Gender: Male
Birth date: 07/05/1974
Country: South Africa, Region: Gauteng, City: Johannesburg
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Objective: • Career growth, facing new challenges and adding net worth to an organisation. • To become an effective team player who will be loyal and determined in the implementation and formulation of objectives in an organization in engineering, production, and management aspects. • Working in a highly reputable organization with outstanding excellence. • Working for an organisation which has a clear social responsibility, with a rich history of good business ethics. • Working for a company, which place service delivery and above making profits. • To work for a vibrant organization where everyone believes that good enough is never good enough, where we challenge ourselves to reach further knowing that together we achieve more.
Job type: Full time
Available from: Anytime

1. Mechanical Foreman 01/07/2002 - Present
Company: Ubombo Sugar (Illovo)
Country of work: South Africa
Region of work: Gauteng
Salary: Confidential
Department: Engineering(Others)
Responsibilities: - Ensures that all maintenance work is carried out as per the ISO 9001, ISO 14001, and OHSAS 18001 Integrated Management System at Ubombo Sugar to achieve the quality standards.
- Allocate routine mechanical maintenance work to artisan fitters on daily basis and ensure that all work carried out by personnel is to the correct standards. Follow up breakdowns and allocate work to artisans
- Formulate annual budget for routine season maintenance, and shutdown work. Control maintenance budget and any budget that is applicable to section mechanical operations, and scrutinize budget variances and report to Plant Engineer
- Maintain, repair and optimise plant machinery and associated devices to ensure plant availability and product quality at minimum cost without sacrificing standards.
- Seek to improve maintenance methods and techniques by promoting effective communication in the workplace, and assist in training, develop and coach team members.
- Trace maintenance deviations and recurring of incidents under all plant conditions, analyse the results of comparison test, determine root causes and identify alternatives
- Supervising and supporting team to ensure that all work stations achieve their targets safely and correctly, and apply any disciplinary action when necessary.
- Assist artisan fitters, electricians, boilermakers, and instrument technicians when attending to machinery breakdowns.
- I’m also an Internal Quality Auditor, Safety Representative, and First Aider.

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2. Mechanical Trainee 01/01/1999 - 30/06/2002
Company: Ubombo sugar (Illovo)
Country of work: South Africa
Region of work: Gauteng
Salary: Confidential
Department: Engineering(Others)
Responsibilities: - Responsible for the planning, scheduling and coordinating of most engineering activities is different departments. Running scheduled and shutdown maintenance activities, also attending standby duties on crushing season.
- Assisting maintenance fitters in troubleshooting and fault finding, repair of all forms of plant machinery e.g. pumps, gearboxes, conveyors, carriers, hydraulics, pneumatics, and overhead cranes e.c.t.
- Propose modifications and determine the impact it would have on plant performance, and reviewing modifications for effectiveness.
- Liaise with all relevant sections and recommend corrective actions for any technical problems experienced.
- Identify problem areas on specific items of plant by comparing results and date with predetermined standards and evaluate trends.
- Develop simplified fault finding methods and update relevant documentation
- Drawing Office (Designing, implementation, and commissioning of various projects).
- Planning Office (Implementing of Computerised Vibration Monitoring System from VISA (CSI).
- Boilers operation and mechanical maintenance including bagasse and coal carriers, drive gearboxes, boilers fans, and boiler grate stoker chain type and station grates grate).
- Boiler-making (Involved in fabricating, installing and commissioning of various projects).
- Adhere to Safety and Health Environment (SHE) requirements
Recommandations: 1. Mr M Manyatsi Plant End Engineer
Ubombo Sugar Illovo
Tel : (00268) 363 8222
Cell : (00268) 608 8977
2. Mr Tokyo Dlamini (Planning Foreman)
Ubombo Sugar Illovo
Tel : (00268) 363 8233
Cell : (00268) 612 6146

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3. Mechanical In-Service Trainee 01/01/1998 - 31/12/1998
Company: Swazi Brewers
Country of work: South Africa
Region of work: Gauteng
Salary: Confidential
Department: Engineering(Others)
Responsibilities: - Drawing Office (Designing, implementation, and commissioning of various projects).
- Maintenance of various equipments e.g. pumps, gearboxes, conveyors, carriers, hydraulics e.c.t.
- Machining Workshop (machining, and milling of various components)
- Carry out section checks and inspections to prevent unnecessary breakdowns

Studies:
-- Technikon Mangosuthu, National Diploma in Mechanical Engineering 1996 to 1999.
-- Swaziland College of Technology (SCOT), City and Guilds certificate in Mechanical Engineering 1995 – 1995
-- St John Bosco High School, O’ Level 1988 to 1992

Courses, certificates & awards:
•- Certificate in Sugar Engineering, University of Natal Durban (SMRI)
•- Boiler Awareness Course, - John Thompson Africa
•- Boiler Training Course, Babcock International
•- Internal Quality Auditing, Independent Quality Services
•- Integrated Management Auditing Course, Kleinhans management Consultants.
•- Job Safety Analysis, NOSA
•- Integrated Star System Navigator, NOSA
•- SHE Representative Course, NOSA
•- Welding Technology, Southern African Institute of Welding
•- Machine Vibration Analyst 1, Vibration Institute of South Africa
•- Effective Supervisory and Leadership Skills 1 – Lwati Training Institute
•- Management Development Programme, HPW

Languages:
English: Reading advanced, Speaking advanced, Writing advanced

Pc knowledge:
MS Office, Internet.

Other skills, experiences or observations:
- Other Languages: isiZulu, and siSwati.

COMMUNICATION SKILLS
I have developed to utilise interactive skills to get agreement amongst team members on performance output, standards and feedback mechanisms which regards to team and individual goals being achieved.

COMPUTER LITERATE
Familiar with most computer applications – Microsoft project, Auto-cad, Microsoft word, Microsoft excel, Microsoft Office Visio, Maximo (Computerised Maintenance Management System) and Tranquillity Software (same as SAP) e.c.t

PROBLEM SOLVING
I have been involved in engineering and production problem solving forums, investigating team work performance, and evaluating engineering and production proposals or solutions.

IMPLEMENTATION
I have also developed the skill of reducing plans into practical activities so that the planned outcome is achieved in the best possible way, and according to set standards.

TIME MANAGEMENT
In balancing my work performance and achieving production targets, time management skills have been essential. I have learned that proper and justified time allocation should be planned and effected for activities to be done in line with standards