BETHUEL MOPO MABUSE

• Key details of my work as Senior Quality Manager ( Africa Region

Safety First: Demonstrate 100% commitment to our zero harm behaviors in support of our drive towards developing a world class safety culture.

• Leadership: Lead the Quality function in the Africa sub-region and support the Africa sub-region executive team with the overall business leadership of the Africa business. This Includes plant acroos Africa and All Branches / Services Centres

This includes overseeing the following Quality functions:

• Customer complaints and warranty claims
• Supplier Quality assurance
• In-house manufacturing Quality assurance
• Overall business Quality assurance
• Quality legislation implementation
• Stakeholder education
• Team Development and Succession Planning: Identify training needs of Quality team members and implement development plans. Provide coaching and mentoring to team members. Develop and implement succession plans to ensure continuous growth and readiness. Create an inclusive work environment that embraces diversity.
• Strategic Initiatives: Develop and implement strategic improvement and growth initiatives to drive the Africa Quality function forward in the pursuit of world class quality performance. Support the Africa executive team to deliver the Africa sub-region strategic initiatives. Contribute to the EMEA Quality strategy development and implementation as a member of the EMEA Quality leadership team.
• EMEA Collaboration: Work together closely with the Europe and METCA sub-region Quality leaders to ensure adoption of best practice, common processes and procedures and common Quality KPI’s and reporting of these KPI’s.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams (Process/sales teams, Capital Projects team, Engineering team, Operations team, Supply chain team, 3rd party suppliers) to deliver world class quality customer solutions.
• Performance Management: Establish Africa Quality KPI’s and drive business performance against these KPIs. Compile monthly Africa Quality performance reports for presentation to the Africa executive team and the EMEA Engineering Director.
• Customer Interaction and Site Visits: Visit customer and supplier sites and interact with their Quality personnel to propose quality improvement initiatives utilizing the Weir Quality knowledge base.
• Policy and Strategy Formulation: Formulate Quality policies and strategies in conjunction with the EMEA Engineering Director and the Divisional Quality Director. Ensure the rollout of Weir Group, Divisional, and Regional Quality initiatives.
• Technical Quality Leadership: Provide leadership on quality matters during the manufacturing and installation of integrated solutions and ETO equipment, as well as during the execution of large capital projects.
• ISO Accreditation: Maintain all ISO accreditations, manage external certification, and conduct internal audits for the Africa sub-region.
• Management Review Meetings: Ensure management review meetings are held to formulate and improve the management systems of the Africa sub-region.
• Budget Management: Develop annual expense budgets and manage expenses for the Africa Quality function.
• Continuous improvement: Ensure that data regarding Quality performance is effectively captured and analyzed on an ongoing basis to develop and execute quality improvement plans across the Africa sub-region.
• Risk Assessment & legal compliance: Ensure rigorous risk assessment systems are in place to identify hazards and implement appropriate control measures. Ensure and assure Quality legal compliance to minimize risk, litigation exposure, and adverse publicity.

• Key details of my work as Senior manager for Africa Region

Safety First: Demonstrate 100% commitment to our zero harm behaviors in support of our drive towards developing a world class safety culture.

• Leadership: Lead the Quality function in the Africa sub-region and support the Africa sub-region executive team with the overall business leadership of the Africa business.

This includes overseeing the following Quality functions:

