Ralph Hollenstein

Background

About Ralph Hollenstein

I’m a versatile, innovative, tenacious Mechanical Engineer with a combination of skills and experience of over 15 years in the mining industry. I am passionate about engineering design, research and development, problem-solving, and system and process automation through technology. I enjoy being part of a dynamic team and to have a positive impact on the people within my organisation. Strengths: • Teamwork: I play a crucial role to integrate with different business units within the company. I support Sales, Costing, Production, Drawing office and Field Services. • Passion: Problem-solving, Research and Development. • Dedication and hard work: Meet deadlines, and find solutions to problems. Take responsibility and be accountable for projects, and tasks to be completed. • Enjoy Engineering, CAE, Process simplification, creating systems and automation to reduce repetitive work and tasks. • Work well on my own initiative. • Dependable: Always open to assist with tasks, Mindful, Consistent. • Organized: I have systems and processes in place to perform tasks efficiently. Multitask, forward-thinking balanced life. • Customer-focused: As part of the Sales function I play an important role from a technical point of view to address customer needs. We work closely with the customer to achieve their goals and objectives. Key skills • Project management • Engineering design • Problem-solving • Mechanical drawings • Strong analytical skills • Engineering support to Sales, Costing, Production, Drawing office, and Field Services • Experience in supervising (Junior) Engineers and Draftsman • Product development / Research and development • Parametric modelling • Excellent in creating technical calculations in excel • Compiling of technical manuals and training material • Designing with accordance to fatigue codes and standards • Test and measurement • Teamwork • Excellent at time management and organisation/(Working remotely for over 2 years successfully) • Critical thinking Software • CAD: Autodesk Inventor Professional (Over 5 years experience) • CAD: Autodesk Vault Professional (Over 3 years experience) • Particle simulation: Rocky DEM software, specializing in Grinding Mills (Over 4 years experience) • MillTraj (Grinding Mills) • Patran (Basic) • Office 365 suite • FEA: Ansys Mechanical (basic) • JD Edwards • Project and task management tools: Asana, Instagantt, Planner, Wrike • Loom (Training videos) • Zapier (Workflow automation) • CAD: Solid edge (Over 10 years experience) • CAD: Solid edge simulation (FEA, 5 years experience)