Bryan Burrows

 General Introduction letter

Good day

I started my career as an apprentice electrician in 1984 and then went on to be a trade test passed electrician. Not long after qualifying, decided on a career change and became a sales rep for an electrical wholesale company specifically industry related, as the company grew we started a projects small division which I became a part of, where I was responsible for the overall cost procurement and project management.

 In 1996, I was approached by a friend who owned an automation company to join them and run the sales division, which I deed for a number of years successfully. Due to personal reason in my life I made a choice to move on and joined Comau as the procurement manager, here I gained international expaosure and travelled extensively,  taking on project management responsibilities at times. Comau is an international company and we had an office in Uitenhage in the mid 2000 there was not much automotive work going on in SA and they made a decision to move out of SA, during this time of my life I had a budget of R800 m. I joined Hella for a year, this is when my old friend from my first representative days contacted me and asked me to join them, which I dually did and went back in to sales and small projects and running the projects from cradle to grave. 

2013 I was contracted by a company called Des-ign and was offered a position back in body in white tooling as a senior procurement manager and I relocated to Durban, I was responsible for the full procurement value chain , this included tooling t, transfer systems and all services relating to a body shop. Whilst at Des-ign I was responsible for a team of 15 people some local and some internationally.

 At this time 2015, I was head hunted for this position in the renewable space (Vestas SA). During this time I have quoted and delivered projects for Sub-Saharan African, these projects include wind , solar and BESS.

I was responsible for Sales Support Costing for BOP(E & C), Transport , Crane and Installation as well as Insuring meeting Local content requirements. From a Procurement perspective, my main rolls are ensuring that all projects are within budget, overseeing or finalizing of the various contracts. Lastly Service and Maintenance Support. 

I have worked on various systems, Syspro, Pastel, Accpac, SAP & Microsoft. 

In closing as you can see from my CV I have a very strong technical background in electrical and mechanical engineering and extensive experience in international procurement as well as logistics.

Should you have any queries please do not hesitate to contact me.

Kind regards

Bryan Burrows

I started my career as an apprentice electrician in 1984 and then went on to be a trade test passed electrician. Not long after qualifying, decided on a career change and became a sales rep for an electrical wholesale company specifically industry related, as the company grew we started a projects small division which I became a part of, where I was responsible for the overall cost procurement and project management.

 In 1996, I was approached by a friend who owned an automation company to join them and run the sales division, which I deed for a number of years successfully. Due to personal reason in my life I made a choice to move on and joined Comau as the procurement manager, here I gained international expaosure and travelled extensively,  taking on project management responsibilities at times. Comau is an international company and we had an office in Uitenhage in the mid 2000 there was not much automotive work going on in SA and they made a decision to move out of SA, during this time of my life I had a budget of R800 m. I joined Hella for a year, this is when my old friend from my first representative days contacted me and asked me to join them, which I dually did and went back in to sales and small projects and running the projects from cradle to grave. 

2013 I was contracted by a company called Des-ign and was offered a position back in body in white tooling as a senior procurement manager and I relocated to Durban, I was responsible for the full procurement value chain , this included tooling t, transfer systems and all services relating to a body shop. Whilst at Des-ign I was responsible for a team of 15 people some local and some internationally.

 At this time 2015, I was head hunted for this position in the renewable space (Vestas SA). During this time I have quoted and delivered projects for Sub-Saharan African, these projects include wind , solar and BESS.

I was responsible for Sales Support Costing for BOP(E & C), Transport , Crane and Installation as well as Insuring meeting Local content requirements. From a Procurement perspective, my main rolls are ensuring that all projects are within budget, overseeing or finalizing of the various contracts. Lastly Service and Maintenance Support. 

I have worked on various systems, Syspro, Pastel, Accpac, SAP & Microsoft. 

In closing as you can see from my CV I have a very strong technical background in electrical and mechanical engineering and extensive experience in international procurement as well as logistics.

Should you have any queries please do not hesitate to contact me.

Kind regards

Bryan Burrows

Having gone to a Technical High School, it seemed logical to continue studying towards Electrical Eng, at this time I had completed N5 electrical and N4 Mechanical, when  my Engineer at the time gave me some good advise and told me to move in the direction of Sales/ Procurement and most impotently project management. It was only in the early 2000 that I decided to study project management through UNISA, and between these different institutions I found my passion for large projects coupled with Procurement and Project Management. However I did a coarse called “my ideal life style ”and this was all about goal setting and achieving them , this is something I have use continuously to this day in my personal and career life.