Personal Data

Surname: Mahlatsi

First Names: Khaisi Hosea

Gender: Male

Physical Address: 1263 Aalwyn Street, Deboville, Groblershoop, Upington, 8850

Phone Numbers: Cell: 083-***-****

e-mail address: adj8bf@r.postjobfree.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hosea-mahlatsi-a756a5113

Driver’s License: Code 10 (EC1)

Nationality: South African

Home Language: Sesotho

Other Languages: English, Afrikaans, Setswana and Northern Sotho

Computer Literacy: Yes

Notice Period: Immediately

Educational Qualities

Tertiary Qualifications

Qualifications Obtained: Master’s Degree in Business Administration (MBA-General)

Year Obtained: 2014

Institution: Management College of Southern Africa (MANCOSA)

Qualifications Obtained: National Higher Diploma Electrical Engineering (Heavy Current)

Year Obtained: 1997

Institution: Vaal Triangle Technikon, (Vaal University of Technology)

Qualifications Obtained: National Diploma Electrical Engineering (Heavy Current)

Year Obtained: 1997

Institution: Vaal Triangle Technikon, (Vaal University of Technology)

Last School Attended: Mohloli Secondary School (Sharpeville)

Highest Standard Passed: Matric

Year Obtained: 1990

Other Qualifications/Certificates/Training/Awards

General Machinery Regulations GMR 2(1) Appointee; General Machinery Regulations GMR 2 (7) Appointee; OHSAct and Construction Regulations; Legal, Regulatory & Statutory; Technical Report Writing; Incident Investigation; Safety Management Auditing Technique; Risk Assessment; Business Management System; Generator Principles; Turbine Fundamentals; Stores Training; Basic Health and Safety; Maintenance Projects Management; Occupational Health Award; General Manager Commendation Award; Advance Driving

Background:

Gained experience in various portfolios in mining industry, heavy engineering environment as well power generation environment spanning from engineering, maintenance, repairs, refurbishment, outages, construction, project management, operating, as well as independent power producer in concentrated solar power generation. These entail day to day planning and execution of tasks to short and long term planning and implementation of continuous improvement strategies to maintain business systems alignment to objectives as well as enhancement of production. Knowledge, understanding and application of Occupational Health and Safety Act and Regulations (85 of 1993)

Personal Skills:

Communication Skill, Business Acumen, Analytical Ability, Teamwork, Problem Solving, Initiative Ability

Management Experience, Exposure Application and Knowledge:

Budgeting

Change Management

Employee (Human Resource) Management

Project and Outage Management

Contract Administration and Management

Construction and Maintenance Management

Safety, Health, Environment, Quality, Risk Management

Technical Report Writing

Incident Investigation

Root Cause Analysis (RCA)

Period: June 2018 to January 2020

Employer: Mpumalanga Valve Service

Designation: Production Manager

Duties and Responsibilities:

Responsible for Operations to enforce compliance in the work place

Responsible for maintaining, updating and reporting on the status of all objectives

Responsible for the review process of enquiry documents and overseeing the tender process

Report on the status to the Management Review Meeting and update the status of the objectives

The Production Manager is responsible for the review process of enquiry documents and overseeing the tender process

Interacts with the Managing Director to ensure that the function is operating correctly

Works with the Managing Director and Sales & Marketing Manager to prepare tender documents

Manage the technical functions of the organisation

Manage the maintenance function of the company’s workshop, machinery, tools and equipment

Manage the technical personnel and ensuring a safe working environment

Ensure compliance to the Integrated Management System (IMS)

Implement and Assist with continuous improvement initiatives

Works with the Managing Director and Sales & Marketing Manager to prepare tender documents

Manages the storage of equipment and stock/ purchased items

Management of site work during project and outages

Carry out Project Management functions on various sites during outages (Planned and Unplanned)

Ensure compliance to Safety, Health, Environment, Quality requirements

Ensure compliance to Statutory Inspections

Ensure due date and/or completion dates are met during outages

Period: June 2015 to November 2016

Employer: Nomac Invest In Africa Energy CSP Plant

Designation: Maintenance Manager

Duties and Responsibilities:

Day-to-day Planned Maintenance (PM), Unplanned Maintenance, Corrective Maintenance (CM) and Plant Breakdowns Repairs

Development of Maintenance Work Instructions

Co-ordinate Maintenance Intervention Opportunities

Maintenance on Water Reticulation System

Turbine and Generator Maintenance

Heating, Ventilation, Air-conditioning Maintenance

High Pressure Piping and Valves

Solar Field Maintenance

Heat Exchangers and Pumps

Manage the overall maintenance strategy for the plant.

