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CURRICULUM VITAE
NAME Richard Brian Powell
DATE OF BIRTH 17 May 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Wigan/England
PRESENT ADDRESS No 1 Coucal Street
Atlasville
Boksburg South Africa
TELEPHONE 0712814641. Email. richardpee175@gmail.com
ALTERNATIVE NO. Charmaine Powell Cell no: 0824426035.
NATIONALITY British (SA Citizen) (BRITISH)
MARITAL STATUS Married
HOBBIES Cooking, Entertaining, Gardening
EMPLOYMENTHISTORY
Tambani Hydraulics
Sales Representative
April 2016- August 2016
Retrenched
Good Bearings & Belting
April 2015-November 2015
Designation General Manager.
Good Bearing & Belting.
Retrenched
Oct 2012 – March 2013
Lido Electrical
Designation Electrical Sales Representative
1 February 1998 – 31 January 2010
Fenner SA (Pty) Ltd – Bearing Man
Designation Promoted to Product Manager (ROSTA – Switzerland)
Key Result Areas Importation of anti vibration and tensioning equipment from ROSTA,
Switzerland, national Product Manager and technical back up to all
Fenner and Bearing man Branches (83 Branches) this included

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product support, promotion, training, marketing, sales, inventory
control, and designing (Sole Technical Specialist of this product in
South Africa). All technical experience gained was in Switzerland.
In charge of Power Transmission Designs, including Chain, V-Belts,
Pulleys and all Transmission products within the Johannesburg region.
1 February 1997 -31 January 1998
Fenner SA (Pty) Ltd – Isando-Johannesburg
Designation Promoted to Marketing Account Executive
Key Result Areas Managed Corporate accounts for large Mining Houses i.e. De Beers,
Anglo American, Anglovaal, Vaal Reefs etc. Liaison with Senior
Executives with respect to large contracts pertaining to power
transmission products (Chains, couplings, electric motors, pulleys, v
belts). Organization and running of promotional exhibitions
(Electro mining, Natal Industrial Show and individual branch
promotions throughout the country). Control and budgeting and
finance.
1 February 1995 -31 January 1997
Fenner SA (Pty) Ltd – Isando-Johannesburg
Designation Transferred and promoted toProduct Manager
Electronic Controls
Key Result Areas Sales, marketing, promotion and installation of Electronic Invertors,
Soft Starters, PLC’s and associated products, customer service, after
sales service, control of inventory, budgets and personnel.
6 June 1991 -31 January 1995
Fenner SA (Pty) Ltd – Kimberley
Designation Branch Manager
Key Result Areas Management and control of staff, inventory, finance, customer
service, sales and marketing, quality assurance, administration and
industrial relations of power transmission equipment.

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1 November 1989 -30 May 1991
De Beers Consolidated Mines Limited - Kimberley
Designation Promoted to Planned Maintenance Officer (Wesselton Mine)
Key Result Areas Managed Computerized Planned Maintenance systems, scheduled
planning for all overland conveyors, crushers, pumps, cranes and
underground earth moving machinery.
1 May 1988 -31 October 1989
De Beers Consolidated Mines Limited - Kimberley
Designation Transferred to Kimberley as Maintenance Electrician
Key Result Areas Installation and maintenance to all high voltage switch gear and
overhead lines.
11 August 1986 -3 April 1988
De Beers Consolidated Mines Limited – Kleinzee, Namaqualand
Designation Promoted to Planned Maintenance Officer
Key Result Areas Implementation of computerized planned maintenance systems for
the electrical drag line and all high voltage electrical switch gear
within the entire mining area.
1 June 1985 -11 August 1986
De Beers Consolidated Mines Limited – Kleinzee, Namaqualand
Designation Promoted to Electrical Chargehand
Key Result Areas Managed 8 Artisans and supervised the Electrical Department’s day to
day activities.
1 August 1983 – 6 May 1985
De Beers Consolidated Mines Limited – Kleinzee, Namaqualand
Designation Electrician

