Jerry Gwarada

• Met weekly with team members to discuss project implementations and alleviate any issues.
• Lead commissioning teams for pilot process plants,
• Created process simulations to test operational outcomes without causing service disruptions e.g. spirals, flotation and leaching.
• Reviewed processes over a three month period, identifying areas requiring improvement.
• Prepared scope of work documentation for use in project planning
• Visited client sites to troubleshoot issues and provide one-on-one training and/or support (inclusing Nigeria & Zimbabwe).
• Coached newly hired employees and interns while observing progress and delegating tasks.
• Developed proposal, block flow diagrams, and specifications to meet project requirements and regulatory standards.
• Interfaced with area teams to verify application of technical details.
• Solicited proposals from third-parties to provide holistic costing data in proposal documentation.
• Developed conceptual scope analyses of project objectives.
• Conducted root cause analysis to identify, prioritize and eliminate process losses.

Responsible for providing a comprehensive range of metallurgical services at laboratory and pilot plant scale in the broad areas of flotation, cyanidation, physical separation and sample preparation.

Leadership

• Lived Suntech's Values, fostered a culture of collaboration within Suntech - Walk the Talk.

Strategy

• Executed the director's vision and strategy and develop plans for the implementation of the strategy.
• Supported business development and commercialisation and manage the execution of the strategic programmes.

Financial Sustainability

• Secured market share within the SADC mineral consulting service industry.
• Balanced the departmental funding and commercial targets as agreed with directors.
• Ensured that there are effective inter department collaborations to ensure that targets are met (metallurgy-chemical analyses-mineralogy.

People and Planning

• Ensured that the Laboratories plans are aligned with Suntech’s strategy and the needs of the target market.
• Ensured that adequate planning is done to ensure effective delivery of the plans.
• Ensured that there is an adequate pipeline of commercial and business leads to ensure that the Laboratory can deliver on its targets.
• Ensured that the Laboratory is adequately resourced, with a particular focus on technical staff and resources. Also ensuring succession planning.

Performance Management

• Delivered on the Laboratories KPI’s.
• Undertook performance management for the Laboratory.
• Ensured that systems and tools are in place to monitor and measure the delivery of laboratory activities.

Relationship Management and Reporting

• Stakeholder engagement, including the development of relationships with new stakeholders, stakeholder management and satisfaction for both internal and external stakeholders.
• Reported on all Laboratory activities and progress to the directors.
• Commercialisation and technology transfer management for the Laboratory.

• Plan, organise and oversee the daily operations of the Suntech Geomet testing laboratory working closely with the Metallurgical Consultant
• Support long-term research projects by focusing on productivity advancement and actionable knowledge gains.
• Review and apply prescribed schedules for pricing, timing and production prioritization for designing project proposals.
• Develop, review and maintain metallurgical and analytical procedures to assess properties of different ore types and finished products.
• Serve as subject matter expert on research into metallurgical production processes and operational decisions.
• Collaborate with metallurgical technicians and chemists to match requested recoveries for finished products.
• Plan and evaluate new projects, consulting with other engineers and corporate executives as necessary.
• Develop and mantain a database for test work results benchmarking.
• Review supplier proposals and materials and provide ongoing monitoring to maintain consistent supplies.

• Responsible for the maintenance of laboratory systems by keeping inventories of consumables and chemicals, anticipating required supplies and ordering them.
• Meeting with clients to discuss their proposals and testing requirements to ensure the consumer gap is minimised.
• Development of test programs that meet the client's demands according to industry best standards and advising clients of possible alternatives to their proposed solutions.
• Accepting, analyses, interpretation and discussion of results obtained during the test work.
• Carrying out customer surveys during and after the project to measure the gap between customer expectations and perceptions.
• Writing of final project reports and presentation of final results in form of a power point presentation or poster.

• Reduced loss of gold in solution within adsorption circuit by implementing efficient carbon inventory management procedures that saw gold production increasing by 17% for same throughput.
• Led, directed and supported all aspects of laboratory test work covering bench scale leaching and bottle rolls.
• Assisted in overall design of Elvington Gold Mine process flowsheet, plant layout and material handling systems.
• Created and distributed monthly metallurgical and process improvement reports.
• Identified team's training needs and facilitated their training, coaching and mentoring.

• Key achievement: Through the review and analyses of plant data, I discovered the change in the process ore preg-robbing index.
• This led to the redesign of the gold leaching section and consequential increase of gold production by 63%.
• Responsible for data entry, review and maintenance of inventory logs.
• Identified KPIs which assisted the Metallurgist with critical decision making skills.
• Responsible for training of plant personnel e.g plant samplers.
• Responsible for the writing of month end reports and creation of power point presentations for quarterly reports.
• Chishona Mandarin Basic.