Musawenkosi Cele

• Conducting Pre-employment, Issue-Based and Periodic Tests
• Scoring charts and writing reports
• Managing financial, as well as equipment resources, and keeping abreast of legal and technological advances in the industry.
• Established a successful business by identifying market needs and developing innovative solutions.

Management of Contract

• Managing the key performance areas of the contract according to Service Level Agreement
• Managing the relationship between SASA Cane Testing Service and the Mill Group Board, which in turn comprised representatives from the Illovo Sugar and the Cane Grower Association
• Communication with customers on queries lodged with the cane testing service
• Organising and providing for the operational requirements of two independent laboratories in terms of human and budgetary resources

Material Requirements Management

• Working with central office regarding the sourcing of alternative materials
• Engaging different suppliers on suitability of materials as alternatives
• Recommending alternative suppliers for the central supplier database, based on set company criteria
• Ensuring emergency supply conditions are met with minimal adverse impact on cost and quality

Productivity Management

• Setting up key performance areas for staff and checking on the compliance to procedures and doing validation checks for the results
• Fostering a team environment to ensure continuity of service delivery by holding regular meetings
• Developing maintenance strategies such as during opportunity stops and filling of works orders
• Managing the operational effectiveness of the laboratory
• Reporting to the board and higher management

Human Resources Management

• Recruitment and Selection, Performance development of staff, Staff Training, Chairing disciplinary hearings

Cost Management

• Budgeting process, fixed cost and capital expenditure budgets, monitoring of fixed costs and regularly reporting on budget variances

Continuous Improvement

• Identifying improvement projects, setting up of project charter and leading project.

Business Systems Project Co-ordination

• Co-managing the implementation of business systems for a new manufacturing and distribution center

Management of Contracts

• Liaison with major contractors on recruitment, selection, training of new members of staff
• Establishing service level agreements for selected contractors

Operational Team Establishment

• Meeting the operational requirements of the new production unit by establishing resources needed, contacting service providers and coordinating inter-supplier communications

Production Management

• Setting up key performance areas for staff, contractors, following up on performance targets
• Communication with sales on the JIT customer supply
• Monitoring of the On-Time-In-Full delivery performance for cartage contractor
• Maintaining established systems according to NOSA 5 star and MHSA (Health and Safety), ISO 9001 (Quality) and ISO 14001 (Environment)
• Engaging maintenance staff on plant issues
• Managing the operational effectiveness of the Packing Plant
• Reporting to higher management
• Human Resources Management
• Recruitment and Selection, Performance development of staff, Staff Training, Disciplinaries (Chairing of)

Cost Management

• Budgeting process, fixed cost and capital expenditure budgets, monitoring of fixed costs.

Quality Management

• In charge of the Quality department as Head of Department
• Overseeing the quality side of materials from quarrying to blending to processing, by ensuring raw material quality conforms to specs and ensuring that downstream adjustments in the blending are carried out to ensure good end product
• Works with production and maintenance to discuss impact of state of equipment on quality and the maintenance issues
• Trained as Sheq auditor

Processing

• Support pyro-processing and helping in process optimization projects by investigation of problems in the plant e.g
• Low production rates, high heat consumption
• In charge of projects and leading of projects
• Plant improvement projects carried out with the projects co-ordinator

Cost Management

• Responsible for cost control in the department
• Review costs against budget at month-end and compare to budget and set necessary controls in place

Water Plant

• Overseeing the management of the plant’s water purification plant, testing and operation

Budgeting

• Involved in the integrated fixed cost budgeting process
• Also the benchmarking process and the discussions around the anomalies

SHEQ Management

• Participate in ISO 9001 and ISO 14000
• Member of the safety committee
• HR – Interviews, Performance development, Training, Disciplinaries.

Process Engineering & Optimization

• Investigated process
• Investigated blending plant for off-spec product, by carrying out controlled sampling and reconciling output with input streams tests and machine logs to determine source of error
• Carrying out tests to determine optimum parameters with changing process conditions
• Part of the team that performed material and energy balances of the pyroprocessing plant
• Given the responsibility for report writing

Capital Expenditure Projects

• Working of capital expenditure projects for process improvement, from design stages to feasibility studies
• Pre-expenditure feasibility studies were conducted
• Project Valuation including determination of Rates of Return using Discounted Cash Flow method
• Post-expenditure appraisal of capital project flows and validation of actual returns against projected returns

Production Trials

• Conducted performance tests with the aim of measuring efficiency of process equipment such as mills
• Performing test under controlled conditions (similar to baseline) in order to determine state of the production equipment
• Conducting plant trials when there are changes in the production line e.g when there is a change of bags
• Planned and communicated production trials to those concerned as well as written reports after analysis e.g rate of generation of rejects

Written Communication

• Wrote technical reports for tests conducted
• Wrote decision-papers and engaged top management when necessary e.g
• Decision paper on mitigation of risk of breakdown of crucial machine and made recommendations on how to proceed

Hazard & Operability Studies

• Performed risk assessment of a section of the plant

Production Management

• Managing the inbound logistics part of the plant
• In supervision of 14 members of staff and 2 foremen
• Investigation of non-conformances of delivery and raw material orders according to production plan
• ISO 9001:2000 - Assisting in company-wide implementation of ISO 9001:2000 by conducting awareness presentations

Technical Training

• Being a training officer for chemical engineering students and drawing up their program.

Research and Development.

• Researched and developed new products from conceptual stages to final product.
• Designed formulations by working out HLB chemical balance, Costing of Formulations and Testing for Stability
• Developed manufacturing process on bench-scale and used pilot plant
• Effected scale-up and performed production trials

Project Teams.

• Worked in conjunction with the marketing department to carry out consumer preference studies
• This was done by first designing questionnaires, logistics of the study and statistical analysis of results
• Worked with the finance department to work out the financial viability of new projects by looking at the formulation costs, profit and loss statement based on projected volumes and taking into account cannibalization
• Internal valuation techniques were used
• Worked with the production-planning department to ensure production facilities and compatibility of new product with existing production strategies e.g
• Some of the projects were planned for external production because of volumes and compatibility with the plant
• Worked with quality assurance department in setting up quality objectives for the new product and setting specifications and test methods for quality control of batches
• Formulation quality objectives were based on sensible attributes as well as pH and viscosity
• Participated in project scheduling
• At the start of each project the project team was assembled and activities put together in order to work out the timings for each project and schedule drawn up and critical path determined

Supply Chain Management.

• Sourcing of new product raw materials, suppliers as well as alternative raw materials for existing products – had to work with the buying department
• Where new chemicals were to be used, contact with possible suppliers were made and samples requested as well as quotations, timings as well as MSDS and COAs

Report Writing.

• Writing of reports for scientific and market research tests conducted
• Where problems were encountered with formulation, reports were presented after investigation and progress reports in-between

Production Trials and Process Support.

• Oversaw factory production trials by ensuring processing according to initial procedure and making recommendations in order to achieve required quality objectives
• Three batches were produced with the production personnel and hand-over document signed
• Providing on-going support for the production department on process issue

• To lecture in the field of process control, supervise and demonstrate practical laboratory work.

• To supervise and give software utilization support in the postgraduate computer laboratory and to man the front desk
• Also assisting the Head of Department.

• Pump and piping design
• Performing material and energy balances as part of a feasibility evaluation study of installation of new sugar decolorization unit
• To take measurements on the field to form part of the design process for a decolorization project
• Also production of flow diagrams and making proposals regarding new plant
• Project evaluation in terms of discounted cash flow calculations were learnt.