2. General Manager with 11 years experience in motor manufacturing

Original CV

Some key experiences:

• Project management
• Factory management
• Workshop and facilities management 
• Mass manufacturing engineering and equipment.
• Maize milling
• Wheat milling
• Grading and fumigation.
• Silo management exposure.
• Animal feed manufacturing (ruminant and chicken feeds).
• Game lick manufacture
• Pasta manufacturing (longs and shorts) 
• Biscuit manufacturing
• Automation installation and controls 
• Process control and improvements
• ISO 9000 and 22000 (Haccp)
• General management
• International manufacturing and management experience.
• Citrus color sorting, processing and packaging.

Strong points:

• Technically well informed, experienced in manufacturing, milling and feed-milling
• Knowledge of business finances in a manufacturing environment 
• Ability to create a positive work environment 
• Attention to detail
• Strong motivator
• Can make decisions and take responsibility

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE:

Education

• Grain Milling Federation Milling Modules 
• Ph.D in strategies
• MBA
• Professionally registered with the Engineering Council 
• Goverment Certificate of Competency (Factories) 
• National Higher Diploma T4 (Mechanical Engineering) 
• National N6 Diploma (Mechanical)
• Motor Mechanic (Certificate)

Computer Skills

• Word
• Excel
• Power Point
• Autocad (Mechanical Desk top)
• MS Project

Work Experience

date      Group Operations Manager

date      Regional Operations Manager

date      National Operations Manager

date      National Operations Manager

date      General Manager

date      Operations Manager

date      General Manager Argentine Office

date      Production Manager

date      Plant Engineer

KEY COMPETENCIES:

• Successful record in operations
• Extensive project management experience (National and International)
• Ability to motivate people to achieve objectives and maintain high standards
• Extensive experience in managing people, projects and processes 
• Practical knowledge of managing and implementing ISO 9001,22000 (Haccp)
• Develop, Manage and Integrate the Management Systems

Fields of application:

• Director related to Operations
• Managing Director of group of companies 
• Project management and strategy implementation.
• Operational/production strategies, optimization modeling and management.
• Turn-around strategies in feed-milling and grain-milling

Results of NAP done during an interview:

1. Succession planning

2. Turn around operations

3. Detail orientated

4. Structured environment

5. Controls projects from start to end

Natural Aptitude Career Planned CV

• Professionally registered with the Engineering Council in mechanical engineering, with a GCC (Factories), a MBA (general management).
• He has eleven years experience in motor manufacturing. The last few years were at general-management level.
• He has worked three years on automation projects as General Manager in Argentina.
• He was Operations Manager and later CEO during a six-year period at a citrus processing plant.
• He worked as National Operations Manager in feed milling for almost four years.
• He worked in North Africa as Business Unit Operations manager for almost one year and also worked in an international stainless-steel manufacturing group, but the operation was scaled down in Africa.
• He has been working with a grains milling company, in Gaborone for almost two years as Group Operations Manager.

Qualification          Ph.D (Strategy)

Qualification          MBA

Qualification          Goverment Certificate of Competency (Factories)

Qualification          National Higher Diploma T4 (Degree)

Qualification          National Diploma N6 (Diploma)

Qualification          National Diploma T3 (Diploma)

Qualification          Motor Mechanic (Certificate)

Work Experience

Date: Group Operations Manager

• Stabilized quality and improved volume throughput, resulting in turn-around in 2009 and 2010 of almost BWP 4,000,000 in the final month of the 2010 financial year.
• Project managed capital projects amounting to BWP 17,000,000 in difficult cash-flow situations.
• Reduced work force from nine hundred employees to six hundred employees with improved efficiencies and cost structure.
• Created a stable work force.
• Introduced an integrated management system.
• Project managed ISO 9,000 and 22,000 certification.
• Developed and implemented production planning.
• Developed streamlined logistics and customer supply system.
• Introduced training programs to ensure operational efficiencies.

Date: Regional Operations Manager

• Introduced new group reporting structure internationally with standardized and centralized reporting. This structure was adopted  when the company restructured outside Africa.

Date: National Operations Manager

• Improved quality, throughput and consitency in the various national manufacturing facilities, resulting in a turn-around from negative net profits to almost ZAR 25,000,000 profit at the financial ear end.
• Volume growth by almost 70%.
• Cost of sales reduction.
• Project managed ISO 9,000 and 22,000 certification 
• Operational/manufacturing cost reduction by more than 20%
• Managed capital projects of ZAR20,000,000 annually while company had a very reduced operational capital.

Date: National Operations Manager

• Inroduced integrated management systems.
• Project managed ISO 9,000 and 22,000 certification.
• Introduced centralized and standardized reporting structure.
• Formed part of a team who managted consistent financial growth with year-on-year profit growth of 6 to 8%

Date: General Manager

• Introduced a formal structure to the company.
• Improved quality and packing standards, resulting in an average of 8 to 10% increased return to growers, even under stringent export conditions with Rand:Euro dropping by 15% on exports.
• Reduced work force from 1,500 people to around 800 people with improved efficeincies, reduced costs, and higher out-put.