STHULILE NOMBUSO MKHWANAZI
Montclair
Summary
I hold an Advanced National Diploma in Operations Management. I am a Process Technician with over 10 years' experience as a Plant Operator, weighbridge clerk and machine operator (manufacturing) in the gas, oil and chemical sector. In my current role I have also taken a senior operator position when needed where I manage staff, compile reports and hold daily meetings to support other departments with plant/ process related queries. My core competencies include plant inspections, plant/equipment monitoring and maintenance, testing and interpretation of daily samples, troubleshooting and resolving problems.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Weigh-bridge Clerk
Engen Manufacturing
07.2022 - 03.2023
- Ensure that vehicles have necessary paperwork for movements from site to destination
- Receive and register all trucks at main gate and allocate loading bays
- Capture all required driver/truck details and issue access permit
- Handle queries with various stakeholders
- Inspection of tankers prior to loading
- Prepare daily weigh-bridge reports and treat all documents confidential
- Process delivery notes and tickets accurately and efficiently
- Report any anomalies/ errors to the weigh-bridge system to appropriate people
- Communicate with plant operators to determine product availability and space
- Ensure all trucks are weighed in and out appropriately to safeguard company against loss of revenue
- Comply with all health, safety, HR and environmental policies and procedures while executing duties
- Report incidents and attend to emergency situations
- Update shift handover logbook and communicate to operations at end of each shift
Machine Operator
Engen Manufacturing
04.2021 - 06.2022
- Company Overview: (Lube Oil Blending Plant)
- Ensure sampling of pre- and post-fill product and submission for quality assurance testing
- Ensure daily production operational blending and filling activities are performed in accordance with the daily production plans
- Ensure daily rates are achieved by operating resources at their optimum capacities
- Prepare machinery, bottles, buckets for daily use while doing inspections for safety issues
- Maintain balanced production line
- Ensure palletizer in position and bottles are clean
- Ensure blended product is filled into bottles full and capped bottles
- Ensure efficient and safe stacking of finished labelled product boxes
- Build pallet boxes and load according to conveyor
- Transfer finished products to pallets
- Operate labeler equipment to ensure labeling process runs smooth
- Participate in root cause analysis discussions in respective area and follow correct procedures
- Carry out general housekeeping, machine adjustment task with operators' scope of work
- Operating the packaging machine in a safe and efficient manner daily in line with company standards
- Performing routine checks to ensure machine is operable
- Maintain safe, healthy and environmentally friendly work area
- Inspect and ensure correct packaging and labelling is used for specific product
- Moving/transfer of boxes of product to correct inventory areas
- Report any non-conformance to quality standards
- Completing all documentation on the packs and maintenance of machines
- Ensure personal and team goals are achieved
- (Lube Oil Blending Plant)
Process Technician
Engen Manufacturing
11.2011 - 12.2020
- Company Overview: (Refinery)
- Carry-out quality inspections by taking, testing and interpretation of samples and make necessary chemical adjustments to prevent corrosion and harmful deposits
- Keep detailed records of inspections, maintenance routines and repairs
- Maintain boiler equipment and components
- Perform water regeneration system
- Manage chemical inventory and other consumables necessary for boiler operation
- Ensuring adherence to safety, health and environment standards
- Prepare plant equipment (pumps, towers, reactor, exchanger, compressor) for cleaning and servicing
- Ensure effective communication of equipment and plant conditions
- Involved in daily plant and equipment activities for the day
- Maintain plant and equipment within operating envelopes
- Accountable for execution of all work on designated area
- Ensure efficient shift hand over to execute operator rounds and corrective action
- Perform minor maintenance on the field and equipment, commissioning and decommissioning
- Ensure effective response to abnormal process conditions
- Assist in planning major or minor shutdowns and start up
- Carry out sampling prior to and completion of bulk tank loading
- Process trouble shooting and make changes according to findings
- Ensure effective response incidents, hazards and emergency conditions
- Proactive action to identify and correct unsafe conditions
- Assist on monthly audits, carry out plant and equipment inspections
- Carry out daily and month-end tank dips
- Write log on all daily activities that occurred
- Scanning the panel board data on data logger to prepare operating records
- Perform standby and back up duties
- Respond to fires as fire crew assistant
- Perform basic maintenance on equipment in the plant using hand tools
- Install blinds and change gaskets
- Pump oil/ water flushing
- Maintain high housekeeping standards
- Replace damaged structural components
- Attend to breakdowns when require
- Active member of the SHE committee and appointed Safety Representative & Fire crew member
- Identify potential hazards
- Examine cause if incidents
- Investigate employee complaints regarding health & safety
- Make representations to the employer with regards to health & safety
- Conduct inspection documents required by health and safety legislation
- Complete inspection reports
- Work closely with employees and union representatives to participate in inspections
- Attend meetings for the health & safety committee
- Maintenance of first aid boxes in the unit
- Manage incidents while ensuring safety of others
- Accessing casualties to find nature /cause of injuries
- Perform CPR
- Arrange further medical help if needed
- Report all injuries to appropriate authority
- Plant asset management
- Achieve set production, maintenance equipment targets
- Daily implementation and monitoring of production
- Check and report daily on log and production quality
- Staff supervision, supervise standards of performance (junior technicians and contractors on site)
- Ensure effective support with other departments with plant or process related queries
- Conduct investigations incidents
- Comply with SHEQ requirements, report accidents, injuries and fires, conduct plant walkabouts and inspections, participate in internal SHEQ audits
- Monitor compliance to production HSEQ standards
- Compile monthly production reports
- Use SAP for production and maintenance orders
- (Refinery)
Education
Advanced Diploma - Operations Management
Durban University of Technology
01.2023
National Diploma - Operations Management
Durban University of Technology
01.2021
Matric -
01.2005
Skills
- Plant Operation
- Plant Monitoring
- Plant Inspections
- Equipment Maintenance
- Equipment Testing
- HSEQ Standards
- Skype for Business
- SAP
- Microsoft Office (Word, Excel and PowerPoint)
- Firefighting
- First aid
- Database entry
- Customer Satisfaction
- Operational Efficiency
- Chemical Handling
- Waste Management
Certification
- National certificate: chemical operations NQF Level 2, 12/2014
- National certificate: chemical operations NQF Level 3, 12/2018
Languages
IsiZulu
English
References
- Bonisiwe Ngobese, 073 922 6338/0314602215, Supervisor
- Jamie-lee Abrams, 078 019 9490, Project administrator
Personal Information
- Criminal Record: None
- Date of Birth: 01/20/88
- Nationality: South African
- Driving License: Code 08
Timeline
Weigh-bridge Clerk
Engen Manufacturing
07.2022 - 03.2023
Machine Operator
Engen Manufacturing
04.2021 - 06.2022
Process Technician
Engen Manufacturing
11.2011 - 12.2020
Advanced Diploma - Operations Management
Durban University of Technology
National Diploma - Operations Management
Durban University of Technology