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Thabo Theophilus Ranko

Thabo Theophilus Ranko

Johannesburg,GP

Summary

Responsible Technician with excellent troubleshooting, customer service and analytics skills coupled with more than 13 years of experience. Highly effective in complying with safety requirements evidenced by zero work loss days. Broad skills in maintenance and bench builds.

Enthusiastic individual experienced in analyzing issues on service calls and finding effective solutions. Offering engaging and pleasant personality with expertise building customer relationships. Outstanding diagnostics skills.

Experienced with technical diagnostics and system maintenance. Utilizes problem-solving skills to ensure optimal equipment functionality. Strong understanding of collaborative teamwork and efficiency improvements.

Diligent Millwright with solid history in troubleshooting and maintaining complex systems. Consistently ensured optimal operation of equipment, leading to significant improvements in efficiency and reliability. Demonstrated expertise in problem-solving and technical diagnostics.

Professional technician with extensive hands-on experience in troubleshooting, maintenance, and repair of complex systems. Strong focus on team collaboration and achieving results. Reliable with adaptable skill set in diagnostics, electrical systems, and mechanical repairs. Known for effective problem-solving and delivering high-quality outcomes.

Overview

21
21
years of professional experience
1
1
Language

Work History

Technician (shift)

Royal Canin, Kya Sands
01.2019 - 04.2025
  • Company Overview: Pet food (FMCG)
  • Reports to Maintenance Coordinator
  • Shifts – two days night shift, two days day shift and four days off
  • Attending electrical and mechanical breakdown as qualified to both trade
  • Attends to electrical, mechanical, pneumatic and instrumentation breakdowns
  • Takes responsibility of shift in term of machine availability and safety (packaging, extruder and grinding department as my main focus on the shift)
  • Attends to planned and unplanned maintenance
  • Coaches and supports shift operator with machine setup and basic troubleshooting
  • Prepares shift report and leads handover meeting at the end of the shift and the beginning of the shift
  • Basic fault finding on the PLC ALLEN BRADLEY, SIEMENCE S7 and many other types of PLC
  • Programming drive (VSD)
  • Starting of generators according to Loadshedding program
  • Assisting contractors on the risk assessment while they are on site
  • Assists in the commissioning of new project, informing the storeman of the parts that are necessary to keep on stock and assist in the identification of the parts
  • Plan and oversee preventative and corrective maintenance for all plant equipment
  • Assist and execute projects
  • Ensure plant downtime is minimized
  • Manage maintenance budgets and spare parts inventory
  • Strategic plant reliability improvement and application of reliability centred maintenance
  • Health and Safety and compliance
  • After hours support
  • Conduct Mechanical and Electrical services and maintenances of machines on site
  • Ensures preventive and predictive maintenance is performed
  • Ensures Fault finding and handle all Machine Breakdowns, repairs
  • Ensures current and accurate record of maintenance
  • Ensures all relevant manufacturer modifications and updates are performed/installed
  • Do Electrical Fault findings
  • Maintains good housekeeping
  • Ensures availability of spare parts
  • Manages contractors on site
  • Ensure all maintenance job cards are attended to timeously.
  • Responsible for the efficient running of the Plant machinery, Plant equipment and Building Maintenance
  • Assist with new machine installations and upgrade of equipment
  • Perform any mechanical/electrical task required
  • Do regular inspections
  • Must be able to work shifts
  • Responsible to report any risks identified for Quality and Food Safety Management where food contact product is produced in the plant.
  • Ensure on-going awareness of Quality, Food Safety, Environmental and Health and Safety Management.
  • Ensure housekeeping and general areas facilitates a tidy, neat environment.
  • Reason for applying for this post: Business closed down

Plant maintenance Electrician (shift work)

