Keabetswe Lugalo

Metal Accounting; Project Management; Continuous Process improvement and Optimization; Production and Process Management; Complex Problem solving and Decision making; Statistical Analysis; Planning and Organising skills, Financial Management; SHEQ (Safety, Health, Environment and Quality) Systems Implementations and Management; People Management; Effective communication at all levels; Interpersonal skills. Critical Thinking; Judgment and Systems Analysis. Work HistoryContinued:- Company: Katanga Mining, Glencore (DRC) Site Name:Luilu (Hydrometallurgy) Designation:Expatriate: Chief /Senior Metallurgist Period:March 2015– November 2015 Responsibilities: •Setting KPIs and process monitoring and monitor routine plant performance and advise and execute on optimisation opportunities •Compile and produce various reports on plant performance and production statistics as required •Liaise and collaborate with technical and process personnel on the optimization of the hydrometallurgy plant. •Acting Technical Services Manager •Operational troubleshooting •Develop and refine processes and maximize performance of the plant to ensure technical integrity •Continuous Improvement with PIP oDrawing VDT for both KTC and Luilu oHigh priority project progress monitoring and facilitation (KTC and LUILU) oApplying good understanding of process mineralogy and use the data for process optimisation opportunities oSetting KPIs for the different company management levels down to operators oManaging KOV de-watering project oManaging old GCM building demolition project oAssisting Whole Ore Leach project progress and critical path management Reason for leaving: Company restructuring Company: Katanga Mining, Glencore (DRC) Site Name:Luilu (Hydrometallurgy) and KTC (mineral Processing) Designation:Expatriate: Plant Metallurgist Period:March 2013– March 2015 Projects: •Milling circuit optimisation •Flotation reagent optimisation •Oxide flotation (Malachite, CuO mineral from an Open Pit) plant mass-balancing and process flow design •Roaster conversion optimisation •Cobalt plant trouble shooting (mass balancing) •Flocculent plant design •Tailing re-treatment •Throughput optimisation (KTC) •Roaster commissioning and optimisation •Leach plant commissioning and optimisation •EW3 Commissioning and optimisation •Jameson Cell test works, installation and commissioning Responsibilities: •Writing procedures and PTOs •Process control •Reporting production figures •Conducting mass and energy balances (using Metsim) •Roaster acting superintendent •SX/EW metallurgical monitoring •Writing decision diagrams for the leach plant and process interlocks and updating flow sheets/red-ling P&IDs •Conducting Plant maintenance meetings •Acting Chief Metallurgist •Preparing the yearly budget forecast •Managing metallurgical procedures •Ensuring technical support to operations •Budget planning for 2015 •Making AFE, Application For Expenditure •Project planning and tracking Promotion received end of March 2015 Company: Anglo American Platinum NB: Please note all the sites as indicated below are within Anglo-American Platinum which produced Platinum Group Metals and Nickel, Copper and Cobalt as by products. Site Name:ACP Converter (pyrometallurgy) Designation:Metallurgist Period:April 2012 – March 2013 Projects: •Optimising Dryer performance •Installation of the 4th dewatering bin •Commissioning of the New RMH silo •Water-saving in the WACS section •Installation of the new drier bag house •Investigation (lance purging times, ingot cooling rates, glyde system trouble shooting, accretion formation) •Commissioning a grey water system •Alternative lifting mould project •Ingot cooling profiles Responsibilities: •Technical support to the WACS and RMH sections •Ensuring production of the plant. •Ensuring quality of silica and coal •Taking security samples •Monthly Stock-take •AO projects •Monthly technical report •Sending KPI’s daily •Reviewing Procedures •Sponsoring engineering teams (MDWT) •Chairing of production, safety and partnership forum meetings Reason for leaving: Career aspirations Site 2:Rustenburg Precious Metals Refinery Designation:Graduate Metallurgist Duration:January2011 to August2011 Responsibilities: •Advanced Graduate Development Programme •Ensuring good production in the rhodium production plant. •Ensuring good quality, on spec. rhodium is produced daily •Conducted a project to facilitate the production of on spec. material, which was also an AO project. •Monthly report writing Reason for leaving: AGDP programme Site 3Mogalakwena South Platinum Limited (Former Potgietersrus Platinum Mine)(mineral processing) Designation:Graduate Metallurgist Duration:January 2010 to December 2010 Responsibilities: •Advanced Graduate Develo