Engineering Manager
MP Mining t/a Kopano Copper Mine
Total years of experience :12 years, 11 Months
• Ensuring adherence safety and environmental compliance.
• Ensuring compliance of team with the behaviour and business practices outlined in MPM Policies/Procedures in accordance with all applicable laws, regulations and standards.
• Effectively lead, support, motivate, coach and counsel staff to improve work-related productivity and performance, ensuring that every team member has clearly defined accountabilities and goals.
• Establishes and directs all maintenance activities, training programs and project initiatives required to accomplish the overall goals of the mining operations.
• Resolves maintenance priorities in conformance with short term and long term production goals.
• Prepares maintenance, safety, training and related procedures and ensures compliance.
• Prepares budget, cost estimates, and capital expenditure requests, making recommendations for purchase of capital equipment, and selection of vendors and performs capital evaluations for projects.
• Ensures all equipment is properly serviced and maintained to meet availability goals required.
• Ensure implementation of job and safety training programs.
• Prepare reports as required.
• Initiate projects and direct activities leading to continuous improvement of safety and production.
• Responsible for date to gate operations management of the feedmill.
• Manage and organize the production of animal feed pursuant to individual and business objectives.
• Responsible for the mill’s maintenance and project management.
• Managing the finished goods warehouse operations.
• Managing the Raw Materials warehouse operations.
• Demand Planning with constant liaison with the Sales department.
• Plan and provide input to the annual budget for the mill.
• Performance setting, reporting and control.
• Comply with laws, regulations, and food safety standards such as ISO & HACCP.
• Effectively develop and coach team members.
• Operations management, planning and implementation for the feedmill.
• Involved in strategic planning for operational expansions.
• Oversee procurement and inputs warehousing, production, finished product, dispatch, financial management, administration, maintenance and project management.
• Monitoring of production efficiencies in the feedmill and feedlot for optimal operating performance.
• Develop or revise SOPs to ensure compliance with standards.
• Ensure emphasis to product quality and review/develop QA strategy.
• Reviews current or establishes, implements and monitors preventative maintenance program.
• Reviewing and maintaining effective inventory control system from inputs through to finished products.
• Implementing training programs for employee development and ensuring adequate succession plans.
• Managing capital development projects.
• Contribution to the other business units- Cropping, Feedlotting & Horticulture.
• Manage of the motor and transformer rewinding and repair workshops.
• Manage the electrical and mechanical engineering field services team to provide optimum customer services.
• Goal setting, skill enhancement and performance reviews activities for workshops and field services teams.
• Production and Material planning to ensure jobs are delivered on time & in full.
• Investigate and resolve any issues resulting from substandard performance.
• Ensure company policies and procedures are followed by the team members.
• Ensure adherence and maintenance of the ISO 9001:2015 systems.
• Develop programs to improve technical and customer service skills of service staffs.
• Address customer enquiries, resolve issues and obtain customer feedbacks proactively.
• Demonstrate outstanding customer service through maintenance of high quality and integrity at work environment.
• Production Management & Maintenance Management
• SHEQ Systems Management
• Initiates and executes all CAPEX projects for the plant.
• Cost control management.
• Distribution Warehouse Management.
• Key Raw Materials stock control and procurement.
• Production and resource planning.
• Performance Management.
• Determining human, material and time resources required to run set production schedules.
• Collaborates with stock control and take corrective actions on deviations.
• Monitors product standards and take corrective action on deviations.
• Set machinery and equipment uptime/availability targets to meet production plans.
• Monitors and manages equipment and machinery efficiency to optimise value adding processes.
• Supplier and Service Contracts administration.
• Managing production, engineering, and demand planning.
• Managing CAPEX projects, budgets, and preparing accurate reports.
• Managing all third-party Toll Packers’ production activities.
• Successfully managing engineering and maintenance related projects.
• Ensuring continuous improvement of operational systems.
• Reporting on operational performance.
• Coordinating sales and operations and chairing all sales and operations (S&OP) meetings.
• Overseeing demand and supply planning.
• Maintaining a safe workplace by instilling the Safety, Quality, and Environment Management Systems to production and maintenance operations.
• Overseeing employee coaching, mentoring, and career development.
• Providing exceptional engineering leadership to three Plants.
• Overseeing all capital expenditure project delivery across the division.
• Leading activities during major equipment outages.
• Recommending equipment/processing system modifications and/or replacements to improve Plant performance.
• Establishing and directing an effective preventative maintenance programme, work order procedures, and adequate parts inventory.
• Plant commissioning after any major maintenance.
• Selecting and training maintenance and engineering employees and determining appropriate training and development needs.
• Developing departmental budgets and implementing and controlling approved budgets.
• Contributing to the business plan and communicating it to the General Manager.
• Ensuring Plants comply with current regulations.
• Supporting the development, implementation, and maintenance of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and other information systems.
• Managing, coordinating, and controlling all aspects of engineering in order to meet agreed company objectives.
• Developing, managing, and controlling the daily maintenance strategy.
• Ensuring Health, Safety, and Environmental, KORE, Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP), and ISO standards and targets are continuously met and maintained within defined company procedures and legislative requirements.
• Identifying engineering and financial improvements.
• Overseeing the safe and effective introduction of new equipment, capital expenditure, and process improvement technologies.
• Determining training requirements and preparing training plans.
• Preparing and managing engineering budgets, forecasts, and plans.
• Managing all capital expenditure technical projects in terms of cost, schedule, quality, and scope from initiation to successful completion.
• Preparing request for proposals, detailed capital expenditure proposals, and coordinating the Contractor selection process.
• Generating a bill of quantities (BOQ) and project financial evaluation.
• Managing and controlling Contractor to ensure compliance with agreements.
• Implementing Quality Management Systems throughout all project stages.
• Defining projects and preparing technical reports and feasibility studies.
• Overseeing contract negotiation and administration.
• Preparing terms of reference (TOR) for projects and contract documents.
• Identifying project phases and elements, assigning employees to phases and elements, and reviewing Contractor bids.
• Determining project schedules and effectively monitoring project progress, coordinating activities, and resolving problems.
• Controlling project plans by reviewing design, specifications, and plan and schedule changes as well as controlling project costs by approving expenditures.
• Preparing project status reports.
Demand and Supply Planner
Designed the MRP model
Chairing the S&OP meetings
Clerical role for both production nd engineering functions of the plant
Finance for non Finance Managers
Final Year dissertation Project: Design of a generic Beverage Manufacturing Plant using Systematic Layout Planning (SLP)
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