professional Engineering consulting
I am a self-driven, highly motivated & passionate self-starter who achieves optimal outcomes through applying systematic and analytical thinking. Qualified as a Mechanical Engineer (First Class) with 15 years’ experience and registered as a professional engineer with the Engineering Council of South Africa (ECSA) as well as a Chartered Professional Engineer with Engineers Australia (MIEAust). Worked in multiple developing African countries including South Africa, Mozambique & the Democratic Republic of the Congo as well as designed products used in developed International markets such as Australia, Canada & the United States of America.
software skills
Main Profession and Specializations
- Understanding international markets & developing strategic plans to leverage products for every unique market.
- New product development.
- Product improvement.
- Application of theory and derivations to get
to product solutions. - Fits & tolerances.
Material selections & heat treatment
specifications. - Drawings, specifications, design reports,
product specifications, data sheets, etc. - Product documentation like product
manuals, maintenance manuals, risk
assessments, etc. - Failure Analysis.
- Design of Investment and Sand Cast
components as well as their material & heat
treatment specifications.
- Development of multiple products, from conceptualization through to implementation, and the management
thereof. - New facility planning & layout, including moving from the previous facility into the new, and moving of all equipment, stock, personnel, hardware, etc.
- RFQs & technical specs.
- Tender Evaluations and adjudications.
- Supplier visits & verifications.
- Invoices & payments.
- Securing cost saving orders through analytical forecast of multi-million rand purchase orders.
- International ISO 9001 accreditation, continuous compliance and internal knowledge transfer.
- OHSA of South Africa compliance, H&S committee chairperson, 16.2 Appointee.
- OHSA of South Africa 16.1 Appointee.
- Interdependence & proactive collaboration & mutual benefaction of ISO to SHE & vice versa.
- Interviews & appointments.
- Disciplinary actions.
- Roles & Responsibilities, including KPAs, KPIs and performance appraisals.
- Broad exposure throughout company requirements including HR, R&D, Engineering, Sales & Marketing, Operations, Production, Safety, etc.
- NFPA
- SANS
- ASME
- Contract negotiations.
- Company budget & forecast.
- Forex management & leverage to increase OPEX cost savings through procurement.
- Understanding functional design requirements & developing quality
assurance drawings. - Development & implementation of Quality Control Plans (QCPs).
- Internal and external Quality Assurance measures through inspections or other
acceptably developed methods of ensuring quality. - Developing Quality Assurance, and subsequent Quality Control, processes.
- Creating marketing related product brochures, corporate identity and graphic elements for new products that are developed and revitalizing documentation on existing products.
- Developing user manuals & in-house assembly manuals for new & existing products.
- Customized, self-developed, large scale data-models for multiple queries & reporting on large scale projects.
- CAD environment implementation of Product Data Management system.
- Reporting structures.
- Management reporting.
- Tailored engineering project management workflows & procedures for completion of successful projects.
- Developing in-house software umbrella for supporting key company functions, including but not limited to:
- Operational planning requirements of component value add supply chain through to product supply.
- Quality Assurance management including automated Non-conformance
Reports, Customer Complaints, supplier statistical Quality Control Evaluations,
etc.
- Managing & improving the Information & Communications’ Technologies (ICT) whilst facilitating international communication via cloud based office systems.
Work Experience
01/2007 – 07/2010
Aurecon – Mechanical Engineer
Mechanical design engineer specializing in Pump Station & Pipeline designs. Key projects were the brownfields KOV dewatering as well as the greenfields Moatize Coal Mine Phase 1 designs.
08/2010 – 09/2017
Hydro Power Equipment – Innovation Coordinator
Multiple new product designs and existing product development. Managing complete product lifecycle from problem statement through to production. Management of team of engineers & draftsmen.
10/2017 – 06/2020
Pump and Abrasion Technologies – Global R&D HoD
Technical HoD at Pump and Abrasion Technologies with ultimate responsibilities for the international Technical functions, ISO accreditation, SHE compliance, Quality Assurance, Product Data Management as well as the Information & Communications Technologies.
07/2020 – 07/2021
RLD Design – CEO
CEO at RLD Design. Facilitated an increased, globally distributed, production output with factor of 2.5, in a period of 6 months, thereby driving a doubled year-on-year turnover, as well as growing the global RLD brand through strategic market analysis and sales plans.
08/2021 – Present
GdV Unlimited – Founder
Professional Engineering Consulting
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