Curriculum Vitae of

Johannes (Jan) Marius Bezuidenhout

18 Santiago Complex

Lynnwood Ridge

Pretoria, Gauteng

South Africa 0081

E-mail: [email protected]

Telephone:  South African mobile: +27 (0) 782730650

Alternative mobile: +27 (0) 645243224

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PERSONAL DETAILS:

Date of Birth:          24 October 1966 (Age 50)

Marital Status:        Married (03 November 1990)

Dependants:            Wife and Daughter

Nationality:             South African

Passport:                 465901610

Home Language:    Afrikaans / English

Religion:                 Christian

Health:                    Excellent

Drivers Licenses:    Code 08

Criminal Record:    None

EDUCATION:

Highest Education: Matric (Grade 12)

School:                    High Technical School Marais Viljoen

Year completed:     1984

AVAILABILITY:

Two weeks’ notice

ADDITIONAL KEY STRENGTHS:

• Leading and guiding a team by good example
• Encourage and train all staff to respect the chain of command.
• Adopt a caring attitude in all of your dealings with staff (Afghan’s, Indian’s, Sri Lankan’s, Philippines and Pakistan’s)
• Accustomed to long working hours in all conditions
• Ownership of issues and seek equitable and creative solutions to problems and manages by example.
• Fostering a working environment that encourages a learning culture (Training, development, monitoring of staff performance)
• Excellent time management skills and able work to strict deadlines
• Display a high level of self motivation.
• Extensive operational experience in cleaning, laundries, deep clean, hospitals and labour
• Outstanding planning and organisational skills
• Outstanding administration skills
• A good “hands on” person

PROFESIONAL QUALIFICATIONS:

Certificate in Riot and Crowd Control – South African Police (1986)

Emergency First Aider – Institute of Emergency First Aiders (1994)

Industrial Relations – Prestige Cleaning Services (1994)

NOSA Health & Safety Representative A4133 – NOSA (1995)

Diploma in Management Development – Damelin College SA (1997)

Safety Representative – Group 4 Securitas (1998)

Basic Fire Theoretical & Practical EF1026/06 – Eagle Risk Training Academy (2007)

HS&E Core Competency: – KBR (2009 & 2011)

• Environmental Awareness
• Manual Handling
• Employee / Employer Responsibility
• Stress / PTSD
• COSHH

Institute of Occupational Safety and Health 14729 – IOSH Management (2010)

HS&E Behavioural Safety Training – KBR (2010 & 2011)

Supervisors Core HS&E Roles and Responsibility – KBR (2013)

First Aid at Work level 1 (2010)

Emergency First Aid at work & AED Trained – KBR (2014)

IT Competence (Word and Excel)

HASLAC Construction Legal Liability HW592PA05000129 – JHB (2018)

First Aid Level 1 – (20181108) – JHB (2018)

Occupational Health & Safety – JHB (2018)

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

EMPLOYMENTY SUMMARY:

• Beckers Plumman – South Africa – August 2015 – Present
• Nemchem – DR Congo – May 2015 – July 2015
• KBR – Afghanistan – May 2007 until November 2014
• Prestige Cleaning – February 1991 until May 2007

(1) 01 August 2015 – Currently: Beckers Plumman, Johannesburg – South Africa

Senior Site Foreman / Safety Officer

Building Construction

Manage and Supervise daily activities on site

• Handle creation of job duties and delegate tasks to construction workers
• Create and monitor schedules for each worker and ensure that he has the physical and mental ability to cope
• Ensure accuracy of work orders prior to handing them out and make sure that time efficiency is taken into account
• Make sure that work sites are cleaned and cleared of any hazardous materials prior to the beginning of a construction project
• Brief crew members about how daily tasks need to be carried out
• Manage construction budgets and track construction costs
• Ensure that all machinery and tools are available to the crew and everything is in proper order and state of maintenance
• Perform inspections to ensure that the crew’s performance is up to the set standards
• Coordinate separate modules of the construction process to ensure harmony
• Ensure that all materials, supplies, tools and equipment are procured in a time efficient manner
• Monitor daily construction procedures to ensure that proper quality is maintained and that schedules are being followed
• Create progress reports on a daily basis and ensure that any significant information is communicated to the supervisor
• Handle onsite incidents and emergencies in a proactive manner
• Create and maintain positive working relationships with vendors and suppliers to ensure timely procurement of supplies and materials
• Ensure periodic maintenance and proper storage of construction equipment and tools
• Ensuring all Health and Safety policies, Risk assessments, COSHH and Method statements are adhered to
• Coordinate with other teams ensuring satisfactory completion of all work requests.
• Support the development of OHS policies and programs
• Advise and instruct on various safety-related topics (noise levels, use of machinery etc.)
• Conduct risk assessment and enforce preventative measures
• Review existing policies and measures and update according to legislation
• Inspect premises and the work of personnel to identify issues or non-conformity (e.g. not using protective equipment)
• Stop any unsafe acts or processes that seem dangerous or unhealthy
• Record and investigate incidents to determine causes and handle worker’s compensation claims
• Prepare reports on occurrences and provide statistical information to upper management

