Hi, I’m
WENDY CHAUKE
Gauteng
Summary
Detail-oriented and resilient process engineer and aspiring data analyst with experience in using operational data to ensure optimum and efficient operation.
Experienced in using data to draw meaningful insights used in monitoring and optimizing operational systems.
I am passionate about digitalization and using data to solve business operational problems and improve efficiency.
Currently looking for a new challenge in an analysis-centric environment.
Overview
6
years of professional experience
Work History
None
Personal Sabbatical
04.2023 - Current
Job overview
- Took a career break for personal reasons.
NATREF
Process Engineer
08.2021 - 03.2023
Job overview
- Provided technical assistance to the production team when issues arose.
- Reviewed processes, identifying areas requiring improvement.
- Optimizing units to maximize production yields while ensuring compliance with environmental safety limits and standards
- Using data to visualize process risks to establish changes in risk level
- Using predictive models and dashboards to highlight future concerns for planning purposes
- Compiling data analysis results and insights into technical reports and presentations and communicating this to senior management
- Researching and developing operating and analysis guidelines for unique modes of operation and providing training to all relevant personnel
- Investigation and solution development for R3 million loss diesel to drain
- Creation of a dashboard by combining multiple databases (digital and manual) to flag massive inventory losses as soon as they occur.
Sasol Synfuels
Process Engineer
01.2018 - 01.2021
Job overview
- Investigating unit waste and energy inefficiency and determining solutions
- Different project business case evaluation and comparison for selection purposes
- Project engineering tasks execution, review and documenting
- Process modelling and simulation for optimization and predictive purposes
- Weekly unit performance tracking and reporting to stakeholders
- Enabled savings of over R3 million per annum by identifying steam usage imbalance resulting in a change in unit budgeting
- Creation of a steam usage dashboard resulting in improvement in lead time in identifying future steam wastage
- Creation of a new predictive model for product blend enabling more accurate product quality forecasting
Education
University of PretoriaPretoria
Bachelor of Chemical Engineering
04.2018
Skills
- Problem-solving
- Process Optimization
- Data analysis
- Data visualization
- Business case preparation
- Project management
- Business process analysis
- Dashboard and report creation
- Root cause analysis
- Change management
- Risk analysis and control
- Microsoft Word and Powerpoint
- Advanced Microsoft Excel incl VBA
- Microsoft Power BI incl DAX
- Python
- SQL
Accomplishments
- 2017: Best Final Year Research Project poster
- 2019: Co-Founder and Chairperson of Process Engineering Secunda Gears Think Tank
- 2020: Individual recognition award for Synthol Phases shutdown support
- 2021: Operating unit on two solvents simultaneously saving the plant from shutdown
- 2022: Development of partially online solvent changeout reducing downtime from 14 days to 5 days
Timeline
Personal Sabbatical
None
04.2023 - Current
Process Engineer
NATREF
08.2021 - 03.2023
Process Engineer
Sasol Synfuels
01.2018 - 01.2021
University of Pretoria
Bachelor of Chemical Engineering
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