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MANDLA NGONYAMA

MANDLA NGONYAMA

KEMPTO,SOUTH AFRICA

Summary

Experienced professional with expertise in SAP PM master data management, preventive maintenance, and plant reliability. Demonstrates proficiency in project management, budgeting, and financial management, with a strong focus on sustainability and plant efficiency. Skilled in troubleshooting, failure analysis, and planned maintenance execution, complemented by technical training and business communication capabilities. Adept at ensuring food safety compliance through HACCP principles and driving change management initiatives to optimize operational performance. Committed to leveraging mechanical engineering knowledge to enhance plant overhaul planning and execution while supporting organizational goals for continuous improvement.

Overview

28
28
years of professional experience
2025
2025
years of post-secondary education

Work history

TPM and Capability Coordinator

HEINEKEN SA
Wadeville, Gauteng
06.2024 - Current
  • Apply TPM tools and techniques to enhance productivity and reduce waste
  • Apply problem solving techniques to resolve recurring problems.
  • Coach teams on SMED techniques change over techniques to reduce change over durations.
  • Enhance plant production lines productivity with efficient downtime analysis.
  • Coach and audit teams on 5s implementation and visual management.
  • Identify skills gaps on the production floor and prioritize training to address the skills gaps.

Maintenance Planner

HEINEKEN BEVERAGES SA
08.2019 - 05.2025
  • Safety, food safety & sustainability Plan and prepare scheduled work orders in such a way they can be safely executed on time in full (OTIF).
  • Plan and prepare scheduled legal related maintenance tasks in such a way they can be safely executed OTIF.
  • Plan and prepare scheduled work orders in such a way they can be executed in compliance to quality and HACCP requirements.
  • Review work requests for quality information and priority (gatekeeping).
  • Plan and prepare work orders (scope, tasks, resources, materials, tools).
  • Management of task lists master data in SAP.
  • Management of tools and materials for maintenance execution.
  • Schedule work orders (considering downtime, part- and services availability).
  • Create and implement and manage maintenance plans.
  • Support the budgeting process of planned maintenance; helps Maintenance Engineer to calculate the preventive maintenance budget (asset based).
  • Performs loss & cost maintenance deployments to shop floor level and establish PDCA-process.
  • Sustain Reliability Centred Maintenance (RCM) process to (further) extend life and reduce costs.
  • Manage and organize asset master data within SAP by building, monitoring and controlling the asset breakdown structure and by defining all PM tasks and inventory items in SAP.
  • Update maintenance plans in SAP to improve asset performance and/or reduce costs.
  • Report on maintenance KPI's; i.e. number of breakdowns, machine efficiency score and/or line performance, % PM plans OTIF and % asset master data as built.
  • Ensure accurate registration and handling of data in SAP during work intake and planning & scheduling.
  • Responsible for planning & scheduling in such a way the overall predictability and reliability of planned maintenance is maximized.

Maintenance Planner

Tiger Brands Beverages
05.2018 - 07.2019
  • Responsible maintenance planning and scheduling of routine and shutdown maintenance for 8 bottling lines, processing area, sugar plant, boiler house, water treatment, site using dMS computerised maintenance system.
  • Custodian of TPM for the whole plant.
  • Weekly reports of plant usages; air, water and electricity.
  • Lead the maintenance teams on management of MTTR and MTBF KPI's on a weekly basis.
  • Management of artisan utilisation on a weekly basis.
  • Management of scheduled work compliance and backlog including the weekly input into the management report.
  • Management of supplier and contractor relations.
  • Management of plant equipment master data on dMS system.
  • Coaching of artisans, shift managers on the correct use of the dMS system.
  • Ensure the quality of information input into the system of an acceptable and usable form and standard.
  • Management of maintenance costs by evaluation of quotes and SLA's from different suppliers.
  • Management of SLA's with different suppliers.
  • Evaluation before onboarding new service providers.
  • Assist the workshop foreman with monthly performance reviews and One-on-One sittings of artisans.

Engineering Maintenance Planner

SAB Rosslyn
10.2012 - 04.2018
  • SAP equipment and components master data management.
  • Review SAP 3week planning window to identify tasks requiring special planning.
  • Maintenance planning and scheduling to support GMP; Safety Health & Environment; product quality and legal requirements.
  • Review emergency works orders using the standard and create sub-works orders.
  • Create the maintenance plan and assign tasks to team members, including contractors.
  • Communicate and distribute plan to team members.
  • Organize and distribute maintenance work orders with loading sheet to Team Leaders.
  • Ensure that required tools and spares are available.
  • Plan the execution of the autonomous maintenance and running schedules for the unit.
  • Chair pre-maintenance meeting and issue minutes.
  • Update task lists if required.
  • Create spares reservations.
  • Management of maintenance budget.
  • Shutdown planning and management.
  • Project management.
  • Chair problem solving meetings.
  • Engineering change management.
  • Equipment performance and reliability management.
  • Reporting on equipment maintenance KPI's.
  • Management of maintenance personnel.
  • Maintenance of supplier relationships.

