Werner Spies

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About Werner Spies

Cover Letter: Werner Jordaan Spies, BEng Mining Mining Senior Manager with significant experience in operation, project and corporate roles, as part of both owner and consultant teams. Excellent capability to lead multi-cultural teams in a holistic and inclusive manner to capture value-adding opportunities on strategic, project and budget level. Technical leader with strong analytic and systematic skills to identify optimisation opportunities and implement systems and processes that focus on the business objective. Value teamwork, collaboration, commitment, creativity, confidence and diversity. Member of the Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (SAIMM), Competent Person (CP) who can sign off on Mineral Reserves at operational or project level.Career Expectations:• Confidently develop and lead diversified multi-disciplinary teams to successfully plan, optimize and execute mining operations in a safe, efficient and business driven manner• Eager to apply my diverse operational and consultant experience within a global mining company fostering integration to achieve sustainability yet optimizing profitability though innovation, considering the full mining value chain Achievements:• Leading role as manager of several multi-cultural organizations, achieving significant success by integrating professionals over the full value chain• Developing and implementing group policies and standards, including the Life-of-Mine Planning Standard, Open-Pit Operational Standard and self-assessment tools for ArcelorMittal Group Mining• Leading role in several projects, significantly improving viability, sustainability, safety and resource optimization• Leading role in converting the Orken, Kazakhstan, manual resources system into an approved SK1300 compliant systemI have relevant mining experience in both surface and underground mining, including hard rock and coal. On project and operational level, I have been actively involved in most mining methods ranging from conventional to specialised techniques, including ultra large open pit mining (copper, iron, coal), massive tabular (bauxite, coal), sand mining both wet and dry (rare earths), complex blending / niche products and massive underground mining. My experience was obtained across the globe with relevant exposure in countries across Africa including the UAE, South America, North America & Canada, Europe and Asia.