Henry Mello
Mining Engineer
Middelburg
Summary
Accomplished professional and leader with extensive experience in driving operational excellence and strategic growth. Demonstrated success in fostering team collaboration and achieving impactful results in dynamic environments. Skilled in navigating complex challenges, optimizing processes, and cultivating positive workplace cultures. Recognized for adaptability, effective communication, and strong decision-making abilities.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
2004
2004
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification
Work History
General Manager
Overlooked Group
10.2024 - Current
- Cultivated strong relationships with clients, vendors, and partners to ensure long-term success and loyalty.
- Monitored financial performance, set budgets and controlled expenses to provide financial stability and long-term organizational growth.
- Managed budget implementations, employee reviews, training, schedules, and contract negotiations.
- Managed budget implementations, employee evaluations, and contract details.
Mine Manager
Overlooked Group
10.2021 - 09.2024
- Established strong relationships with key stakeholders including local communities, government agencies, and industry partners.
- Facilitated seamless transitions during periods of change or expansion, ensuring minimal disruption to operations.
- Reduced operational costs by streamlining processes and improving resource allocation.
- Implemented advanced technology solutions that enhanced productivity while reducing environmental impact.
- Coordinated logistics for efficient transportation of mined materials to processing facilities or marketplaces.
Production Manager
Exxaro Coal Central
01.2018 - 09.2021
- Resolved issues quickly to maintain productivity goals.
- Managed internal operational standards and productivity targets.
- Standardized production procedures, job roles, and quality assurance guidelines.
- Increased overall productivity by identifying bottlenecks in the production process and proposing effective solutions.
- Managed continuous improvement initiatives to drive gains in quality, flow, and output.
- Conducted root cause analysis on production issues, devising corrective actions to prevent recurrence.
Section Manager OC
Anglo American Coal SA
06.2014 - 12.2017
- Achieved consistent on-time project completion by monitoring progress, identifying bottlenecks, and taking corrective actions as needed.
- Fostered a positive work environment by promoting teamwork, open communication, and recognition of individual achievements.
- Resolved complex issues through root cause analysis and implementation of effective solutions tailored to specific situations.
- Mentored junior employees for career growth, building a strong talent pipeline for the organization.
Mine Overseer – Opencast
Anglo American Thermal Coal
06.2012 - 05.2014
- Responsible for coal production
- Responsible for road construction and pumping
- Contractor management
- Manage day to day production activities and ensure targets are met
- Maintain and improve safety, health and environment standards and practices
- To ensure compliance to Mine Health and safety act.
- Ensure company standards and procedures are strictly adhered to.
- Ensure consumables and other production requirements are ordered and received timeously
- Cost control
Mine Overseer - Planning
Anglo American Thermal Coal
02.2010 - 05.2012
- Mine Budgets
- Life of Mine schedules
- Manage an efficient production reporting system
- Develop, execute and record short term mining plans and equipment schedules
- Execute planning improvement project
Mine Overseer - Production
Anglo American Thermal Coal
01.2009 - 01.2010
- Responsible for coal production
- Responsible for topsoil stripping and placing
- Responsible for road construction and pumping
- Manage day to day production activities and ensure targets are met
- Maintain and improve safety, health and environment standards and practices
- To ensure compliance to Mine Health and safety act.
- Ensure company standards and procedures are strictly adhered to.
- Ensure consumables and other production requirements are ordered and received timeously
- Cost control
Acting strata control officer
Anglo American Thermal Coal
12.2008 - 12.2008
- Assist Mine Manager with his duties in regard with Strata Control.
- Identify and monitor hazards associated with roof strata in underground workings and record the findings
- Monitor safety devices installed to monitor movements in the roof strata, dangerous grounds and make records.
- Make recommendations to business unit managers on the findings to fix deviations encountered
Pit Foreman
Anglo American Thermal Coal
06.2008 - 12.2008
- Supervise day to day production processes to ensure targets are met.
- Ensure compliance to company standards and procedures
- Ensure Maximum utilization of resources.
- Maintain and improve safety
- Cost control
Underground Shift Overseer
Anglo American Thermal Coal
02.2007 - 05.2008
- Responsible for coal production
- Plan, prepare for and co – ordinate section moves
- Ensure Compliance to Mine Health and Safety Act and Regulations
- Cost Control, equipping sections to comply to environmental, health and safety standards
- Responsible for section maintenance (belt extension)
Underground faceboss Production
Anglo American Thermal Coal
07.2005 - 01.2007
- Responsible for coal production on a shiftily basis
- Communicating safety initiatives to my team
- Ensuring safe production
- Keeping production section standards to exceed legislated minimum requirements.
- Assignment of tasks to operators
Graduate learner miner
Colliery Training College (CTC)
01.2005 - 06.2005
- Basic training on running a production shift
Education
BscEng - Mining
University of the Witwatersrand
Blasting certificate - Fiery mines
Department of minerals and energy
MMC - Mine managers certificate of competency
Department of minerals and energy
Skills
Microsoft Excel
Microsoft Word
Microsoft PowerPoint
Operations management
undefinedPersonal Information
- ID Number: 7805225535082
- Ethnicity: Black
- Date of Birth: 05/22/78
- Gender: Male
- Nationality: South African
- Driving License: Code 10
- Place of Birth: Hammanskraal
Affiliations
South African Collieries Managers association
Certification
• Programme for management excellence • MCS – Continuous Miner Improvement Course • LFI and ICAM – Learning From Incidents and Incident Cause Analysis Method • A3 Safety Risk Management Programme • SLP – Safety Leadership Programme • Finance for non-financial managers • Leadeship in connection economy – • Xpac scheduling
Enjoy watching soccer
I enjoy watching English premier league, local soccer and Spanish laliga
Enjoy watching soccer
I enjoy watching local soccer, English premier league and laliga
Timeline
General Manager
Overlooked Group
10.2024 - Current
Mine Manager
Overlooked Group
10.2021 - 09.2024
Production Manager
Exxaro Coal Central
01.2018 - 09.2021
Section Manager OC
Anglo American Coal SA
06.2014 - 12.2017
Mine Overseer – Opencast
Anglo American Thermal Coal
06.2012 - 05.2014
Mine Overseer - Planning
Anglo American Thermal Coal
02.2010 - 05.2012
Mine Overseer - Production
Anglo American Thermal Coal
01.2009 - 01.2010
Acting strata control officer
Anglo American Thermal Coal
12.2008 - 12.2008
Pit Foreman
Anglo American Thermal Coal
06.2008 - 12.2008
Underground Shift Overseer
Anglo American Thermal Coal
02.2007 - 05.2008
Underground faceboss Production
Anglo American Thermal Coal
07.2005 - 01.2007
Graduate learner miner
Colliery Training College (CTC)
01.2005 - 06.2005
Blasting certificate - Fiery mines
Department of minerals and energy
MMC - Mine managers certificate of competency
Department of minerals and energy
BscEng - Mining
University of the Witwatersrand
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