(02)  May 2015 – July 2015: Nemchem, DR Congo

Contract Coordinator

Facility Services

Manage and supervise the daily activities of cleaning teams and ensure optimal use of manpower and resources

• Ensuring all Health and Safety policies, Risk assessments, COSHH and Method statements are adhered to.
• Workshop maintenance and checks, ensuring equipment complies with Health and Safety requirements.
• Handling entire recruitment process for all staff and local national staff in the DR Congo.
• Responsible for day to day administration of management offices including in-country HR, budget control, running the management offices and accommodation
• Manage the deliveries of consumables and stock to the mines in DR Congo.
• Carrying out quotations for specialist duties on a daily basis, involved setting time bar charts and strict deadlines.
• Arrange Deep Cleaning (Sanitizing off all Kitchens, Carpet Cleaning, Window Cleaning, Pre Occupied Office Cleaning and Sanitary Bins) for all exiting areas
• Compile weekly and monthly reports for management in order to submit a final report to our Head Office in Zambia.
• Timekeeping & all administration work (shift rosters, leave cycles, compassionate leave):
• Available for 24/7 (monitor standby duties and emergency call outs)
• Coordinate with other teams ensuring satisfactory completion of all work requests.
• Display a sound knowledge of all Soft Service activities

(3) 01 September 2014 – 30 November 2014:  KBR (UK), Afghanistan

Site Lead (Life Support) – Camp Kandahar

AMAC / Soft Services provide support to the military forces.

Manage and supervise the daily activities of the team and ensure optimal use of manpower and resources

• Ensuring all Health and Safety policies, Risk assessments, COSHH and Method statements are adhered to as well as delivery of tool box talks.
• Workshop maintenance and checks, ensuring equipment complies with Health and Safety requirements.
• Handling entire recruitment process for all staff and local national staff in Afghanistan, arranging medicals and arranging travel to site.
• Demobilising of all staff from country at the end of their service, including exit interviews and travel
• Responsible for day to day administration of management offices including in-country HR, budget control, running the management offices and accommodation
• Manage the collection of Clinical Waste that needs to be incinerated
• Compile weekly and monthly reports for management in order to submit a final report with the Drawdown of Afghanistan.
• Timekeeping & all administration work (shift rosters, leave cycles, compassionate leave):
• Available for 24/7 (monitor standby duties and emergency call outs)
• Coordinate with other teams ensuring satisfactory completion of all work requests.
• Display a sound knowledge of all Soft Service activities
• Responsible for 65 local Afghan labor and 25 expat staff (TCN 2’s – Indian, Sri Lankan, Philippines, Pakistan)
• Responsible to help with the Drawdown plans towards the end of the contract in Afghanistan

(4) 01 July 2011 – 31 August 2014:  KBR (UK), Afghanistan

Site Supervisor (Life Support) – Camp Bastion

Role-3 Hospital in Camp Bastion.

Manage and supervise the daily activities of the team and ensure optimal use of manpower and resources

• Manage the laundries (washing and drying all personal (British, American, Danish) clothing on the site
• Manage the collection of Clinical Waste that needs to be incinerated
• Manage the burns of the incinerator: ‘human waste, control drugs, contraband and specialized items’
• Manage and arrange Deep Cleans on request from the Quarter Master and also new departments that might be coming on line
• Manage and respond to all call outs that came via ‘Front of House’
• Manage the responds in a prompt and efficient manner to all reactive issues and call out requests.
• Report to Quarter Master on work progress and work quality issues on a daily basis
• Compile weekly and monthly reports for management in order to submit a final report to the Quarter Master.
• Placing weekly consumable orders with the military
• Timekeeping & all administration work (shift rosters, leave cycles, compassionate leave):
• Manage the cleaning of all the wards in the hospital and the mortuary on request and the cleaning of the Emergency Department and Operating Theatres
• Flexible to work and adhere to shift patterns as and when required
• Carry out weekly site inspections with the Infection Control Officer to monitor standard of work schedule.
• Coordinate with other teams ensuring satisfactory completion of all work requests.
• Inform the Quarter Master and the Head Office if any safety issues or concerns, maintain a safe place of work Health and Safety policies and practices are essential to this role and are a condition of employment.
• Responsible for 296 local Afghan labor and 32 expat staff (TCN 2’s – Indian, Sri Lankan, Philippines, Pakistan)
• Responsible for the ongoing training to all the hospital staff and taking care of the Health and Safety and PPE requirements
• Responsible for the SRS’s (Stores Request Sheets) that needs to be placed for the hospital
• Responsible for the SOR’s (State of Requirement) that needs to be placed when new work, equipment or staff is required
• Responsible to help with the Draw Down plans towards the end of the contract in Afghanistan

