SUMMARY:

• I have 10years of experience in Project and Contract management and as well maintenance of both fixed and mobile Plants.
• Improved Equipment availability from an average of 75% to 90% across the whole fleet of 44 machines through putting new systems and procedures and recruitment of competent personnel.
• Achieved a 14 month consecutive record of attaining 95% and above furnaces availability at Ferro chrome Smelter.
• Successfully negotiated for contract extension and expansion with a Customer.
• Successfully managed the refurbishment of a slag processin g plant
• Was part of a project team that successfully did the automation of furnace weighing plant
• Successfully managed the completion of furnace relining for Confidential at a cost of $US2million creating a significant 25% saving against the contracted budget.
• Participate in establishing and implementing the Project Management Plan and procedures.
• Prepare tender strategy; identify qualified consultants, contractors and vendors; prepare and issue RFP’s, evaluate proposals; negotiate contract terms/deliverables/payment schedules; and issue recommendation to the client.
• Attend or chair meetings and / or workshops with VENDORS, prepare meeting minutes and follow up to achieve identified actions.
• Review and monitor project cost estimates, VE proposals and cost reconciliation.
• Provide leadership, guidance and advice to the project team.
• Identify and resolve issues, including management, technical or administrative, to ensure that the project objectives are achieved.

MY AREAS OF STRENGTH ARE:

• Strong business acumen with excellent people management and leadership qualities.
• Customer service oriented with good interpersonal and organizational skills.
• Experience in Budgeting and cost control.
• Critical competency and talent development of team members
• Provide discipline specific expert service to projects and operations
• Set up and manage the discipline specific systems, tools, policies and procedures for the execution of projects
• Good Equipment maintenance expertise in putting systems and procedures.
• Experience in project and contract management

SKILLS:

Knowledge of modern world class maintenance systems like (Pragma Asset Management System)

Knowledge of project planning, execution, evaluation, feasibility studies, Cost Benefit Analysis

Understanding and execution of NOSA SHE system; and ISO14001

Understanding of Total Quality Management Systems (TQMS); ISO 9000 seriesProfiency in Ms office (word, AutoCAD, PowerPoint, excel)

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Contracts Manager

Responsibilities:

• Provide daily direction and technical knowledge to all direct reports to ensure an acceptable level of service, quality of work and support to key stakeholders and customers.
• Ensure that the contractual KPIs are achieved (e.g. MTBF, availability, Safety, MTTR etc.) and develop new or additional measures as a means of improving the quality and efficiency of the maintenance performance.
• Liaise and communicate regularly with key Confidential & customer personnel at Contract Sites.
• Follow up with direct reports on their daily tasks, outstanding work to be completed.
• Responsibility for all Logistic requirements such as Confidential stock levels, forecasting, stock taking, stock reconciliation and stock turns.
• Ensure the profitable control of the contract.
• Identify and develop training requirements at each site, including product related training to assist our artisans
• Coordinate, review and assess mechanical maintenance plans of heavy mobile equipment, standards and budgets, including facility standards and work practices are in accordance with production, contract requirements and compliance
• Monitor adherence of site maintenance operations to maintenance plans.
• Develop and implant continuous improvement plans - quality and efficiency of the maintenance work carried out by Confidential
• Ensure project is operated within agreed financial targets and review the maintenance costs regularly to continually improve contract cost efficiencies.
• Provide equipment performance and applications feedback and contribute to the development of engineering technical standards including facility standards and work practices.
• Recruit, mentor, motivate, train, evaluate and lead team members to accomplish the goals and objectives of the Process Support function.
• Comply with Confidential safety policies and applicable government, customer or industry regulations or requirements.
• Stay current on industry developments, competitive offerings and issues affecting sales and customers.

Mobile Equipment and Service Workshops Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Drawing up and updating schedules for maintenance inspection and lubrication all Caterpillar and Bell mobile equipment.
• Lead the Equipment Criticality Assessment reviews and diagnostic of Caterpillar and Bell machines
• Application of life cycle cost analysis in evaluating technical options for critical or high value equipment.
• Planning and execution of work in civil workshop, machine shop, electrical workshop and boiler shop.
• Supervising the flow of maintenance service schedules, work orders, defect notifications and other maintenance documents
• Working on long term strategies to improve overall lifecycle of equipment and assisting supervisors
• Identification and motivation of CAPEX budgets and plans
• Review equipment performance data, identify failure trends and co-ordinate method for improvement
• Develop/monitor and report on Reliability Key Performance Indicators
• Audit and benchmarking of current strategies against industry best practices
• Ensure maintenance history is recorded and accessible for review
• Managing and leading a team of maintenance personnel
• Facilitate the Defect Elimination process.
• Provide technical support in order to improve reliability and employee understanding of maintenance requirements.
• Ensuring availability of critical spare parts
• Rotable management and equipment tracking
• Implementing and developing maintenance procedures for heavy mobile equipment
• Monitoring and reporting on equipment availability
• Assisting maintenance supervisors in identifying training needs for craftsman
• Safety, Health, Environment and Quality
• Document controlling and implementation of all ISO 9000 and NOSA elements.
• Manage and further develop the existing quality and process safety programs.
• Responsible for workers compliance with health and safety requirements.
• Holding monthly safety and quality meetings
• Ensure co-ordination of good housekeeping in the section.

