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ESTATE NEWS

GET TO KNOW OUR NEW OPERATIONS

MANAGER, WALTERS NOORDMAN

What’s your current position? What do you enjoy most about your
Operations Manager – Silver Lakes HOA job at Silver Lakes?
The challenging environment and being
Please give a short summary of able to identify the improvement I know
your qualification/s and past work I can bring to Silver Lakes.
experience.
My former work experience includes the Where did you grow up?
following: I was born in Durban and brought up in
• South African Police investigator. I was a small town called Dundee in northern
placed with the FCS (Family Violence, Kwazulu-Natal, in the centre of the
Child Protection and Sexual Offences Battlefields Route.
units) in Ladysmith, KwaZulu-Natal.
• Security management in various Did you have any mentors or people
industries, including Hotel and Leisure who influenced you? Tell us about
(casinos), Manufacturing, Warehousing them.
and Telecommunications. Mrs Jean MacRitchie, my high school
• Facilities and property management in English teacher. The lady was a mother,
the South African telecommunications educator, friend and mentor due to
industries, which included oversight of the manner in which she treated every If you could change one thing in the
retail, warehouse and technical facilities. person with respect, kindness and dignity, world to make it better, what would
no matter who or what they were or it be?
Describe yourself in three words. what hand they had been dealt in life. To encourage compassion and
Outside the box Everybody was important enough for her understanding towards others.
to lend a caring ear to and assist with
Are you married? Do you have wise, guiding words when guidance was What is your motto in life?
children? required. Don’t work hard, work smart. Planning is
I am happily married with two children key.
aged 10 and 12. What are your future plans?
I plan to complete diplomas in SAMTRAC Contact details
What are your hobbies or interests? (Safety Management Training Course) as 081 030 5141
Coaching schools rugby, cooking and well as Facilities Management before the
spending quality time with family. end of 2024. Thanks for the introduction, Walters!

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