Cover Letter

To whom it may concern

I am a hard-worker and a determined professional seeking an opportunity to succeed in a dynamic company such as yours. I am confident that my knowledge, ability, and experience will allow me to add value to your company.

Please allow me to highlight my key skills:

• Effectively manage time keeping through careful planning.

• Good fault finding and troubleshooting skill.

• Working with all person, at any level in the company

• I enjoy working as part of a team

• I am accustomed to a fast-paced environment and to work well under pressure

• Fast learner

• A good track record no criminal record

I am convinced that I can be an asset in any position that requires hard work, enthusiasm, and reliability.

Sincerely

Sydney Le Roux

Cell no: 066*******

Email: adpl1z@r.postjobfree.com

Curriculum vitae

Sydney Le Roux

PERSONAL INFORMATION

NAME SYDNEY WILLIAM GEORGE

SURNAME LE ROUX

GENDER MALE

ID 771**********

PHONE NUMBER 066*******

DATE OF BIRTH 07/11/1977

MARITAL STATUS Engaged

RESIDENCE 616 Totius Road, 18 Amarosa View, Amarosa, Roodepoort, 1724 DRIVERS LICENCE 10

SKILLS

Good hand-eye coordination.

Able to work as part of a team or independently

Practical ability

Attention to detail

Good health

Good Communication

Problem Solving & fault finding.

Customer Service

Technical Knowledge

QUALIFICATIONS

SAREL CILLIERS HIGH SCHOOL Str 10 & Graad12:

Mathematics, Science, Engineering drawings, Fitter & Turning GERMISTON EWC COLLEGE N3:

Mathematics, Science, Engineering drawings, Mechanotactic GERMISTON EWC COLLEGE N4:

Mathematics, Science

Programme Knowledge:

JD Edwards, SAP

P.M.I - (Production Management Institute) NQF 4 in production management. Festo - (Pneumatic systems) Pneumatic Training

Siemens plc - PLC Training S7, Drives

Delta - PLC Training

Trade - Olifantsfontein Training Centre-2001 (Red seal Artisan) Plastic SA - NQF 3 Butt fusion, Socket fusion welding, Heat plates and Electrofusion welding EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

CONSOL GLASS (Manufacturing)

Jan- 1998/2001 (Apprenticeship)

2001/2003 (Mechanical Artisan)

Duties: Conveyors, Mixers, Crushers, Bucket Elevators, Bearings, Taper locks and Pump Started my Apprenticeship at CONSOL glass. I worked in the Batch plant as a fitter. In this time my duties included working on compressors Joy and ER8 piston compressors as well as the alignment of couplings. Additional duties included working on conveyors, incline conveyors, bucket elevators replacements, working on screw feeders replacing and fit new blades, working on lowriders, invertors, mixers replacing blades and set speeds, working on crushers, replacements of chains, belts. Further to this I replaced old shafts bearings and sprockets on shutdowns. Started working on the highspeed production line, replacing broken transfer belts, gearboxes, drive sprocket, working on production equipment replacing broken parts, fix and timings on equipment. I worked on mask palletisers and de- palletisers, spray units, did changing of line speeds on a change over and on packing line machine, as well as changing of change parts.

Reason for leaving: Head hunted by Nampak glass (former manager move to Nampak) NAMPAK GLASS (Manufacturing)

March 2005 – 2007 (Production Artisan) – Sent to Germany for training (5-week programme) Training included: Highspeed production, fault find and troubleshooting 2007/2009 (Production Specialist) – Sent to France for Training (4-week programme) Training included: Highspeed fault finding and Troubleshooting 2010/2011 (Machine Specialist)

Highspeed production Machine Specialist

October 2011 – 2012 (Specialist) – Giving training to new and old employees High speed Equipment Specialist

I started by career at Nampak in the production lines and was later transferred to the maintenance workshop. Here I was working on fine setting on the production line as well as working on krons, asepack and msc inspection equipment. I was later exposed to working on a sentence compressor. I was then sent to Germany for training. Training involved palletisers, rappers, inspection equipment, set speeding on a production line and plc.do job change on machines, changing parts on production equipment as well as basic fitting work on a production line. Thereafter I was sent to France for in depth training on troubleshooting and this was where I became a machine specialist on all the production equipment. Based on the passion I have for the machines I started give training to the employees on new and old machines and became the Foreman of the workshop. As the Foreman my duties included meetings with staff and planning the jobs at hand, giving job cards as well as inspect the jobs. I later became a specialise on the cold end side (packaging and inspection machines) this transpired into me becoming a became job change co-ordinate which entailed making sure the line makes target of 90%. Whilst going out to the customers as well.

Leaving: Head hunted by Tiger Brands because of my glass defect Experian’s. TIGERBRANDS (Food)

November 2012 – 2013 (Mechanical Fitter)

Highspeed Caning Cookers, Transfer lines

2013 - 2019 (Production Artisan)

Highspeed packing line.

Working on fillers, Capers & Labellers (Krons & Hema), working on cane, glass as well as the pet lines. I then worked on the palatize and de-palatize for cane, glass and pet. Work ACEPAK & KRONS Packing Machines included:

• De-palletizer (high and low flow)

• Unscramble

• Rinse Machine (two and single stage rinsing machine.

• Filler machine (pet bottle neck handling Glass bottle

• Capper machine (capper machine for plastic screw caps.

• Bottle inverter machine for caps

• Labeller Machine (vertical horizontal) Case packer My journey started in the workshop for 6 months on seamers, I then moved to the production line based on my experience in glass and had to assist in starting up the new mayo factory as well as train staff on glass defects. In this time, I worked on packaging equipment (ace Pak and Krono’s) as well as PA which is a production artisan. I was given training from the people overseas on the wrappers, sleeve shrink, case pacers, Hamon fillers, cappers as well as the labellers. My role entailed job changes on the equipment, change parts, fillers caps, bottom plats, worms. filling tubs. Working on de-palletisers(cut) palletisers (ace pack) robot(kroon’s). Based on my experience that I had built up I started working on the Pet line from de-pal, transferring line sensors and cans as well as glass production lines. I had to opportunity to work on the boxing machine.

Reason for leaving: Broken promises.

TECHNIKON LABBORATORIES (Pharmaceutical)

• Start working in the Pharmaceutical in Jan 2020.Work as a production/process technician in the primary and secondary doing Breakdowns and Maintenance

• Attend to break in secondary and primary rooms.

• Perform maintenance duties on Capsule filling manufacturing machines

• Perform maintenance duties on doy packing machines

• Perform maintenance duties on Liquid filling machinery

• Perform maintenance duties on 15-line stick pack packaging

• Perform maintenance duties on Ulmar Packaging and Rovema Packaging

• Perform maintenance duties on Blistering Lines

• Perform maintenance duties on Cartening Machine

• Perform maintenance duties on Labelling Machines

• Perform maintenance duties on Shrink Wrapping

• Perform maintenance duties on Aerosol Machinery

Reference list:

Consol Glass

Stewie Stewens

Tel: +27-11-874-****/063-***-****

Nampak Glass

Jake Els (Foreman)

Tel: +27-11-865-****/082-***-****

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