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Key Result Areas Town maintenance and all electrical installation work including low
and high voltage installations.
1 February 1982 – 25 July 1983
East Rand Proprietary Mines Limited – Boksburg Johannesburg
Designation Surface Electrician
Key Result Areas Installation and maintenance on all electrical equipment in the
reduction works.
1 May 1981 – 7 January 1982
Trojan Nickel Mine – Bindura - Zimbabwe
Designation Electrician (Qualified)
Key Result Areas Low voltage and high voltage electrical installations and maintenance.
9 March 1977 – 30 April 1981
Trojan Nickel Mine – Bindura - Zimbabwe
Designation Apprentice Electrician
Key Result Areas Low voltage and high voltage electrical installations and maintenance.

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EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS
FROM TO SCHOOL/COLLEGE COURSE SUBJECTS/PASSED/COMPLETED
1971 1976 Ellis Robbins High School
Shevington CountyHigh
GCE “O Levels Chemistry(P)
Engineering Workshop (P)
English (P)
Geography (P)
English (P)
March
1977
May1981 Trojan Nickel Mine, Zimbabwe Electrician Cityof Guilds London Inst
Electrical Installations Work
“A” certificate
1982 1982 The SouthAfrican RedCross Society Mining First Aid
Certificate
SuccessfullyCompleted
July1984 July1984 PE Corporate Services Training
Centre
Management Skills
For Maintenance
Foreman
The Role of the Foreman in
Maintenance
Management
WorkshopAdministration
Principles of PlannedMaintenance
SituationalLeadership
Sale Management
CostingandBudgeting
1984 1984 The SouthAfrican RedCross Society Mining First Aid SuccessfullyCompleted
June 1985 June 1985 De Beers ConsolidatedMines NMD SupervisoryDev
Program Stage 11
Pass
Sept 1986 Sept 1986 PE Corp Services Training Centre Planned Maintenance
For Artisans
Pass
May1987 May1987 CONTEL Mining Services Division BE 1370 Dragline
Electrical Systems
Pass
Sept 1987 October 1987 De Beers ConsolidatedMines Supervisor Course Pass
1988 1988 De Beers ConsolidatedMines
Engineering Training Centre
Angle Grinder Pass
1988 1988 St Johns Ambulance Ass Mining First Aid Pass
July1989 July1989 CTU Central TrainingUnit Maccauvlei Assertiveness
Training
Pass
1991 1991 Track Training International Effective Recruitment
Skills
Business Finance for
Branch Managers
Pass
Pass

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Fenner Selling Skills
Program
Pass
1993 1993 Fenner Power Transmission ElementaryPrincipals
of Drive Design&
Products
Fenner Wedge Belt Drives, Shaft
Couplings, Shaft Mounted Speed
Reducers, ACInverters, Soft Starters,
Monitor 360
1996 1996 Fenner Power Transmission Basic Bearings BearingIdentification, Bearing
equivalent, Catalogue Usage (p)
1996 1996 Fenner Power Transmission Basic Plc
Programming
ElementaryPrinciples
of Electronic Drives
and Controls
Fenner Mitsubishi Plc (P)
Fenner variable Speed Drives, Soft
motors, Electronic Motors, Monitor
360, Motor Control Equip
1997 1997 ROSTA-WERKAG ElementaryPrinciples
of Vibratoryshaking
and screening
systems (Conducted
at ROSTA AG,
Switzerland)
RTOSTA Oscillating Equip, Anti
vibrationMounts, Tensioning
Devices, OscillatingMotorbases,
Rubber suspension (P)
Aug 1998 Aug 1998 ROSTA-WERKAG Diploma
Master Seminar for
ROSTA Products and
Marketing
(Conducted at ROSTA
AG, Switzerland)
PASS – BEST STUDENT AWARD
Sept 2007 Sept 2007 Microsoft Word basic
Microsoft Excel basic
Certificate
Certificate
REFERENCES
Mr. Nick Ovary Fenner Bearings Division +27826966447
Mr. Mike Carrabott B.M.G. Hydraulics +27725943000
Mr. Alfie Lottering Branch Manager Bearing Man +27769904727