Manage the engineering assets to ensure that they produce and perform at their desired capacity and are periodically maintained and refurbished to their original condition to ensure

Ensure all activities carried out in the plant are executed according to company HSSE procedures, standards and specifications and Operations & Maintenance (O&M) agreement, Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) and any other agreement with the owner/client

Ensure that a high standard plant maintenance service is provided according to Operations & Maintenance (O&M) agreement.

Management of administration and supervision of maintenance staff and operating activities in accordance with established maintenance work plans and schedules

Conduct regular meetings with senior subordinates to discuss work progress, schedules, problems, interferences, priorities, etc.

Prepare and supervise changes in methods, schedule and procedures within maintenance department

Recommend to Senior Management changes in methods, schedules and procedures needed to meet specific exigencies of the plant operations

Maintain an information system, which provides sufficient data to ensure that maintenance operations are being accomplished within specified limits, schedules and technical parameters

To manage the execution of planned maintenance-related and shutdown work and achieving shortest job duration.

Safe working practises and high quality maintenance work

If within role discretion, take management ownership of unplanned major corrective jobs

To complete formal development plans for maintenance supervisors

Continuous monitoring of the development process

To compile development plans for maintenance supervisor and continually monitoring of the development process

Contribute and participate towards the implementation of central energy management system

Assist with annual review and provide input into the Asset Care policy and strategy

Contribute and participate towards the development of CMMS & Asset Care reports in line with group and site requirements

Collect, compile as well as Analysis of all equipment performance data

Investigate the desirability and feasibility of proposed asset modifications, as well as approval thereof provided deemed desirable and feasible

Model the expected results of the maintenance strategies in order to understand the availability impact, reliability and cost of maintenance

To develop capital application request for approved modifications and/or projects

Ensure standard jobs in terms of preventive and corrective are compiled by maintenance supervisors in line with maintenance strategies

To assess the process of failure pattern analysis and ensure maintenance strategies are updated to improve availability as well as reliability with minimal cost

Periodically analyse plant life cycle cost and operability and make recommendations regarding the optimum replacement factors

Periodically assess the availability of spare exchange units in stock and make recommendations to commercial management

Assess the contents of shutdown plans to reduce unnecessary losses, without sacrificing equipment reliability, integrity, and intrinsic value

Perform site Asset Care from time to time to ensure alignment of standards and measurements and timeously Report and Record deviations

Liaise with suppliers/OEM/external consultants/advisors with reference to reliability, safe operation, efficiency and/or asset improvement

Engage with Senior Management on aspects such as safety, spare parts, tools and equipment, suppliers, techniques and practises that will lead to improvements in equipment availability, reliability, safety and cost effectiveness

Lead, supervise and co-ordinate the activities of all Maintenance staff

To control the Maintenance Budget

Achieve optimum performance and maximum availability and efficiency of the Solar Plant, ensuring compliance with the applicable regulation as well as, Quality and Environment regulations

Safely perform every necessary action on Operation and Maintenance to keep the plant in operating status, troubleshooting, corrective and preventive maintenances and attend to every incident that could affect the Solar Plant's operation

Work closely with various contractors to ensure efficient and smooth operation of the plant

Follow any reasonable procedures and instructions approved by the company

Ensure immaculate conditions of the work and warehousing areas

Ensure complete confidentiality regarding company documents

Perform tests, proofs and checks when necessary and commissioning the repaired equipment and/or systems

Complete the maintenance work orders (WO's) timeously with the appropriate quality, ensuring complying with the correct procedures established by the company

Provide the company Management with detailed reporting on findings and procedures when responding to faults, breakdowns as well as other occurrences

