Mechanical Engineer Engineering
Resume:
Curriculum Vitae
Jacques Johan Botha
Surname: Botha
Name: Jacques Johan
ID: 800-***-**** 088
Date of Birth: 1980-04-03
Home Address
Richards Avenue 182
Pierre Van Ryneveld
Pretoria
0157
Postal Address:
P O Box 600020
Pierre Van Ryneveld
Pretoria
0045
Telephone no: 072-***-****
Marital Status: Married
Nationality: S A Citizen
Home Language: Afrikaans
Other Language English
Criminal Record None
Sport Squash, Cycling
Hobbies Motorcycles, RC Planes
School Matriculated:
Voortrekkerhoogte High school
Pretoria
Year Matriculated: 1998
Matric Results:
Afrikaans HG C
English, HG D
Mathematics HG E
Science HG D
Computer Science HG E
Accounting HG C
Technical Drawings HG B
Tertiary Studies:
1. Technicon Pretoria
Completed BTech Mechanical Engineering
Subjects passed 4th
year:
- Stress Analysis
- Strength of Materials
- Mechanics of Machines
- Engineering design Project
- Automatic Control
- Turbo Machinery
- Fluid Mechanics
2. Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Technology and Advanced Materials IFAM:
- European Adhesive Specialist Course 2011
3. University of Pretoria
Part time studying
Completed BSC Honours in Applied Science : Mechanics at the University of Pretoria Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering
Modules Passed:
Thermoflow:
- Thermodynamics
- Fluid Mechanics
- Heat Transfer
Structural Mechanics
- Static Structural Analysis
- Dynamics
- Vibration
Reliability Engineering
Maintenance Logistics
Maintenance Practice 1
Maintenance Practice 2
Software: - Autocad Packages 2000,2001, light
- Basic Matlab
- Solidworks
- Microsoft Office – Excel, Word, Powerpoint, Visio, Project
- Catia
- Material Ply Cutting Software
- Syspro
- Introduction Course to MSC Patran Nastran
- AGECON – Maintenance and replacement
Skills: 1. Project Leader:
Government(TIA) funded4 Year Project: Rapid manufacturing of Continuous Fibre reinforced Thermosets
- Leading a consortium
- Project Leader
- Familiar with contractual agreements
- Assisted in compiling project proposals
- Quarterly and Annual reporting
- Scheduling and leading Steercom meetings
- Consortium expansion process
- Project Budget Management and reporting
- Project Audit
2. - Manufacturing Execution of Engineering proposed project plan
- Process Industrialization
- Manufacturing Process requirements and Component Specifications interpretation
- Manufacturing Process requirements and Component Specifications flow down to production, sub-contractor and procurement
- Process of qualifying and approving a process
- Compiling Process Instructions
- Performing Training
- Procurement of specialised equipment/material according to spec
- Design, develop and build specialised equipment
- Planning routes, bill of materials and operations for Product process sheets
3. Production Industrialisation
Project Team leader on Product Industrialisation allocated to various product industrialisation teams to assist team members and Project Managers to identify, scope and plan industrialisation and concurrent engineering activities.
4. Composite Component Manufacturing
- Composite Material Selection
- Composite Material Storage and Handling
- Manufacturing processes for Fibre Reinforced ThermoSets and ThermoPlastic (Autoclave, Heated Press…)
- Composite/Metal Tooling Design and Manufacturing
- Familiar with Non Destructive Test Equipment and Processes
- Material testing
- Material testing Procedures and Processes
- CMM inspection processes and Procedures
5. Aluminium Sheet Metal Details and Assemblies
- Sheet Metal forming processes
- Sheet Metal Assembly processes
- Sheet Metal Welding processes
- Tooling and Clamping Fixtures
6. Aluminium/Steel Billet Matchings and Assemblies
- Billet Machining process
- Billet Assembly Process
- Tooling and clamping fixtures
7. Quality System Implementation and application
- Material Review boards
- Assisting In-house Audits
- Assisting Customer Audits
- Audit Preparations
- NadCap Composites and ISO9001 Qualification process
- Closing Non Conformances
- Compiling quality processes and procedures
- Assisting final inspection
8. Hand skills
- Basic Wood, Metal and Composite drilling,tapping, cutting, milling and routing
- Basic Composite wet lay-up,prepreg lay-up and resin infusion
- Basic Assembly of hydraulic and pneumatic systems
- Precise measuring of components
- Digitizing of components(reverse engineering)
- Sanding and surface finishing on composite components
- Mixing and Casting of bulk polyurethanes
- Mixing and application of various types of adhesives
- Manufacturing of concept/prototype models
Work Experience
Employers
IST (Integrated
Systems Technology)
I flew and helped with the build of
low cost Aerial Target systems
June holiday 2000
IST (Integrated
Systems Technology)
I did my practical 1 experience. I
worked on the production of electronic
aiming control systems
Dec 2000 – May
2001
Master Drilling(Pty)Ltd I did my practical 2 experience. Drawing office/designing
June 2001 – Nov
2001
Microptic Part time job. Metrology – calibration of instruments
Nov 2002 – Feb 2003
Mecad (Pty) Application engineer for Solidworks. I did training essentials and advanced
training, installation and support.
