Ronny Sichali

Overseeing four departments:
• Business Excellence
• Industrial Engineering
• Operational Excellence
• Cost saving initiatives

Lead a technical team of 8 direct reports, ensuring delivery of best practices across all major production, Konkola, Nchanga, Smelter, Nkana refinery and Nampundwe.
Manage departmental budgets and expenditures to ensure cost-effective, safe operations and optimized plant

Drive KCM Nchanga Business Excellence Department in order to Coordinate, Guide and Facilitate Continuous Improvement (CI) activities, initiatives and projects across KCM Nchanga.
Facilitate Change Management to promote a culture and mindset of business excellence and continuous improvement across KCM NCH (Mining and Processing plants).
Coaching / mentoring of stakeholders and employees across all

Manage KCM Business Excellence Department in order to Coordinate, guide and facilitate Continuous Improvement (CI) activities, initiatives and projects across KCM thereby optimizing returns on investment for the Company.
Drive Operational Excellence across KCM, through Continuous Improvement initiatives of Total Quality Management (TQM), Quality Circle (QC), Five ‘S’ (5s), KAIZEN, and Six sigma's

Leading the standardization the TLP Operating and Maintenance SOP’s.
Coordinating and managing TLP’s short and medium term Operations improvement projects.
Managing and Coordinating the Technical Training function at TLP and ensuring that best practices are inculcated in operatives.
Benchmarking TLP unit operations and driving continuous process improvements.
Lead and coordinate the TLP Pride of P

Implementation of the Gold plant improvement project.
Ran test works Knelson's Continuous variable discharge (CVD) gravity concentrator and The Deister table. Ran test works on enhanced Gold flotation for recovery of non Gravity recoverable Gold (GRG).
Looking for New methods of recovery to reduce Gold losses to tails.
Process control improvements, In Process control, worked with Process control t

Key Responsibilities:

Supervised day-to-day operations of the gravity gold recovery circuit, including Falcon and Knelson concentrators, Gemini and Deister shaking tables, and regrind mills.

Coordinated with the Copper Circuit team to optimize recovery trade-offs between copper and gold, managing surge mill, ball mill, and flotation operations.

Conducted metallurgical test work and data analysi

Identification of improvement project and site to implement.
Formation of teams, Provide training, coordination, advising and administration on matters of Continuous improvement in QC Quality Circles, TQM Total Quality Management, 5S and KAIZEN.
Departmental budgeting, execution and reconciliation in SAP enterprise software.
Auditing and identification through reviews of teams and site deserving r

Responsible for plant Process control and process improvements.
successfully tested and implemented Acid dilution project that reduced Sulphuric acid consumption by 18.2%.
Reduced flocculate consumption by 10% through optimisation of the Mixing system, dosing system and feed density.

Maintenance of Quality Document files QDF
Updating and amending of Standard operating procedures SOPs, standards maintenance procedures SMPs and monthly reports on ISO 9001.
Carrying out of internal audits as part of annual external BSI audits.
Achieved first time ISO 9001 certification for TLP's Leach plant.

Ensure that plant is 100% complaint with all Environmental policies and procedures.
identified potential environmental hazards.
Formulated the first TLP environmental impact register EIR in liaison with KCM environmental department

In charge of back shifts. supervision of plant personal.
ensure process control parameters and plant maintenance schedules are followed.
Fire prevention in liaison with fire department, conducted weekly fire drills.

process parameter control, test works and improvement opportunities.
weekly organic and crude inventory survey.
pollution control through management of spillage ponds.

Departmental Metal Balances, metal account, weekly physical verification PV, preparation for internal and external Audits

TLP process control, supervision of plant personal, liaising with sectional and plant managers and safety and fire prevention

Project appraisal and management, Legal aspects of project management, Supply chain management in projects, Project monitoring and evaluation, Research methods, IT tools for Project Management and Human resource management

Thesis: Factors leading to the failure of Total Quality Management TQM during the Covid-19 pandemic in the mining industry. A case study

Certificate in Total Quality Management, covering quality assurance, strategic management by policy, promotion and practice of TQM, daily routine management, statistical methods, and human aspects of quality.

Heat & Mass Transfer, Fluid Mechanics, Engineering Thermodynamics, Chemical Engineering Design, Process Control, Reactor Engineering, Applied Biology, Industrial Waste Management, Electrical Engineering, Strength of Materials, Particle Technology, Separation Processes, Engineering labs and Industrial safety, Process equipment design, Management and Quality control.

Majored in Combustion and Energ

Debate club member 1994 - 1997, Debate club President 1996 - 1997, Deputy Head Boy 1997, JETS club member 1996 - 1997, Baseball Team captain 1996 - 1997