Patrick Mkhwanazi
Transport Manager
Summary
Transportation Manager with 23 years of experience overseeing teams of drivers to meet efficiency and performance targets. Strong understanding of effective routing and transportation cost-saving measures. Deep knowledge of Transportation and DOT compliance requirements. Highly organized with strong attention to detail and accuracy with commitment to customer service and meeting deadlines. Driven leader to motivate and develop employees. Logical Transportation Manager with12 year background overseeing shipment coordination. Adept at reducing shipping costs, increasing efficiency and implementing safety regulations. Assigns tasks to drivers and directs vehicle maintenance repairs. Excellent multitasking, time management and verbal communication talents.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
5
5
Languages
Work History
Transport Manager
Intercape Ferreira Mainliner (Pty) Ltd
01.2021 - Current
- Managing Fleet Controllers, Drivers, and Mechanics
- Dispatching duties: Briefing and Debriefing staff members
- Prepare loading plan
- Check pre and post that are done correctly by drivers
- Making sure all staff declare before and after every trip
- Communicate with customers about any delays along the road
- Make sure all complains are finalised/ resolved on time
- Report all IOD to the HR department
- Investigate all accidents and incidents
- Attend to all IR matters
- Tracking and updating Telematics system
- Do daily, weekly, and monthly report
- Attend daily, weekly, and monthly meetings
- Order parts on behalf of Mechanics
- Do monthly stock taking with Mechanics
- Do general admin.
Transport Manager
Sizzani Projects
07.2019 - 04.2020
- Checking if payments certificates were paid according on behalf of Department of Transport
- Making sure all Operators used the right indicts
- Checking if the payment certificates of Operators were claimed according to what they have operated
- Checking Operators kilometers were correct against their Daily Reconciliation
- Checking Dno's were reported in payment certificate and were deducted
- Checking any discrepancy in Operator's payment certificates
- General Audit Report
- Sign up Audit Report
- Pile up audit report for the Director at Department of Transport.
Transport/Contract Manager
Phuthadichaba Bus Monitors
10.2016 - 05.2019
- Monitoring of 11 Bus contracts in Johannesburg (Putco Ltd, Gauteng Couch, Mgqibelo Transport, Amogelang Transport Service, Star Bus, Moolla Bus Transport, Asibemunye Bus Transport, Ebony and Ivory Transport and Metro Bus)
- Making sure they comply with Department of Road and Transport policies
- Do physical vehicle inspections for contractual obligations
- Making sure their vehicles are road worthy and are in standard with Government expectations
- Action replacement recommendations, extension or cancelation of routes and vehicles size
- Investigated accidents and compiled an accident report to Department of Road Transport
- Receive and check monthly claims from operators and make sure what their claiming is what their operated
- Have monthly meetings with operators
- Making sure all the drivers PrDP and licenses are up to date
- Reporting all the DNO's and breakdowns to Department of Road and Transport
- Pile up monthly report for Department of Road and Transport
- Do monthly presentation for Director at Department of Road and Transport
- Manage monitors and inspect them on site
- Do attendance register, counselled and disciplined monitors according to their monitors report
- Confirmed a report for any deductions or overtime to payroll
- General administrative duties.
Transport Manager
Eastern Cape Transport Tertiary Co-Operative Limited
09.2014 - 09.2016
- Direct activities related to dispatching, routing, and tracking transportation vehicles
- Plan, organize and manage the work of subordinate staff to ensure that the work is accomplished in a manager consistent with the organizational requirements
- Direct investigations to verify and resolve customer complaints
- Implement schedules and policy changes
- Collaborate with other managers and staff members to formulate and implement policies, procedures, goals, and objectives
- Monitor operations to ensure that staff members comply with administrative policies and procedures, safety rules, union contracts and government regulations
- Promote safe work activities by conducting safety audits, attending company safety meetings and meeting with individual members
- Develop criteria, application instructions, procedural manuals, and contracts for the state public transportation programmes
- Monitor spending to ensure that expenses are consistent with approved budgets
- Direct and coordinate through subordinates, activities of operations department to obtain use of equipment, facilities, and human resources
- Direct the activities of staff performing repairs and maintenance to equipment vehicles and facilities
- Conduct investigations in cooperation with government agencies to determine causes of transportation accidents and improve safety procedures
- Analyse expenditure and other final information order to develop plans policies and budget for increasing profits and improving services
- Negotiate and authorize contracts with equipment material suppliers and monitor contract fulfilment
- Supervise workers assigning tariff classifications and preparing billing
- Set operations policies and standard including determination of safety procedures for the handling of dangerous goods
- Recommend or authorize capital expenditure for acquisition of new equipment or property to increase efficiency and services of operations of department
- Prepare management recommendations such as proposed fee and tariff increases or schedule changes
- Conduct employee training sessions on subject such as hazardous material handling, employee orientation, quality improvement and computer use
- Participate in union contract negotiations and settlement of grievances
- Provide administrative and technical assistance to those receiving transportation related grants
- Direct Procurement processes, including equipment research and testing, vendor contracts and requisition approval.