• Customer complaints and warranty claims
• Supplier Quality assurance
• In-house manufacturing Quality assurance
• Overall business Quality assurance
• Quality legislation implementation
• Stakeholder education
• Team Development and Succession Planning: Identify training needs of Quality team members and implement development plans. Provide coaching and mentoring to team members. Develop and implement succession plans to ensure continuous growth and readiness. Create an inclusive work environment that embraces diversity.
• Strategic Initiatives: Develop and implement strategic improvement and growth initiatives to drive the Africa Quality function forward in the pursuit of world class quality performance. Support the Africa executive team to deliver the Africa sub-region strategic initiatives. Contribute to the EMEA Quality strategy development and implementation as a member of the EMEA Quality leadership team.
• EMEA Collaboration: Work together closely with the Europe and METCA sub-region Quality leaders to ensure adoption of best practice, common processes and procedures and common Quality KPI’s and reporting of these KPI’s.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams (Process/sales teams, Capital Projects team, Engineering team, Operations team, Supply chain team, 3rd party suppliers) to deliver world class quality customer solutions.
• Performance Management: Establish Africa Quality KPI’s and drive business performance against these KPIs. Compile monthly Africa Quality performance reports for presentation to the Africa executive team and the EMEA Engineering Director.
• Customer Interaction and Site Visits: Visit customer and supplier sites and interact with their Quality personnel to propose quality improvement initiatives utilizing the Weir Quality knowledge base.
• Policy and Strategy Formulation: Formulate Quality policies and strategies in conjunction with the EMEA Engineering Director and the Divisional Quality Director. Ensure the rollout of Weir Group, Divisional, and Regional Quality initiatives.
• Technical Quality Leadership: Provide leadership on quality matters during the manufacturing and installation of integrated solutions and ETO equipment, as well as during the execution of large capital projects.
• ISO Accreditation: Maintain all ISO accreditations, manage external certification, and conduct internal audits for the Africa sub-region.
• Management Review Meetings: Ensure management review meetings are held to formulate and improve the management systems of the Africa sub-region.
• Budget Management: Develop annual expense budgets and manage expenses for the Africa Quality function.
• Continuous improvement: Ensure that data regarding Quality performance is effectively captured and analyzed on an ongoing basis to develop and execute quality improvement plans across the Africa sub-region.
• Risk Assessment & legal compliance: Ensure rigorous risk assessment systems are in place to identify hazards and implement appropriate control measures. Ensure and assure Quality legal compliance to minimize risk, litigation exposure, and adverse publicity.

• Act as Engineering Manager at Sulzer.
• Designing new pumps to suit customer requirement.
• Hydraulic calculations.
• Responsible for testing facility of pumps.
• Doing fault finding on failure on pumps.
• Modelling for new equipment.
• Failure report on equipment.
• Site plant investigation.
• Assist machine shop with technical issues.
• Support the project department.
• Support service center with technical issue they may face.
• Do failure analysis on new equipment.
• Help drawing office with technical issues.
• Support operation and attend operation meeting as when is required.
• Support tendering team with technical issues.
• Provide technical support in Sasol plants.
• Providing technical support in Eskom plants.
• Providing technical support in rand water pumps station and water treatment plant.
• Provide technical support in Scaw metals plants.
• Provide technical support at the mines (Harmony, Gold fields and Still water).
• Provide technical support to external suppliers.
• Doing site testing.
• Provide technical support in all Airport inside South Africa.
• Generate system curves for site plant.
• Provide training for new graduate engineers.
• Doing condition monitoring on plant equipment.
• Provide support to pattern and mold department.
• Provide technical support to retrofit department.
• Achievements So Far As Mechanical Engineer:
• Sasol Secunda had many pump failures where every day a pump was failing. An investigation into the plant led me to pick up that the issue lay with the cooling system which would need to be replaced. Sasol at the time could not afford to replace the entire system. I then designed an inducer that would help pumps not to cavitate within the current environment. The design of the inducer didn’t affect the pump’s performance and came in at a fraction of the cost of replacing the cooling system, totally avoiding a breakdown.

• Responsible with all process of making a pumps (oversee from drawing , parts manufacture and assembly of the pumps).
• Obtain and report on KPV's and translate into achievable objectives, PV measurement -COPQ, DPU, PPM etc.
• Investigate all non- conformances in area of responsibility. Take corrective actions such as containment, replacement supplies, problem solving etc. on all customer complaints and non- conformances.
• Assist Quality Engineer with all technical assistance they may require.
• Resolve quality and technical problems through root cause analysis and follow up on corrective and preventative action.
• Validate actions from NCR's and report findings on corrective actions to ensure sustainability. Reduce and eliminate re-occurrences and optimize processes to improve the scrap and rejection levels.
• Optimize turn- around time for corrective action, rework, inspection, warranties etc.
• Implement quality assurance strategies to identify opportunities for improvement and savings within core business processes.
• Implement, monitor, measure, analyses, report and take corrective action on quality objectives by using quality tools: PPM, Top 5, SPC etc.
• Evaluate OTSR approval and parts approval at supplier with quality document control.
• Testing new products and do knowledge transfer on the new pumps.

