Maahir Salie

Founder @ SmartLux Automation

About

Founder of home automation passion project and guaranteed conversational rabbit hole - SmartLux Automation. Plant asset care, automation and continuous improvement specialist currently working as Site Technical Lead at Mars Africa.

Country

South Africa

City

City of Cape Town

Industry

Consumer Goods

Skill

Total Productive Maintenance (TPM), Leadership, Project Management, Maintenance Management, Continuous Improvement, Automation, Engineering, Lean Six Sigma, Data Analysis, Plant Maintenance, Process Engineering, Process Automation, PLC Programming, Preventive Maintenance, Root Cause Analysis, Microsoft Office, PLC, Team Leadership, Problem Solving, RCM

Experience

Founder

SmartLux Automation

2024-2 - Present · 2 yrs 8 mos

City of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Having fun playing with home automation toys. Passion project since 2020

Site Technical Lead (GMR 2.1)

Mars

2023-4 - Present · 3 yrs 6 mos

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Asset care department lead (reliability, maintenance and engineering) GMR legal compliance PM Pillar owner

Reliability Engineer

Mars

2021-9 - 2023-4 · 1 yr 8 mos

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Asset reliability KPIs, including reporting and CMMS system integration Legal compliance (GMR 2.1) Implementation of TPM PM (progressive maintenance) pillar methodologies Project management for site-run capital projects Interfacing with other departments for delivering service to internal customers Factory IT and automation infrastructure management Maintenance team strategy and capability building

Process Optimisation Engineer

Tiger Brands

2019-4 - 2021-9 · 2 yrs 6 mos

Cape Town Area, South Africa

MECP (Manufacturing Excellence, Customs and Practices) facilitator and Process Optimisation Engineer at Jungle Oats. Continuous improvement and plant efficiency focus.

Engineering and Utilities Manager

Lancewood

2018-10 - 2019-3 · 6 mos

Cape Town Area, South Africa

Electrical Engineer

Saint-Gobain

2016-5 - 2018-9 · 2 yrs 5 mos

Gyproc, Cape Town

Control & Instrumentation Engineer

Transnet Port Terminals

2015-11 - 2016-4 · 6 mos

Acting Technical Manager (Control & Instrumentation)

Transnet Port Terminals

2015-3 - 2015-11 · 9 mos

Engineer in Training

Transnet Port Terminals

2013-3 - 2015-2 · 2 yrs

Project management, plant maintenance and reliability (RCM), hands on learning and fault finding, technical data analysis and reporting.

Project Manager

Ellen Arthur (Pty.) Ltd.

2010-11 - 2011-2 · 4 mos

Ottery, Cape Town, South Africa

Project management, design and construction of a 400m^2 electro-mechanical storage system for completed garments. My responsibility was to manage the disassembly of the old system and redesign and construction in new premises.

Student Engineer in Training

Transnet Port Terminals

2008 - 2011-1 · 3 yrs

Cape Town Port Terminal

Acquiring skills and experience within the container terminal operation. Experience gained in electrical and mechanical maintenance associated with terminal equipment and vehicles. 6-10 weeks annually.

Events Staff

Amanzi Blue Event Solutions

2007-11 - 2009-12 · 2 yrs 2 mos

Cape Town, South Africa

Providing assistance at events in the roles of usher, ticket salesperson and customer service.

Mechanical Workshop Apprentice

SANS Fibres

2007-6 - 2007-7 · 2 mos

Cape Town, South Africa

Mechanical workshop apprentice for practical engineering experience. Electrical and mechanical maintenance. 6 weeks

Education

University of Cape Town

Mechatronics

2007 - 2012 · 5 yrs

An honours level degree combining the fundamentals of Mechanical Engineering with light current Electrical Engineering. Additional exposure includes project management, control engineering and programming in various popular languages.