Safeguard and manage the company's assets (tools and vehicles) in the most efficient manner

Communicate with Management in a timeous manner on any shortages of spare parts and related equipment

Ensure strict adherence to maintenance work management principles and manage continuous improvement through operational excellence

Responsible for overall management of common resources including overtime and leave applications

Key performance in Safety and housekeeping

Expedite and manage the engineering department’s projects

Development and Establishment of Maintenance plans from daily, weekly, monthly up to 20 years

Preventive Maintenance, Corrective Maintenance, Optimisation of Plant Availability, Root Cause Analysis, Spares Management and Availability, Maintenance Planning and Budgeting, Execution of all maintenance (corrective (unplanned), preventative (planned), statutory, and more) with all quality control measures

Spares Management

Planning and Management of General Overhaul (GO)

Provision of Plant work history for Engineering to do plant analysis

Custodian of SAP PM Module; and SAP implementation

Development and management of maintenance procedures and standards; to be completed before commissioning of the plant

Mean Time To Repair (MTTR) and Mean Time To Failure (MTBF) management making sure there is continuous improvement

Training and Development of personnel

Management of long term services contracts. Set up a database on service providers

Performance Management of subordinates

Knowledge of Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) policies and procedures

Analyse situations and solve problems, People management, Able to Work under pressure, methodically and efficient

Maintenance on Solar Field, Thermal Energy Storage System, replace broken mirrors, repair leaking absorber tubes etc.

Stake Holder Liaison

Weekly Engagement Meeting with Local Community Representatives together with the Local Municipality to inform, report back and mapping way forward.

Mitigation of and Resolving of Potential Unrest, Picketing as well as Strikes

Ensuring Direct and Indirect Local employment to benefit Local Communities

Period: April 2012 to May 2015

Employer: Rotek Industries SOC Ltd (A Member of the Eskom Group)

Designation: Group Manager (Maintenance and Projects Valve Services)

Duties and Responsibilities:

Negotiate and acquire new contracts, manage and administration thereof

Training and development of employees

Mobilise employees, tools and equipment during opportunity

Maintenance and Breakdowns

Health, Safety, Environment, Quality and Risk Management

Establish and Maintain employee and Client Relations

Contracts Administration and Management, Performance Management

Develop and Maintain Effective Strategies

Financial Management, Maintenance of Quality Work

Period: February 2008 to April 2012

Employer: Rotek Industries SOC Ltd (A Member of the Eskom Group)

Designation 1: Site Manager

Sites: Hendrina Power Station; Kriel Power Station; Koeberg Nuclear Power Station, Camden Power Station, Medupi Power Station, Duvha Power Station, Kendal Power Station, Arnot Power Station, Komati Power Station, Lethabo Power Station, Grootvlei Power Station and Matla Power Station

Duties and Responsibilities:

Health, Safety, Environment, Quality and Risk Management

Ensure compliance to Safety Requirements, Waste Management

Reporting of all incidents/accidents

Budgeting, Planning, Organising, Leading and Controlling

Management of Employees

Responsible for maintaining monthly asset and vehicle register

Manage work efficiency on site and ensure that deadlines are met

Quality Assurance and Control

Manage and Repair defective equipment

Safety Performance

Strive and Maintain for Low Lost Time Injury Frequency Rate (LTIFR) target

Conduct Safety Audit and Quarterly statutory

Standard and effectiveness of the safety inspection registers and safety meeting minutes

Legal compliance to legislation and Complete Site Risk Assessment

Performance Management

Keeping Portfolio of Evidence files up to date, Conduct Performance contract with all staff members

Compile Career up-liftment programme for all staff

Ensure On-Job-Training and formal training and

Carry out Performance reviews.

