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Managing Director/General Manager

Work Experience

Career History

1999 - 1999 Managing Director- Balmoral Group Ltd, Aberdeen, Scotland
Responsible for the operations and profit of project business unit to the Owner.
Managed a multi-disciplinary team in a 24-hour shift environment, producing large plastic sectional water tanks and composite buoyancy risers and buoys for the offshore oil and gas industry.

1998 - 1999 General Manager - Venture Otto (Pty) Ltd. East London. South Africa
Reported to the Group Managing Director at Head Office for total operations and profitability of the site. Responsible for manufacturing, engineering, marketing/sales, finance, HR and logistics in a 24-hour shift, unionised environment. Managed and maintained QA policies and procedures. Liased with Customers and SQA (Supplier Quality Assurance). Significant Motor Industry (OEM) interface. Division produced, assembled, and painted plastic automotive components and other large injection moulded products.
Major customers; Mercedes Benz, Volkswagen, General Motors, & Exports.
ISO 9000 listed, TUV (Munich) Accredited, OEM approved and a JIT supplier.

1990 - 1997 Managing Director - Darmag Ltd. East London. South Africa
(Major shareholders - Cooksons plc and Anglo American)
Total P&L and operations accountability to the Shareholders of this public company. Responsible for production, engineering, marketing/sales, finance, HR and logistics in a 24-hour shift, unionised environment. Managed and maintained Quality Assurance policies and procedures. Ensured adherence to Customer QA requirements Significant OEM interface. High profile role. Company moulded high volume engineering plastic and rubber products for the Automotive, Television and Radio, Sanitary and Domestic Appliance industries. Manufacture of own branded plastic goods and tooling using CAD/CAM together with 3D modelling and Stereolithography.
ISO 9000 listed, Original Equipment Manufacturers approved and a JIT supplier.

1989 - 1990 General Manager - Femtech (Pty) Ltd. East London. South Africa
Reported to the Group Managing Director in Johannesburg Head Office for the total operations and profitability of several sites. Led a multi-disciplinary team including Marketing and Sales. Company assembled electrical and automotive components and manufactured castings for lighting and white goods. Sales and distribution of own branded products
ISO 9000 listed supplier, OEM approved and a JIT supplier.

1985 - 1988 General Manager/Director - Silverton Eng. (Pty) Ltd. Pretoria. South Africa. (subsidiary of Imperial Metal Industries and Associated Engineering)
Accountable the Managing Director for the total operations and profitability of this automotive components facility. Responsible for manufacturing, engineering, sales, finance and logistics. Ensured adherence to QA requirements. Division produced metal automotive components including radiators, truck feel tanks, truck air brake tanks and air conditioning evaporators and condensers for Original Equipment Manufacturers. An OEM approved and ISO 9000 listed supplier,

Prior to the above, I was employed in various junior and senior management positions in the UK and Southern Africa, in the packaging, plastics, automotive and chemical industries. A full Career History is available. Currently undertaking temporary/contract assignments.

Education

Higher National Diploma (Mechanical Engineering) with distinctions

Part 3 Examinations of Institution of Mechanical Engineers

Advanced Diploma in Industrial Management (Institute a Management)

Design Draughtsman. First 3 years as Millwright apprentice (Motor Industry)

Various management and technical short courses, workshops and in-house programmes including Finance, Marketing and Sales, Management Skills and Human Resources

Corporate membership and Fellowship of various professional, technical and management institutions including I Mech E, I mgt, P M I SA, PISA.

Skills

Managed manufacturing companies on various sites with full strategic P&L accountability reporting to parent company board and shareholders. Produced a variety of mainly automotive components in plastics, rubber and other materials for 'blue chip' OEMs and international markets. Business travel in Africa, Europe and UK.
Developed and instituted business and marketing plans resulting in significant strategic sales growth. Commercially and financially astute.
A passionate manager, actively involved with PR and Marketing together with building relationships with customers and suppliers. Participative and charismatic leader accustomed to steering and developing multi-disciplinary teams.
Responsible for organisational and product rationalisation/change and absorptions, diversification strategies and the adoption of world-class manufacturing, quality and supply philosophies.

Languages

English

Other

Key Achievements

Achieved increased profits after year one by 150%, with a subsequent improvement in RONA over the following years. Achieved through product rationalisation, cost, logistics and capital investment control.

Awarded the Arthur Anderson “Financial Report of the Year” in 1994 and “Marketing Organisation of the Year” award in 1996 after developing a Public Relations and Marketing Strategy and by increasing company profile through authoring editorial and advertisement content for trade and financial publications and successful networking with the press.

Negotiated price and gained sales worth £4 million including exports after successfully diversifying from company’s vulnerable core business. Necessitated the research and analysis of Regional, National and International potential markets and implementation of research findings.

Established a fully operational and profitable decentralised division from ‘green field’ site.

Managed on two separate occasions the rationalisation, relocation, and absorption of other substantial businesses into the existing company. Maintaining customer confidence with the minimum disruption of supply.

Experience in the manufacture of Wiring Harnesses

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