(5) 09 May 2007 – 30 June 2011:  KBR (UK), Afghanistan

Site Supervisor (Life Support) – Camp Tombstone

Cleaning, Deep Cleans Kitchen and Hospitals, Laundry Services & Wash down area:

Providing support to the UK, Danish and USA military Forces

• Timekeeping and all administration work (shift rosters, leave cycles, compassionate leave)
• Dealing with all the requests that came from the QM’s department
• Intensive client liaison on a daily basis
• Doing daily and weekly inspections
• Compile weekly and monthly reports for KBR management
• Manage the Laundries: (washing, drying all personal – British, American, Estonians, and Danish) clothing on the site.
• Manage the Cleaning: (showers, toilets, urinals and hand basins) need to clean and disinfect daily.
• Manage the Deep clean of all the kitchens
• Manage the Wash down area and all the bookings that the military places
• Placing consumables orders with the military
• Service Lead on a 350 man Military camp (Camp Sharobak/Tombstone) in Southern Afghanistan.
• Responsible for 65 local Afghan labor and 15 expat staff (TCN 2’s)
• Responsible for the ongoing training to all the cleaning staff and taking care of the Health and Safety and PPE requirements

Reference: [email protected] – Contract Manager or [email protected] – Deputy Manager.

(6) February 1991- April 2007 – Various Cleaning Services Companies (South Africa)

Prestige Cleaning, Supercare Cleaning, Medigaurd Cleaning, Fedics Foods Cleaning & Global Cleaning,

Operations Area Manager in – Johannesburg & Pretoria Region

General Cleaning, Hospital Cleaning, Blood banks Cleaning, Vehicle Wash down Cleaning, Kitchen Cleaning and Laundries

Responsible for the operations of the sites, quotations and staff

• Supervising 655 employees, 20 supervisors and 23 team leaders in varies locations in and around Johannesburg and Pretoria area.
• Carrying out quotations for specialist duties on a daily basis, involved setting time bar charts and strict deadlines
• Timekeeping & all administration work (shift rosters, leave cycles, compassionate leave in Johannesburg and Pretoria area)
• Handling of all complaints and requests from the client and various departments
• Handling weekly inspections with the ICNO (infection control nurse officer) in various Hospitals and Blood banks around Johannesburg and Pretoria area and address all complaints immediately
• Compile weekly and monthly reports for management in order to submit a final report to various clients head office.
• Manage the collection of Clinical Waste in all Hospitals and Blood banks (incineration) and give a written report monthly
• Handling monthly consumable orders for all the contracts
• Respond to all call outs that came via phone from the clients or head office
• Responsible for the ongoing training to all the cleaning staff and taking care of the Health and Safety and PPE requirements
• Arrange Deep Cleaning (Sanitizing off all Kitchens, Carpet Cleaning, Window Cleaning, Pre Occupied Office Cleaning and Sanitary Bins) for all exiting areas

(7) February 1985 – December 1988: South African Police Services – Johannesburg

• Trained in all aspects of political war fare
• Attending court cases and giving evidence.
• Guarding of the then political prisoners
• Investigating of criminal cases, including cases against members of the Police force
• Drafting of duties and duty rosters and attending meetings

(8) January 1989 – December 1990 – South African Defence Force – Compulsory National Service

During my service for the military I gained a great variety of skills while executing a whole range of tasks and duties:

Main responsibilities and skills gained include:

• Overall administration and supervision of a section of soldiers including promotion of effective team work.
• Health and Safety including delivery of tool box talks.
• Member of operational riot team ready to deploy at short notice to carry out a wide variety of tasks.
• Excellent communication skills gained through working with people and from a wide range of cultural backgrounds.
• Problem solving under pressure with limited resources to meet task objectives
• A full diversity of practical and technical posts within the military
• Trained in all aspects of war fare

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

I’m a highly motivated and adaptable individual who is able to work on my own initiative and within a team.

I have seven years and eight months experience of contact worked in Afghanistan and 3 months in DRC

I have a sound knowledge of Health and Safety regulations within a military establishment, especially working within a ‘’High Operational – Hospital’’

I am happily married with no social or domestic problems and have one daughter

• 20Years