START Date:
January, 1977
Joined Sasol Fertilizers in 1976 as a Maintenance Fitter and Turner and later the same year became Maintenance Mechanical Foreman.
Main duties were to supervise the maintenance of conveyors, buckets elevators, turbines, pumps boilers (gas, oil and coal fired), heat exchangers, misprecipetators, scrubbers, pressure vessels etc. Process Plants serviced were Nitric Acid, Sulphuric Acid, Mills and Ammonia. In January 1977 he was tansfered to the Planning Department as Junior Planner.
In March 1977, completed a diploma in Planned Maintenance and Project Planning.