Leonard Haulyauke
Shift Chemist (Team Leader)
Swakopmund, Erongo
Summary
Detail-oriented team player with more than 9 years’ experience working in a Chemistry, Geo-scientific and multi-disciplinary environment. Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously with a high degree of accuracy.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
Work History
Shift Chemist (Team Leader)
Swakop Uranium (PTY) LTD
07.2020 - Current
- Perform SHER impact assessments for the sections and provide resources to execute the action plans or correct deficiencies.
- Conduct safety and general laboratory facility inductions for new employees and visitors at the processing laboratory.
- Ensure the shift/daily production, performance, quality, and cost targets are met according to the business objective.
- Coordinate work activities, workflow, and resource allocations for the processing laboratory to ensure results are reported on time and if full.
- Supervise all laboratory activities and ensure that all approved activities, tasks, procedures, methods are completed according to plan.
- ArGIS for groundwater, reservoirs/dams modeling.
- Responsible for ensuring that shift handover is managed properly between the oncoming and outgoing shift.
- Manage all sample receiving activities on shift and ensure that the samples are completed and reported according to set operating procedures and quality standards.
- Review and validate laboratory results and ensure the quality standards are met before results reporting.
- Ensure + 90 % instruments and equipment availability by ensuring all equipment and instrument logbooks are up to date, filled in correctly and that maintenance requirements and breakdown are reported immediately and that corrective and preventive measures are put in place timorously.
- Ensure +95% availability of laboratory workflow by among other ensuring regular stocktaking is conducted, reagents, consumables, spares and other are re -ordered before safety stock is being used, laboratory operators are well trained and can conduct the required assays within the target turnaround time accurately and consistently.
- Manage all lockout activities on shift and ensure that equipment is locked out according to the lockout and isolation procedures and ensure all energy sources are isolated before work can commence.
- Audit all completed lockout activities and address deviations with all concerned .
Laboratory Operator
Swakop Uranium (PTY) LTD
02.2019 - 06.2020
- Conduct laboratory facility, equipment and instrument (such as; XRF, ICP-OES, Gallery for water quality and many more )clean-up and maintenance according to set procedures and schedules.
- Report all safety, health, environmental and radiation non-conformance to the Laboratory Shift Chemist.
- Comply with all safety, health, environmental and radiation procedures in area of responsibility.
- Attend and contribute to daily safety talks and monthly meeting with the rest of the team.
- Demarcate all unsafe areas, report unsafe actions and complete near miss report and follow up on all actions to make the area safe.
- Report all substandard equipment and instruments and follow up to ensure compliance.
- Ensure that everyone entering the Laboratory Facility area is wearing the correct PPE as set out in the procedures.
- Conduct Risk Assessments before commencing with any work.
- Sample receipt, sample preparation, analysis of plant solutions, slurry, solids etc.
- Compliance and understanding of ISO 17025.
- Follow all equipment and instrument checks, standard operating procedures, methods of analyses and reagent make -up methods for the laboratory.
- Perform screening and other tests for quality control.
- Enter all sample data into the LIMS system.
Shift Laboratory Technician
IMERYS Gecko Holding
07.2017 - 11.2018
- Maintain health, safety and environment standards.
- Carry out sample collection, preparations and inspection of sampling equipment.
- Carry out analyses and test work for mining and process samples incompliance to standard operating procedures.
- Carry out basic maintenance and calibrations of equipment.
- Evaluate, review and report laboratory results.
- Maintain minimal 95% instrument and equipment availability by ensuring all instruments and equipment checklist/logbooks are updated and that maintenance and breakdowns are in order and do not delay production.
Trainee Chemist
City Of Windhoek
01.2016 - 01.2017
- Assess any safety, health and environmental concern and suggest on corrective actions.
- Sampling from various points such as; reservoirs, boreholes, dams, swimming pools, schools, hospitals, industrial effluents and many more for both chemical and microbiological tests.
- Sample, standards and reagents preparation for various tests in wet and dry sections of the laboratory.
- Carryout analyses on various analytical instruments, such as SKALAR, Total Organic Carbon Analyzer, Ion Chromatography Spectroscopy.
- Introduced to the high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)and its applications.
- pH, conductivity and turbidity measurements.
- Determination of alkalinity in water samples.
- UV254 measurements.
Laboratory Demonstrator
University Of Namibia
01.2015 - 01.2016
- Ensuring that every person entering the laboratory has appropriate PPE.
- Setting up of instruments for student’s practical and supervise them during laboratory sessions.
- Prepare reagents/standards and test solutions for daily practical.
- Calibration of instruments such as pH, conductivity meters for the laboratory.
- Review laboratory results.
Education
Master of Environmental Engineering - Engineering
Namibia University of Science And Technology
Windhoek, Khomas, Namibia 04.2001 -
B.Sc. (Honours) in Chemistry And Geology - Chemistry And Geology
University of Namibia
Windhoek, Khomas, Namibia 04.2001 -
High School Diploma -
Haimbili Haufiku Senior Secondary School
Eenhana, Ohangwena, Namibia 04.2001 -
Skills
Documentation & Reporting
References
Mr. David Johannes
Senior Metallurgist: Processing
Swakop Uranium (PTY) LTD
+264 81 320 6474
Mr. Johannes T Mateus
Senior Process Engineer
IMERYS Gecko Holding
+264 81 268 45923
Mr. Venus Ferdinand de Klerk
Section head: Chemistry
City of Windhoek
+264 81 142 1529
Timeline
Shift Chemist (Team Leader)
Swakop Uranium (PTY) LTD
07.2020 - Current
Laboratory Operator
Swakop Uranium (PTY) LTD
02.2019 - 06.2020
Shift Laboratory Technician
IMERYS Gecko Holding
07.2017 - 11.2018
Trainee Chemist
City Of Windhoek
01.2016 - 01.2017
Laboratory Demonstrator
University Of Namibia
01.2015 - 01.2016
Master of Environmental Engineering - Engineering
Namibia University of Science And Technology
04.2001 -
B.Sc. (Honours) in Chemistry And Geology - Chemistry And Geology
University of Namibia
04.2001 -
High School Diploma -
Haimbili Haufiku Senior Secondary School
04.2001 -
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