Sheet Metal Manager
Resume:
Bloemfontein
South Africa
OVERVIEW
Manufacturing / Foreman leader with Acting Production Manager Civil and Sheet metal work Qualifications who drives success and directs high-producing teams while developing employee loyalty. Using Lean Manufacturing Principles to reduce cost and streamline processes, managing in a union setting, and planning production schedules over multiple shifts. Focussed on facilitating the creation of quality products to meet customers’ expectations and achieve company goals.
WORK EXPERIENCE
Site supervisor/ Structural / Civil / Finishing Foreman
Contract work.
2015 - 2018
Site Supervisor
Pro.com Civil & structural Consultants
2012 - 2015
Key responsibilities included:
Supervising 20 plus workers on various sites
Read specifications, such as blueprints, to determine construction requirements or to plan procedures
Construction site clearing and excavation
Compaction and site surveying
Interpret drawings and calculated elevations for draining
Layout foundations according to Architect drawings
Lab testing soil, aggregates
Construct a wall 1m x 1m close to site for engineers to approve workmanship
Supervise inspect daily progress
Draft daily/weekly reports and report to higher officials
Train workers in construction methods, operation of equipment, safety procedures, or company policies
Completed projects include school sport and recreation centre
Various other housing projects
Senior foreman/supervisor
Transnet Rail Engineering
2004 - 2010
Key responsibilities included:
Managing 20 plus trade workers
Responsible for safety, quality, and balance labour hour’s vs. production
Clearly identifying the workflow associated with manufacturing product
Accomplishes manufacturing staff results by communicating, planning, monitoring, and appraising job results; coaching, counselling, and disciplining employees, initiating, coordinating, and enforcing systems, policies, and procedures
Controlling the workflow to meet customer deadlines
Supervising all production activities
Delegating duties to individual team members
Providing relevant manufacturing information to senior managers
Allocating work to the production team
Making sure that all production equipment is properly serviced and maintained
Recording all relevant information in logs
Making sure that all planned maintenance work is carried out on time
Toolbox talks every day
Responsible for signing in and signing off workers
Responsible for workers leave, sickness, discipline according to company rules
Master Artisan Sheet Metal Work
Transnet Rail Engineering
1996 – 2003
Key responsibilities included:
Manufacture new cabs and other components according to drawings for GM / GE locomotives locally and abroad
Cut, bend, roll, punch, sheet plate 1mm up to 8mm mild steel, 3CR12, Aluminium
Put the main structure together using tack weld
Check continuously for squareness and straightness
Fit all cladding to structure and mig weld using scattering intermittent welding to ensure heat distribution to prevent deformation distortion
Finnish off welding using grinder rough and then pad grinding to a smooth finish
Send finished product to paint shop for primer
Receive painted products and put together all cabs using nuts and bolts
Completed structure can now be fittet to locomotive frame using 2 overhead cranes to balance out the 20+meter structure
Fasten structure to locomotive frame, fit doors, hatches, and, loose components
Completed locomotive send for final painting
Windows and other component can then be fitted and inspected by QC faults to be rectified and signed off
Repair heavy damaged locomotives by means of heating and power hydraulic jacks for straightness/ squareness
Cut out deformed sections using plasma and or cutting torch
Repair or manufacture new sections
Special duties set up cnc machines, make jigs, templates for steel pipe production and all other production products
Repair/ Renew large Locomotive diesel tanks
Do all piping steel and copper on locomotives
Artisan Sheet Metal Work
Transnet Rail Engineering
1996 – 2003
Key responsibilities included:
Refurbish cabs and other components cut out replace rusted sections and damaged parts
Cut, bend, roll, punch, sheet plate 1mm up to 8mm mild steel, 3CR12, Aluminium plate
Manufacture boiler plates old steam locomotives
Repair make new copper pipes on steam locomotives
Cut various pipes, debur, heat and bend on jig production for wagon build
Large diameter pipes to be filled with sand before bending shaping
Make hinges, and various other components using flywheel press
Repair damaged fan shroud using fibreglass
Develop various sheet metal patterns cones, square to round, t-piece, H-vac ductwork
Maintenance work in foundry ovens
Plumbing work on rail cars
Apprentice Sheet Metal Work
Transnet Rail Engineering
1980 – 1983
Training 4 years
Tool handling for sheet metal work use
Developing sheet metal patterns using 1 and 1.2 mm galvanised plate
Mark, cut, bend, roll, groove, solder, rivet
Welding school gas cutting, welding, brazing and mig welding Co2
Technical college maths, science, engineer drawings and sheet metal theory
4th year worked with different artisans on the job training in sheet metal fabrication shop
QUALIFICATIONS
Sheet Metal Work
Transnet Rail Engineering
1980 – 1983
Training 4 years
Diploma Accredited trade
Olifantsfontein Artisan Academy
Technikon College
RSA
Business Management Supervisors
2000
Financial Aspects
Production Management
SAPICS Bloemfontein
RSA
Principles of Production & Inventory Management (PPIM)
2006
Objectives and Definitions
Forecasting
Inventory Fundamentals
Order Quantities
Physical Inventory, Warehouse Management, and Physical Distribution
Production Planning
Master Production Scheduling
Introduction to (MRP)
Material requirements Planning details
Capacity Management
Purchasing and Material Management
Capacity Planning, Scheduling and Loading
Production Activity Control
Just-in-Time (JIT)
Total Quality Management
Workshop Maintenance
Bloemfontein College
Computer Practice N1 –N5
1996
Microsoft office Suite
Basic programming
SKILLS
Manage / Supervisory
Structural / Civil / Building
Quality Control Conformance ISO 9001
Project Management
Cost Control
Prioritizing / Scheduling
Proactive Troubleshooting
Coaching / Motivating
Firs Aid
Lean Manufacturing / 5SUsing lean 5
Understand Blue prints / Drawings
Acting as Production Manager
Computer Literate
HSE
General Farm work (Plough, Plant, Harvest)
Welding – Mig, Tig, Arc, Gas, Plasma,
Maintenance shop machines
Overhead Crane
Stephen Muller
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