Rhodes Food Group, Limpopo
09.2016 - 04.2018
  • Company Overview: Canned food product (FMCG)
  • Plant inspection, attend to breakdown, any place in the plant, maintenance of seamer machine that is used to close cans, FMC that is used as steriliser for product before end process
  • Repair of hoist at retort where product is sterilized using pots, make sure the compressor is giving enough to the plant
  • Generator inspection every week, installation of new machines, pumps and high-pressure machine, setup of temperature control
  • Installation of safety switch, involved on all mechanical job to makes sure working properly e.g., V-Belt condition, timing, overhaul of motors, level probes, pneumatics valves, LS PLC
  • Plan and oversee preventative and corrective maintenance for all plant equipment
  • Supervise Contractors
  • Assist and execute projects
  • Ensure plant downtime is minimized
  • Manage maintenance budgets and spare parts inventory
  • Strategic plant reliability improvement and application of reliability centred maintenance
  • Health and Safety and compliance
  • After hours support
  • Reason for leaving: In their custom it is the youngest child’s responsibility to take care of parents and he had relocated to Limpopo when his mother fell very ill, and on her passing he relocated back to Johannesburg to his direct family.

Maintenance Electrician

Westra Milling (The Division of GWK), Kimberley
01.2015 - 08.2016
  • Company Overview: FMCG
  • Installation of Biscuit Machinery together with a company called Laser
  • Installation of Pasta Machine with a company called Pavan
  • Erection of Milling Plant with a company called Buhler
  • Involved in the commissioning of this new plant that has Biscuit line, extruder for Macaroni, and Milling plant that produce flour. He was Senior Electrician overseeing two Maintenance Assistants
  • Working closely with the millers from control room using Scanda for fault finding and to see the whole plant running
  • Connecting of Variable Speed Control (VSD) according to the specification and also the variable frequency control (VFD) connection of speed motor, temperature control, temperature switch, thermistor, temp and hydrometer, vibration switch, load cell, belt monitor, limit switch, overload monitor, filter control, control unit, 3 phase alt. voltage/speed regulator, safety switch
  • Standby duties every second week
  • Responsible for the water treatment plant to make sure that all motors are working properly and the plant was working accordingly with the help of a company called aqua marine
  • Packaging machine from West Weigh
  • Reason for leaving: Relocated to Limpopo for his next position. His mother had fallen ill in Limpopo and as is their custom it was his responsibility to take care of her.

Panel Wiring Electrician

Ellison Stormill (Contracted to Arcellor Mittal)
04.2014 - 10.2014
  • Company Overview: Switchboard Manufacturer and they also tendered for shutdowns of Companies
  • MCC Panel wiring, point to point check
  • Commissioning of the panel
  • Work as permit receiver
  • Competent on HIRA inspection (electrical supervisor) working on 24DC, 110V, 220V, 380V, 525V and 6600V.
  • Instrumentation (installation of thermocouple and termination to the JB around the blast furnace and all electrical jobs around the furnace); 5 shutdowns for Arcellor Mittal (ISCOR) in Newcastle

Instrumentation/Electrician

Actom Wade Walker
07.2013 - 12.2013
  • Company Overview: Instrumentation and Control
  • Checking point to point after connection to instrumentation connection
  • Verify if the job is done right and certify the job
  • He recommended whether the job needed to be redone or not
  • Loop check
  • Recording the punch list to the jobs that are not done right
  • Filling up the erection sheet for all the jobs that are done
  • Raising the RFI (Ready for Inspection) for all the jobs that are done correctly and sign off the RFI
  • Appointed as team leader (all this done in Medupi Power Station)

Electrician

Gauteng Water Heating
01.2013 - 04.2013
  • Company Overview: Installation and Maintenance
  • Installing Geyser Timer, Energy Saver Globe, Water Flow Restrictors, Shower Head and All Water and Electrical Saving Components

