Tshitlo Abram Dithuge
Germiston,South Africa
Summary
Accomplished professional with extensive expertise in project management, team leadership, and operational support. Demonstrates proficiency in project lifecycle knowledge, budget delegation, and strategic resource allocation. Adept at managing customer relationships, ensuring regulatory compliance, and enhancing process improvement. Skilled in training and development, employee management, and health and safety compliance.
Committed to driving organizational success through effective task prioritization, schedule planning, and deadline management. Organized professional with focus on coordinating projects and streamlining operations. Capable of enhancing team productivity and ensuring timely project completion through strong interpersonal and problem-solving skills. Adept at managing resources and fostering communication between departments to achieve set objectives.
Committed manager with exceptional leadership, organizational skills and communication abilities leads high-performing cross-functional teams. Leads projects, company operations and business growth.
Overview
29
29
years of professional experience
2014
2014
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Shift Supervisor/Acting Unit Head/(Foreman)/Shutdown Coordinator
Jazan Integrated Gas and Power Company (JIGPC)
Jazan
08.2021 - 04.2025
- Plan, and take a lead for the safe execution of planned and emergency turnaround
- Manage and finalise the scope of work for all third parties involved in shutdown execution
- Manage and lead the Operations daily meetings
- Preparations and finalization of the shutdown and start-up schedule to support overall refinery Production planning
- Manage all reported incident in AMAN portal and drive all required investigations ensuring that they are all properly closed
- Review of the SOP and make necessary corrections where required and serve as the first approval
- Draft and Review Unit budget and submit for final approval
- Writing of Training Manuals to enhance the contents from Operating Instruction Manual (OIM)
- Plant Loop checks and confirm as build P &ID drawings in field
- Managing of shift personnel and hold them accountable for compliance to the SOP
- Reporting of all near misses and incidents and take corrective action
- Hold the shift personnel accountable for adherence to procedures and production management systems such as inspections, defects registering etc
- Identifying and reporting of defects through SAP system
- Identify and act on safety and operational risk
- Check Plant Performance and manage the equipment’s opportunity list for unplanned shutdown
- Plan the major turnaround activities to ensure on time availability of resources
Shift Supervisor: Methyl Methacrylate Plant (MMA)
Petro Rabigh
11.2017 - 07.2020
- Responsible for the start-up of the new facility
- Review of the SOP and make necessary recommendations where required
- Managing of shift personnel and hold them accountable for compliance to the SOP
- Hold the shift personnel accountable for adherence to procedures and production management systems such as inspections, lading of defects etc
- Identify and act on safety and operational risk
Area Manager – Process Coordination. Germiston Central Control Room
Sasol-Satellite Operations
Germiston
08.2016 - 10.2017
- Responsible for the entire SASOL PIPELINE NETWORK inside and outside the borders of South Africa
- Ensuring an adherence to the agreed ATOP on gas distribution for both local and external customers
- Supporting a recovery plan for supply interruption for all internal customers by temporary making more gas available to the affected internal customers without affecting the entire network
- Effectively completed the rollout of SHE strategy which helped to achieve zero harm
- Reduced interruption supply of pipeline gas to end users through leadership visibility; both at compressor station and pipeline, and also by increasing competency of production team
- Reduced number of plant trips by effective implementation of shift system
- Achieved clean audits for both internal and external Safety on health; environmental; quality and compliance audits
- Managed to control cost variance within the agreed budged and achieved all set production volumes within the set budget
- Reduced third party complains by establishing regular visits, to hold engagements sessions with communities along our gas pipeline
- Rolled out the career development plan and progressed all qualifying personnel per career ladder guideline
Area Manager-Komatipoort Gas Compressor station and Pipeline Operations
