per workload requirements Supports in RFP requirements from operations side
- Performs risk assessments and Scoping of non-standard activities-tank washing and LOTO verification on site
- Conducts routine monitoring and SOR to ensure compliance to safety procedures and quality adherence on site
- Oversee stocks and monitors losses closely by conducting monitoring programs and stock investigations
- Ensures that all operational equipment is always in good working condition, and all quality management systems are kept up to date
- Responds to incidents ie. odour complaints, spills
- Fosters the Quality awareness of his staff and leads their efforts to continuously improve the work procedures and quality of operations on site and berths
- Assists to identify training needs of staff and provides on the job training and coaching of staff
- Controls absenteeism, time keeping and leave, make use of the company's disciplinary system when necessary to maintain discipline on site
- Support the drawing up and control of the site expense budget
- Ensures that general housekeeping on site and berths is of a high standard
- KPI monitoring programs – Lean
- Authorizing of Contractor work permits on site and routine inspection of Contractors on sites in terms of Safety
- Implementation of minimum standards and ensuring compliance
Lead Operator - Vopak Durban Terminal (Petroleum)
(2013-01 - 2019-05)
- Planning and organizing daily activities of the site by assigning duties to operators to ensure safety and customer satisfaction
- Authorizes contractor work permits on berth and sites as delegated by Shift Leader
- Supervises tank cleaning i.e. Ensures permit conditions/methods statements are understood and equipment is available
- Tank Commissioning checks
- Ensures continuity of shift handover
- Periodic checks on the site operations and shipping processes are being carried out in line
- Appraises operators periodically and always maintains high standard of discipline
- Assists identifying training needs of staff for their future development, coach and mentor team members ensuring their objectives are being met
- Maintains high operational and safety standards by carrying out on the job training with operators and routine inspections of activities and safety systems and use of PPE
- Assists to maintain plant and equipment by inspecting and reporting any faults or logging of request to maintenance department. Inspection of work site/ permits
- Ensures constant inspecting and monitoring of site to adhere to high housekeeping standards
- Investigation and reporting of odour complaints and incidents
- Tank dipping
- Shipping operations
- Staff on job training
Supervisor - Vopak Durban Terminal (Petroleum)
(2007-05 - 2012-12)
Due to restructuring
- Planning and organizing daily activities of the site by assigning duties to operators to ensure safety and customer satisfaction
- Authorizes contractor work permits on berth and sites as delegated by Shift Leader
- Supervises tank cleaning i.e. Ensures permit conditions/methods statements are understood and equipment is available
- Tank Commissioning checks
- Safety observation rounds on berths
- Ensures continuity of shift handover
- Periodic checks on the site operations and shipping processes are being carried out in line
- Appraises operators periodically and maintains high standard of discipline at all times
- Assists identifying training needs of staff for their future development, coach and mentor team members ensuring their objectives are being met
- Maintains high operational and safety standards by carrying out on the job training with operators and routine inspections of activities and safety systems and use of PPE
- Assists to maintain plant and equipment by inspecting and reporting any faults or logging of request to maintenance department. Inspection of work site/ permits
- Ensures constant inspecting and monitoring of site to adhere to high housekeeping standards
- Investigation and reporting of odour complaints and incidents
Operator - Vopak Durban Terminal (Petroleum)
(2002-05 - 2007-04)
- Road Tanker loading and decanting
- Rail loading, decanting and shunting of wagons of various products
- Dipping
- Shipping- Receiving and backloading of various products (Using berth 1,2,4, 5,7,8,10)
- Transfers of product from tank to tank
- Drumming of various products
- Blending of coolant anti-freezer
- Heating of Isotainers (Hi-tech product)
- Tank washing using high pressure machine
- Loading and unloading of containers
- Forklift operator
