Ruan Els

I am a trustworthy and well-experienced engineer with great exposure in various engineering fields and a recently rising passion for aligning his career to the automation industry through studies towards an Advanced Diploma in Mechatronics Engineering. My main strengths include manufacturing and production while thriving on taking ownership of assigned tasks and projects. Having a positive outlook in life, always striving to uplift and make a good improving impact in and around his working environment and driving to optimize the process flow at hand for efficiency. I considers myself a strong teachable leader, eager to learn and share his embedded engineering skills and knowledge within the team and industry.

Unique Hydra - Cape Town
Production Lead                                                                                                               2019-10 to 2022-02

• Manufacture, assemble and testing of marine and diving equipment.
• Technical liaison for Projects and Engineering departments to Workshop floor.
• Compile all testing and technical documentation required for each production job.
• Facilitated 3rd party inspection of in-house commissioning (DNV & ABS).
• Compliance with all ISO 9001 company policies, procedures, and safety standards. 
• Utilization of ERP system for daily tasks and cost tracking.
• Interpretation of IMCA rules for compliance with company manufacturing standards.
• Trigger and monitor all procurement items for the timeous execution of production jobs.
• Resolve all production-related issues that may arise during assembly and testing.

Production Lead as acting Project Manager

• Manage all aspects of the project.
• Compiling a project schedule and communicating priority to the organization. 
• Relay project technical specifications to a WBS for managing and tracking.
• Prepare all handover documentation and requirements per department.
• Managing & tracking all costs on the ERP system for adherence to the budget.
• Compile project Databook according to company practice and requirements.
• Conduct frequential meetings with all relevant departments on progress.
• Report on milestones, issues, and progress to superiors in all forms.

Innovations: Redefined feedback to management on production status through implementing a comments system, increasing status visibility to the organization. Modification of cleaning process for parts used in an oxygen-enriched environment to reduce contaminates.

Service Centre Manage and CNC Programmer                                                     2019-04 to 2019-09

• Managed and performed all tasks associated with the service centre operations for cutting steel.
• Programming and nesting files required for CNC plate and pipe cutting.
• Compiled commercial quotations for fabrication projects and external cutting requests.
• Responsible for all status updates and reporting of cutting operations to the organization.
• Procured goods for minimum allowable steel plate stock and machinery consumables.
• Performed 3D laser scanning of various vessels for hull refurbishment, clash detection, etc.
• Managed personnel concerning shift allocation, hours, and delegation of daily tasks.

Innovation: Availing the certificates for the leftover metal from past projects on a simple system to replace manual searching.

Cape Peninsula University of Technology

• Advance Diploma in Mechatronic Engineering - NQF Level 7*                     2022-02 to 2022-11

*One subject required to complete the qualification, subject to be completed part-time in the 2nd semester of 2023

• National Diploma in Mechanical Engineering - NQF Level 6 (Graduated)          2017-02 to 2020-12