Buhle Wanda Ndamase
Homer,Vereeniging
Overview
25
25
years of professional experience
Work History
Millwright Technician
Premier Foods FMCG
04.2022 - Current
- Maintaining all equipment to required standards and being responsive to production needs and equipment failures.
- Maintaining a high level of accuracy and safety.
- Installing stationary industrial machinery and mechanical equipment according to layout plans using hand and power tools.
- Inspecting and examining machinery and equipment to detect irregularities and malfunctions.
- Adjusting machinery and repairing or replacing defective parts.
- Operating machine tools to fabricate parts required during overhaul, maintenance, or set-up of machineries.
- Ensuring operating safety devices.
- Responsible for maintaining production availability and performance at satisfactory levels through planning, scheduling, coordinating and reporting of repair activities.
- Ensuring resources are allocated and adequate to complete tasks.
- Perform duties with a constant awareness to improve processes.
- Attend to and rectify all breakdowns and stoppages.
- Assist in other areas/divisions in the company when needed.
- Ensure reduction of breakdowns through quality workmanship.
- Plan and perform routine services, repairs and preventative maintenance of the Electro-mechanical equipment in a professional and cost effective manner, timeously.
- Apply sound human resource principles, administration and control procedures in order to meet performance objectives.
- Ensure safety and housekeeping meets the standards as set out in terms of the Occupational Health and Safety Act at high level and complies with all applicable ISO system requirements and ensures continual improvement of these systems.
- Assist with specifications, sourcing, quality control of equipment required / refurbished / repaired as well as pricing, tendering and implementation on new electrical, mechanical and civil installations.
- Be available after hours and for standby.
- Machinery: FAWEMA (D-51766 and D-5250), Printers (Ink and Laser Jet), Bar Codes, Shrink Tunnels (Acepac and Levy & Smith), Glue Pots (Nordson), AGROPAL Palletizers, Octopus 1835B Wrapping machines, Blowers, Conveyors (Rollers, Belts, Bend Rollers, Chain, accumulation, Screw and Bucket Elevators), Air Locks, Drum Sieves, Separators, Aspirators, Vitamin Feeders, Impact and Drum Detachers, Mill Roll-Stand, Tipplers, Diverters, Collators, Stitching Machines, Turbo Sifters, Screening feeders, Matadors.
Millwright Technician
Cater Chain
02.2020 - 03.2022
- Perform planned and unplanned maintenance on all plant equipment.
- Electrical and mechanical fault finding.
- SHE and house keeping.
- Maintain and service of any plant equipment including ammonia plant, boilers compressors and utilities.
- To be fully available to assist the plant with call-outs and stand-by.
- Electrical and Mechanical refurbishment of machines.
- Dismantle machines.
- Move machinery and equipment.
- Assemble and installation of equipment.
- Read blue print and schematic drawings to determine work procedures.
- Follow SHEQ related processes and house keeping.
- Work on Instrumentation, Electrical and Mechanical equipment as well as VSD's and PLC.
- Machinery: Blender Machines, GEA Horizontal Packing Machines, Mixers, Handtmann Vacuum Sausage Fillers (VF100, VF612 and VF680), Peeling Machines, MULTIVAC Thermoforming Packing Machines, MULTIVAC P600 Packing Machines, MULTIVAC Chamber Machines, Slicer and Dicer Machines, Steam Cookers, Boilers, Generators, Freezers and Chillers.
Director
BCND Tradings Pty (LTD)
02.2017 - 01.2020
- Building maintenance.
- Fencing.
- All electrical installation fault finding and maintenance.
- Welding.
- Wood works.
Millwright Technician
Ferrero Roche
02.2016 - 01.2017
- Planned, Preventative and Scheduled Maintenance.
- Problem solving (5 Whys) and One point lessons.
- Fault finding on electrical, mechanical and instrumentation breakdowns.
- Quality, ensuring good quality products is produced.
- Ordering spares for breakdowns and scheduled maintenance.
- Installation, commissioning and testing of new lines.
- Installing and setting parameters on various drives.
- Programming, downloading, uploading and fault finding on PLC.
- Ensuring machine up time as per required standard.
- Machine repairs to resolve root cause.
- Production support when it comes to machine uptime and availability.
- Regular machine inspection and fault finding.
- Personal Ownership for Production Efficiencies.
- Machine services done with speed and to high standard of workmanship.
- To improve equipment efficiency to achieve planned production targets.
- Training operations personnel and proactively improving the reliability of equipment.
- Machinery: Forming dies, Pressing dies, Dosing machines, Picker machines, Cooling towers, X-Ray machines, Sealing machines, Welding (Albrigo) machines, Final cutting machines, Box sealing Machines, Laser and Inkjet printers, Cream Manufacturing plant, Tic Tac Manufacturing and packaging plant.
Millwright Technician
Tiger Brands (Boksburg)
04.2014 - 01.2016
- Servicing, repairing, calibrating, fine tuning or testing machines that operate on the basis of Electrical, Electronic and Mechanical principles.
- Installing and maintaining machinery or related heavy equipment.
- Replacement of meters, regulators or related measuring control devices.
- Install/connect electrical power circuits or electronic equipment, components or systems.
- Adjust or set mechanical controls or components.
- Align or adjust clearances of mechanical components.
- Diagnose mechanical and electrical problems in machinery.
- Maintain and repair industrial or related equipment.
- Conduct tests to locate malfunctions in machinery.
- Repair and replace worn out parts in machinery.
- Position or level machines and structures.
