Curriculum Vitae
Marius van Niekerk

Personal Information

Full Name : Marius
Surname : Van Niekerk
Title : Mr
Gender : Male
Date of Birth : 1987-12-21
Nationality : South African
Home Language : Afrikaans
Fully Bilingual : English & Afrikaans
Computer Packages : Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Pastel v12, Caliach (Production Management System), PC-DMIS Pro Version 3.5 Maintenance Release Two , Solid Edge, Iso 9001

Contact Information

Cell phone no. : +27 76 393 1837
Other Contact : Shani-lee Van Niekerk
+27 71 683 4642
Email : [email protected]

Employment History

Wide Range Engineering cc
Meadowdale, Johannesburg
Dates: March 2012 – Present
Position: Qa Qc Manager / Workshop Manager

• Workshop Manager

– Overseeing the production of entire in-house manufacturing processes (final assembly and building areas),
– Overseeing all workshop personnel as well as gardening personnel
– Ensuring that production of bearing housings/units are according to planning
– Update meetings and production meetings with executive management on a weekly basis,
– Monthly workshop meetings with workshop personnel on issues being raised in the management meetings
– Procuring of consumables for workshop as well as ongoing projects
– Overseeing of all packaging and deliveries of final assembled units
– Visiting various suppliers and ensuring production of outsourced components are according to company and customer requirements
– Site visit for installation and commissioning of products at clients/ end users request
– Liaison between the logistic company and client for all bearing units sold.
– In charge of all SHE related issues, purchasing, implementation and evaluation of processes and procedures.
– Working closely with HIRA appointed personnel to ensure company meets legislation

• Final Inspection

– Quality inspections all castings post manufacturing.
– Final Inspection of all components from suppliers are according to standards set by customer and or regulation.
– All components are operational in assembly, design and application,
– Ensuring that the bearing housings are build according to specification and requirements
– Ensuring that all final machined parts meet customer specifications

• ISO 9001:2008
– All drawings are updated and that any deviation to be corrected,
– Drawing up the necessary documentation for the company to meet ISO requirements
– The planning and implementation a records system in to the company and the management thereof.
– Working closely with the executive management to create processes that work hand-in-hand with ISO requirements
– Ensuring tracibillity of all workshop components, machined, rejected and raw castings.

• Quality Department
– Ensuring that the correct pattern is used in the casting of the components
– Ensuring that all measuring instrumentation is kept in top working condition and that they are calibrated annually according, to calibration charts.
– In charge of developing and implementing new/updated charts for calibration, final inspection, and certain product final-inspection procedures.
– Resolving production quality problems and reporting directly to Engineering Member
– Responsible for creating Non-Conformance Reports and ensuring that they are dealt with according to their rejection criteria.
– Overseeing the Receiving Department.
– Having constant meetings with Executive management to ensure correct materials are acquired and the right procedures are followed to ensure that a quality product is manufactured, as well as reviewing all purchased components and consumables for projects/jobs to ensure that the they meet requirements

Liaise with other managers and staff throughout the organisation to ensure that the quality management system is functioning properly. Where appropriate, they advise on changes and how to implement them and provide training, tools and techniques to enable others to achieve quality standards.

– Ensure that processes needed for the Quality Management System (QMS) are
established, implemented and maintained.
– Report to top management on the performance of the QMS and any need for
improvement.
– Ensure the promotion of awareness of customer requirements throughout the
organization.
– Liaise with the external assessment body on all matters related to the external
accreditation process.
– In more detail, the following specific actions relating to ISO 9001: 2008 are required:
– Ensure that a document control procedure is adopted to approve, review and update all changes to critical documents within the scope of the QMS.
– Ensure that records are established and maintained to provide evidence that the QMSis being followed and that there is a system in place for the identification, storage, protection, retrieval, retention time and disposition of such records.
– Ensure that the performance of the QMS is reviewed at planned intervals to ensure its continuing suitability, adequacy and effectiveness. This review means assessing opportunities for improvement and the need for changes to the QMS.
– Ensure that Quality Objectives are set by top management for measuring the performance of the QMS and that these are regularly reviewed.
– Ensure that all new staff are inducted into the requirements of the QMS related to their own roles and responsibilities. Provide update training as necessary.
– Ensure that all suppliers used by the organization are selected, evaluated and re-evaluated and that records of this assessment are maintained.
– Ensure that top management undertakes periodic but regular assessments of customer satisfaction and that consequent improvements are identified and implemented.
– Ensure that an internal audit programme is adopted to verify that the QMS conforms to planned arrangements, QMS arrangements and is effectively implemented and maintained. Ensure that appropriate action is taken when this is not the case.
– Analyse data on the effectiveness of the QMS and evaluate where continual improvements of the QMS can be made. This shall include data generated as a result of monitoring and measurement and from other relevant sources.
– Co-ordinate continual improvements of the QMS, ensuring that evidence of corrective and preventive actions taken are recorded and reviewed.

