Mark Erasmus _Rockwell Design
South Africa, Western Cape, Overberg, Bot River
Tel: +27837474630 / +966 55 792 5049
Email: [email protected] / [email protected]

PROFESSIONAL OVERVIEW:

I am Consulting Project Manager, Project Engineer, Mine Technician, Multi-Disciplinary C.A.D. Designer, Design Draughtsman, C.A.D. Technician, C.A.D. Drafter, C.A.D. Draftsman, C.A.D. Operator, Vehicle Technician, Maintenance Repairer, Building Maintenance Repairer, able to demonstrate strong leadership, full project lifecycle experience, innovative solution design in achieving corporate and personal objectives and goals. Providing creative and strategic vision to the business, giving clear direction and building consistently improved design capabilities.

I have 20yrs in industry C.A.D. design, modelling shop detail research & design projects, prototypes, tender designs, reverse engineering, back draft old designs, plans, drawings, drafting & layouts & prepare complete & accurate working plans for complex projects Industries:
C.A.D. Design, fault diagnosis and repairs, design interpretation, guidance and technical support, problem resolution methods engineering, team leadership, C.A.D. standardisation, continuous improvement initiatives& assessments.
I am seeking clients within Africa Region & internationally
Understanding of applicable SANS codes of practice for concrete works, steel reinforcement for concrete, and structural steel detailing.
Core Competencies:
Expertise/Technically Astute: Structured output based and related to the KPI’s.
Planning and Organizing / Work Management, Self-Motivated & able to inspire others
Team Player, Integrity, Problem Solving, Achievement Oriented, Self-Awareness, Good Time Management
Decision-Making Skills, Good Communication skills, Proactive & Show Initiative, Able to work with minimal supervision.
My rates are ZAR385 – R485, $25 – $35, £20 – £35, SAR110 – SAR120 per hour.
DESIGN SKILLS:
● Interpreted and implemented specifications and requirements utilising C.A.D. software
● Designed details and prepared complete and accurate working plans for complex projects, l, structural, mechanical, piping, electrical interfaced with departmental staff engineers help to identify equipment and materials requirements
● Liaised with professionals and clients to agree on project brief and specifications.
● Revised C.A.D. & plans to comply with modified specifications.
● Provided technical guidance, design interpretation and direction to drafting staff.
● Delivered to tight deadlines and ensured strict compliance with quality standards.
● Coordinated with contractors and client representatives with regards to design changes.
● Maintained excellent working relations with all site personnel and subcontractors.
● Created and produced documents of all processes and procedures for the design.
● Managed and coordinated junior staff and trainees, providing ongoing support.
● Developed project briefs and monitored progress until completion of project.
● Responsible for devising and developing high quality design documents on various projects.
● Liaise with engineers and project managers to define requirements on various projects.
● Performed surveys, identified boundaries and compiled records and field data on various projects.
● Preparing complex drawings for civil, mechanical, structural, sheet metal, recycling, filtration, industrial, marine, defence/ military and mining mineral processing projects.
● Carried out design, maintenance (as-built), back drafting, r & d and troubleshooting analysis on engineering C.A.D. software on various projects.
● Identified potential risks, applying change to ensure accurate delivery of project on various projects.
● Assisted on various projects gold, diamond, coal, phosphate, vanadium, platinum and mineral recovery projects, recycling industrial & filtration water, slurry chemical for African & middle east, U.K., Australia mining plants also military defence industry
● Carried out maintenance of holiday accommodation, improvements.
● Carried out maintenance, repair on Ford, Isuzu, Land Rover, Mazda, Mercedes, Toyota, Volkswagen sedan / suv vehicles.
● Carried out maintenance on farm using ford, john deere tractors, agri rotivator’s planting clearing crop areas also firefighting of veld fires with farming fire fighter equipment.
● Farming with cattle, chickens for meat market and egg market
DESIGN PROJECT HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE:

o C.A.D P& I.D , P.F.D.,
o C.A.D Piping, piping isometrics 2d/3d, hi-low pressure, water, slurry, chemical, asme, din, iso, ap, bs, astm, en, grp, hdpe, pvc, upvc, copper, brass-utilities piping, pharmaceutical.
o C.A.D. Designs, shop detail, r & d projects, prototypes, tenders up to manufactured product, structural, mechanical, civil design projects various companies for:
o Mining equipment, filtration slurry chemical water 20 & 40ft containerized, f.m.c.g., Industrial, pyrolysis, plastic recycling, crusher, conveyors 5m – 200m 250 -1.2m wide incline conveying systems, wash plants upgrades new plant structures for diamond mine heap recycling plant, coal, gold, vanadium, platinum, phosphate, h.v.a.c. ducting ventilation aluminium plant, material conveying systems, carbon fibre racing motorcycle rims & hubs,14ft patrol boat , upgrading, hippo & crocodile boats aluminium, balustrading, 6, 10-12, 14ft boat trailers, cash in transit panzer armoured vehicles, 40ft tipper truck bin, military troop carriers MPV’s , facades & fire bins fuel stations, military portable weaponry vault 20ft container, communications units, storage rooms, vehicle upgrades, antenna, equipment, electronic communications upgrades, turret upgrades, turret tote box upgrades, 40ft ,20ft 2m, 1m portable water heating element containerized units Low cost 20, 40ft containerized freezer iso container housing projects, Iveco 4×4 bush firefighting vehicle & crane vehicle Upgrade, 14m kiln structure for mortuary, 20ft kiln refractory oven , containerized 20 – 40 iso & hi-cube architectural low cost housing units, thickeners 15-30m, belt filters 46m, crushers, conveyors, bins

