1. LOURENS MATHYS VAN ZYL
* Mooi Hoek Bloemfontein 
* Email: Lourens.vanzylg@gmail.com Tel:0027-84355336*
SUMMARY
 Many years of valuable experience and skills in the electrical, electronics, instrumentation,
mechanical , production and automation field.
 I am passionate about my trade and have valuable experience in production , engineering, project
management, skills development, team motivation and discipline
 I am a fast and dedicated worker, organized and perform well under pressure
 Committed to providing excellent project management to minimize wastage & increasing
profitability
Birth Date : 26 January 1968
I.D. no: 6801265133087
Age: 47 years
Marital status: Engaged
Health: Good
Languages: Afrikaans, English
QUALIFICATIONS:
 NHD Electrical Engineering L.C. Instrumentation (T4)
 Mini MBA (Henley) 1 year Nampak development
 Change Agent World Class Manufacturing 1 year
 Project Management PMBOK 38 Modules GE Energy

2. OTHER COURSES:
 Basic Electricity 3 weeks
 Electronics 1 4weeks
 Electronics 2 4 weeks
 DC Drives 2 weeks
 Instrumentation 1 4 weeks
 Instrumentation 2 4 weeks
 Advance Logics 5 weeks
 Introduction to micro comp 2 weeks
 DCS Centum 5 weeks
 Multiview Scada 3 days
 Siemens S5 to S22 4 weeks
 Turbo Pascal 4 weeks
 Mitschibichi PLC 3 days
 Magus 2 days
 Intouch 3 days
 Allen Bradley plc 3 days
And business related cources
…../Employment History
Employment History:
De Deur Technologies 2012 - Present
Farm Mooi Hoek
Bloemfontein
 Maintenance and sales of scales
Clover UHT and Fresh Maintenance Manager ,responsible for 10 Tetra fill lines , TBA 8/19 , A 3
Flex - 2011 to 2012
Port Elisabeth
Responsibilities:
 Total preventative and breakdown maintenance Electrical/Mechanical/Control systems.
 With 15 technicians reporting to me.
 Cost control Budgets.
 Critical spares identification, optimize stock levels.
 Line performance reviews- OEE
 Recruitment, skills development, team motivation and discipline.
 Breakdown investigations and Capex Preparations
 Continuous improvement projects
 Capacity expansion projects
 Service level Contract management.
 Modification control

3.  Projects installed commissioned 5 packaging lines and converted 3 lines to Prisma Pak.
Project Manager - GE IP EMEA reporting to Germany 2009 - 2011
PLC and SCADA Projects
Midrand Business park
Responsibilities:
 Prepare proposals to customers project scope and objectives,
 T&C, assumptions and exclusion, BOM and labor cost estimations plus time line.
 Prepare URS,FDS, FAT, SAT and other control documents according to GE project management
methodologies.
 Prepare and control project time lines
 Identify potentials risks
 Delivered weekly financial and progress reports
 Order project materials.
 Invoice customers on milestone acceptance.
 Approved payments to sub- contractors
 Facilitate and lead project meetings
 Prepare change orders for work that is out of the project scope.
 Prepare project score cards
 Arrange training of customer staff plus project handover and close.
 Support sales for next opportunity projects
 Power generation-Group Five Gas Turbines
 Water- Botswana- Scada upgrade
 MTE- Iscor- Israel
 Boite Noire- Sorrento Lactalis USA
 Setting Project Standards - FMG Australia
 Syncronise Optimise Power Plant Tanga Cement
 Green Hospital – Luxemburg
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Maintenance Manager - Consulting Aspen Pharmacare on SVP 2007-2009
Port Elisabeth
 Commissioned five production lines and processing equipment (R 500 million Project)
 Total preventative and breakdown maintenance Electrical/Mechanical/Control systems.
 11 technicians reporting to me.
 Cost control Budgets.
 Critical spares identification, optimize stock levels.
 Line performance reviews- OEE
 Recruitment, skills development, team motivation and discipline.
 Breakdown investigations.
 Capex Preparations
 Continuous improvement projects
 Capacity Expansion projects
 Service level Contract management.
 Modification control
 Design special application and animal scales with PLC’s.

4.  Developed % dosing machines for the resin industry.
Consulting SAB - Miller projects Tanzania, Coca Cola PTA 2002 - 2006
& SAB Krugersdorp, South Africa
 Mainly PLC programming and commissioning packing equipment
 Equipment commissioned and programmed
 De-palletizers, Palletizers, Pallet stack, destack,Labelers, Packers,Unpackers,Fillers
Bottle, crate and pallet conveyers
 CIP systems,NH3 compressor
Production Manager – Coca-Cola Angola 2000-
2002
Lubango
 Responsibility for the day to day managing the operation
 Assistant to SAB Project Manager
 Act as Site Manager in absence of Project Manager
Owner-Total Productive Instruments 1997 – 2000
Johannesburg, South Africa
Clients:HiTech Packaging, SAB and Nampak.
Countries:Russia,Botswana,Angola, Tanzania, Zambia,
Mozambique and South Africa.
 Mainly PLC programming and commissioning of processing and packaging lines
 Other projects , convert Foliotronics from micro control to PLC,design and manufacture high
speed card feeders and design and build high speed barcode reader with data collection system.
Engineering/Continuous Improvement/Production Manager - Nampak Johannesburg
1993 - 1997
South Africa
 Act as change agent implementing WCM 3 factories. Johannesburg , Durban and Capetown
 Manage production and engineering
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Instrument Technician – SABMiller Roslyn/Garangkuwa 1991
- 1994
South Africa
 Maintained all processing/utilities and packaging equipment.
 Responsible for improvement projects.
Technician - National Service, Pretoria, South Africa 1990 – 1991

5.  Electronic Ware fare
InstrumentTechnician - Iscor Steel, Vanderbijlpark, South-Africa 1987 - 1990
 Studies and practical - Maintenance Electrical and instrumentation arc furnusses
References:
Gerrie Fisher (Tech Dir.)
SAB
00255784266716
Pierre Grobelaar (Project Manager)
SAB Head Office
011 4071817
Nelson Mwale (Director)
Nampack JHB
0829093005
Simon Todd
Aspen Project Manager
08378774040
Mark Macnaughten
GM Aspen SVP
0823357989