Stephen Meki, Maintenance Manager

Stephen Meki

Maintenance Manager

Innscor Manufacturing Inns

Location
Zimbabwe
Education
Bachelor's degree, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
Experience
20 years, 10 Months

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Total years of experience :20 years, 10 Months

Maintenance Manager at Innscor Manufacturing Inns
  • Zimbabwe
  • My current job since October 2013
business at Bread production
  • January 2011 to October 2013

· ensuring that the CMMS is fully functional
· overseeing the production process and drawing up a production schedule
· ensuring that the production process is cost effective
· ensuring that healthy and safety standards are being adhered to
· quality management and controlling
· human and material resources management
· monitoring the production processes and adjusting schedules as needed
· liaising among different departments, e.g. suppliers, managers and
maintenance
· ensuring that health and safety guidelines are followed
· reviewing the performance of workers according to the company standards
· identifying training needs

Fitter and Turner at Innscor Bakers Inn
  • March 2009 to January 2011

· Maintenance of plant and equipment for the manufacture and packaging of FMCG
products
· Responsible with installation, repair and maintenance of all plant equipment -
gearboxes, pumps, valves, conveyors, water and sewage reticulation pipe work,
mixing vessels/agitators, screens, driers, cooling towers, blowers, fans
· Capable of using diverse workshop equipment and maintenance
· Responsible with reducing Mean Time to Repair (MTTR) and increasing Mean Time
Between Failure (MTBF)
· Ensure compliance to safety standards
· Proving training and education for operators in basic problem solving, basic
inspection and operation
· Carrying out Failure Root Analysis on repetitive and erotically breakdowns (trouble
shooting)
· Decide on the best method to achieve optimum results using technical specifications
provided, plan and calculations
· Knowledge on Oxy-Acetylene, arc welding, TIG welding
· Capable of carrying out duties during day, night shift and overtime
· Training, supervising apprentices
Designation : Maintenance Planner and Maintenance Fitter
Company : Wiltech Engineering
Nature of Business : Servicing of Tobacco Processing and Packaging

Fitter and Turner at Innscor Africa Bread Company
  • Zimbabwe
  • March 2009 to January 2011

Maintenance of plant and equipment for the manufacture and packaging of FMCG
products
· Responsible with installation, repair and maintenance of all plant equipment -
gearboxes, pumps, valves, conveyors, water and sewage reticulation pipe work,
mixing vessels/agitators, screens, driers, cooling towers, blowers, fans
· Capable of using diverse workshop equipment and maintenance
· Responsible with reducing Mean Time to Repair (MTTR) and increasing Mean Time
Between Failure (MTBF)
· Ensure compliance to safety standards
· Proving training and education for operators in basic problem solving, basic
inspection and operation
· Carrying out Failure Root Analysis on repetitive and erotically breakdowns (trouble
shooting)
· Decide on the best method to achieve optimum results using technical specifications
provided, plan and calculations
· Knowledge on Oxy - Acetylene, arc welding, TIG welding
· Capable of carrying out duties during day, night shift and overtime
· Training, supervising apprentices

Fitter and at Turner
  • United Arab Emirates
  • June 2007 to April 2009

· Project management and maintenance of tobacco processing plant and equipment.
· Facilitating maintenance management strategy for the plant
· Assisting in addressing all key elements of asset care strategy using KPIs
· Responsible with facilitating cross functional engineering and production team to
minimize reactive maintenance.
· Capable of developing business process, roles and responsibilities for the maintenance
management function.
· Establishing programs to minimize unplanned downtime on key equipment ie boilers,
pumps etc.
· Responsible with facilitating cross functional teams to address, cleaning, lubrication
and first line maintenance.
· Responsible with developing RCM based task list for all maintenance significant
equipment.
· Facilitating Failure analysis technique for the cross functional team.
· Responsible with identifying significant recurring failure pattern by analysing
maintenance history.
· Responsible with formalizing recommendation to the engineer, Ensure that all work is
controlled by works orders and information loop are closed.
· Liaising with foremen to confirm that all technical manual and documents are up to
date.
· Responsible with drawing up and managing project and maintenance shuts
· Responsible with ensure 100% compliance with legal job card
· Responsible with creating and refine KPI report

Fitter and Turner at Rio Tinto Empress Nickel Refinery
  • Zimbabwe
  • May 2003 to March 2007

· ensuring that the plant is working according to the requirements of the
company
· troubleshooting, fault finding and rectifications on defective or
malfunctioning plant equipment
· sound knowledge on maintenance and servicing of Coal-fed Fire tube and
Water tube boilers
· repairing and maintaining pumps e.g. mono pumps, centrifugal, warman, and
multi- staged pumps
· conversant with the repair and maintenance of bow mill and guillotine
· machining of components using the lathe, milling and grinding machines
· attending to various conveyors such as rubber, screw, and bucket conveyors
· carry out risk assessments and produce safe working method statements for
jobs to be done
· attending safety drills, meetings and regular trainings
· repairing hammer mills and induction fans

Production Controller at Innscor Bread Company
  • to

Conversant with Total productive Maintenance (TPM) management systems such
as planned, unplanned, preventive and corrective maintenance
· maintaining the plant availability well above the 90% mark
· ensuring that safety standards and regulations are enforced and adhered to Innscor

Executive Engineer at Innscor Group, Bakers Inn
  • United Arab Emirates
  • to

, Bakers Inn

Section Engineer at Mr Teblanche
  • United Arab Emirates
  • to

Education

Bachelor's degree, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
  • at Harare Institute of Technology
  • June 2013

Automation of bread de-panning system Solar vegetable drier Programming of PLCs Management systems such as Lean and Kanban where they are applicable e.g car manufacturing industries. Identification of manufacturing systems practices Manufacturing processes such conventional and unconventional machining .

Specialties & Skills

Plant Maintenance
AutoCAD
Pneumatics
Hydraulics
Root Cause Analysis
BUDGETING
BUSINESS PROCESS
ENGINEERING
FUNCTIONAL
GRAPHIC DESIGN
SUPERVISORY SKILLS
TROUBLESHOOTING
pneumatics

Languages

English
Expert

Training and Certifications

Electro-pneumatics and hydraulics (Training)
Training Institute:
Harare Institute of Technology
Date Attended:
January 2001
Duration:
160 hours

Hobbies

  • Reading, playing soccer, watching television and helping the needy especially children
    Trained a soccer team for under 1 twelve boys soccer team and one of the boys is now playing in the top flight league