- Machinery: CFT De-Palletizer, Bottle Twisters, HEMA Bottle Filler and Capper, Plastic Caps Warming Machines, X-Ray Machine, Accumulation Tables, Filmatic Filling Machines, Sidel Labeller, Nordson Hot Melt, Acepak (Six Pack Collator, Tray Erector and Palletizers), Ten and Twenty Litre Filling Machine, Bottle Sleeve Machines, Filmatic Bottle Un-Scramblers, Video Jet printer, Image Printer.
Millwright Technician
Danone SA
10.2011 - 03.2014
- Maintain Milk and Yoghurt filling machines (Arcil, Trepco, Tetra Pac, Hamba and Filmatic).
- Did fault finding and troubleshooting on flow meters.
- Troubleshoot and replace temperature probes and controllers (E+H and Krone).
- Calibration of instruments (Temperature, Pressure and Flow Transmitters).
- Did electrical installation and modification on the machines.
- Did maintenance and replacement of mechanical seals on various pumps (i.e. Lobe pumps, Centrifugal pumps, PCM pumps, Mono pumps and Sandpiper pumps).
- Troubleshoot and repair valve heads (GEA and APV).
- Service Homogenizers (Rennie and GEA), Servicing of Plate heat exchangers.
Millwright Technician
The Ceres Beverage Co
12.2008 - 09.2011
- Maintain machinery in different lines (Electrical and Mechanical).
- PLC (Siemens, Allen Bradley and Omron).
- Fillers.
- Cryojector (Nitrogen filler).
- Seamer 10-6 closer (Can closing equipment).
- Arol closure systems (Bottle crowner).
- Videojet and ink-jet -S8 range (Small character printers).
- Herma 400 (Labeller).
- Hot pack H.M.2000 (Hot melt applicator).
- Anton Paar (Carbo 2100 Co2 transducer).
- SMI group (SK 600F; SK 600T and LSK 30T) Plastic wrapping, Shrinking and Card box tray infeed.
- Kister (Plastic wrapping, Shrinking and Card box tray infeed.
- Automation drives {SMI Tec (Cosmos-2000); Danfoss; Telemacanique (Altiva: 18; 28 and 31).
- Krones (Blow moulds; Filler; Labbler; Vario pack; Palletizer and Depalletizer).
- Inoxpa pumps (Centrifugal).
- Reporting to plant engineer.
Senior Millwright
Huhtamaki Packaging
04.2007 - 11.2008
- Maintain machinery in different lines (electrical and Mechanical).
- Pulper.
- Consistency settings (Pulp and Water).
- Burners, Driers and Cooling towers.
- Fibre moulding machines (Leo tech).
- Shrink tunnels (Star pack).
- Conveyor belts.
- After press (product ironing).
- Wrapping machines.
- Product counters, Heat controls, Limit switches and Timers.
- PLC (Omron, Siemens).
- Telemacenique (Altiva: 18, 28 and 31).
- Herma 400 (Labeller / Sticker).
- Buying spares.
- Planning everyday maintenance schedule and shut-down.
- Reporting to plant manager.
- Doing electrical stand-by alone five months.
- Supervising: Artisans, Apprentices and General workers.
- Buying spares for all maintenance purposes.
- Filling time sheet for Artisans, Apprentices and General workers/Assistance.
- Forwarding maintenance reports to the Plant Manager Via SAP.
Millwright
Vaal Sanitaryware
06.2006 - 03.2007
- Maintain machinery in different lines (Electrical and Mechanical).
- Manual clay moulds.
- Clay moulding robots (ABB) and Glazing robots (ABB).
- Driers and burners.
- Conveyor belts and Trip wires.
- Kilns and Kiln cars.
- Pups (Piston, Willet, Diaphragm and Centrifugal).
- Cranes (Over head and Hand operated).
- Stone crushers, Screens and Agitators.
- PLC (Siemens).
- Drives (Telemachenique, Danfoss and Siemens).
- Buying spares.
- Shut down planning.
- Reporting to plant engineer.
- Reason for leaving: Offered a position as a Senior Millwright at Huhtamaki Packaging (Head hunted).
Millwright
Mittal Steel SA
09.2001 - 05.2006
- Maintain machinery in different plants (Electrical and Mechanical).
- Temper mills (4 Stand and 5 Stand).
- Continuous cleaning lines.
- Batch annealers.
- Crane maintenance.
- Arc furnaces and pickling lines.
- Reporting to plant foreman’s in different plants.
- Experience: Fault finding and Panel wiring, Lighting, PLC (Siemens S5 and S7, Omron, Allen Bradley and Telemacanique), Drives (SMI Cosmos-2000, Siemens, and Telemacanique), Cooling towers, Driers and Burners, Pumps (Centrifugal, Gear, Piston, Willet and Diaphragm), Hydraulics and Pneumatics, Welding (Arc, Brazing, and Cutting), Bearings and Seals, Alignment and Vibration, Rolls (Rubber, Steel and Neoprene), Filling shift reports using SAP, Buying spares, Shut down, and budget planning.
Timeline
Millwright Technician
Premier Foods FMCG
04.2022 - Current
Millwright Technician
Cater Chain
02.2020 - 03.2022
Director
BCND Tradings Pty (LTD)
02.2017 - 01.2020
Millwright Technician
Ferrero Roche
02.2016 - 01.2017
Millwright Technician
Tiger Brands (Boksburg)
04.2014 - 01.2016
Millwright Technician
Danone SA
10.2011 - 03.2014
Millwright Technician
The Ceres Beverage Co
12.2008 - 09.2011
Senior Millwright
Huhtamaki Packaging
04.2007 - 11.2008
Millwright
Vaal Sanitaryware
06.2006 - 03.2007
Millwright
Mittal Steel SA
09.2001 - 05.2006