John Gideon Kotze, General Manager

John Gideon Kotze

General Manager

Namspace Contractors cc

Location
Namibia
Education
Diploma, HVAC
Experience
8 years, 3 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :8 years, 3 Months

General Manager at Namspace Contractors cc
  • Namibia
  • August 2011 to February 2016

Start of apprenticeship.
Courses attended at OTTC Dersley Springs, Johannesburg
•Refrigeration from R1 to R4
•RPI Refrigeration Practical Installation
•Electrical 1 and 2
•Mechanical Refrigeration
•Metal Basic from 1 to 4
Responsibilities:
Installation, servicing, repair and maintenance of Refrigeration and Air-Conditioning
including tendered projects - supervising, “project management” and final hand-overs.

I have work experience in the sensitive environment of UPS rooms and data centres.
With my experience on electricity, generator power is not an obstacle, as I can work on both single phase and three phase equipment.

I am familiar with package units, VRV systems, Liebert Hiross down draft units, split type domestic units, cold rooms, freezer rooms, Shipping reefer containers, insulated/non insulated ducting, spiral ducting, evaporative cooling units.

Technical Director at JDVK Trading Enterprises cc
  • Namibia
  • August 2011 to January 2016

Manage day to day operations, including, but not limited to logisitcs, manufacturing, procurement, sales, quotations, HR duties, Client meetings, site visits, Sub contractor appoinments.Sub contractor contract agreements.

General Manager at NAMSPACE CONTRACTORS CC
  • January 2011 to January 2015

Cut raw material losses from 57% losses to 10%. Saving contributed to an estimated gross profit increase of 40%.
•Cut overtime working hours of 76hours /month to 23bookable hours/month on all projects. This cut resulted in higher profitability on projects with estimated 35% increase on gross profit.
•Cut procurement costs with 17% by implementing procurement schedules, eliminating theft without compromising beneficial relationships with suppliers.
•Implement HSE standards & basic training, including first aid training.
•Implement quality inspections procedures on product manufacturing.
•Received a short course on financial training for non-financial managers to interpret financial documents accurately in last quarter of 2014. Training allowed: identify red flags on financial sheets, compile budgets, evaluate budgets, and create dash boards on KPI’s.

Cooling Engineer at Emerson Network Power
  • India
  • January 2008 to January 2010

HVAC implementation/installation on data centres.(Liebert Hiross equipment)
•Resolve software related issues on HVAC.
•Commissioning on HVAC Critical cooling equipment.
•Technical assistance to MTN South Africa during the soccer world cup 2010 for all Hub-sites and data centres.

Technical Director at Business Partnership
  • January 2007 to January 2008

Practical work out in the field, quotations
•Team management

Senior Air-Conditioning Technician at Approach Air
  • January 2007 to January 2008

Project Management, Supervision and technical assistance on HVAC equipment.
•Assistance and training given in:
•Ghana, Zambia and Swaziland on HVAC equipment.
•Assist Nestle (Ghana)with VRV training &installation at head office.
•Maintaining HVAC equipment in critical equipment data centres for both Dimension Data, and its sister company Internet Solutions.
•Overseeing and assisting new installations of HVAC equipment in data centres.

Education

Diploma, HVAC
  • at OTTC Johannesburg, Nimt Namibia
  • August 2011

Red Seal Qualified HVAC ,

Specialties & Skills

problem solving skills
Team Performance
Delegation
Technical Service
Skilled Communicator
BUDGETING
FINANCIAL
FIRST AID
GROSS PROFIT
MECHANICAL
PROCUREMENT
PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Languages

Afrikaans
Expert
English
Expert
German
Intermediate

Hobbies

  • Camping, fishing, watersport, hunting