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Reino Kotze
Mechanical Engineer
Swakopmund
Summary
I am a friendly individual that others can find easy to work with while being adapt at leading teams and developing improvements. Knowledgeable manager and specialize in complex problem solving with excellent communication and critical thinking skills. Forward-thinking Technical Supervisor with 4 years of positively impacting business operations. Collects and analyzes information to address technical concerns with proactive and strategic approach.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
2
2
Certificates
2
2
Languages
Work History
Technical Supervisor
Mediclinic Swakopmund
Swakopmund
10.2019 - 09.2025
- Formulated plans for improving procedures, training and processes.
- Managed projects to completion, construction and digital infrastructure.
- Coordinated and preformed calibration, maintenance and operation of equipment for maximum performance.
- Allocated resources for optimum coverage and effectiveness while correctly maintaining all critical healthcare equipment.
- Collaborated with multiple different non technical departments for strategy implementations and mutually beneficial solutions.
- Lead team of 3 technical personnel focused on maintenance, ISO and risk reduction.
- Organized system operating procedures to strengthen controls.
- Researched and adopted new technologies to add value to existing offerings.
- Investigated system issues and implemented resolutions to reduce downtime.
- Installed system updates to address vulnerabilities and reduce security issues.
- Maintained authoritative knowledge through continued education and ongoing training.
- Developed diagrams to describe and lay out logical operational steps.
- Authored best practices documentation for use in new personnel onboarding processes.
- Presented business leaders with ROI estimations to drive project planning.
- Monitored employee tasks to gauge business functions and inefficiencies.
Engineer in Training
K.Neumyer
Walvis Bay
03.2019 - 05.2019
- Studied specifications and safety documents to address organizational and regulatory demand.
- Studied construction plans and verified on site accuracy.
Geology Field Assistant
Private Geologist
Windhoek
06.2016 - 11.2016
- Planned core sample cutting sequence.
- logged sample depth for reporting purposes.
- Preformed bulk density measurements of all samples before shipping to lab for testing.
- Maintained precision bulk density scale, core cutter and computers ever second day or as necessary.
Head Motor Mechanic
Gecko Adventure
Swakopmund
01.2014 - 12.2014
- Preformed pre tour inspection and maintenance.
- Part of support crew on group tours.
- Recommended future upgrades and or updated to motorcycle fleet.
- Instructed clients and demonstrated sand riding techniques.
- Preformed social role to clients engaging in conversation and providing Namibian context to question.
- Provided general assistance outside of maintenance work profile.
Vehicle Mechanic
Vineta Shell Garage
Swakopmund
07.2010 - 11.2013
- Diagnosed engine, suspension, brake, transmission and other vehicle issues.
- Repaired and reinforced vehicle body damage or corrosion.
- Ordered parts and supplies from suppliers when bench stock levels dropped below threshold or when broken parts required replacement.
- Preformed more complex tasks such as differential and transferase rebuilds. Professional routing of brake hard line.
- Participated in off road competition vehicle maintenance and upgrades.
- Preformed electrical/electronic diagnosis on vehicle subsystems that experience very unusual and difficult to diagnose problems.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering (NQF8) - Mechanical
04.2001 -
Engineering degree with emphasis on analytical problem solving. My 4th year specialization was renewable.
Additionally my 2 final year projects, the group project and individual project. The group project was design a simulated electric car in matlab inputting a physical route GPS data to compute regenerative braking and energy consumption to a diesel powered SUV. the individual project was designing a motorcycle scissor lift with the help of a advanced program written in c++ to essential do the engineering and force calculation for me. Both projects we where expected to research and use methods not taught to us to show our independence in problem solving and self learning. My instructors was very pleased with both my projects end results.
Skills
Reporting Requirements
Accomplishments
Improve the hot water system at Mediclinic swakopmund by 90% while decreasing the downtime frequency from every 3 months to 1.5 years.
Produced 30% of all covid required building additions myself in 2019 during the severe lockdown period.
Identified, motivated and supervised a project to replace the incinerator chimney. This reduced the diesel consumption by 50% and reduced the time required to incinerate waste by 60%.
Worked with doctors to find a balance between sustainable oxygen use and effective treatment to keep the consumption below 460kg a day or 150 bottles 3 days. Supplier could not supply more than 150 bottles a day do to lack of bottle supply in the county, for empty to full, bottle exchange.
Worked with surrounding hospitals and individuals to provide oxygen and equipment parts as a life saving measure.
Produced a tools to remove oxygen fittings without shutting off oxygen in a area. This was needed because the flow regulators needed to be changed to a quick fitting for oxygen to supply equipment where it was too high risk to shutoff oxygen.
Helped plan permanent isolation rooms for the ICU.
Certification
Philips MX400 to MX800 montors and intelliVeu systems Biomed certification
Interests
Microcontroller programming
Motorcycling
Metrology
Machining
Timeline
PYTHON PROGRAMMING BEGINNERS LEVEL
03-2025
Philips MX400 to MX800 montors and intelliVeu systems Biomed certification
10-2022
Technical Supervisor - Mediclinic Swakopmund
10.2019 - 09.2025
Engineer in Training - K.Neumyer
03.2019 - 05.2019
Geology Field Assistant - Private Geologist
06.2016 - 11.2016
Head Motor Mechanic - Gecko Adventure
01.2014 - 12.2014
Vehicle Mechanic - Vineta Shell Garage
07.2010 - 11.2013
Namibia University of Science And Technology (NUST - Bachelor of Engineering (NQF8), Mechanical
04.2001 -