Phomolo Molefe
Cape Town
Summary
An experienced Industrial/Business Process Engineer professional with proven analysis, quality assurance, software development, engineering, and project leadership skills. Skilled in analyzing and identifying opportunities for business process improvements, developing initiatives for continuous improvements, and recommending solutions for improvements. Strong passion for systems, processes, and working with people.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
Work History
Project Engineer
Takealot
06.2023 - Current
- Initiating and implementing continuous improvement projects across the Takealot Delivery Team network to improve efficiency and reduce cost.
- Operationalising new business development initiatives within the Takealot Delivery Team network.
- Coordinating changes required in the Takealot Delivery Team network in support of business expansion.
- Investigating, establishing and implementing standardized resources across the Takealot Delivery Team network.
- Working cross functionally with internal and external stakeholders to optimise total delivery lead-time and logistics cost.
- Active Stakeholder Management by ensuring clear communication channels are maintained between all parties involved in improvement projects.
Industrial Engineer
Toyota South Africa Parts Distribution Centre
05.2022 - 05.2023
- Enforce deadlines and uphold project deadlines by maintaining close monitoring of project progress, permitting and supply management
- Development of functional specifications to support improvement ideas
- Testing of developments and processes in various systems
- Data Collection, Analysis, Reporting and Visualization
- Responsible for investigating processes, procedures, and methods to improve efficiency and effectiveness of personnel, equipment and facilities
- Effectively drive continuous improvement projects using Industrial Engineering principles
- Author documentation for standard operating procedures (SOPs), designing quick, effective manuals for implementation.
Business Process Engineer
MIP Holdings
08.2019 - 09.2020
- Facilitating process evaluation workshops with stakeholders
- Ensuring that any new / updated processes are evaluated from a business perspective
- Ensuring Automated Workflow processes are designed and effective
- Responsible for the design, testing and implementation of major and minor workflow processes and components
- Participate in conducting User Acceptance Testing (UAT) from end-to-end user perspective
- Identify opportunities to automate business processes
- Perform root cause analysis for process identified process issues
- Define Operating Level Agreement (OLA) and Service level agreements (SLA)
- Recommend improvements in business processes
- Perform process simulation of Automated Workflow processes to ensure feasibility of recommended processes to stakeholders
- Providing onsite training and documentation
- Jira configuration and maintenance.
Industrial Engineering Graduate
L'ORÉAL Midrand Manufacturing
06.2018 - 05.2019
- Resource Management: Leading the Product Consumption Loss/Variance Project
- Process Mapping and identifying areas of waste (Product Consumption/Labor Efficiency losses)
- Identifying and aligning discrepancies between Actual bulk/product consumption and System consumption
- Distinguishing between structural and once-off losses; and whether product (bulk) losses are limited to certain formula/vessel/ production line combinations
- Developing Action Plans and PDCA's for areas identified to be generating Product/Bulk Losses
- Implementation of lean methodologies to reduce bulk losses
- Creating a cost-conscious environment.
Industrial Engineering In-service Trainee
BMW Plant Rosslyn
03.2015 - 03.2016
- Mapping, analysis, re-engineering, and improvement of processes
- Ensured control plans and associated documentation are implemented effectively and maintained
- Monitoring and reporting on quality-related key performance indicators (KPI's) including scrap monitoring, rework levels, parts per million (PPM) figures
- Implementation of lean and 6 Sigma methodologies
- Actively participated in problem solving and Improvement tasks
- Managed quality-related issues within the manufacturing team
- Participated in the development and refinement of Design and Process FMEA's (Failure Mode and Effects Analysis)
- Prepared and initiated time schedules on quality improving issues and projects and projects
- Investigated quality problems and developed proposals regarding technical solutions and training of staff to improve quality.
Education
Advanced Business Analysis Programme (NQF Level 6) -
Faculty Training Institute
Certificate Programme in Business Analysis - undefined
Faculty Training Institute
02.2023
Business Systems Analysis Certificate - undefined
University of Cape Town's GetSmarter
05.2020
Bachelor of Technology, Industrial Engineering - undefined
Vaal University of Technology
03.2018
National Diploma, Industrial Engineering - undefined
Vaal University of Technology
09.2016
Skills
- MS (Teams, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Project)
- Continuous Improvement Methodologies & Practices
- Lean Six Sigma Methodologies & Practices
- Theory of Constraints
- Cost & Process Optimization techniques
- Project Life Cycles
- Principles of Project Management
- Process Mapping & Re-engineering
- System Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
- Agile
- Jira
- Modelling-EPC/BPMN/UML
- Workflow / Workflow management / Process automation
- SQL
- Business Analysis Body of Knowledge
- Business Writing Skills
References
References Available upon request
Timeline
Project Engineer
Takealot
06.2023 - Current
Industrial Engineer
Toyota South Africa Parts Distribution Centre
05.2022 - 05.2023
Business Process Engineer
MIP Holdings
08.2019 - 09.2020
Industrial Engineering Graduate
L'ORÉAL Midrand Manufacturing
06.2018 - 05.2019
Industrial Engineering In-service Trainee
BMW Plant Rosslyn
03.2015 - 03.2016
Advanced Business Analysis Programme (NQF Level 6) -
Faculty Training Institute
Certificate Programme in Business Analysis - undefined
Faculty Training Institute
Business Systems Analysis Certificate - undefined
University of Cape Town's GetSmarter
Bachelor of Technology, Industrial Engineering - undefined
Vaal University of Technology
National Diploma, Industrial Engineering - undefined
Vaal University of Technology
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