Sasol-Satellite Operations
Komatipoort
04.2015 - 07.2016
- Takes full accountability as an appointed person for Compressor station and pipeline
- Effectively completed the rollout of SHE strategy which helped to achieve zero harm
- Reduced interruption supply of pipeline gas to end users through leadership visibility; both at compressor station and pipeline, and also by increasing competency of production team
- Reduced number of plant trips by effective implementation of shift system
- Achieved clean audits for both internal and external Safety on health; environmental; quality and compliance audits
- Managed to control cost variance within the agreed budged and achieved all set production volumes within the set budget
- Reduced third party complains by establishing regular visits, to hold engagements sessions with communities along our gas pipeline
- Minimised gas leaks by implementing the pipeline leak monitoring and repair strategies
- Rolled out the career development plan and progressed all qualifying personnel per career ladder guideline
- Responsible for all pipeline activities which includes, planning and managing of route inspections, responding to reported illegal excavation, supporting the maintenance strategies to maintain pipeline integrity, building and maintaining relationship with municipalities, land owners and the community in all areas where we operate
Process Coordinator/Refinery Shift Superintendent
Sasol-Chevron Nigeria Limited (SCNL) - EGTL
07.2012 - 03.2015
- Implemented effective communication protocols within EGTL Operations and also outside EGTL Operations with customers by establishing Process Coordinator office as a single point of contact for all operational matters
- Encored multi-disciplinary leadership meeting wherein Process Coordinator gives plant performance update including off spec parameters with mitigation taken or to be taken, outline objectives for 24 hours, highlight all required support from all disciplines and also highlight maintenance break ins jobs and allow Maintenance, technical to give an update on their activities to support operations
- Achieved accurate production forecasting per approved production target by managing planning office and ensuring on time submissions of equipment’s availability from all relevant supervisors
- Achieved 100% of approved production schedule by ensuring on time allocation of resources
- Led the efforts for plant optimisation through effective utilisation of operations team and technical team to identify optimisation opportunities and after proper evaluation approved the implementation
- Managed all plant emergencies including Process, Safety and Environmental Incidents in the capacity of Incident Commander
- Achieved effective management of Incident Management System(IMS) by ensuring all incidents are logged in IMS, Root Cause Analysis (RCA) is conducted and outcome of RCA is communicated to the entire workforce
- Held a senior position of Plant Operations Manager for EGTL operations during night shift and assumes full responsibility of the entire EGTL Operations
System Completion and Support Manager
Sasol-Chevron Nigeria Limited (SCNL) - EGTL
05.2011 - 06.2012
- Established System Completion office for EGTL Project Turnover Phases
- This office was fully responsible for managing all project walk downs, collating of raised punch items, review and follow-up to ensure that these punch items are fully addressed, development of dossiers from Mechanical Completion(MC), Ready for Commissioning(RFC), Ready for Start-up(RFSU) and Ready for Operations(RFO)
- The office was also responsible for issuing of dossiers with certificates for approval
- Build a highly competent team to take a lead to support the project by identifying required resources and skills and formulate Turnover Group which consists of, Zenator Database Coordinator, Document Controllers, walkabout coordinators, and technical assistance for managing all walkabout schedules
- Achieved nationalisation of my position within 18 months through effective knowledge skills transfer and proper establishment of turnover systems
- Conducted PSSR and Turnover training to all SME’s for the project
- Disciplines trained includes
- All Engineering disciplines
- Heads of the departments
- Supervisors of all departments
- Operators and technicians for the entire project
- DPR-Escravos Reps (Department of Petroleum Resources) for Nigeria
- Drove and reviewed all turnover dossiers up to approval stage
- Reviewed questions and collate all required information for Operational Readiness review for Commissioning Group
Head of Department - Gas Circuit
