Boilermaker to Technical Manager
Heavy materials processing: fabrication, welding, plant repair, preventative maintenance and technical fault-finding.
PROFESSIONAL RÉSUMÉ / JOHANNES MARTINUS DE WET
Industrial experience.
Practical systems leadership.
Trade-qualified boilermaker with approximately 18 years across manufacturing, maintenance, production and operations in South Africa and Australia.
Profile
I have progressed from boilermaking and plant repair into technical management, production management, maintenance coordination and multi-department operations. I connect physical work, production control and practical digital systems.
I am most useful where information, responsibility or evidence breaks between the floor and the office. I inspect the real process, identify the control point and build the smallest useful system while keeping human authority clear.
Selected career experience
Production Manager
Materials production: planning, labour allocation, quality and testing coordination, calibration discipline and traceable records.
Production Manager
Industrial services: site measurement, practical 3D modelling, fabrication, installation and commissioning.
Fabrication, production & maintenance
Hands-on fabrication followed by leadership across workflow, commercial coordination, maintenance, WHS, contractors, reporting and staff development.
Multi-department production leadership
Production across laser cutting, CNC folding, fabrication, powder coating, fit-out and dispatch. Handovers, bottlenecks, mini-batches and quality gates.
Start with the real problem
Looking for someone who can connect the work?
I’m open to conversations about production, operations, maintenance and industrial systems leadership.