Maximo (CMMS)
BALEBETSE PORTIA MDLULI
Maintenance Manager
Pretoria
Summary
Experienced Maintenance Manager with 24 years of successful team management in maintenance-driven roles. Skilled in scheduling facilities maintenance to minimize downtime and safety hazards. Extensive experience in troubleshooting and repairing equipment, prioritizing quality and efficiency. A strong leader and problem-solver committed to streamlining operations, reducing costs, and promoting organizational efficiency. Utilizes independent decision-making skills and sound judgment to positively impact company success.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
7
7
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Certifications
Work History
Maintenance and Asset Manager
ESKOM DISTRIBUTION
Emalahleni
12.2012 - 1 2022
- Accountable for the integrated asset and risk management plans
- Ensuring compliance with all safety regulations and standards
- Manage external contractors for specialised maintenance tasks (Wood Pole Testing Contract)
- Accountable for preparing annual maintenance plans, outage scheduling, and budgets
- Manage a team of maintenance technicians
- Assign tasks and provide guidance when needed
- Manage technical risks and housekeeping standards
- Oversees the management of strategic and critical spares (including mobile substations and equipment maintenance)
- Maintain records of the Work Management process (Work orders, scheduling, daily activities, and costs.) Collaborate with other stakeholders (departments) for refurbishment and improvement of asset performance
- Manage maintenance strategies and policies
- Accountable for the auditing of the maintenance function and execution
- Management of critical and strategic spares
- Supervise all corrective, preventative, and upgrade maintenance activities
- Project Management of mobile sub-stations (organising, planning, coordinating, and maintenance activities.)
MAINTENANCE PLANNER
ESKOM DISTRIBUTION
Pretoria
04.2007 - 11.2012
- DEVELOP MAINTENANCE PLANS BY: Identifying assets to be maintained
- Deciding on Plant Specific maintenance requirements by analysis of the operational environment employed and by consultation with Stakeholders
- Optimising maintenance requirements by applying PM Hierarchies, Routes and Job Plan Sequencing
- Providing recommendations for changes to maintenance standards and philosophies based on field experiences
- Authorising deviations from plans
- Monitoring maintenance activities against the plan
- Integrating maintenance plan with customer requirements, negotiated outages, capital projects and Control Plant
- Utilising RCM principles to develop maintenance plans
- PERFORM MAINTENANCE INFORMATION ANALYSIS & TAKE CORRECTIVE ACTIONS BY: Analysing the impact of maintenance on customers, KPI'S and maintenance strategy
- Analysing condition monitoring results including trending and forecasting
- Deciding on corrective actions and initiation of corrective action
- Identifying the need for maintenance investigations and conducting investigations when needed
- Producing maintenance KPI'S for FSA
- EXECUTE MAINTENANCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM BY: Providing system expert knowledge on the Maintenance Planning Modules in Maximo
- Maintaining assets, location and maintenance strategy information when an asset has been commissioned, decommissioned, removed or refurbished
- Maintaining a dynamic maintenance plan that is reflective of breakdown maintenance that has resulted in asset replacement
- FACILITATE MAINTENANCE STANDARDS IMPLEMENTATION BY: Carrying out audits using prescribed check sheets
- Compiling of the annual audit plan
- Following up on recommendations and action plans.