o C.A.D plant layouts designs for telecommunications systems, mining, 20 & 40ft filtration slurry chemical water, f.m.c.g., Industrial, photovoltaic, pyrolysis, plastic recycling, conveyor systems incline, wash plants, crusher plant, coal, gold, phosphate, platinum plant material conveying systems.

o Machine designs, r & d, mining, f.m.c.g, industrial, agri., recycling, waste recycling, telecoms generator power systems 50 – 1000kva, medical testing equipment.

o Electrical Wiring, Loop, Hook-up Diagrams mine mineral plants & power stations, military vehicles & military equipment, telecommunications systems.

o Architectural designs , layouts & updates to new & back drafted projects mining, defence, civilian, industrial.

TECHNICAL SOFTWARE SKILLS:
● Pro Engineer Certification, Wild Fire basics
● Autodesk AutoCAD, Mech Desktop 12 – 2016 2d,3
● SolidWorks 98-2016 – PDM works, EPDM
● DraftSight
● ArchiCad 9 basics
● Solid Edge v9, st3 – st9
● Inventor 7 – 2016
● Dos/ Windows 3.1 – windows 10
● MS Office 95 – 2018
● Catia r5v7 (Basics)
● Rhinoceros 3sr5, 4
● Autodesk Plant 3d 2012
● Autodesk Advanced Steel 2019
● Autodesk Structural Detailing 2012
● Autodesk Vault 2011-2014
● Autodesk Revit 9, 2014 basics
● Bentley Microstation v8, V8i Series 4
● Sketchup 6-9 basics
● SPF – SMART PLANT Foundation/ Piping, P.I.D
● HelioScope: Advanced Solar Design

CAREER HISTORY:

CONTRACT ENGINEERING C.A.D. DESIGNER DRAUGHTSMAN – 2000 to 2018,
Project Engineer, Project Manager, Mine Technician – C.A.D. DESIGNER 2018 – Current

