Heavy Equipment Maintenance Engineer

• Aug 2020 - Present

• Attending all safety meetings and ensure safe workplace practices are carried out. • Attending all maintenance planning meetings. • Optimize reliability, availability and cost on heavy underground mining equipment. • Ensure optimal equipment performance. • Perform hands-on maintenance duties as planned. • Ensure Services performed on the equipment conform to the set quality standards by the OEMs. • Analyze and communicate non-conformities and premature equipment and parts failures. • Offer technical support to H.E.R Mechanics and Technicians. • Organize service parts and components in a timely manner. • Perform Root Cause Analysis and Offer quick response to equipment breakdowns in Mechanical, Electrical, Electronic and Hydraulics. • Ensure Lockout and energy isolation procedures are followed when cleaning and maintaining the machines. • Ensuring that all the machines are properly lubricated during each shift. • Working closely with all maintenance, service and planning staff to foster, team problem solving, decision making, professional values and build good relationships. • Observing existing strategies and techniques and offering suggestions for improvement. Machines worked on: Sandvik: LH 514, LH 517i, TH 540, TH 545i, DD 320s and Epiroc: MT42 and MT 436B, Boomer S1D, S7D, Loaders ST 14, ST 18 Show less

Variopac Technical Operator and Maintenance Technician

• Aug 2019 - Jul 2020

• Collaborated with Krones Technical Team to install and commission a KRONES Beverage line in Kitwe Zambia. • Installed, maintained and configured field bus systems (Profibus, Ethernet/IP, ProfiNet) and optical fiber systems and interfaced them with Siemens control systems while ensuring that the Safety and Quality standards of both the vendors and the company are adhered to. • Performed fault analysis/fault finding on field bus systems in order to eliminate re-occurrences of repetitive faults and improve the process control system reliability and efficiency. • Understood the network drawings of the beverage plant in relation to the control and instrumentation systems and equipment installed. • Adhered to the company planned and preventive maintenance schedules and procedures. • Executed all maintenance schedules. • Developed and reviewed the standard operation procedures related to the Variopac Machine. • Adhered to the correct and safe use of all workshop tools and PPE. • Applied and practiced correct and safe working procedures during all installation and maintenance tasks. Show less

Maintenance Technician

• Jul 2018 - Jul 2019