Fleet Manager
Putco Ltd
01.2011 - 04.2014
- Receiving, allocating and dispatching company vehicles
- Ensuring that all vehicles depart terminal as planned daily
- Briefing Dispatcher and Drivers and dispatched them
- Making sure all daily trips are completed
- Ensured that the customer's needs and service level agreements are adhered to
- Maintained the vehicle monitoring system (digi-core fleet management) and updated the relevant systems with new details
- Monitored the vehicles with the c-track and made sure all vehicles use their routes
- Monitored the driver's behaviors and that they were obeying the traffic laws
- Checked movements reports and replays
- Action replacement recommendations
- Ensured that the vehicles data was correct
- Made sure that all vehicles were roadworthy
- Managing Petrol cards
- Ensured that the vehicles were filled up with diesel and serviced regularly
- Fuel management: reconcile, investigate, and update monthly fuel usage
- Identified and reported fraudulent transactions
- Confirmed a report for any deductions to payroll
- Communicate with workshop for any defects and break downs and do follow up
- Ensured that the Eskom safety standards and monthly safety themes were adhered to
- Investigated accidents and pile up an accident report
- Submit accident reports to insurance
- Submit invoice for payments
- Perform monthly audit on company vehicles to determine conditions, usage, operating and drives suitability
- Counseled and disciplined drivers according to their driver's report
- Do quotations for customers
- Do daily, weekly, and monthly report
- General administrative duties
- Observed the daily attendance of drivers and made sure that they conducted themselves in the manner that was expected by Eskom's Service Level Agreement.
Area Manager
Property Protection Management
08.2006 - 03.2007
- Manage Supervisors on sites
- Doing Rosters for the sites
- Making sure all sites are covered
- Making sure all Supervisors are on duty on time
- All patrolling vehicles are in good condition
- And are services according to service plan
- Make sure all Security Officers and Supervisors are in full uniforms
- Do monthly reports for the Clients.
Education
Diploma in Transportation Management -
University of Johannesburg
Skills
Advanced Word
undefinedAccomplishments
- Basic First Aid, Fire Fighting and Health and Safety with Intercape Ferreira Mainliner in 2022
- Defensive Driving, Customer Relations, Basic First Aid with Putco Ltd in 2007
- Basic Fire Fighting, Incident and Accident Investigating with Putco Ltd in 2007
Secondary Qualifications
Bingweni Secondary School, Matric, 1995
Courses Certification Qualifications
- Hazchemwize, Convey of Dangerous Goods by Road, 2024
- Molema Development Training, Safeguarding a National Key Point, 2021
- University of the Witwatersrand, Certificate in Applied Logistics and Supply Chain Management, 2011
- Black Star Security Service, Grade B and A, 2006
- Prospect Security Service, Armed Reaction, 2004
- Callguard Security Service, Grade E to C, 2001
Personal Information
- ID Number: 751208 5327 085
- Ethnicity: African
- Notice Period: Week
- Gender: Male
- Nationality: South African
- Driving License: [EC1 (0:4)], D, G, P and PrDP
Timeline
Transport Manager
Intercape Ferreira Mainliner (Pty) Ltd
01.2021 - Current
Transport Manager
Sizzani Projects
07.2019 - 04.2020
Transport/Contract Manager
Phuthadichaba Bus Monitors
10.2016 - 05.2019
Transport Manager
Eastern Cape Transport Tertiary Co-Operative Limited
09.2014 - 09.2016
Fleet Manager
Putco Ltd
01.2011 - 04.2014
Area Manager
Property Protection Management
08.2006 - 03.2007
Diploma in Transportation Management -
University of Johannesburg
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