1. John Joughin
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JOHN JOUGHIN
CURRICULUM VITAE
RESUME
John Joughin is a professional engineer and a project manager with a
masters degree in business administration and an honours degree in
mechanical engineering. His experience has been in engineering design,
marketing, plant operations, maintenance management, and project
management in the materials handling, minerals processing, agricultural,
chemical and water treatment industries. His skills strengths are public
speaking and presentation skills, cost and time management, staff and
resource management, and technical evaluation. He has high emotional
intelligence and is cool headed, calm and proactive in stress situations.
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2. John Joughin
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Personal Information
First Name: John William Cain
Surname: Joughin
Date of Birth: 2 March 1944
Marital Status: Married
ID Number: 440302 5057 086
Nationality: South African
Address: 2 Country Lane, Assagay, Hillcrest, 3610.
Telephone Number: +27 (0)83 377 3269
E-mail: joughin@icon.co.za
jwcjoughin@gmail.com
Language Proficiency: English, Afrikaans and Sesotho.
Health: Excellent
Driver’s License: Code 08
Qualifications
Academic: BSc Eng (Mechanical) – Wits (1967)
Graduate Diploma in Eng. – Wits (1970)
MBA – UCT (1972)
Professional: Professional Engineer (Reg. No. 910051)
Project Manager Professional
(PMP No 1294807)
Social responsibility: Member Rotary International
Past President & Paul Harris Fellow
Computer Literacy: MS Word, Excel, Power point, MS Projects,
Pastel Accounting and Quick Books &
Payroll.
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3. John Joughin
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Employment History
Company Name: Ralebelo Project Services (Pty) Ltd
Type of Business: Supervision of and provision of support services
for engineering projects.
Company Address: 2 Country Lane, Assagay, Hillcrest.
Position: Owner
Date Worked from: Dec 2005 to Present
Duties: VARIOUS CLIENTS
Preparation of feasibility reports for production
and processing of high value agricultural products
in order to obtain funding. (440 million USD)
GEC
Review of Consultants’ reports and compilation of
Definitive Feasibility Report for a copper / cobalt
project in the DRC. (1 Billion USD)
ELB Engineering Services:
Compilation of Feasibility Report for a coal
handling and preparation plant for a coking coal
project in Mozambique. (400 million USD).
Project managed the preparation of the detailed
engineering of the coal handling plant.
Project Management of the feasibility of joint
backfill study of ash and mine waste for Eskom &
Exxarro at the Grootegeluk Mine.
Project management of the refurbishment of
stackers, reclaimers and ship loaders for the P E
manganese export terminal. (R110 million)
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4. John Joughin
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Project management of the installation of a coal
tippler at Lichtenburg for Lafarge Cement. (R25
million).
Project management of the terrace coal handling
systems for Medupi Power station. (R500 million)
Company Name: EDTS Staffing Services (Pty) Ltd
Type of Business: Labour Broker
Position: Director
Date worked from: June 2002 to Nov 2005
Duties: Managed the project, financial, accounting and
payroll functions. Sold business to partners as part
of retirement strategy.
Company name: Engineering Draughting & Tracing Systems
(Pty) Ltd
Type of business: Engineering Design & Recruitment.
Position: Managing Director
Date worked from: 1991 to May 2002
Duties: Managed multi-disciplinary engineering design
and technical documentation projects in the
mining, metallurgical and chemical industries, and
the placement of professional and technical staff.
Company Name: Bateman Group / Aquafund Services (Pty) Ltd
Type of Business: Privatisation of water & effluent treatment services
Date worked from: 1987 to 1990
Position: Director of Mega Maintenance Services (1990)
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Duties: Responsible for the development and
implementation of computerized planned
maintenance systems.
Position: Director of Technical Training Services (1989)
Duties: Management and development of productivity and
on-site training programmes for operating staff.
Position: Technical Director of Aquafund Services and
ASFA Services (1988)
Duties: Responsible for the engineering input and design
optimizations for existing & project extensions of
water & waste treatment plants. Developed
management systems for the operating staff and
was responsible for operations of works during the
initial three years of Aquafund’s development.
Company name: Bateman Engineering Ltd
Position: Marketing / Technical Manager
Date worked from: 1979 to 1986
Duties: Marketing & process design of large
demineralization and reverse osmosis desalination
plants, ultra pure water installations, filtration and
potable water plants, biological treatment plants
and waste brine evaporators. Designed and
developed a standard range of packaged softeners
and demineralisers.
Company Name: Reunert & Lenz Ltd
Degremont Water Treatment Division
Position: Contract / General Manager
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6. John Joughin
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Date: 1972 to 1979
Duties: Managed the division responsible for marketing
the Degremont product range of large water and
waste water treatment plants.
Position: Engineer in Training
Duties: Engineering pupilage at Scaw Metals steel
foundry, SWASAP production machine shop, and
Wadeville railway bogie assembly plant.
Company name: Deemster Asparagus Growing & Canning
Position: Chairman
Date: 1972 to 1988
Duties: Involved in the development of asparagus farming
and canning venture. Sales of the HENRY brand
were made to local and overseas markets. At the
time of the sale of the business the factory
processed 1 000 tons of asparagus per season.
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7. John Joughin
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Date: 1972 to 1979
Duties: Managed the division responsible for marketing
the Degremont product range of large water and
waste water treatment plants.
Position: Engineer in Training
Duties: Engineering pupilage at Scaw Metals steel
foundry, SWASAP production machine shop, and
Wadeville railway bogie assembly plant.
Company name: Deemster Asparagus Growing & Canning
Position: Chairman
Date: 1972 to 1988
Duties: Involved in the development of asparagus farming
and canning venture. Sales of the HENRY brand
were made to local and overseas markets. At the
time of the sale of the business the factory
processed 1 000 tons of asparagus per season.
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