SENOIR TECHNICIAN
ESKOM TRANSMISSION APOLLO CONVERTER
Midrand
07.2000 - 03.2007
- Performed Plant planned maintenance on transformers, and capacitor banks including 132kV in accordance with policies, directives, procedures, standards, work practices, guidelines and service agreements
- Inspected, Evaluated, and executed non-intrusive maintenance on substations, valve control rooms, and DC room and Ensured low impedance earth paths and earth resistivity by electrical testing, observations and executing remedial actions
- Protection-Monitoring and Maintenance of 380 V & 11 kV Auxiliary
- Identified problems relating to plant performance and provided recommendations/feedback and Investigated & analysed faults/incidents and acted to correct equipment failures/malfunctions
- Ensure spares availability Perform fault finding on Isolators and 275kV Breakers Perform functional test and fault finding on 275kV Transformers Maintenance on Plc's using Simatic 5 software on the old HVDC Scheme
- Performed Safety Inspections on assigned Secondary plant equipment
- Installed, commissioned, and Optimized maintenance on AC / DC drives (siemens, ABB, Schneider variants), dip-proof inverters, uninterruptable power supplies
- Monitored & Investigated faults on the ABB Control & Protection Systems
- Coordinated maintenance activities and plans concerning DC control systems
- Analysed and captured current operating values on transformers, lines AC/DC system and feeders
- Coordinated maintenance activities and plans for DC control systems (50V, 60V and 220V)
- Performed Annual Battery maintenance and fault finding on UPS, Basic charger operation and first-line maintenance of battery chargers and rectifiers and - ordinated all work on power station batteries
- Analysed plant recordings to find root causes and failures and optimise the plant accordingly
- Performing and implementing contingency planning and disaster management
- Updated drawings & manuals according to Eskom standard
- Updated and Investigated Fault reports timeously
- Involved in the upgrading and refurbishment project at the Apollo HVDC converter station until April 2007
- Mentor/advise students, artisans, and engineers.
Technician
TELKOM
Bloemfontien
01.1997 - 06.2000
- Performed fault-finding skills on printed circuit boards on Telecoms system in a reliable and cost-effective manner
- Prepared technical specifications for the I/O module
- Tested and checked modules repaired
- Prepared technical data sheets
- Repairing various telecommunication equipment i.e
- PABX, Jupiter systems, DECTA pay phones, power supplies and UPS to component level in accordance with recognized maintenance procedures, which comply with manufacturer specs
- Performed fault finding up to component level
- Wiring of the electrical panels.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering Technology - Electrical Engineering
Tshwane University of Technology
Pretoria 01.2007 - 12.2010
Diploma Electrical Engineering - Electrical Engineering
Central University of Technology
Free State 01.1995 - 12.1997
Skills
- Statistical Analysis
- Technical Report-writing
- Well-developed interpersonal skills
- Leadership and people management Skills
- Strategic thinking and vision
- Project Management
- Maintenance Planning and Scheduling
- Asset Management Philosophy
- Work Order Management
- Asset Allocation
- Risk Management
- Technical Analysis
- Long-term budgeting
- Teamwork and Collaboration
- Problem-Solving
Software
SAP
Power BI
Microsoft 365
Top Achievements
- Appointed as the Distribution National Chair person for Strategic care group.
- Designed and implemented the Maintenance Effectiveness dashboard
- Facilitated the National Strategic Asset Audits
Languages
English
Sotho
Tswana
Zulu
Afrikaans
Certification
ORHVS Certificate
Personal Information
- Ethnicity: AFRICAN
- Gender: FEMALE
- Nationality: SOUTH AFRICAN
- Driving License: CODE "EB"
- Marital Status: MARRIED
References
- Sthembiso Kunene, Plant manager, Eskom Distribution, 082624112
- Mrs Mantsie Hlakudi, Chief Engineer, Eskom Megawatt Park, 0732331192
- Mr Gert Madonsela, Chief Engineer, Eskom Distribution, 0829207454
Timeline
Maintenance and Asset Manager
ESKOM DISTRIBUTION
12.2012 - 1 2022
MAINTENANCE PLANNER
ESKOM DISTRIBUTION
04.2007 - 11.2012
Bachelor of Engineering Technology - Electrical Engineering
Tshwane University of Technology
01.2007 - 12.2010
SENOIR TECHNICIAN
ESKOM TRANSMISSION APOLLO CONVERTER
07.2000 - 03.2007
Technician
TELKOM
01.1997 - 06.2000
Diploma Electrical Engineering - Electrical Engineering
Central University of Technology
01.1995 - 12.1997
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