Machoene Frederick Makgere

Operations manager

» Work Experience

**/**** – Current Operations manager: Pelletizing, sintering and crusher plant

Company Samancor, Middelburg FerroChrome

Duties & Responsibilities

Manage a team of Superintendents (Production and Maintenance), Specialist, Supervisors, Artisans, and Operators. Drive continuous improvement and operational excellence. Section 16 (2) legal appointment and Strategic planning of the department. Drive and improve key performance indicators. Develop departmental strategy that is aligned with company’s strategy. Develop departmental yearly budgets. Focus on plant productivity and efficiencies. Develop capex and Opex requirements. Quality Raw material input and final product. Liaise with different suppliers. Drive cost efficient and quality operation. Drive COP by continuous improvements strategy. Maintenance, reliability and standardization. Establish and maintain an effective working relationship with all stakeholders. Creating high performance team and conducive employee relation climate. Overall departmental SHEQ compliance.

Management of the following sections:

oProduction and Maintenance of BallMill, Filtering, Pelletizing and Sintering areas of ferrochrome Ore

oMaintenance of Crusher plant: final product crushing and screening

oMetal Separation Plant: slag crushing and Metal separation

Achievements

-Record annual Cr Ore pellets production for the site and the group.

-Record Pelletizer steelbelt campaign for the site and the group

-Increased productivity by +10%

-HR: Management representative during S189 consultation

09/2017 – 03/2018 Manager Operations, Structural Mill

Company ArcelorMittal in the Steel Manufacturing, Heavy structural mill Highveld

Duties & Responsibilities

Responsible for production line producing Structural steel, railway, and round bars. Responsible for receiving, processing and dispatch departments. Processing steel slabs and blooms. Coordinated and arranged production and logistics planning, liaise with marketing and sales. Supplied local and Africa region markets. Overall quality management and customer complaints/RCFA. Customer orientated, regular visits and develop conducive working relationship. Overall Scrap handling, processing and dispatch. Responsible for overall SHEQ compliance

10/2014 – 08/2017 Production Manager

Company ArcelorMittal in the Steel Manufacturing, Newcastle works,

South Africa. Steel Plant, Secondary Metallurgy Production

Duties & Responsibilities

Direct reports: 3 x shift superintendents, 2 x senior engineers, service contractors, +80 employees, including service contractors. Managing 2 x ladle Furnaces and 1 x RH degasser. KPI improvement - quality, delays, safety, Capex and Opex. Overall SHEQ and SOP management of the section, contractor management and service contracts. HIRA champion of overall steel plant. Management of all input materials - Ferroalloys, fluxes, cored wires, electrodes, Argon and Nitrogen gas, electricity etc. Drive KPI’s and departmental budget.

06/2013 - 09/2014 Refining Process Engineer

Company Columbus Stainless (Pty) Ltd Steel plant: AOD and refining

Duties & Responsibilities

AOD (Argon Oxygen Decarburizer furnaces) and refining process Engineer. Process model optimization of Stainless Steel practices. Responsible for overall quality of Austinetic, Ferritic and Duplex stainless steel. Ladle refining quality investigation and continuous improvement. Consumptions improvement – Lime, Dolo, Argon, Oxygen, Nitrogen, FeSi, FEMO, FENB, Ti ect. And optimise AOD blowing practice and Operators process training

11/2007 - 08/2012 Engineer: Metallurgy

09/2012 - 05/2013 Snr Engineer: Metallurgy (Progress development)

ArcelorMittal in the Steel Manufacturing, Vanderbijlpark, South Africa (Gauteng). Steel Making, Hot Metal & Oxygen Furnaces Production Vanderbijlpark Works

Duties & Responsibilities

Furnace process optimization and model process simulations. BOF Furnace mass/energy charge balance e.g. First Charge, Main charge, Inblow, and alloy calculations and improve accuracy of furnace inputs. Introduced usage of SiC and medium coke as source of energy in the furnace. Adjustment and monitoring of the BOF model tuning parameters. Developed phosphorus prediction model. Increased productivity by increasing tap mass from 167 to 174tons per ladle. KPI analysis and improvement – to achieve planned targets. Global Technical Benchmarking, working with finance, procurement and logistics. Working with SAP, performing RCA’s and production improvements projects. Consumptions of raw materials, Lime, Iron ore, DRI, Scrap, raw/burnt dolomite, using SAP.

Mentor and Supervisor – For extraction metallurgy candidate technician’s trainee at ArcelorMittal in the Steel Manufacturing, Vanderbijlpark

» Education

Completed 12/2016 Advanced Certificate in Management

Milpark Business School

Completed 07/2012 MAP (Management Advancement Programme)

MAP Wits Business School, Wits University in Johannesburg,

South Africa.

Completed 11/2008 Masters of Science in Metallurgical Engineering

Wits University in Johannesburg, South Africa

Completed 07/2005 Bsc (Honours) Material Science

University of Cape Town in Cape Town, South Africa

Completed 12/2003 Bsc Degree (Chemistry and Physics)

Degree at University of Johannesburg, South Africa (Gauteng).

Phone +27-13-249-**** +27-72-328-****

Email: adnbcl@r.postjobfree.com

South African Citizenship

Address:Middelburg Mpumalanga,

ID Number: 820**********

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