Nomvula Noluncedo Khuzwayo

• Lead a team of 65 employees on a 3 -shift rooster to service and refractory installation in furnaces and vessels
• Mentored junior engineers, fostering their growth as professionals while enhancing overall team performance.
• Applied prescribed schedules for pricing, timing and production prioritization to designing project proposals.
• Provided technical support to third-party commercial teams and engineers on quality, safety and other considerations.
• Delivered projects successfully by managing timelines and maintaining strict budget compliance.
• Assessed vendor performance to secure competitive pricing for high-quality raw materials.
• Fostered a continuous improvement culture by advocating best practices among engineering team members.
• Analyzed raw materials, processing techniques, and equipment alternatives to develop cost-effective solutions.
• Guided material selection for various applications to ensure optimal performance.
• Ensured compliance with safety standards through thorough examination of procedures and training programs.
• Elevated product quality through the identification and resolution of metallurgical issues in manufacturing.

All the responsibilities I undertook as a candidate engineer transitioned into my role as a metallurgical engineer

• Execute cost-saving projects, conceptualization, and monitoring of KPIs intervening with actions necessary, refractory design and use optimization, and predicator model optimization
• Track inventory, liaise with suppliers, review stock through SAP, follow-up on shipments and co-ordinate deliveries for inventory replenishment, ensure that they correlate with any planned plant relines
• Oversee the budget, track expenses and profitability, and implement cost-saving strategies for raw materials
• Manage performance against targets and competencies
• Oversee SHERQ compliance, handle HIRAs, and update SOPs
• Create and revise operating instructions, and conduct risk assessments for maintenance and production activities
• Reduced material waste through rigorous analysis of material
• Investigated failures to pinpoint root causes, suggest corrective

• Mass and energy balance calculations on alloys and flux additions for optimal efficiency
• Configuring and optimizing steel-making processes through process data from the blowing process to the casting of steel
• Develop best practices to improve production capacity and reliability through failure analysis investigations
• Identify bottlenecks in the process that may lead to unsuccessful casts
• Create methods to prevent plant issues through process incident investigations and conducting root cause analyses followed by updating the standard practice and SOPs
• Plant optimizations through development trials to upgrade the systems and processes and continuous improvement projects
• Standby and shift-work for degasser (automotive industry) steel grades
• Conduct trials on the different refractories to find the optimal balance between price and performance