Employee Relationships

Chair the Departmental forums on a monthly basis

Institute Recognition systems on site

Ensuring well management of grievances and conflicts of employees

Chairing Monthly Health, Safety and Environmental Meetings

Member of Monthly Stake holder meetings between Employer and Organised Labour

Client Relations

Maintaining a sound and “arms-length” relationships with all clients

Monthly Contract Review Meetings with Stake Holder Clients

Site Operational/Action Plan

Planning, Leading, Controlling and Organising

Maintaining of Site Administration Documents

Site resource, process management

Communication

Submission of Weekly/Monthly reports

Marketing Plan

Maintain Service agreement (ENK/NEC) contract and seek opportunities to expand the current contract

Six Monthly client engagements in marketing the organisation for Extension/Increase of Scope of Work

Financial Performance

Budgeting, Carry out Sales Monthly forecasting and Achieve Target Monthly Sales

Monitor normal and overtime hours and ensure compliance

Financial Risk Identification and Mitigation

Financial Forecasting (Weekly, Monthly and Yearly)

Submission of Wasteful and Fruitless Expenditure Reports (as per PFMA)

Fleet, Asset Management, and Expense Record Capex utilization as per budget

Assets verification

Projects

Plan, organise and execute outage from start to completion i.e. Receive SOW from client, Follow tendering process as per company standard present tender to Management as per delegation of authority: Execute project, Resource allocation, Safety, Critical path reporting, Quality process – check sheets and Process Quality, Program update, Compensation events for all delays as well as early warnings, Project Closure – Work in Progress and Debtors. Assist the Project Manager in planning, controlling, organising and safe execution of all activities during the project. All interface between the company and the client regarding project, must be done in writing through or with the consent of the project manager. Assist in ensuring due date performance is met per agreed date of completion. Adherence to Due Date Performance as set out by organisation of the following as per agreed signed program with client, Maintenance Planned Maintenance and Corrective Maintenance – Eskom SAP System, Ad hoc Maintenance Breakdowns, Clean condition on all Generator work, Adherence and compliance to Site Clean Condition Procedure, Adherence, compliance & implementation of Procedure as per company Clean Condition guide, Implementation, Planning and/or execution of work with aim to eradicate eliminate and/or reduce incident and violation.

Service Agreement

Carry out duties of contract site manager as per service agreement contract NEC as well as ENK272, hold monthly meeting with the client to agree on KPI scores.

Period: October 2006 to January 2008

Employer: Necsa (Nuclear Energy Corporation of South Africa)

Designation: Section Head-Electrical Department

Duties and Responsibilities:

Maintenance (Facilities Management)

Execution of maintenance on transformers and related equipment, statutory equipment, oil circuit breakers, motors, pumps as well as overall maintenance on facilities including electric fence and construction jobs. Ensuring Compliance to scheduled/planned maintenance, resource planning and allocation, liaison with clients to ensure plant and equipment availability and reliability, liaison with planning department, compile quotations and ensuring customer satisfaction, ensuring employee safety, quality maintenance, effective cost recovery, budgeting.

Projects

Draft, Develop and implementation of the weekly maintenance management system (dashboard) as well as daily issue, control, monitoring and feedback of job cards as per maintenance schedule

Testing and Commissioning Activities

Assisted the Project Leader in the pilot project on vehicle utilization implementation Financial Risk Identification and Mitigation (Daily/Weekly/Monthly) Reporting

Training and Development

Responsible for statutory training compliance (chemical worker, radiation worker, noise worker)

Periodic medical examination, personal development (job related) of subordinates Facilitation of apprentice training programme

Period: February 2003 to September 2006

Employer: Koornfontein Mines Ingwe Collieries

Designation: Assistant Engineer/Business Analyst (Business Improvement)

Maintenance

Conduct Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCA), Failure Mode Effects Legislation Analysis (FMELA), Overall Equipment Efficiency (OEE), Condition Monitoring, Machine/Equipment/Plant Availability, Mean Time Between Failure, Incidents Investigations, Planned weekly/monthly schedule maintenance on underground trackless mobile machines, diesel fleet, conveyor belts (surface and underground).

Health and Safety

Ensuring and enforcing Health and Safety Act in terms of Mine Health and Safety Act and Minerals Act and Regulations. Accidents and Incidents investigations.

