MARRY MAPULA MAHLATJI
Production Coodinator
Akasia, Karen, Pretoria
Summary
I am production coordinator at Glencore ferrochrome smelter. I have worked for Bridgestone, Lonmin concentrator, Rustenburg Base Metal Refinery and Gold mine. I am a team player and able to work on my own. I see myself as an analytical person. Diversified experience obtained in production and mining has given me exposure to the development of process improvement experiments to scale in a laboratory, through commissioning and compiling reports on test works.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Language
Work History
Production Coordinator
Glencore
09.2020 - Current
- Meet with and discuss production needs as required
- Assist technologist in identifying and responding to trends in production shortfalls
- Propose and develop action plans as appropriate
- Follow up and adjust/change implementations as needed
- Assist technologist in monitoring tapping times and production volumes
- Assist technologist in ensuring stock control
- Take part in metallurgical decisions
- Assist technologist in ensuring physical loss target is achieved
- Assist technologist in tap hole management
- Manage the assistant mason
- Assist technologist in managing and initiating departmental projects
- Ensure housekeeping is maintained in paste store, mason store and refractory store
- Overlook the running of metal breaking floors
- Manage the reworking of picking station screening at MEP
- Inspect, observe and rectify any substandard activity or situation as soon as possible
- Reports to the Production Technologist on a daily basis and needs to be fully aware of the conditions and arrangements on the plant
- Issue work permits to all departments conducting work in his area of responsibility
- Ensure that all the necessary documentations are timeously completed, e.g
- Inspection books, risk assessments
Junior Production Engineer
Glencore
08.2017 - 09.2020
- Conduct audits to ensure compliance
- Production report writing and analysing
- Conduct coaching and touch-points sessions for safety behavior change
- Analysing data and draw graphs
- Update metallurgical balance spread sheet and recipe management
- Troubleshooting to correct any deviations
- Come up with cost effective innovative ideas
- Conduct incident cause investigations
- Request quotations and create purchase requisitions
- Write procure to pay deviation
- Write and revise working instructions and procedures
- Write briefings
- Conduct projects, take samples and optimise the plant
- Conduct standby
- Conduct safety awareness campaigns
- Conduct planned task observations
- Schedule and share meetings; and compile the minutes
Assistant Furnace Operator
Glencore
08.2014 - 08.2016
- Operate furnace on scandal according to operational procedures
- Monitor slag and metal analysis
- Good housekeeping
- Monitor and tapping of the furnace
- Measuring paste and liquid levels
- Measuring slipping electrode distance
- Inspection from proportionate bunkers and all furnace floors
- Edit material balance according to the instructions from technologies
- Making sure that the furnace is running according to required operational target
- Writing production report
Chemical Operator
Heraeus Chemical South Africa
01.2014 - 07.2014
- Produce high chemical products for automotive
- Refine and purify precious metals
- Analyses and export high quality precious metals product globally
- Quality control of in process and final product
- Cleaning and maintaining of all production equipment
- Control of precious metal, the vault and packing of final product
- Recover metal from barrens and effluent using set work instructions
- Perform housekeeping ensuring a clean and safe working environment
- Daily executions of the production schedule to ensure production targets are met
- Engage and participate as a member of a learning organization by expanding your skills through training and development.
Junior Process Engineer
Consulmet, Verninskoye
11.2012 - 01.2013
- Flotation Section
- Create flotation mass balance
- Create SOPs for flotation equipment
- Mentor plant operators during duties
- Creating troubleshooting for flotation section
- Do PTOs on operators
- Creating standard start and stop procedures of the flotation section
- Creating SOPs for reagents
- Making sure housekeeping is done on the equipment such as sample cutters, flotation cells and pumps
- Doing corrective measure in the plant for example safety measures
- Optimization of the flotation section.
Junior Process Engineer
Anglo American, Rustenburg, Metal Refinery, Nickel
08.2011 - 09.2012
- Tank House
- Optimization of the plant
- Monitoring cathodes temperatures
- Isolating cathodes above the required operational temperature
- Recording down-times, the cause and solutions
- Creates plant troubleshooting for the operators
- Make sure PTOs are done on the operators
- Crystallizer section
- Optimization of the plant
- Assist operators to operate plant manually and using the scada
- Make sure PTOs are done on the operators
- Creating standard stop and start procedures for the plant
- Creating SOPs for equipment
- Creating plant troubleshooting for the operators
- Writing plant down time reports
- Commissioning which include red lining and loop testing
- Purification section
- Checking clarities as part of troubleshooting
- Make sure presses are being dropped on time
- Make sure PTOs are done accordingly
- Make sure reagents are mixed in time
- Copper Pressure Leach (CPL) Section
- Optimization of the CPL
- Troubleshooting on the CPL
- Test work to determine the optimum oxygen distribution to the CPL
- Commissioning of the pumps
- Make sure PTOs are done
Plant Operator
Lonmin (Pty) Ltd
09.2008 - 07.2011
- Sampling, grading analysis and reporting of results
- Assisting with the operating of an assigned area of the production plant according to set standards and procedures control processes: monitor process variations and take corrective action (with the guidance from supervisory staff) where necessary to maintain operational effectiveness and achieve throughput requirements
- To adhere to specific safety, health, environmental and quality standards whilst performing duties
- To monitor equipment and machinery performance and report deviations to supervisors for corrective action
- To participate in operational optimization initiatives as well as risk identification and mitigation processes
- In line with plant metallurgists in optimizing the plant, conducting project as part of trouble shooting
- Taking samples prepare them and send them for analysis in order to determine the source of error and current quality of the product produced
- Doing some unit measurements and inspection to determine the life of the equipment used in the process and update the design specialist
- Fundamentals and process engineering to control and improve the processes that separate, concentrate and recover minerals and their valuable metals from the natural ores
- Student
07.2008 - 08.2008
- Learn safety, health and environmental protection procedures
- Mix compounds for efficiency and quality including measuring tools for benchmarking both of these parameters
- Know different steps of manufacturing a tyre: Quality
- Defects
- Scrapping defects
- Size
- Types of tyres.
Education
MQA Skills Programme: Advanced Generic Management - undefined
Growth - Link
BTech - Chemical Engineering
Tshwane University of Technology
Diploma - Chemical Engineering
Tshwane University of Technology
Grade 12 - Chemical Engineering
Ngwana-Mohube Senior Sec School
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Middle Management Development Program (ACMP -
Henley Business School, Growth
Skills
Reportingundefined
Accomplishments
- Mr
- Thabang Roestoff
- Ms
- Nomonde Solomon
- Danie le Roux
- Production Manager
- Senior Process Engineer
- Production Superintendent
Timeline
Production Coordinator
Glencore
09.2020 - Current
Junior Production Engineer
Glencore
08.2017 - 09.2020
Assistant Furnace Operator
Glencore
08.2014 - 08.2016
Chemical Operator
Heraeus Chemical South Africa
01.2014 - 07.2014
Junior Process Engineer
Consulmet, Verninskoye
11.2012 - 01.2013
Junior Process Engineer
Anglo American, Rustenburg, Metal Refinery, Nickel
08.2011 - 09.2012
Plant Operator
Lonmin (Pty) Ltd
09.2008 - 07.2011
07.2008 - 08.2008
MQA Skills Programme: Advanced Generic Management - undefined
Growth - Link
BTech - Chemical Engineering
Tshwane University of Technology
Diploma - Chemical Engineering
Tshwane University of Technology
Grade 12 - Chemical Engineering
Ngwana-Mohube Senior Sec School
undefined
Middle Management Development Program (ACMP -
Henley Business School, Growth
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