Sasol

Sasol

Planning Engineer, Sasol, Multi Projects

START Date

In Aug 2008, I moved to South Africa and stated working for Sasol Company. In the first year, I was in a Refinery and I did planning for small brown field projects. In refinery, Sasol was contractor. In second year, I took over some big projects and started working in Client side. A project in construction phase was the first project that I became involved. The main schedule was in Primavera 6. I checked the EPC contractor schedule as well as their progress.

Sasol Planner

In June 1978 gained promotion to Maintenance Planner with Sasol Fertilisers, where his main duty was to plan the maintenance in such a way that optimum plant availability could be achieved at a minimum cost with best use of the available resources as to increase the return of investment.

Sasol Trainee Planner

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.