Maintenance Foreman
Kusile Fabrication
Total years of experience :15 years, 3 Months
• Electrical Maintenance Planning
• Mechanical Maintenance Planning
• Statutory Requirements
• Duties in terms of GMR 2.1 appointment
• Sand Blasting Machines
• Plate Benders
• Plate Rollers
• Overhead Cranes
• Compressors
• Welding Machines
• Hand Tools
• Spares inventory
• Staff Management
• Delegation of Duties
• Safety Inspections
• Site Safety Inspection
• Maintaining a Safety Standard compliant to that of Anglo American Standards.
• Maintaining a Safety Standard compliant to that of Hall Core Drilling Standards
• Risk assessments
• PTO and SWP Management
• Critical Task Lists and Baseline Risk Assessments
• Training Matrix
• Safety Audits
• Daily, Weekly and Monthly Reports
• Performing Site Specific Induction
• Safety Training to all employees
• Managing a Safety Filing System to enable easy referencing and auditing
• Identifying and control of dangerous acts and conditions
• Implementing safety measures when new conditions occur.
• Ensuring all members have adequate PPE
• Ensuring all members adhere to Safety Standards
• Corrective action
• Audit Safety Site Checklists
• Ensure that Environmental Standards are adhered to
• Monitor the health of all workers.
• Safety Meetings
• Incident investigations
• LTI Reports
• Attend Management Meetings
• Reporting of incidents and incident investigations
• Manage Safety Reps and first aiders
Mandatory Safety Checklists
• Site establishment.
• Risk Assesments and Method Statements.
• Safety Files.
• Staff Management, time keeping, disciplinary proceedings.
• Delegation of duties.
• Ensuring all tools, equipment and safety equipment is available for projects.
• Comparing assembly drawing with actuals and re-engineer where needed.
• Reporting of deviations and delay, and the analysis of all deviation and delays on construction
• Calculation of quotes
• Assisting in design of systems
• Customer complaints
• Solutions to system faults
• Factory (Assembly plant) Safety
• Installation of equipment..
• Incident investigations
• Establishing a maintenance system that optimized the up time of machinery to 95%
• Introducing software (C -Works) to assist the above and to take control of work backlogs and to implement maintenance history.
• Re engineering machinery with redundant component to have locally interchangeable spare parts.
• Introducing an inventory system that would manage critical spares for the bakery and maintain essential spares stock levels.
• Support and manage artisans and artisan aides to maintain bakery to a high efficiency level.
• Manage contractors in terms bringing them in line with the requirements of Foodcorp’s policies.
• Maintain a file system in terms to manage HACCP audits, Engineering and Safety Audits.
• Improve bakery by introducing LED type light fitting thus bringing the electricity consumption down.
• Improving Waxy oil heating problems by installing pre heaters and recirculating pump. Improve boiler burner system by installing fire safe system with self - shutting valves.
• Boiler inspections with accredited service providers. Grading of boilers. Refurbishing of boiler. Managed contractor.
• Pressurised vessels.
• Inspector of Machinery responsibilities (GMR 2.1)
• Risk assessments.
• Injury Investigations. (incident investigation)
• Disciplinary hearings.
• Shift Management.
• Manage upgrade to bakery with bread cooler and new bagging machinery put in by Dale Automation and KW Industries.
• In control of electrical and mechanical maintenance.
• Personnel file upkeep in terms of legal requirements pertaining essential training, induction, and standard procedures.
• Electrical and Mechanical Maintenance Management
• Building Maintenance
• Factory Lighting and Reticulation
• Motor Control Centers and Electrical Panels
• VSD’s Automatic systems, PLC’s
• AC motors
• Single phase and 3 phase systems
• Planned Maintenance
• Equipment Upgrades
• High Speed Packaging machines
• Mechanical Maintenance on conveyors, blowers, fans and oven
• Compressor Electrical Controls
• Factory Lighting and Reticulation
• Motor Control Centers and Electrical Panels
• VSD’s Automatic systems, PLC’s
• AC motors, DC Motors, servo motors
• Single phase and 3 phase systems
• Planned Maintenance
• Equipment Upgrades
• Automatic control systems
• Transformers
• Compressor Electrical Controls
DIploma in Production and Supervision
Electrical Apprenticeship with a Trade Test Passed
Electrical Trade Theory