Client Portfolio include: 2000 – 2020

● Saudi Arabia Wa’ad Shamal Ma’aden Phosphate Mining Company (MWSPC) – Turaif – On going Current Client
● Neon Blue – WC-RSA – ongoing Client
● O.T.P.R – WC-RSA – ongoing Client
● EPCM Consultants (RSA) (Foskor) – Centurion RSA
● Myplas Pty Ltd- WC, RSA
● ArchCabins – KZN RSA
● Steel Cutting Services/ Barma Tech.- WC, RSA
● MeAgriTek- WC, RSA / Partnership/ Owner
● Technical Design Services – WC, RSA
● Marcé Fire Fighting Technology – Centurion RSA
● Unique Hydra Technical Diving Group – WC, RSA
● Qs Plus – WC, RSA
● Illumination Technology Africa – KZN, RSA
● Street Cape – WC, RSA
● D.M.S Steel – WC, RSA
● Circuit Water Engineering Equipment – WC, RSA
● Quality Filtration Systems – WC, RSA
● Unity electronics cc (Grintek Power,
Electronics, Antenna’s, Ewasion, Andritz,
Technic – Delkor, Delkor, Vaal Drie Hoek
Truck Trailers) – Pta East- Jhb Midrand RSA
(Impala Platinum, Xtrata, Samancor, Mudupi, Anglo Gold Ashanti Vera Cruz, DENEL, L.I.W., Volt – Ampere, WEIS Inter -Services, Synertech,TFM)
● Unity Farm- Tvl, RSA
● Turnerland – WC, RSA
● Marce Fire Fighting Technology – WC, RSA
● Wehemeyer Manufacturing-WC, RSA
● PETRA / K.E.M. – JV- SuperStone – NC, RSA
● Keliana Management Co. – Tvl GP, RSA
● Skakuza Trading (W.C. Gov.) Ltd – WC, RSA
● Afripex Orange Environeering – WC, RSA –
● Dust Act / MistingSa – Theresa Mine, S.A.R.U., SAPPI, ISOVER) – WC, RSA
● Kirmack Engineering Design – WC, RSA
● Long Shadows Farm – WC, RSA
● OTT Armoured Vehicles (Pty) Ltd, OTT Solutions (Pty) Ltd – Armoured Dev. Tvl. Pta East – RSA
● CDENG.com – KZN RSA kzn / U.K, Wellington/Telford
● N4x4 Panzer Technology – Pta East Tvl, RSA
● Andritz Delkor/ Andritz, IST – Technick – (Xtrata, Samancor, Mudupi, Anglo Gold Ashanti, Impala Platinum), Pta East- Jhb Midrand, RSA
● Gossamer – WC, RSA
● Afromix – WC, RSA
● C&E Engineering Projects – (Xtrata, Samancor, Impala Platinum, Anglo Gold)
● Outotec (LonMin) Centurion RSA
● Kazi Logistics & Engineering – (A.D.S., DENEL, DefenceTek, L.I.W., TFM)- Tvl, RSA
● Ocean Legacy Marine & SUB Companies – Coca Cola, ASPEN Pharm.) P.E. EC. (RSA)
● OLGEAR – WC, RSA
● Binutra – WC, RSA
● Red Hot Glass – WC, RSA
● ACS Air-conditioning – WC, RSA
● Eco Green – WC, RSA
● Scope Soultions Comms – (Australia Gov.) WC, RSA
● BCSSA / MC – Steel) – Tvl, RSA
● Icuras Marine – WC, RSA
● CFW Industries – WC, RSA
● LOC-PRO Zambia / Italy
● Southern Pulp Machinary – WC, RSA
● ProFix Metals – (Gov. WC) WC, RSA
● Proxa Water (Shanduka Coaliary,Tronox Namakwa Sands, Samancor Steel Poort Australia) -WC, RSA
● – Tvl , RSA
● Agic, Mutual Safes – Tvl, RSA
● Design3d – WC, RSA
● MagniClad – Tvl, RSA
● Fabrinox – WC, RSA
● Cape Refractory Industries – WC, RSA
● M.D.S. Mechanical Design Services – SAPPI SAICOR, Hullamin, SAPPI Inovative – KZN Howick RSA
● Capetizer – WC, RSA
● Zte-MTN / 5.0 Construction, – WC, RSA
● Zte-MTN / Dixie Telecoms – WC, RSA
● Qualipak – WC, RSA
● Total heating solutions – WC, RSA
● Techno Diesel – Namibia
● G4EPS – Mooi Nooi – Sylvania Metals – Samancor, Xtrata)
● Environmental & Process Solutions Xtrata Rohvan Vanaduim, Samancor Coal – Tvl, RSA
● Clyde Bergemann Africa (Impala Platinum) – Tvl, RSA
● Tenova Pyromet – (TATA Richards Bay) Tvl., GP, RSA
● AFRIFIRE (RSA Gov.) – Tvl, RSA
● VBkom Consulting (BHP Billiton) – Tvl, RSA
● TWP – (Impala Platinum) Rustenburg (RSA)
● Rand World Wide/ Automated Reasoning -John Deere – Tvl., GP, RSA
● NewTech. Com – MTN /GIRO – Mozambique
● RSV- Kenyuka – Anglo America Rustenburg (RSA)
● DetNet South Africa (Pty) Ltd – Tvl, RSA
● Hyperion Drilling & Steel – Tvl, RSA
● G.M.B. Mining (Shanduka Coaliary) – Tvl MP, RSA
● TRAKSTAK – Tvl , RSA
● BlackStone Tech. – Tvl GP, RSA
● PVA Consulting – Tvl, RSA
● EPAQ International (Barrows) – Tvl / KZN, RSA
● MTEK – Tvl, RSA
● I.S.T. / POWERTECH (Kendal Power Station Gov.) – Tvl., MP, RSA

EARLIER CAREER:

● Waiter Silver Ridge Spur 2001
● Driver XPS Couriers 2001
● Assistant Vera Cruz Manufacturing 2000-2001
● Labourer Target Appointments 2000
● Private Red Berets British Armed Forces 2000
● Labourer Lawmens Ltd 1999
● Security Guard Shield Guarding Company 1998
● Salesman Hi-Fi Corporation 1997-1998
● Office Assistant Unity Electronics CC 1994-1996

EDUCATION & TRAINING QUALIFICATIONS:

● Business Studies N1 -N3 (Matric)
(N1 – N3) Gr.12 High School
● Grade C Security Guard
● A+ Hardware Microsoft
● N+ Networking Microsoft
● T782 Fundamentals of Drawing
● T779 Introduction to Pro Engineer
● T781 Fundamentals of Design
● SPF CREATING EQUIPMENT MODELS WITH PDS
● SPF CREATING PIPING MODELS WITH PDS
● GERBER PATTERN CUTTER MACHINE/ SOFTWARE COURSE

 

Education

01/02/1997 to 30/11/1998 N1_N3, Gr12 Matric at Pretoria Technical College

Business Studies