Work experience

• Head of Operations - Automation

  ABB

  2024.11-Current

  (2 years)

  (1 year 8 months) Responsible to execute a customer-focused operations strategy derived from the overall business and functional strategy developed for the Local Division, Cluster together with the Hub & Global division. Accountable to deliver 4C targets for Operations: Safety, Quality, Delivery, Inventory, Productivity. Deploys and manages Project Management system for Project Execution as per IMS and HUB / Global project Management policies. Responsible for on-time/on-margin project execution and to deliver project EBITA and cash. Accountable to deliver COGS savings and all other Financial performance KPIs. Accountable to define and deliver the annual budgets for CapEx and OpEx expenses. Responsible to implement and sponsor Health, Safety & Environment (HSE) and all other business compliance standards and regulations across all QO functions. Accountable to ensure a safe work environment and continuous improvement in HSE processes and integrity performance. Accountable to build an effective, capable and high-performing organization. Responsible to develop talent, review organizational effectiveness, performing competence assessments and continuous skill-upgrades. Accountable for a sustainable and effective value-chain, from Customer to Supplier and from Order to Delivery (Products, Projects & Service). Accountable for the effective deployment of the respective Procurement and Logistics strategy and for project execution from order to service. Accountable for the effective deployment of ABB’s Quality strategy. Responsible for Quality assurance, Quality control and for the implementation of an integrated quality management system. Accountable for the development and continuous improvement of business processes and procedures, and of the overall customer satisfaction for area under scope. Accountable to ensure compliance with global and local standards, rules, policies and procedures related to Operations/Project execution. Accountable for operational risk management
• Industrial Automation BU Leader - Anglophone Cluster

  Schneider Electric

  2023.06-2024.02

  (9 months)

  3 years 6 months Accountable for P&L for defined business unit and portfolio Responsible for achieving top line (according to offer strategy), profitability (GM) and incremental price realization Defining offer portfolio and product strategy based on knowledge on competitor activities (cluster and regional) Product portfolio management including product strategy, product positioning, product road map, product launches etc. to achieve profitable sales Drive technology thought leadership through Sales, BD and larger partner eco system. Aim for and achieve higher Vitality index as defined in AMSP roadmap Owns and Developing of Annual Marketing & Sales Plan for respective activity Driving Demand generation for industrial automation business Developing battle cards and animating strong sales enablement as well as for the partners ecosystem. Giving inputs to regional and global teams and participate in the product evolution projects. Giving feedback to quality teams based on the product performance in the field. Lead plannings and building strategies with team for the offer basket managed by the team. Team Management – building teams for high performance (2 years 11 months) Responsible for ensuring that the services are delivered comprehensively. Ensures the projects are effectively resourced and manages relationships with a wide range of stakeholders. Responsible for allocating and utilizing resources in a safe and efficient manner and maintaining a co- operative, motivated and successful team. Responsible for developing and maintaining relationships with new and existing Schneider Electric customers.
• Section Head: Service Projects

  ABB

  2017.11-2020.08

  (3 years)

  4 years 4 months (2 years 10 months)
• C&IProject Lead Engineer

  Modderfontein

  2016.05-2017.10

  (a year)

  (1 year 6 months)
• Senior Control Systems Engineer

  Aveng Manufacturing Automation & Control Solutions

  2013.09-2016.04

  (3 years)

  (2 years 8 months) Playing a lead role in the project: Communicate effectively with client; get input documents and review the documents to ensure that they can be used by our team members. Allocate tasks to the team members to meet the specific milestones. Monitor the progress throughout the project and communicate any issues to the project manager. Allocate tasks to team members and measure their performance. Maintain and improve relationships with key stakeholders: Advise client when foreseeing problems with their current design and propose better and effective solutions. Play a leader and motivational role to the whole project team and treat each other with dignity and respect. Market products to clients: Provide clients with our products information that can be relevant to their processes, educate them about our products capabilities whenever the opportunity presents itself. Prepare and present monthly feedback to clients and business: Report progress during monthly meetings and mention any obstacles that might prevent us from meeting our milestones. Guide junior team members in technical execution: Nature the skills of young or new engineers in order to take their technical abilities to the next level and constantly report the progress to the engineering manager. Recommend essential training needs for young engineers. Detail design: involved in detail design of project to make sure that the control systems requirements are adhered to. Deliver solutions as per service level agreements (SLA) with clients: Depending on the SLA, monthly visits are done in order to check the system integrity and take monthly backups. Control costs in area of responsibility with specific regard to capital expenditure: Allocate hours to team members according to the schedule and the time budgeted for that specific task. Monitor other costs that are incurred which can jeopardize our profit margins.
• Control Systems Engineer

  AVENG Manufacturing

  2010.03-2013.02

  (3 years)
• C and I Engineer (graduate)

  AFROX

  2008.01-2010.04

  (2 years)

  (2 years 4 months)

Educational experience

• University of Pretoria/Universiteit van Pretoria

  Technology Management

  2010.01-2012.01

  (2 years)
• University of Johannesburg

  Electronics and Communications engineering

  2005.01-2009.01

  (4 years)
• University of the Witwatersrand

  , Business Administration and management, general

Certificates