Illovo Sugar South Africa

Process and Recoveries Engineer

National Petroleum Refiners of SA (Pty) Ltd (NATREF)

- Define OWAP (Operate within agreed upon parameters) and optimum operating window in which the value chain should be operated
- Monitor and identify improvement opportunities to ensure operation within the OWAP
- Monitor and interpret performance on technical drivers, constraints and levers on value chain level taking upstream and downstream units into account
- Analyze effectiveness of data provided for production planning and scheduling processes
- Pro-actively monitor risk identification for own business unit operations
- Ensure process integrity of equipment, inspections and recommendations of improvement opportunities during shutdowns
-Actively identify process safety threats and deliver on mitigation plans
- Identify process safety threats and provide mitigation plans in
- Adhere to SHE strategy to achieve zero harm

Process Engineer

Source and analyse data to support the optimisation team in process, engineering and project decisions
Enable data collection, analysis and modelling of large data sets
Develop and/or implement dashboards that measure & monitor engineering performance and quality metrics to drive 
optimisation decisions
Ensure integrity of all manufacturing and laboratory information systems required for operational modelling, 
production reconciliation and business performance monitoring and leading the use of data for optimization decisions
Develop innovative and efficient processes for data gathering & its subsequent manipulation into effective reports
Evaluate long-term planning and forecasting processes to ensure realistic forecasts and long-term visibility

Data Analyst

Meeting with production managers to assess existing processes.
Drafting process ideas to reduce costs and improve production rates.
Performing risk assessments.
Budgeting and reporting on budget utilization.
Designing and testing process upgrades and new process systems.
Ensuring processes comply with safety and quality standards.
Performing process simulations and troubleshooting issues.
Performing optimization tests.
Developing routines and best practices to ensure product quality.
Developing standardized operating instructions for the upgrades process.
Project managing process improvement/enhancement projects
Providing the Product Manager with process documents and standard operating procedures.
Acting as Production Shift Manager.
Conducting mass and energy balance for site to maximize yield and minimize costs

Junior Process Engineer

Mass and Energy balances for specific section.
Assisting with the updating of SOP's (standard operating procedures)
Project I worked on:
- Use of reject condensate as wash-water for the A centrifugal machines in order to achieve microbiological specifications

Vacation Student

Red Rock Brewing Co

Preparations of raw materials i.e. mill in grains and weighing hops for brewing.
Monitoring fermentation beer, checking gravities daily.
Tank to tank beer transfers in an aseptic manner
Conditioning and carbonation beer to established specifications

University of the Witwatersrand

Assisting the PhD students (chemistry) with their reaserch projects as part of the vacation work.

Research Assistant

I was part of the research assistantship programme (RAP) offered by the school of chemistry (Wits). The programme was inclusive of a series of laboratory experiments that were a part of the school of chemistry research projects.

Perceptive chemical engineer and Data analyst with 4+ years of experience. Skilled in problem solving, pattern recognition, proficiency with spreadsheets and SQL,R (programming language); strong analytical and data visualization skills (Tableau).Working Knowledge in the systems ; Tranquility (HRMS), Sample Manager (LIMS) and PI historian(PIMS).Communicates and presents effectively.


Strong engineering professional with both a BSc in Chemistry and a BSc Hons in Chemical Engineering from University of the Witwatersrand. Recently completed the Google Data Analytics Certificate-a rigorous, hands-on program that covers entire scope of the data analysis process. I'm currently studying a BSc Mathematics and Computer Science which will allow me to be improve in numerical solution, data modelling, programming.

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