Sasol-Chevron Nigeria Limited (SCNL) - EGTL
07.2010 - 04.2011
- Reviewed and approved Operations training manuals
- Managed and achieved all agreed set targets for operations
- Successfully achieved all set project milestone for Gas Circuit (ASU, ATR and FT) by ensuring on time preparations for start-up plan and ensuring effective training of Operational team
- Prepared and distributed a weekly and monthly high level progress report on project status during construction and commissioning phase
Production Supervisor - Gas Circuit
Sasol-Chevron Nigeria Limited (SCNL) - EGTL
01.2009 - 06.2010
- Compiled, reviewed and approved Training Manuals for EGTL Project
- Trained plant personnel for EGTL project and declared them competent
Production Supervisor and Process Coordinator
OryxGTL Plant
03.2006 - 12.2008
Production Section Manager Butanol Plant
01.2002 - 02.2006
Senior Production Technician Rectisol-Gas Purification plant
12.1995 - 12.2001
Education
B.Tech - Chemical Engineering
Vaal University of Technology
Vanderbijlpark, South AfricaDiploma - Chemical Engineering
Vaal University of Technology
Vanderbijlpark, South AfricaDiploma - NQF-5 in Training - Generic Assessor
Maccauvlei Training College
Vereeniging, South AfricaCertificate - Frontline Leadership Programme
Sasol Training College
Sasolburg, South AfricaMBA - undefined
Edinburgh University
Skills
- Project lifecycle knowledge
- Excel spreadsheet mastery
- Presentation design and delivery
- Customer relationship management systems
- Employee management
- Microsoft Office
- Training and Development
- Project coordination
- Team oversight
- Task prioritisation
- Schedule planning
- Budget delegation
- Deadline management
- Email inbox management
- Outlook calendar management
- Task delegation
- Document control
- Strategic resource allocation
- Staff performance management
- Client assessments
- Project database management
- Expense management
- Health and Safety Compliance
- Cultural awareness
- Leadership skills
- Team Leadership
- Project Management
- Process Improvement
- Operational support
- Customer relationship building
- Regulatory compliance
Accomplishments
- I had an opportunity to be part of two GTL projects from construction phase through beneficial operation.
- Selected for a three months training as part of the key role players for commissioning one of the new plant in Sasol-Solvents in Sasolburg.
- Received exceptional performer merit rating in three consecutive years i.e. 2009, 2010 & 2011 in EGTL Project.
- Established System Completion Office to manage project turnover life-circle for EGTL and successfully supported the EGTL project up to Beneficial Operations.
Custom
- Chile Dickson, Senior Process Engineer, Jazan Integrated Gasification and Power Company-JIGC, c.dickson@jigpc.com, +966 55 952 3417
- Yahaya Isa, Operations Advisor Refinery and Utilities, Escravos Gas To Liquid(EGTL) Nigeria, yi6558@gmail.com, +234 8023932309
- Surprise Ngobeni, Lead Process Engineer, JIGPC-Sulphur Recovery Unit, +966 55 888 2869
- Alfred Zulu, Vice President, Sasol Projects, Alfred.zulu@sasol.com, +27 79 935 6958
Personal Information
- ID Number: 7303195277083
- Passport Number: M00285106
- Nationality: South African
Timeline
Shift Supervisor/Acting Unit Head/(Foreman)/Shutdown Coordinator
Jazan Integrated Gas and Power Company (JIGPC)
08.2021 - 04.2025
Shift Supervisor: Methyl Methacrylate Plant (MMA)
Petro Rabigh
11.2017 - 07.2020
Area Manager – Process Coordination. Germiston Central Control Room
Sasol-Satellite Operations
08.2016 - 10.2017
Area Manager-Komatipoort Gas Compressor station and Pipeline Operations
Sasol-Satellite Operations
04.2015 - 07.2016
Process Coordinator/Refinery Shift Superintendent
Sasol-Chevron Nigeria Limited (SCNL) - EGTL
07.2012 - 03.2015
System Completion and Support Manager
Sasol-Chevron Nigeria Limited (SCNL) - EGTL
05.2011 - 06.2012
Head of Department - Gas Circuit
Sasol-Chevron Nigeria Limited (SCNL) - EGTL
07.2010 - 04.2011
Production Supervisor - Gas Circuit
Sasol-Chevron Nigeria Limited (SCNL) - EGTL
01.2009 - 06.2010
Production Supervisor and Process Coordinator
OryxGTL Plant
03.2006 - 12.2008
Production Section Manager Butanol Plant
01.2002 - 02.2006
Senior Production Technician Rectisol-Gas Purification plant
12.1995 - 12.2001
Diploma - Chemical Engineering
Vaal University of Technology
Diploma - NQF-5 in Training - Generic Assessor
Maccauvlei Training College
Certificate - Frontline Leadership Programme
Sasol Training College
MBA - undefined
Edinburgh University
B.Tech - Chemical Engineering
Vaal University of Technology
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