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Qualifications
SECONDARY EDUCATION
HIGHEST STANDARD PASSED: Standard 8
SUBJECTS: Afrikaans, English, Mathematics, History, Geography, Science and Hygiene
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT/
COURSES DESCRIPTION INSTITUTION YEAR
Introductory Technical Certificate Technical College, Bloemfontein 1987
N1 Certificate Technical College, Welkom 1988
N2 Certificate Technical College, Welkom 1989
Mining First Aid The SA Red Cross Society 1990
Fitter and Turner Trade Test Mining Industry Engineering Board 91
AECI Clearance Certificate AECI Industrial Chemicals 1993
Employment History
Fitter (May 2007 – current)
Sappi Saiccor
Chemical Industry, Pulp Manufacturing
Umkomaas Kwa,Zulu Natal
South Africa
The daily check, maintenance, faultfinding, repair and fitting of parts on machinery.
Responsibilities include
Daily check maintenance and vibration analysis on Continua 2 wet end, includes rectifier head box, couch roll, combi roll, pre hexter drum, first press roll, second press roll, third press roll, ferrel press roll, roller clutches.
Dry end includes dryer and strecker (sheeter).
Gearboxes, vacuum pumps, fans, disintegrators and pulp pumps, hydraulic pumps and valves, fitting bearings, taper pullies and sprockets.
Other duties include (stand-by), fault finding, fitting and laser lining pumps, fans, and vacuum pumps.
Bailing line, conveyors and press. Unitizer (strapper).
Fitter and Turner (Jul 1995 – Apr 2007)
Silveray Stationery Company
Paper Manufacturing
Mobeni, Kwa Zulu Natal,
South Africa
Responsibilities included
Planned maintenance, fault finding, remove and strip parts, ordered and replaced parts, manufacturing parts, fabricating parts and fitting parts. Modification and alteration on machines.
Relevant skills and experience
High speed packing machinery in the File, envelope, stationery and printing departments
All gearboxes, rollers, clutches mechanical and electrical, gears, cam's, cam followers, removing and fitting of bearings, oil seals, gaskets, lubrication systems, breaking systems, lifting equipment, printing rollers and gearboxes, couplings, timing belts, v-belts, coupling tyres, vacuum pumps, compressor's, timing chain's.
All the abovementioned parts, were stripped, repaired, manufactured, fabricated and installed as part of his working experience.
Achievements
In the time I was working in the file department, I developed, planned and manufactured a machine to speed up the production of the document wallets (photo on request: Document wallet)
A heat-stamping machine for lettering on PVC lever arch files. (photo on request: File Stamp)
While in the envelope department I then designed a pneumatic system that could count envelopes as they printed. As machinery was old and unable to perform the task (photo on request: Envelope counter)
I also designed, and manufactured a machine to cut the core for the till and fax rolls (no picture as machine was sold), the machine assigned to cut the core was old and unproductive.
A small vacuum machine to remove glue dust off duplicate paper while in the stationery department.
Apprentice Fitter and Turner (Dec 1987 – Oct 1991)
Free State Saaiplaas mine
Gold mine
Virginia, Free State
Rep South Africa
Responsibilities included
As apprentice, I was assigned to the Training Centre.
1. Introduction and studies of safety precautions and procedures.
2. Precision filing, removal and installation of bearings, measuring instruments, simple pneumatic systems and fault finding, stripped and removed bearings, refitting of gears, stripped and refitted pneumatic vein motors for an underground Atlas front-end loader.
make up water piping systems with valves and pipefittings and pressure testing.
strip bladder sludge pumps, positive displacement mono pumps and hydraulic pumps.
3. Assigned to the Machine Shop training included the center lathe, milling machine, shaping machine, surface grinder Grind own machine tools. Pipe flange drilling, four hole, six hole and eight-hole flanges.
4. Rigging shop, rigging course, stripping and assembling of safety hook, various slinging methods and general light rigging.
5. Boiler Shop instructed in gas welding, conventional electrode welding and stainless steel welding.
6. Diesel Shop instructed basic diesel mechanics, removing and fitting diesel engine head, replacing head gasket, removing and fitting pistons, removing and fitting starter motor, stripping prop shafts, removing and fitting universal joints and operation of injector fuel system.
7. Hydraulic Workshop, basic hydraulic fault finding and repair of valves and pumps.
8. Refrigeration Workshop, basic refrigeration for the underground fridge plants in the Gold
Mines.
9. Electrical Workshop, basic electrical motors, star and series wiring.
Underground Fitter (Oct 1991 – Jan 1993)
Responsibilities included
Maintenance of electrical loco's, fault finding (non electrical), removing and fitting new electrical motors, break linings, lubricating and checking break link systems, lubricating all points.
Maintaining, fault finding and repair diesel loco's, replacing air filters, diesel filters, maintaining and lubricating breaking systems and removing and fitting gear boxes.
Fault finding, striping of Atlas front-end loaders, replacing gears and bearings, wheels, turntable bearings and seals, slings and front shovel.
Underground winches, fault finding, and stripping gearboxes, replacing planetary gears, bearings and seals.
Fault finding, stripping vertical sludge pumps, replacing rubber linings, impellers, bearings, seals and couplings.
Other Achievements
Senior Fitter at Silveray Stationery manufactures for two years.
Designed, manufactured and commissioned four high-speed packing machines.
Memberships
UASA Trade Union.
Personal interests
Motor cycling, cycling, and experimenting with mechanical and creative ideas.
Referees
Available on request.
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