Leigh-Ané Daniels

• Administration of licenses including their purchase and renewal

-Ensuring license are up-to-date

-Budget planning ; OPEX and CAPEX

-Planning resources and staff allocation for minimum expenditure

• Co-ordinate and plan update and upgrade activities of CAD system

-Completed company wide upgrade of software with assistance of IT and software suppliers

• Resolved technical issues promptly, enhancing overall system performance.
• Collaborated effectively with cross-functional teams for successful project completion.
• Improved workflow efficiency with thorough process analysis.
• Performed regular system backups, preventing potential data loss.
• Set up, onboard new users and administer permissions and access
• Assist with projects

-Engineering work for new projects ; 3D Modelling, drafting and ensuring installation goes smoothly

• Obtained various SOLIDWORKS and MasterCAM certificates
• Participated in product launch events

-Demo's and customer interaction stands

• Assisted in Machine building for simulation tests before actual CNC work

-Build custom machine ; 5 axis Haas Machine

-Work with team on customers g-codes ; repairing errors and visiting machine shops for testing and implementations

• Provided clients with technical support on SolidWorks software

-Software crashes, assistance with 3D modelling and best practises

• Worked closely with Project Manager to define objectives, leading to clear guidelines.
• Ensured compliance with budget constraints when sourcing materials and services.
• Monitored project timelines to avoid delays.
• Ensure Min and Max values were updated according to project demands

-Communicated with suppliers to ensure estimated date of arrivals matched team requirements

-Ensure stock-on-hand and system counts matched ; critical stock take daily and monthly stock take of all inventory

- Weekly inventory reports supplied to finance department

-Involved in audits conducted in Maintenance department

• Scheduled and arranged outsourcing maintenance jobs

-Liaised with suppliers

-Ensured team complied with company health and safety requirements

• Implemented blanket order request

-Large orders based on previous year consumption for consumables

-Create parameters for material not on blanket order – Items that are not as frequently used but ordered as rush items

• Kept all machinery up to date with Preventative maintenance schedules; created reminder emails as well as clear drafted excel document with all machinery and their planned dates. Ensuring work planned on machine is either done before or scheduled in another machine.
• Implemented Maintenance Gemba board; Visuals

-Graphs and data for shift change meetings

Uptime vs Downtime

Mean time between failures - MTBF

Mean time to repair - MTTR

-Breakdown data and recommended repair jobs documented for future occurrence

• SAP improvement project -

-Create workflow and ensure correct data is captured on system.

-Added drop downs for easier selection -create structure