Semi-skilled Electrician

Pioneer Foods T/A Bokomo Foods
04.2006 - 11.2012
  • Company Overview: Cereal Manufacturers (FMCG)
  • Monthly plug inspection
  • Plug fault finding, light fault finding
  • Connection of DB Boards
  • Plant maintenance
  • Installation of new machine
  • Attending morning feedback on production plan
  • Delegating jobs to junior Electrician
  • Signing off job card and raising job car
  • Attending call out
  • Extruder, Packing Machine (BETA PACK), Micronized, shrink wrapping, Roller Dryers, Oven, AC/DC Motors
  • Installation of new conveyors
  • Power skirting, and trunking cable racking
  • Working on ALLEN BRADLEY PLC, Schneider, Siemens, and Mitsubishi, even soft starter of the same brand doing fault finding
  • Reason for leaving: retrenchment

Trained as semi-skilled Electrician

Stewards Electrical Services, Selby
06.2004 - 03.2006
  • Company Overview: Electrical Contractors
  • Wiring, Tubing, Installations, Fault Finding, Panel Building, Connections of DB Boards, Cable racking, Power skirting, and Tracking
  • Reason for leaving: To better himself (company liquidated sometime after he had left)

Education

Mechanical Trade Test -

Institution of Higher Education and Training (Olifantsfontein)
07.2025

Electrical Trade Test - undefined

Institution of Higher Education and Training (Olifantsfontein)
01.2013

Grade 12 - Venda, Afrikaans, English, Business Economics, Economics

Rambuda Senior Secondary School
01.1998

Skills

    Problem-solving

    Customer service

    Equipment maintenance

    System troubleshooting

    Installation and repair

    Equipment Repair

    Quality control

    Troubleshooting

    Works Well Under Pressure

    System installation

    Operations monitoring

    Component replacement

    Preventive Maintenance

    Issue analysis

    Repair services

    Written/Verbal communication

    Mechanical Knowledge

    Electrical repair

    Multitasking and organization

    Environmental compliance

    Team Training

    Blueprint reading

    Routine Inspections

    Attention to detail

    Power Tools and Equipment

    Documentation and reporting

    OSHA compliance

    Safety Equipment

    Issue resolution

    Document preparation

    Customer interaction

    Work Planning and Prioritization

    Performance improvement

    Workload management

    Project Support

    Operation Monitoring

    Hardware installation

    System Tests

    Manufacturing processes

    Innovation skills

    Assembly and production

    System diagnostics

    Deadline oriented

    Schematic reading

    Plant operations support

    Production Assistance

    Information tracking

    Equipment calibration

    Instrument Calibration

    Customer rapport

    Design Techniques

    Lean manufacturing

    Extensive organizational skills

    Mechanical aptitude

    Tool retrieval

    Inventory oversight

    Risk mitigation

    Design principles

    Mechanical tools

    Diagnostic testing

    Verbal and written communication

    File and record maintenance

Interests

Soccer

Training

  • High Voltage Theory (copy on file)
  • Basic PLC (copy on file)
  • Basic Drives (copy on file)

Timeline

Technician (shift)

Royal Canin, Kya Sands
01.2019 - 04.2025

Plant maintenance Electrician (shift work)

Rhodes Food Group, Limpopo
09.2016 - 04.2018

Maintenance Electrician

Westra Milling (The Division of GWK), Kimberley
01.2015 - 08.2016

Panel Wiring Electrician

Ellison Stormill (Contracted to Arcellor Mittal)
04.2014 - 10.2014

Instrumentation/Electrician

Actom Wade Walker
07.2013 - 12.2013

Electrician

Gauteng Water Heating
01.2013 - 04.2013

Semi-skilled Electrician

Pioneer Foods T/A Bokomo Foods
04.2006 - 11.2012

Trained as semi-skilled Electrician

Stewards Electrical Services, Selby
06.2004 - 03.2006

Electrical Trade Test - undefined

Institution of Higher Education and Training (Olifantsfontein)

Grade 12 - Venda, Afrikaans, English, Business Economics, Economics

Rambuda Senior Secondary School

Mechanical Trade Test -

Institution of Higher Education and Training (Olifantsfontein)

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