Afroteq Academy Training Programmes
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Errol has more than 27 years of experience managing various facilities’ technical aspects in several industries. He has managed large technical maintenance projects in the medical and corporate sectors with great success.
Errol has an N3 Electrical Technician qualification and has attended several industry-related training courses contributing to his vast knowledge base.
Errol is our lead facilitator on the Facilities Maintenance: Handyman Training programme. His practical approach to technical maintenance enables him to relate to issues and teach learners how to find innovative and practical solutions to solve maintenance issues and ensure customer satisfaction.
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Jamie has 16 years of experience and is our resident financial and contract management expert. He is the Group Financial Director for the AFMS Group (Pty) Ltd and steers the financial and procurement strategies for the subsidiary companies operating in the facilities management and built environment sectors.
Jamie is a qualified chartered account and holds a B.Com Honours Accounting degree. He recently concluded his Executive Masters in Business Management degree and has also completed a PGDip in Management Practice.
Jamie is our lead facilitator on the Procurement and Contract Management course and guest lectures on other programmes with a financial component in the curriculum. He is a passionate and dedicated business professional, committed to value creation through service and functional excellence. His business experience extends to soft, professional and financial, non-profit and non-governmental organisations, and manufacturing and service environments.
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Maja is an accredited HR Professional with the South African Board of Personnel Practitioners (SABPP) and is the Human Resources Director for the AFMS Group (Pty) Ltd.
She has 20 years of practical experience in the facilities management and human resources industry. Being part of the Afroteq Academy management team and facilitating various training programmes, she has contributed to the course content and its ongoing relevance to industry standards.
Maja is an accredited Facilities Management Professional with SAFMA and a Services SETA registered facilitator and moderator. She has served as both chairperson and treasurer of SAFMA’s Cape Town Chapter from 2004/5, 2009/10 and 2010 to 2016.
Maja holds a National Diploma in Personnel Management and is certified as a moderator and facilitator with the Services SETA. Maja is one of our lead facilitators on the Principles and Practices in Facilities Management.
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Sjaneen has more than 15 years of experience in the facilities management and project management industry. She has managed many high value, critical business projects.
Sjaneen is an accredited Services SETA moderator and assessor and holds a Mechanical Engineering Diploma.
She has been our lead facilitator on the FM Operations Project Management training programme since 2004. Sjaneen is passionate about project management and she draws on her extensive project management experience when facilitating the programme, sharing her insights, knowledge and skill freely with delegates.
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Lydia is the Business Development and Marketing Director for the AFMS Group (Pty) Ltd. She has more than 25 years of experience in managing and directing facilities management operations. Lydia is an accredited Services SETA facilitator and a Professional Facilities Practitioner.
Lydia shares her wealth of practical and management knowledge and skills in procurement, service level agreements, strategic service integration and management techniques with delegates. She uses her extensive experience to demonstrate the various challenges and opportunities delegates can experience in an FM environment.
Having rendered services within the petroleum industry for many years, Lydia’s exposure to international best practice has expanded her knowledge and depth in facilities management, implemented to excellent effect in all AFMS’ operations. Lydia is part of a team of experts that develop the Academy’s training programme material. As a result, her intellectual property is incorporated into the material and transferred to the delegate.
Lydia has facilitated Afroteq Academy’s Principles and Practices in Facilities Management and the Facilities Management Procurement Practices training programmes since 2002.
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Desiree is a training consultant and has over 13 years’ experience in the skills development arena. Registered with the Services SETA, as both constituent assessor and moderator on NQF L5, Desiree is passionate about people development and positive performance management, with a proven track record across several business sectors and key clients.
She has held senior management roles within the contact centre industry and has worked as an accredited facilitator and assessor on the Department of Trade and Industry Work Ready Skills programmes for over 400 learners, within an international operational environment.
Her style of facilitation of the National Certificate: Generic Management Customer Management Qualification modules is practical, interactive and engaging, with the focus on the skills delegates will apply, back in the workplace. Delegates are encouraged and supported throughout their learning journey.
Desiree has the following qualifications, which complements her extensive business experience:
Training Programme: National Certificate: Generic Management – Customer Management (elective)
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Andries is the Senior Health and Safety Manager of the AFMS Group (Pty) Ltd and is responsible for managing and driving health and safety compliance, across all the business sites nationally.
He ensures adherence to structures and processes in place for staff and contractors, support site managers and the leadership, in ensuring injury and incident free operations at all sites.
With over 32 years’ experience, incorporating OHS and various management principles, his extensive experience contributes to his effectiveness as Senior Health and Safety Manager, where he ensures that all contracts undertaken by the AFMS Group and sites adhere, to the OHS Act and various industry related legislations.
Andries style of facilitation, ensures that delegates take away the importance of this serious legal business aspect.
Andries has the following key qualifications, which complement his extensive business experience:
Training Programme: Health Environment and Safety in Facilities Management