Designation 2: Contracts Manager (January 2004 – October 2005)

Duties:

General administration of contractors. Conducted pre-qualification for contractors. Pre and post inspection of the contractors. Responsible for compliance in terms of Mine Health and Safety Act and Regulation as well as Minerals Act and regulations. Including Contractor Management Code of Practice as prescribed by Ingwe Group.

Audit

Conducted monthly audit on contractors in terms of 15 BHP Billiton Standards, 12 Fatal Risk, Protocols, ISO 9001, 14000 and 18000

Designation 3: Business Analyst (Business Improvement) (November 2005 – September 2006)

Obtaining Data and Analysis of data in lieu of Improving Business and Instituting Business Improvement Initiatives.

Draft, Initiate, Implement, Maintain and Monitor Cost Cutting Measures.

Implement Change Management Strategies.

Conducts Root Cause Analysis, Idea Generation Sessions, and idea pipeline: in order to reduce machines down time, maintenance quality and costs, improve machine/equipment availability, reliability, and utilization. Costs saving initiatives realizing a total amount of Rm 33.2 per annum.

Skills

Communication, Report Writing and Analytical. Root Cause Analysis, Business Acumen, Change Management,

Knowledge of:

SAP Plant Maintenance, Management Reporting, Requisitioning. Safety Health Community and Quality Policies (SHEQC), Project Management, Contract Management, Mine Health and Safety Act and Minerals Act and Regulations.

Period: September 1999 to January 2003

Employer: South African Rail Commuter Corporation (SARCC)

Designation: Senior Engineering Technician (Projects)

Duties and Responsibilities:

Configuration Management

Assist in the establishment and implementation of configuration management office

Management and updating change control procedure and protocols

Document Control and Management

Project Management

Management of multi-disciplinary projects

Capital budget management

Managing and coordinating capital project from concept to closure/hand-over

Conducted research and development project (including feasibility studies), to the amount of R 10 Million per annum

Tendering

Write technical specifications

Sourcing suitable suppliers and contractors

Conducted pilot projects or prototyping, advertise, evaluate, recommend and award of tenders as well as preparing contract documents

Contract Management

Drafting of project plan/scope of work and ensuring adherence to the performance dates (milestones)

Determine and control budget of contracts through benchmarking

Ensure quality systems and conformance to safety standards and adherence to the applicable legal requirements

Verify/authorise invoices for payment

Engineering Services

Conduct Investigations. Write, update and compile technical specifications for maintenance and contracting purposes.

Employment History

Period: March 1994 to August 1999

Employer: Vaal Reefs Exploration and Mining Company (Anglo Gold)

Designation: Learner Diplomate Engineering

Duties and Responsibilities:

Maintenance

In-Service-Training, Winding Plant, Pump Stations, Transformers, Electrical Sub-Stations, Refrigeration Plant, Underground Rail Tracks, Underground Dams, Electrical Motors, Gearboxes, Winches

Background Basic Courses

Electronics, Hydraulics, Instrumentation, High Tension, Contracting for Project Managers and Supervisory Effectiveness

Designation 2: Engineer-In-Training

Safety

Ensuring and enforcing Health and Safety Act in terms of Mine Health and Safety Act and Minerals Act and Regulations, Rock Mechanics Engineering

Maintenance

Preventive Maintenance, Condition Monitoring, Root Cause Analysis (RCA), Underground, Refrigeration Plant, Equipment, Ventilation System, Water and Slime Dams, Electrical Reticulation, Underground Rail Tracks, Plant Equipment (gear boxes, electrical motors, conveyor belts etc.)

Workshops

Workshop Administration,

Critical Equipment Servicing and Maintenance

Workshop, maintenance of hand-tools, equipment, power tools etc.

Mining Process

Drilling patterns, loading machines and methods, meshing and lacing methods, cost structures, blasting cycles, support methods

Projects

Conducted a feasibility study on a cost saving model for underground water reticulation (covering water conservation, water quality, and electrical consumption)

References

Teboho Mthombeni Nomac IAE Tel: 073-***-****

Clifford Mukhari Eskom Rotek Industries Tel: 082-***-****

Mark Biersteker Eskom Rotek Industries Tel: 011-***-****

Kobie Schoeman Eskom Rotek Industries Tel: 082-***-****

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