Edwin Mokgwamme
Roodepoort
Summary
I am currently a Unit Manager Metallurgy at Sibanye Stillwater Marikana Smelter Plant. I have obtained more than 20 years of metallurgical experience in Platinum operations as a Student and Process Engineer at Sibanye Stillwater (Lonmin) Platinum Mines.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
Work History
Lonmin Platinum Smelter (Operational Metallurgist)
Lonmin Platinum
- Quality control monitoring and supervision of Laboratory personnel
- Weekly audits on the sampling plant
- Ensure correct sampling and preparation methods (All Smelter Samples)
- Manage the Concentrate offloading and blending plan
- Perform monthly stock take for the Smelter Plant
- Ensure timely, accurate and completeness of data to Metallurgical Accounting Department
- Monitor and correct any suspect analysis on Limms and XRF
- Maintaining and improving overall plant performance by taking long and short medium-term projects
- Conduct Root cause failure analysis on process non-conformances
- Doing metallurgical audits and ensuring plant integrity with metallurgical standards
- Providing support and technical assistance to Production personnel from time to time particularly with the introduction of new process sampling equipment
- This includes also, plant operation, administrative work, budgeting and performing standby duties
- Providing Plant Management with daily Key Parameters Indicators (KPI) and updating month end KPI
- Relieving the Senior Metallurgists and Production Superintendent (Converter, Wet Section and Slag Milling Plant)
- Training the laboratory and the production staff
- Compiling the safe work procedure for Wet section and Smelter laboratory with Safety Officer and Training Officer
- Conduct Safe Behaviour Observation (SBO)
- Conduct incident reporting and investigation when required
- Conduct risk assessment on plant and sampling equipment
- Participate in the Disciplinary Hearing
- Assistance to ad hoc request from production
- Conduct Monthly and quarterly Process Reviews
- Conduct design reviews.
Lonmin Platinum BMR (Junior Metallurgist)
Lonmin Platinum
- Apart from being involved in long and short medium-term Six Sigma projects as team member, I have acted as a Production Foreman on shifts for a period of three months
- The operation itself aims at providing the Junior Metallurgist with an opportunity to gain basic skills and knowledge
- As a Production Foreman my role was to: Ensure that the plant is running at its optimal to meet targets and tonnages produced are within customer specifications
- Organising, planning and liaising with Mining Department and taking decisions from time to time particularly on matters affecting plant production
- Supervision of shift members
- This relates to the acquisition of man management skills without the risk of one losing personal credibility
- Ensure adherence to safety
- The work undertaken is of a highly practical nature and consequently, and in depth knowledge and understanding of basic equipment usage along with their associated problems
- The exposure as a Production Foreman allowed me to interact with the full range of plant personnel employed on the mine and this assisted in building interpersonal skills and personal credibility
- As a Junior Metallurgists my role was: Quality control monitoring and laboratory supervision
- Involved in Six Sigma Projects as a team member
- Providing support and technical assistance to the production personnel
- Working with XRF, ICP machine
- Work as analyst at Wet Section Laboratory.
Lonmin Platinum-Research and Development Laboratory (Junior Metallurgists)
Lonmin Platinum
- Running Floatability Characteristic Test Rig (FCTR) Pilot Plant
- Conduct Standard Batch Float on Open Cast and Underground ore
- Test new flotation reagents using standard batch flotation and FCTR pilot plant
- Compiling technical report
- Performing sampling campaign on concentrator plants and sample preparation
- Assist with installation and commissioning of new equipments (ISA mill, Attrition Mill and different types of grinding media)
- Provide support and technical assistance to the concentrator personnel from time to time particularly with the introduction of new process technology such as ISA mill, flotation cells and reagents
- Ensure adherence to safety.
Unit Manager Metallurgy
Sibanye-Stillwater
11.2013 - Current
- Manage the Slag Milling and Flotation Plant team
- Ensure that the production targets are achieved
- Ensure that the quality of the product produced is achieved within the customer specifications
- Manage the Slag Plant budget
- Responsible for the Health and safety of the Plant team
- Conduct incident reporting and investigation when required
- Manage the contractors on the Slag Milling Plant
- Involve in the medium and long term projects of the Smelter
- Facilitating the Root Cause Failure Analysis
- Process Optimisation and Continuous Improvement
- Manage the development and training of the plant personnel.
Education
Motswedi High School
National Diploma in Extraction Metallurgy - undefined
Wits Technikon
B-Tech Engineering Metallurgy - undefined
Tshwane University of Technology
Management Advance Programme (MAP) - undefined
Wits Business School
Skills
Black Belt Six Sigma
undefinedCoursework
- Fundamentals of Project Management (Damelin), October 2010
- Six Sigma Green Belt Training-Lonmin Platinum, August 2007, Introduction to Six Sigma Methodology and Project Continuous Improvement.
- JK Simet Course (University of Cape Town), February 2011 (5 days), Introduction to plant Simulation and Modelling.
Personal Information
- ID Number: 78120605422082
- Age: 46 years
- Gender: Male
- Nationality: South African
- Driving License: Code C 1
- Marital Status: Married
References
Moses Twala, Production Manager, Lonmin BMR, 014 571 3092, Moses.Twala@lonmin.com
Languages
Setswana
Timeline
Unit Manager Metallurgy
Sibanye-Stillwater
11.2013 - Current
Lonmin Platinum Smelter (Operational Metallurgist)
Lonmin Platinum
Lonmin Platinum BMR (Junior Metallurgist)
Lonmin Platinum
Lonmin Platinum-Research and Development Laboratory (Junior Metallurgists)
Lonmin Platinum
Motswedi High School
National Diploma in Extraction Metallurgy - undefined
Wits Technikon
B-Tech Engineering Metallurgy - undefined
Tshwane University of Technology
Management Advance Programme (MAP) - undefined
Wits Business School
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