• Responsible for R&D workshop.
• Provide solution to complex on engineering projects, conduct research to determine available data, prepare preliminary designs and plans, and review with professional engineering staff.
• Providing engineering support to all the departments in Alrode site (Slurry pumps section, Clear water pumps section, Screens section, Mill liners section, Hose manufacture site and rubber plant where pats are molded).
• Attending hand over meetings / contract reviews for new projects.
• Perform map and improvement reviews.
• Research project design requirement.
• Create 3d models and manufacturing drawing for complex engineering projects.
• Perform engineering calculations, prepare material and cost estimates and review calculation of other.
• Perform plan checking including reviewing and finalizing material take off and quality assurance.
• Perform Testing on new product and do performance curve on new product.
• Visit sites and take measurements, do retro fit. Assist with engineering solution to the customer.
• Assist project engineers and all branches with technical assistance they require time to time.
• Create assembly manual book for new pumps and new gearbox products.
• Achievement working as a Senior Development Design Technician.
• I was involved in designing the Exciter gearbox for the vibrating screens. My responsibility was Research and Development test bay workshop. One of the achievements was to make the test rig that can accommodate three types of exciters. The challenge was to have the rig inside the workshop, but it was too much risk and the floor would have to suit this type of application. We'd never had this type of rig before, so I did some research and consulted Pretoria University to get advice in order to achieve this. The head of Vibration and Structure at TUKS gave me advise. This project took me around six months to get things rolling from separating the floor making sure that when the rig is running vibration on the floor doesn't affect other areas. I used VSD to run the test rig to make this easier if we change the speed so it will be simple. Either we changed the pulleys selection and increased the speed base on the spec. I assembled the prototype and advised the engineering team in any suggestion to make designs easy and simple. Testing the exciter, this was one of the challenging tasks in hand. Because the first exciter was running for 4 hours but temperature was raising around 90 degrees Celsius. I picked up that too much oil in housing would cause the temperature to raise. Clearance / tolerance fits were not correct. When I raised this issue, the bearing maker realized that they didn't consider the bearing cartridge inside the bearing cartridge. All the parts were sent to the supplier to correct tolerance and we assembled the exciter and test. The temperature stabilized at 46 degrees in an hour’s run - an achievement that we'd never had before. All over the world our Exciters are on demand. These Exciters can produce between 60 to 120-ton force.

• Design and draughting of slurry and clear water components.
• Generate customer specific general arrangement using NX.
• Managing new project design and draughting.
• Managing sales for new project designs.
• 3D modeling and assembling modeling and design.
• Product solving on existing products.
• Generate detailed manufacturing drawings.
• Offer technical support to internal and external customers.
• Problem solving in the workshop as well as the supplier machine shop.
• Assist ERP staff with any technical issue.
• Assist purchasing department with buyers as and when is required.
• Achievements working as a Development Design Draughtsman
• I was involved in designing the Dewater unit pump, this pump only uses one impeller, the average head is 140 meter and the casing maximum working pressure is 7000kpa. The team consisted of four professionals. I was responsible to create 3D models concept and the final 3d model, casting drawings and machining drawings. Doing bearing calculations, general arrangement and sectional drawings / component drawings. I assisted the pattern shop with casting drawing to create pattern for the specific part, assist machine shop with machining drawing especially how to machine reference to datum how to program machine to achieve correct machining on the part. I assisted the test bay technician with performance test and created Assembly Manual for a new development product approved by the Engineering Manager.

• Creating updates maintaining all contract masters.
• Problem solving on all existing products.
• Provide technical support internally and externally.
• Generate customer contract drawings 2D and 3D.
• BOM updating on ERP system.
• Product configuration.

• Responsible with R&D workshop, doing fault findings on earthmoving equipment. Responsible to maintain all pumps running in the plant.
• Working on the line manufacture where my duties were rerouting pneumatic pipe that supply the brake system.
• Engine assembling and mounting the engine inside the engine bay.
• Doing some inspection on the final stage to check snags on the earth moving.
• Checking leaks on the pipes supplying the brake drums.
• Running road tests to check the overall performance of the earthmoving.

• Responsible for overhauling pumps and doing alignment on pumps.

• Mechanical Fitter responsible to gearbox, pumps overhaul. Responsible with installation and commissioning of pumps inside the plant.