Confidential

Maintenance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Planning and execution of scheduled maintenance on furnaces, crushers, overhead cranes.
• Drawing up and updating schedules for inspection and lubrication for the whole plant
• Application of life cycle cost analysis in evaluating technical options for critical or high value equipment.
• Identification and motivation of CAPEX budgets and plans
• Lead the Equipment Criticality Assessment reviews
• Review equipment performance data, identify failure trends and co-ordinate method for improvement
• Develop/monitor and report on Reliability Key Performance Indicators
• Audit and benchmarking of current strategies against industry best practices
• Ensure maintenance history is recorded and accessible for review.
• Evaluate failure and equipment inefficiencies to overcome possible re-occurrence and improve equipment utilization or design improvements
• Supervising the flow of maintenance service schedules, work orders, defect notifications and other maintenance documents.
• Carry out corrective actions from audits and reviews
• Lead maintenance and technical team in safety reviews
• Ensuring plant up time targets are achieved.
• Ensure maintenance programme are in line with production schedules
• Ensure compliance to safety legislation and company procedures
• Budgeting and control of maintenance costs.
• Ensuring availability of critical spare parts.
• Rotable management and equipment tracking
• Ensure maintenance procedures and tasks are adhered to.
• Identify high cost areas and put corrective measures.
• Ensure new project designs are done according to engineering standards
• Document controlling and implementation of all ISO 9000 and NOSA elements.
• Manage and further develop the existing quality and process safety programs.
• Responsible for workers compliance with health and safety requirements.
• Holding monthly safety and quality meetings
• Ensure co-ordination of good housekeeping in the section.

Confidential

Assistant Project Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Leading and executing project development from concept generation and feasibility study to project definition and tender submission.
• Responsible for the planning and execution of complex projects within budget and time frames.
• Prepares documents for complex projects and makes recommendations on alternative ways to resolve engineering problems
• Institutes changes in methods, design or equipment as appropriate.
• Ensure new project Designs conform to Engineering standards and safety legislation
• Developing and managing contracts.
• Designing new production processes/refining existing ones in order to achieve desired performance levels.
• Ensure that health and safety requirements as per the company standard are adhere to with regards to specifying new equipment
• Accept responsibility of and effectively manage required tasks & projects & resources.
• Write and implement procedures and processes.
• Support a Planned Preventative Maintenance programme for all plant, machinery and equipment.
• Planning and supervising the manufacture and installation of machinery and components in line with design specifications and timescales.
• Budgeting and control of projects costs.
• Ensure Tendering and adjudications are done according to procedures
• Prepares and present technical reports relating to the engineering discipline.

Confidential

Trainee Mechanical Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Ensure compliance to statutory requirements of all lifting equipment
• Equipment performance analysis and reporting
• Equipment history analysis, tracking and reporting of critical equipment like Vibrating screens, cyclones crushers and ball mill
• Carryout FMECA and FMEA analysis on critical equipment
• Equipment failure cause analysis and reporting
• Equipment cost analysis and reporting
• Ensure availability of critical spare parts.
• Assist in the implementation and co-ordination of good housekeeping efforts.
• Schedule of critical maintenance programs and tasks.

Confidential

Trainee Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Maintenance of refrigeration plant and carbon plant
• Maintenance of Boilers and chillers
• Maintenance of all boiler auxiliaries like pumps, valves etc
• Ensure compliance to statutory requirements of boilers and all pressure vessels.
• Maintenance of screw and piston compressors
• Carry out corrective actions from audits and reviews
• Lead maintenance and technical team in safety reviews and troubleshooting reviews
• Ensuring plant up time targets are achieved.
• Maintenance of conveyor belts and cooling towers

Confidential

Trainee Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Maintenance of Boilers and chillers
• Maintenance of all boiler auxiliaries like pumps, valves etc
• Ensure planned maintenance schedule are done on time
• Ensure boiler inspections are done daily by operators and conform to standards.
• Ensure water hardness is controlled to avoid scaling
• Ensure compliance to statutory requirements of boilers and all pressure vessels.
• Maintenance of screw conveyors
• Equipment failure cause analysis and reporting
• Equipment cost analysis and reporting
• Identify high cost areas and put corrective measures.
• Maintenance of cooling tower fans and pumps