Engineering Maintenance Planner

ABI Midrand
04.2011 - 09.2012
  • SAP equipment and components master data management.
  • Review SAP 3 week planning window to identify tasks requiring special planning.
  • Maintenance planning and scheduling to support GMP; Safety Health & Environment; product quality and legal requirements.
  • Review emergency works orders using the standard and create sub-works orders.
  • Create the maintenance plan and assign tasks to team members, including contractors.
  • Communicate and distribute plan to team members.
  • Organize and distribute maintenance work orders with loading sheet to Team Leaders.
  • Ensure that required tools and spares are available.
  • Plan the execution of the autonomous maintenance and running schedules for the unit.
  • Chair pre-maintenance meeting and issue minutes.
  • Update task lists if required.
  • Create spares reservations.
  • Management of maintenance budget.
  • Shutdown planning and management.
  • Project management.
  • Chair problem solving meetings.
  • Engineering change management.
  • Equipment performance and reliability management.
  • Reporting on equipment maintenance KPI's.
  • Management of maintenance personnel.
  • Maintenance of supplier relationships.

Machine area specialist

ABI Midrand
03.2007 - 04.2011
  • Perform preventative maintenance on the following packaging equipment: Caser and palletiser machines (Krones machines), Nigrelli (denester) lines 1 to 4, Filling machines (Krones PET), Krones blow moulders and bottle unscramblers.
  • Perform stand-by duties as per roster.
  • Participate as a member of the troubleshooting and failure analysis team.
  • Plan and execute annual shut down on the abovementioned equipment.

Machine area specialist

ABI Pretoria
09.2006 - 03.2007
  • Perform preventative maintenance on the following packaging equipment: Caser and uncaser (lines 1&2), Kisters (Tray packer and Shrink wrapper-Lines 3&4), depalletiser, palletiser, nigrelli (denester).
  • Perform stand-by duties as per roster.
  • Participate as a member of the troubleshooting and failure analysis team.
  • Plan and execute annual shut down on the above mentioned equipment.

Process Artisan

ABI Pretoria
02.2006 - 09.2006
  • Maintain bottling plant equipment and attend to breakdowns during a production run on the following machinery: Glass and PET bottle fillers, Bottle washer, Case packers and uncaser, palletiser, depalletiser, crate washer, bottle and crate conveyors, blow moulders, air bottle conveyors and tray packers.
  • Maximise plant efficiency and minimize down time.
  • Motivate team members.
  • Stand in as team leader from time to time.

Maintenance fitter

Bokomo Foods
10.2004 - 01.2006
  • Maintain a milling cooking and packaging plant.
  • Equipment including the following: Steam: Traps, valves and lines, Cookers and mixers, Hammer mills and screens, Holding and storage bins, Screw and belt conveyors, Micronisers, Vibration sifters, Shrink wrapper machine, Steel water and air line installations, Pumps, Blenders, Fans, Dust filtration systems, Bucket elevators, Gearboxes, Roller driers, Pneumatic assemblies, Packaging machines: Cam, Auto pack, Eddelmann.
  • Welding and general workshop practices.

Quality Technician

Consol Glass Wadeville
09.2002 - 10.2004
  • Ensuring conformance to quality standard of products.
  • All non-conformances are communicated to QA.
  • Setting up and maintenance of EBI equipment.
  • Carry out change over on the following machines: Check + machine, Mcal-3 (sidewall inspection machine), Stress + machine, Dimension +, Csbc (finish inspection machine), Mcf (bottom inspection machine), Mcf stress, Lnmp, Video jet excel 2000 coding machine.

Mechanical Artisan

South African Air Force
04.1997 - 09.2002
  • Maintenance of Aircraft gas turbine engines and other aircraft components including: Hydraulic, fuel, components; service and maintenance of mechanical assemblies and components rig testing and quality checks.

Education

MBA -

TUT Business School

B-Tech Management - undefined

Durban University of Technology

National Diploma Engineering - Mechanical Engineering

Pta. West College of Engineering

High School Diploma - undefined

Ed-U-College

Mechanical Apprentice - undefined

South African Air Force
04.1997 - 05.2000

Skills

  • SAP PM Master Data Management
  • Product Quality (QA/QC)
  • Preventive Maintenance
  • Financial Management
  • Problem Solving
  • Planning and organizing
  • Master Data Management
  • Resilience
  • Planned Maintenance
  • Change Management
  • Plant Efficiency
  • Troubleshooting (Problem Solving)
  • Scheduling
  • Information Management
  • Food Safety
  • Plant overhaul planning, execution and reporting
  • Failure Analysis
  • Budgeting
  • Business Communication
  • End to end procurement
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Plant reliability
  • Hazard Analysis And Critical Control Points (HACCP)

Languages

English
Xitsonga
iSizulu
seSotho
isiXhosa
Afrikaans

Custom

MBA

Affiliations

  • I am a Jazz enthusiast, play piano and am an up-and-coming cook.

Timeline

TPM and Capability Coordinator

HEINEKEN SA
06.2024 - Current

Maintenance Planner

HEINEKEN BEVERAGES SA
08.2019 - 05.2025

Maintenance Planner

Tiger Brands Beverages
05.2018 - 07.2019

Engineering Maintenance Planner

SAB Rosslyn
10.2012 - 04.2018

Engineering Maintenance Planner

ABI Midrand
04.2011 - 09.2012

Machine area specialist

ABI Midrand
03.2007 - 04.2011

Machine area specialist

ABI Pretoria
09.2006 - 03.2007

Process Artisan

ABI Pretoria
02.2006 - 09.2006

Maintenance fitter

Bokomo Foods
10.2004 - 01.2006

Quality Technician

Consol Glass Wadeville
09.2002 - 10.2004

Mechanical Artisan

South African Air Force
04.1997 - 09.2002

Mechanical Apprentice - undefined

South African Air Force
04.1997 - 05.2000

B-Tech Management - undefined

Durban University of Technology

National Diploma Engineering - Mechanical Engineering

Pta. West College of Engineering

High School Diploma - undefined

Ed-U-College

MBA -

TUT Business School

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