March 2003 – Aug 2003
BlackStoneTek Junior Engineer Composite and
Aluminium environment of high performance
structures
1. Quality Control
2. Mechanical design
3. Project Manager
4. Maintenance
5. Process design
Sept 2003 – April 2007
Denel Saab
Aerostructures:
Composites Process Engineer:
Ensuring that technical requirements
w.r.t Special Processes is met at process
level. These requirements are flowed
down from Aerospace Specifications
(OEM and/or International Accreditation
bodies)
May 2007 – April
2010
Key Performance Areas:
1. Technical Process
Qualifications
2. Facilities/Operations
3. Process Engineering/Supply Chain
4. Quality
5. Industrialization
Nadcap
Nadcap Implementation in the
Composites Facility
Projects:
1. Airbus A400M Wing to
Fuselage Fairing Data
Transfer
2. Airbus A400M Ribs and Spars
3. Israel Aerospace Industry –
Elevator G150
Abroad:
One Week to Saab Aerostructures in
Sweden to obtain process information for
Airbus A400M WFF work package
transfer
Aerosud Innovation and
Training Center:
Project Engineer/Leader
- Government(TIA) funded project :
Rapid Manufacturing of Continuous Fiber
reinforced thermosets
- Polyurethane tooling/parts development
and manufacturing
May 2010 – October 2012
Aerosud Aviation: Manufacturing Engineer
- A400M Cargo panels Industrialization
- A400M Wingtip Industrialization
- A400M Wingtip production support
- A400M Wingtip Quality control
- A350 Track Can Production and
development support
- A320 Track Can Production support and
development support
- Concurrent Engineering on A320, A350
and A400M Wingtip projects
November 2013 – December
2019
Hensoldt Optronics Mechanical Engineer –
Product Industrialization
- Member of various DFMAS Lead Teams
for products under development
- Collaborate with product design
engineers to establish, apply and monitor
DFMA design principles and techniques;
- Define requirements and scope of
DFMAS and industrialisation tasks and
coordinate implementation among
all team members
- Perform DFMAS analysis and reviews in
collaboration with design engineers and
ensure compliance to mandatory and
best practice processes
- Assist development teams with
mechanical design work
- Develop requirements and specifications
for Assembly Line Design and Facility
layout
- Facilitate Production Baseline
Establishment and maintain accordingly
(collaborate with DR&T and
- Operations role players)
- Assist with the development of
production aid documentation (i.e. build
to-, test to-, calibrate to-, train to-,QC to-,
documents and material)
DFMAS – Design for Manufacturing, Assembly
and Support
January 2020 and still current
References:
Mr Gatiep Prinsloo :
Principle of Voortrekkerhoogte
High School
(012-***-****/5
Mr. Roelof Van Rooyen : Engineer at IST (012-***-**** Mr. Koos Jordaan: Managing Engineer at Master Drilling 082-***-**** Mr. Johan Van Aswegen: Partner Microptic 082-***-**** Mr. Freek Van Den Berg: Mecad 012-***-****
Mr. Chris Adrian: Technical Director BlackstoneTek 082-***-**** Mr Victor Xaba:
Department Materials Technology Denel
Saab Aerostructure
Mr Ryan Brameld Aerosud Aviation 072-***-****
Contact this candidate