Transmission Components PTY (LTD)
Spartan, Johannesburg
Dates: April 2006 – February 2012
Position: April 2006 – February 2009 – Goods Receiving
February 2009 – 2012 – Quality Assurance
Reason for Leaving: Better opportunities

• Final Inspection

– First-off/Line inspections on all stages of machined parts
– All final stage machined part measured on Co-ordinate Measuring Machine
– Basic part programming on Co-ordinate Measuring Machine
– Full 100% inspections on batches according to customer requirements.
– Ensuring that all final machined parts meet customer specifications

• ISO 9001:2008
– All drawings are updated and that any deviation to be corrected
– Keeping all ISO required documentation up to date and ensuring that quality department conforms to ISO specifications
– Continuous improving on quality system, measuring procedures and measuring techniques
– Addressing quality problems in Monthly management meetings, and suggesting solution to quality issues and updating status of ongoing improvement tasks.
– Ensuring tracibillity of all workshop components, machined, rejected and raw material.

• Quality Department
– Issuing of all micrometers and measuring instrumentation (gauges, callipers & venires) to workshop
– Ensuring that all measuring instrumentation is kept in top working condition and that they are calibrated annually according, to calibration charts.
– In charge of developing and implementing new/updated charts for calibration, first-off measurement, and certain product final-inspection procedures.
– Reporting production quality problems directly to Factory Manager
– Reporting quality problems directly to Managing Director.
– Responsible for creating Non-Conformance Reports and ensuring that they are dealt with according to their rejection criteria.
– Overseeing the Receiving Department.
– Worked closely with Procurement manager and Factory manager to ensure correct materials are acquired and the right procedures are followed to ensure that a quality product is manufactured.

During April 2006 until February 2009 I was employed as an Assistant Inspector and was responsible for Goods Receiving. After this time I was promoted to Inspector.

• Receiving of all goods Raw materials
– Making sure that all raw material forging, solid cuts etc. are according to workshop specifications (measurements, material steel grade) prior to receiving and loading onto production management system. Then all raw materials to be marked and moved to allocated area, ready for productionOutwork
– Check to see that the outwork supplier has conformed to the specific requirements and that all quantities and company bins are returned.
– Ensuring that correct quantities and weights are recorded before batch being released.
– Liaise between organisation and outwork suppliers to ensure that correct timeline is kept.
– Checking that correct, heat treatment, plating etc. requirements is specified on the purchase orders.
– Checking that the correct outwork supplier is selected for specific materials.

• Assisting Inspector in Quality Department

– Cleaning of micrometers and order keeping.
– Assisting data capturing of dimensional measurements, NCR log data and Rejection records
– Creating of NCR and logging of information
During January – April 2006 I was employed at Thabu Construction on a temporary basis as a General Worker.

Computer Packages:
Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Pastel v12, Caliach (Production Management System), PC-DMIS Pro Version 3.5 Maintenance Release Two , Solid Edge CAD

Educational Information

High School Attended : Birchleigh Secondary School
Highest Grade Passed : Matric
Year Obtained : 2005
Subject’s Passed : Technical Drawing (Hg), Economics (Sg),
Computer studies (Sg), English (Hg), Afrikaans (Hg), Mathematics (Sg)
Tertiary Education

Course: Mechanical Engineering
Institution: EWC Kempton Campus
Year: May 2012 – November 2016
Qualification: NQF 6 – Equivalent to Bachelors’ Degree

• Mechanotechnics
• Fluid Mechanics
• Strengths of Material and Structures
• Power Machines
• Electrotechnics
• Fluid Mechanics
• Supervisory Management
• Engineering Drawing
• Engineering Science
• Mathematics
Course: Total Quality Management (Certificate)
Institution: UNISA
Year: March 2011 – May 2012
NQF Level: 6

• An overview of TQM and the creation and maintenance of a quality culture
• Developing the TQM system and the tools and techniques for the continuous improvement of quality. (To re-write exams in 2013)
• The Implementation of TQM
• Integrated SHEQ Management based on ISO and OSHAS system standards
Course: Quality Techniques I (Certificate)
Institution: Industrial Training and Quality Assurance (ITQA)
Year: June 2012

• Elements of quality, their structure, and organisation
• Quality cost capture and control
• Problem identification and analysis
• Elementary statistical concepts
• Machine and process capability studies
• Compiling and using statistical control charts
• Attribute sampling
• ISO 9001
Tertiary Education Continued
Course: N5 – Mechanical Engineering (Diploma)
Institution: EWC Kempton Campus
Year: August 2011 – April 2012

• Strength of Materials and Structures
• Mechanotechnics
• Electrotechnics
• Power Machines
• Fluid Mechanics
• Supervisory Management
Course: N4 – Mechanical Engineering (Diploma)
Institution: EWC Kempton Campus
Year: September 2010 – July 2011

• Mathematics
• Mechanotechnics
• Engineering Science
• Supervisory Management
• Electrotechnics
• Engineering Drawing (N3)
Course: Mechanical Inspection I (Certificate)
Institution: Industrial Training and Quality Assurance (ITQA)
Year: June 2009

• Historical Background
• Accuracy, Precision Reliability
• Decimal Numbers
• Engineer’s Steel Rule
• Tolerances
• Gauging Principles
• Surface Finish Assessment
• The Vernier Calliper
• Micrometer Calliper
• Dial Indicators
• Engineering Drawings

Tertiary Education Continued

Course: Basic programming PC-DMIS Pro (Certificate)
Institution: Retecon / Traconsa
Year: February 2009

• Understanding of Co-ordinating Systems
• Part Alignments
• Part Programs and D.C.C
• Editing Part Programs
• Geometric Elements
• Dimensioning
• Reporting
• Probe Qualification