Engineer Manager

Mr Bruce Hatcher

Chelmsford, Essex

***********@*****.*** Ph - 079*-*******

A Chartered Engineer with an MBA (Cum Laude),

Highly experienced in businesses focussing on leveraging corporate performance, particularly where corporate losses make strategic and operational improvements critical.

Extensive working knowledge of business models which bring clarity to business issues.

Rapid delivery of various results under difficult & time-sensitive circumstances.

Utilization of individuals and teams performance.

Strategy facilitation & implementation; Structural optimization; Executive portfolio formulation & implementation of executive performance bonus; Operational streamlining & profit records achieved.

Acquisitions; Factory design and project management of construction etc.

Pre-cursor of a Corporate employee progressing with a significant list of employers from engineering assistant to graduate engineer, shift operations engineer, Section Engineer, Mining Superintendent, Colliery Engineer, Engineering Manager & Group General Manager.

A variety of deliveries into, inter alia: steel production, property, light engineering, timber, maize milling, metal extrusion, crane hire, bakeries, brass foundry, steel processing and manufacture, packaging, aluminium processing, wholesalers, heavy freight movers, sacking production, clothing production, poultry production, learning styles, food producers and cheese production, pre-military training, civil construction, furniture manufacture, travel agents, global couriers, various FMCG’s, airline travel agents etc.

EDUCATION & QUALIFICATIONS

1976 Under-graduate at University of Rhodesia

1979 Bachelor of Science [Engineering] Hons

1980 Rhodesian National Service – 2Lt.

1984 Chartered Engineer & Member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers

1985 Government Certificate of Competency [Factories]

1987 Government Certificate Competency [Mines]

1991 MBA [Cum Laude] University of South Africa Won Gold Medal [1991 MBL top graduate]

1992 MBL dissertation received IMM award for best marketing research in RSA [academic institutions]. Awarded Alma Mater scholarship (doctoral studies); not taken up.

Top graduate in 40+ year history of UNISA MBL.

2016 Author of a book ‘’The Business Leader’s Kitbag to Maximising Company profit” (Amazon)

PERSONAL

Married; four children; British Citizen born in England;

Email: ***********@*****.*** ; Mobile: 079*-****-***

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

1994 – 2016 Andruth Trust trading as Bizfix Corporation South Africa

Trustee; Donor & Turnaround Strategist

Business Owner

Multiple clients concurrently but with occasional periods of employment with single clients. Usually as Interim Chairman / CEO / COO or Turnaround Strategist

Strategy facilitation – subsidiaries of Lufthansa, Deloittes etc.

Returning loss-making businesses to profit – success rate of over 85% in saving companies

Operational & manufacturing enhancements

Project Manager

Seminar Lecturer on “Profit Maximization”

1993 – 2012 Multiple South African Universities South Africa

MBA - contract Lecturer

University contract lecturer (one week per year) at one of five MBA programmes in strategic management or occasionally operations management

At UNISA; Witwatersrand University & universities of Pretoria, Rand Afrikaans, De Montfort, Cape Town, Zimbabwe and University of Natal

PRIOR TO STARTING A CONSULTANCY

1992-1993 EPOL, Johannesburg South Africa

General Manager then Group GM at an FMCG with annual sales of half a billion; 10 businesses fixed, multi-million profit grown over one thousand percent (1000%)

1990-1992 Harvest Time, Gentle Giant (USA) Port Elizabeth South Africa

Engineering Manager & executive member; production throughput increased 23-56%

1989 Anglo American Coal South Africa

Colliery Engineer; records broken through coal hauler refurbishment with availability increasing 40’s to 80’s

1987-1988 Palabora Mining Company, Rio Tinto South Africa

Section Engineer (Drills, reticulation & dozers); Acting Mine Supt.; some records broken e.g. Road-stone crusher

1984-1987 Shabanie & Mashava Mines Zimbabwe

Section Engineer (King Mill) Asbestos Mine. Multi-disciplinary team of artisans; production records broken

1981-1983 Z.E.S.Co Zimbabwe

Operations Engineer at Hwange Thermal Power Station

1980 Rhodesian Army (National Service) Zimbabwe

2nd Lieutenant

INTERESTS:

Christian Gym Golf Wine collection Bridge Viewing rugby & Cricket

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