RHULANI WALTER MALULEKE
Senior Field Service Technician
Lufhereng Ext6
Summary
I am a qualified Instrument Technician with a National Diploma in electrical engineering: Process Instrumentation and Trade Test Certificate for Instrument mechanician section 26D. I hold a wide skillset of expertise with over ten years of experience in the field of process instrumentation measurement, electronics fault-finding on-board level and service, repair, calibration of general and scientific laboratory equipments.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
Work History
Service Technician
Verder Scientific (Pty) Ltd
11.2022 - Current
- Installation, fault finding, and Calibration of Eltra, Carbolite, Retsch, QATM and Microtrac.
- Diagnosed and troubleshot problems, repairing, and restoring machines to peak performance.
- Increased customer satisfaction by providing timely and efficient service for various technical issues.
- Provided on-call support outside of normal business hours, ensuring uninterrupted service for clients experiencing emergencies or critical failures.
Field Service Technician
Microsep
09.2022 - 10.2022
- Analytical Service Engineer- Installation, fault finding, Calibration, Servicing of Process analytical instrumentation.
- This includes Scientific laboratory equipments i.e., pH meters, Titration and Karl Fischer equipment, Spectrophotometers (UV-VIS) equipment, Density and Refractometers, melting point and Dropping point equipment (Thermal analysis equipment).
- Technical support via telephone or e-mail. Fault finding and repair of existing equipment on site, equipment sent in for repair and in-house equipment.
Gas Analyzer Service Technician
Elemental Analytics
03.2021 - 10.2022
- Installation, fault finding, service and repair of Gas Analyzers.
- Diagnosed and troubleshot problems, repairing, and restoring machines to peak performance.
- Increased customer satisfaction by providing timely and efficient service for various technical issues.
- Provided on-call support outside of normal business hours, ensuring uninterrupted service for clients experiencing emergencies or critical failures.
Instrument & Electronics Service Technician
Microsep
12.2018 - 03.2021
- Analytical Service Engineer- Installation, fault finding, Calibration, Servicing of Process analytical instrumentation
- This includes Scientific laboratory equipments i.e., pH meters, Titration and Karl Fischer equipment, Spectrophotometers (UV-VIS) equipment, Density and Refractometers, melting point and Dropping point equipment (Thermal analysis equipment)
- Technical support via telephone or e-mail
- Fault finding and repair of existing equipment on site, equipment sent in for repair and in-house equipment
Electronics Technician
Process Automation
03.2017 - 11.2018
- Perform fault finding, repairing and calibration of electronic boards that are used on conveyor belts scales, Density measurement, Weigh feeders, Level measurement, Blocked chute Detectors, Metal Detectors, Speed switches, Gamma board, Profibus PA and DP boards and Sensors, Radiation Measurement and programming of Ics
- Perform fault finding and repairing of Hawk Transducer and Amplifier
- Planning of daily activities – Meet Repairs deadlines
- Reading and dealing with correspondence – faxes, e-mails – software release & ECO’s & MOD’s
- Giving technical assistance to techs & customers
- Repairing of customer, stores & technicians boards
- On the job self-training for repairs & electronic fault finding
- Assist with costing of client repairs
- Calibration of test equipment
- Fault finding and repair of existing equipment on site, equipment sent in for repair and in-house equipment
- Leak tests on gamma isotopes on site and in-house
- Software upgrades on all equipment
- Technical support via telephone or e-mail
- De-briefing of Job Cards with Technical Support Manager
Field Service Technician
Specialist System Engineering
02.2015 - 12.2016
- Installing, maintaining and fault finding on field instruments, Aquas, Radio networks and programming RTU using OPC software
- Monitoring level, flow and pressure in Johannesburg water reservoirs, pipelines (in chambers), water Towers and sanitation sites (pumps and level) to ensure that sewage flows accordingly and to avoid overflows and doing the fault finding on level, flow and pressure instrument
- Programming of telemetry equipment, Programming of Two-way Radios, Fault finding on instrumentation, Fault finding on electrical MCC Panels, Fault finding and repair on Telemetry Systems, Layout, wiring of Telemetry panels, Familiar with Adroit Scada package
Instrument Mechanician
AEL mining services
10.2007 - 06.2014
- Perform engineering inspections, identify problem areas and implement pro-active maintenance and plant improvement corrective action
- Maintaining and controlling all instrumentation equipment in a 24-hour production plant
- Carry out scheduled planned maintenance, handle breakdowns, modify equipment and offer solutions to minimise downtime
- Fault finding and repair of the following instruments: Process Controllers, Explosion Protection, Pressure Measuring Instruments (Beta and wika), and Flow measuring Instruments, Coriolis flow meter by Rosemount, this meter measures flow and density
- Level measuring Instruments (Magnetrol, Honeywell Siemens), Control Valve (Fisher, Elomatic, valtek)
- Knowledge of DCS, Knowledge PLC (Siemens and Mitsubishi), Mag Flow by Siemens or andress and Hauser
- Differential flow transmitters by Rosemount, yokogawa, andress and Hauser, PH and Conductivity meter by Yokogawa
- Temperature measurement using thermocouples (Type K and J) and RTDs
Education
National Diploma - Process Instrumentation
Electrical Engineering
Trade Test Section 26D - Certificates in Laboratory Instruments: pH meters, UV/VIS Spectrometers, Density and Refractometers, Titration and Karl Fischer Instruments, Thermal Values (Melting and Dropping points)
Instrument Mechanician
Skills
- Software and Firmware updates on electronics boards
- Fault finding
- Service and calibration of Laboratory instruments
- Process instruments
- Gas Analyzers
- Calibration of test instruments
Timeline
Service Technician
Verder Scientific (Pty) Ltd
11.2022 - Current
Field Service Technician
Microsep
09.2022 - 10.2022
Gas Analyzer Service Technician
Elemental Analytics
03.2021 - 10.2022
Instrument & Electronics Service Technician
Microsep
12.2018 - 03.2021
Electronics Technician
Process Automation
03.2017 - 11.2018
Field Service Technician
Specialist System Engineering
02.2015 - 12.2016
Instrument Mechanician
AEL mining services
10.2007 - 06.2014
National Diploma - Process Instrumentation
Electrical Engineering
Trade Test Section 26D - Certificates in Laboratory Instruments: pH meters, UV/VIS Spectrometers, Density and Refractometers, Titration and Karl Fischer Instruments, Thermal Values (Melting and Dropping points)
Instrument Mechanician
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