Leon J. van Vuuren

Posted on March 25, 2015

Title: Chief Executive Officer

Company: Power Delivery Industry Maintenance Consultants

Location: South Africa

Leon J. van Vuuren began his career at ESKOM Transmission, which lead to eight years in live work maintenance, two years in training and development, 13 years in training and development for distribution, and 14 years in training and maintenance contracting. Today, he utilizes the skills he learned from his previous work to serve as a live-work consultant, adviser, and maintenance contractor for a company that supports the implementation of on-the-job education and training for transmission, reticulation and distribution, to maintain medium voltages, high voltages, and extra-high voltages under live conditions. In his role, Mr. van Vuuren is responsible for ensuring the live work (C3M) duties are carried to compliance of the BSI PAS 99 certification to the common (integrated management system) specification requirements of ISO 9001, ISO 14001, OHSAS 18001 standards and other ISO and IEC standards. He thoroughly enjoys his work and believes the most gratifying aspect of his career was working in lead safety, health, environment, construction, and quality risk with the workforce using (C3M) live work in conjunction with integrated management system of BS PAS 99 (common management system of ISO standards). Mr. van Vuuren has 37 years of experience and attributes his passion and success to SMART-Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, Targets to (SHECQR) for the power industry to ensure customer satisfaction of power lines and substations up time during live work maintenance to “keep the light on.” Read the rest of this entry »