Lindi Jekwa

Safety management

• Facilitate and promote safe work environment through safety induction for employees, suppliers and contractors, incident reduce from 10% to 1.5%
• Ensure employees undergo annually safety screening
• Provide safety trainings
• Lead safety walk and work place safety audit
• Conduct risk assessment
• Develop safety plans
• Mitigate risk
• Review work instructions and work procedures to ensure compliance
• Review safety policies to ensure alignment with safety standards
• Lead Safety monthly meeting with safety commit
• Compile safety reports and present to management and employees

Environmental management

• Facilitate and promote environment activities through waste separation and recycling, cost saving of 40% was achieved.
• Ensure employees attend environmental training
• Lead environmental walk
• Conduct environmental audit
• Conduct risk assessment
• Develop environmental plans
• Mitigate risk
• Review work instructions and work procedures to ensure compliance
• Review environmental policies to ensure alignment with environmental standards and policies
• Lead environmental monthly meeting with environmental commit
• Compile environmental reports and present to management and employees

Quality management

• Review quality procedures and processes compliance, customer complain reduce from 50 calls a month to 10 calls.
• Ensure quality processes and procedures are followed, including inspection receiving, process, randomly audit and final inspection, process quality improve by 35%
• Ensure quality product is produced
• Review demerit reports for all sign off products
• Develop action plan to close finding and prevent occurrence
• Facilitate implementation of action plan.
• Align with management team if deviation required and approve
• Participate in external audit and facilitate closing of action plan
• Support in supplier development projects
• Assist suppliers in improving quality
• Ensure customer complain is close on time
• Ensure production and quality team are trained on quality standards

Production/Supply chain /Operations management

• Facilitate and ensure daily product plan is achieved as per schedule, daily output achieved 100%-98%.
• Review planning schedule daily, weekly and develop action plan if required
• Support start up job of plant with departmental heads to ensure smooth start of production
• Manage development and on-going operation of production facilities
• Drive and manage equipment and facility upgrades
• Manage and schedule labor and support staff as needed to meet production requirements
• Ensure continuity of material supply
• Monitor hour by hour productivity progress
• Respond to change point due to any breakdown/ down time or change of plan
• Share performance report with executive
• Ensure maintenance plan for plant is followed
• Review maintenance schedule
• Coordinate with procurement and inventory teams to ensure supply and maintain optimal stock levels
• Monitor supply chain activities to ensure timely delivery of materials and resources

Process/Industrial engineering management

• Lead and manage engineering team
• Facilitate, lead and manage new product launch projects
• Lead and manage facelift projects
• Lead and manage new prototype try-out
• Facilitate and communicate product design change
• Benchmark abroad new model change and transfer knowledge local
• Lead plant layout for supply chain, production processes and facility
• Develop and facilitate cost saving ideas, through continuous improvement
• Lead and manage plant projects e.g
• Installation of new stamping machines, tool and die, robotics etc
• Sourcing of supplier working closely with purchasing
• Headcount calculation vs product to be produced
• Train, coach and mentor Employees on job, dojo and classroom
• Lead Kaizen improvements
• Lead and manage Toyota Production System in Toyota Durban plant
• Form and Lead Jishuken team

Budget/Cost management

• Budget management of manufacturing businesses, headcount alignment project, saving was 3 million rand, achieved though structure alignment.
• Budget management of manufacturing suppliers
• Budget management of manufacturing project management (design change)
• Budget management of consumables
• Budget management of manufacturing team salary
• Prepare and present budget report monthly with Site commit team
• Prepare Present budget report quarterly to executive team
• Develop and facilitate cost saving ideas
• Collaborate with finance and senior management to develop and manage operational budget
• Monitor expenses without compromising quality or safety

Process optimization

• Conduct process, machinery, plant risk assessment, down time reduced from 40% to 5% of production time.
• Analyze existing processes and workflows to identify bottlenecks and inefficiencies
• Develop and implement strategies to streamline operations and enhance overall performances
• Monitor key performance indicators to measure process effectiveness and through data reports and improvements action plans
• Analyze report to understand plant inefficiencies
• Develop and facilitate lean action plan
• Review lean action plan weekly with management
• Conduct monthly audit to identify improvement and areas to be improved
• Share progress status with management and employees monthly
• Promote a culture of continuous improvement by encouraging innovative ideas from team members
• Lead initiatives to implement best practices and stay updated with industry trends

Reports consolidation, compile, review and and shared

• Daily operational performance reports include daily and monthly target achieved, quality reports, inventory reports, OEE report
• Safety report
• Environmental reports
• Budget reports
• Continuous improvement reports
• Share with EXCO reports
• Analyze Sales and marketing feedback reports
• Reports
• Facilitate clear and effective communication across departments and levels of organization including sales and marketing team and purchasing
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment of goals and initiatives.

• Construction and property development) Managing Director 4 years 50 headcount including suppliers.
• Gibela railway - Alstom group Manufacturing Director 2 years 650 headcount with 6 direct report.
• Iveco - CNH Industrial Group Bus plant Business Manager 3 years 250 headcount and 6 direct report.
• Volvo Truck Group Senior Operations Manager 1 years 200 headcount with 4 direct report.

• South Africa Automotive manufacture Operations &, 12 years 7000 headcount performed in these positions Process &Industrial Engineering manager, Training &Continuous improvement, ) In-service training Industrial Engineering 1 year 300 0
• TECHINICAL AND MANAGERIAL BUSINESS SKILLS SUCCEEDED
• TECHNICAL & MANAGERIAL ABILITIES PROCESSES Welding Business Robotic, spot gun,mig,tig and CO2 Press Machine Business Robot, tool&die, forming, punching & trimming process Assembly Business car assembly, truck assembly, bus assembly, train assembly interior & exterior, train body shell assembly, engine assembly Paint Business Bus paint process & paint touch up Branding Filming process train & bus Di electrical testing dynamic test at train level PDI - Pre delivery inspection Aesthetic & electrical Rework Aesthetic & electrical Customization Fitment of extras truck,bus and train Computer skills MS Word Excel Advance Power point presentation SAP
• Implemented virtualization technologies, reducing hardware costs while improving flexibility in resource allocation across multiple environments
• Improved data security, implementing robust backup strategies and disaster recovery plans to protect critical information
• Championed IT governance best practices, implementing processes designed to ensure compliance with industry standards and regulatory requirements while driving continuous improvement efforts throughout the organization
• Established strong working relationships with vendors; negotiating contracts which resulted in cost savings without compromising quality or functionality of products/services procured
• Spearheaded migration projects from legacy systems to modern platforms with minimal downtime or impact on productivity levels
• Reduced downtime and increased efficiency by proactively monitoring system health, identifying issues, and implementing fixes
• Consistently met project deadlines by effectively prioritizing and allocating resources to ensure timely completion of key deliverables/tasks within established budget constraints
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to develop comprehensive system requirements and specifications for new technology initiatives
• Managed onboarding and offboarding of employees
• Completed reports detailing network and systems performance and downtime issues
• Designed proactive preventive maintenance schedules to prevent unnecessary downtime and hardware faults
• Introduced management tools to create and manage virtual server computing environment
• Drove continuous improvement of IT governance processes
• Implemented corrective plans of action for network availability and latency
• Adopted cost-effective, useful solutions to implement into current systems