Charles Dlamini, Senior Quality Advisor

Charles Dlamini

Senior Quality Advisor

Eskom

Location
South Africa
Education
Bachelor's degree, Quality and Engineering
Experience
15 years, 7 Months

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Total years of experience :15 years, 7 Months

Senior Quality Advisor at Eskom
  • South Africa
  • My current job since October 2008

• Within my role, I advise and support Managers and Supervisors to discharge their responsibilities for the SHEQ of employees as per legislation and company procedures.
• Support management teams to ensure compliance with all requirements Company procedures and specifications stipulated in the SHEQ Plans and mitigate to ensure conformity
• Carry out regular inspections of sites and work places to determine whether work is being carried out in accordance with company policy, procedures and the relevant statutory provisions. And provide corrective and preventive actions and reduces future reoccurrence
• Carry out accident and incident investigations in accordance with the company procedure and, analysing all data, make recommendations/make inference to avoid any future reoccurrences.
• Review and approval of technical specification on all major procurement in that all attributes of Quality requirement as per quality specification product or project
• Review and trend analyse all non-conformances, defects and inferences/recommendation to Senior Management for decision marking
• Conduct a risk review and analysis on potential plants/product risk as per risk company risk plans and evaluate risks current and future in observing any opportunities for mitigating and prevention (risk reduction )
• Advice procurement and engineering depart on quality requirement specifications and conduct evaluations for high-level projects, and make recommendations tender adjudication committee.
• Liaise with suppliers and contractors in providing training on all specified company requirements policies and procedure and verifying compliance
• Reviewing and evaluation of all renewable technical requirement specification and specify suitable quality requirements
• Conduct Inspections on Solar, panels during manufacturing/installation, and commissioning and evaluate conformity to requirements against technical and quality requirements ( corrective actions report and mitigate
• Providing Quality Control and Assurance to ATKSSP: Gas Turbine and Generator Project with 135 KVA Power line to Nuclear Power Plant requirements (National Nuclear Regulations)
• Review all Design technical and strategic input into project specification requirements in that all quality requirement are suitable and comply to specified requirements
• Monitor and evaluate Technical Specification and design on Gas turbine, Steam Power, and Hydro power plant including solar by reviewing all designs against regulatory and statutory or codes requirements to verifying conformity in appointment of suitable supplier/business partners
• Provide advisory input to Divisional Strategies for company improvement on Quality Control and Assurance
• Review and approve Inspections and Test Plans (ITP), Quality Control Plans (QCPs), Welding Procedure(WPS) Specifications, Welding Performance Qualifications (PQR) Quality Assurance plans and NDTs against applicable Codes ( ASME, EN, API, ASNT and NBIC
• Witness of lab test of Welder Performance Qualification Records for requalification
• Review and approve Quality Assurance Data-packages (QADP) or Data books. And mitigating lessons learnt for continually improvement
• Responsible for the implementation and improvement of the Quality System Management (ISO EN 3834 and ISO 9001:2015 and ASME as well as NBIC in five Power station (Nuclear, Hydro Solar and Fossil fuel Power plants

Senior Quality Advisor at Eskom
  • South Africa
  • October 2008 to March 2018

• Within my role, I advise and support Managers and Supervisors to discharge their responsibilities for the SHEQ of employees as per legislation and company procedures.
• Support management teams to ensure compliance with all requirements Company procedures and specifications stipulated in the SHEQ Plans and mitigate to ensure conformity
• Carry out regular inspections of sites and work places to determine whether work is being carried out in accordance with company policy, procedures and the relevant statutory provisions. And provide corrective and preventive actions and reduces future reoccurrence
• Carry out accident and incident investigations in accordance with the company procedure and, analysing all data, make recommendations/make inference to avoid any future reoccurrences.
• Review and approval of technical specification on all major procurement in that all attributes of Quality requirement as per quality specification product or project
• Review and trend analyse all non-conformances, defects and inferences/recommendation to Senior Management for decision marking
• Conduct a risk review and analysis on potential plants/product risk as per risk company risk plans and evaluate risks current and future in observing any opportunities for mitigating and prevention (risk reduction )
• Advice procurement and engineering depart on quality requirement specifications and conduct evaluations for high-level projects, and make recommendations tender adjudication committee.
• Liaise with suppliers and contractors in providing training on all specified company requirements policies and procedure and verifying compliance
• Reviewing and evaluation of all renewable technical requirement specification and specify suitable quality requirements
• Conduct Inspections on Solar, panels during manufacturing/installation, and commissioning and evaluate conformity to requirements against technical and quality requirements ( corrective actions report and mitigate
• Providing Quality Control and Assurance to ATKSSP: Gas Turbine and Generator Project with 135 KVA Power line to Nuclear Power Plant requirements (National Nuclear Regulations)
• Review all Design technical and strategic input into project specification requirements in that all quality requirement are suitable and comply to specified requirements
• Monitor and evaluate Technical Specification and design on Gas turbine, Steam Power, and Hydro power plant including solar by reviewing all designs against regulatory and statutory or codes requirements to verifying conformity in appointment of suitable supplier/business partners
• Provide advisory input to Divisional Strategies for company improvement on Quality Control and Assurance
• Review and approve Inspections and Test Plans (ITP), Quality Control Plans (QCPs), Welding Procedure(WPS) Specifications, Welding Performance Qualifications (PQR) Quality Assurance plans and NDTs against applicable Codes ( ASME, EN, API, ASNT and NBIC
• Witness of lab test of Welder Performance Qualification Records for requalification
• Review and approve Quality Assurance Data-packages (QADP) or Data books. And mitigating lessons learnt for continually improvement
• Responsible for the implementation and improvement of the Quality System Management (ISO EN 3834 and ISO 9001:2015 and ASME as well as NBIC in five Power station (Nuclear, Hydro Solar and Fossil fuel Power plants

Education

Bachelor's degree, Quality and Engineering
  • at University of Johannesburg
  • December 2004

Design and Reviews Quality Control Quality Assurance Quality Planning Quality Auditing Quality Inspections Quality Management Systems Welding and code NDT processes

Specialties & Skills

ISO 13485
Quality Management Systems QMS
ISO 14001
Inspection and Control ( Inspections & test plans)
Quality Control
Quality Systems Implementation and Audits
Welding and Inspecions
Design and Reviews
Pressure vessels ad codes

Languages

English
Expert

Memberships

Southern African Auditor and Training Certification Authority
  • Lead Auditor and Committee Member on TCP
  • January 2010

Training and Certifications

Total Quality Management (Certificate)
Date Attended:
August 2003
Boiler Capacity Upgrade (Certificate)
Date Attended:
October 2010
ASME code of Manufacture and National Board of Inspection Codes (Certificate)
Date Attended:
July 2017
Environmental and Legal Liability Awarenes (Certificate)
Date Attended:
May 2012

Hobbies

  • Reading Soccer, cooking
    Received the Majuba Silo Recovery Excellent Award, 2017. Received The Sustainability Customer Satisfaction Award Received the Majuba Customer Satisfaction , 2017. Received the GCD Best Project 2016. Received the GCD Excellence 2016. Received the Sustainability Customer Services 2016. Received the Kriel Turbine Project Excellence 2015. Received the Gx Projects Excellent 2015.