Wellington Saira
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English Full professional proficiency
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Ndebele Elementary proficiency
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Credentials
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Certified in Lean Foundation
VALUE enablers Private Limited.Feb, 2023- Oct, 2024 -
How to Confidently Negotiate Your Salary
LinkedInFeb, 2023- Oct, 2024 -
Construction Management: Safety and Health
LinkedInJan, 2023- Oct, 2024 -
Construction Industry: Productivity
LinkedInDec, 2022- Oct, 2024 -
Construction Management: Introduction to Lean Construction
LinkedInDec, 2022- Oct, 2024 -
Construction Management: Modular Construction Methods
LinkedInDec, 2022- Oct, 2024 -
Diploma in Lean Manufacturing - Productive Management with Fundamental Tools
Alison - Empower YourselfSep, 2022- Oct, 2024 -
Diploma in Project Management
Alison - Empower YourselfSep, 2022- Oct, 2024 -
Diploma in Quality Management - Revised 2017
Alison - Empower YourselfSep, 2022- Oct, 2024 -
Dealing With Difficult People In Life & Work
Alison - Empower YourselfAug, 2022- Oct, 2024 -
Diploma in Management for New Managers
Alison - Empower YourselfAug, 2022- Oct, 2024 -
Diploma in Supervision
Alison - Empower YourselfAug, 2022- Oct, 2024 -
Leadership Skills and Team Management
Alison - Empower YourselfAug, 2022- Oct, 2024 -
Supervision - Effective Communication Skills
Alison - Empower YourselfAug, 2022- Oct, 2024 -
Diploma in Advances in Welding and Joining Technologies
Alison - Empower YourselfMar, 2022- Oct, 2024 -
Diploma in Operations Management (Ops)
Alison - Empower YourselfMar, 2022- Oct, 2024 -
CSA 47.1 CWB Welding Supervisor Steel
CWB GroupFeb, 2022- Oct, 2024 -
5S Workplace Productivity
LinkedInDec, 2021- Oct, 2024 -
Be the Manager People Won't Leave
LinkedInDec, 2021- Oct, 2024 -
Becoming a Manager Your Team Loves
LinkedInDec, 2021- Oct, 2024 -
Body Language for Leaders (2015)
LinkedInDec, 2021- Oct, 2024 -
Improve Cognitive Flexibility at Work
LinkedInDec, 2021- Oct, 2024 -
In the Shop: Manufacturing
LinkedInDec, 2021- Oct, 2024 -
Managing Conflict: A Practical Guide to Resolution in the Workplace (getAbstract Summary)
LinkedInDec, 2021- Oct, 2024 -
Mindfulness: A Critical Skill for Project Managers
LinkedInDec, 2021- Oct, 2024 -
Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter (Blinkist Summary)
LinkedInDec, 2021- Oct, 2024 -
Rules for Rising Leaders
LinkedInDec, 2021- Oct, 2024 -
Six Sigma: Green Belt
LinkedInDec, 2021- Oct, 2024 -
The 7 Secrets of Responsive Leadership (getAbstract Summary)
LinkedInDec, 2021- Oct, 2024 -
Inter-Provincial Certificate of Qualification Red seal Endorsement METAL FABRICATOR (FITTER)
SkilledTradesBCOct, 2021- Oct, 2024 -
Verified International Academic Qualifications
World Education ServicesAug, 2021- Oct, 2024 -
CWB FCAW/MCAW Qualification Ticket, All positions
CWB GroupJul, 2023- Oct, 2024 -
CWB GMAW Qualification Ticket, Flat and Horizontal positions
CWB GroupJul, 2023- Oct, 2024 -
CWB SMAW Qualification Ticket, All positions
CWB GroupJul, 2023- Oct, 2024
Experience
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Dingwells North America
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Machinery Manufacturing
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1 - 100 Employee
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Fabrication Manager
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Apr 2022 - Present
𝑲𝒆𝒚 𝑹𝒆𝒔𝒑𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒃𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒆𝒔 – ❖ Oversee all fabrication activities with expertise in welding supervision. ❖ Responsible for fabrication plans and production coordination, ensuring that fabrication and delivery meet quality standards and are on time and on budget, monitoring through internal ERP system ❖ Coordinate with internal Design, Engineering, Project Management and Production Teams to ensure a steady flow of information. ❖ Collaborate with estimating and quoting process to ensure accuracy. ❖ Schedule and coordinate with Teams to ensure maximum efficiency and timely completion of orders. ❖ Establish standards for labour efficiency and utilization, material utilization and product quality. ❖ Analyze requirements for personnel, tooling, equipment and facilities, requesting and adjusting additions or changes. ❖ Approve first off inspections to ensure that parts meet specifications. ❖ Monitor and approve all payroll reporting for team. ❖ Ensure that safety standards are established and monitored. ❖ Participate in continuous improvement activities to improve processes, reduce costs and increase throughput. ❖ Ensure training and instruction is provided and documented with respect to expected standards of work performance, quality and safety. ❖ Responsible for material storage layout, proper identification and labelling. ❖ Responsible for the timely provision of all required reports including production, inventory, labour, scrap and attendance. ❖ Provide calibration and maintenance of tools and equipment. ❖ Create a positive work environment, counselling employees on performance issues and concerns where required. ❖ Adheres to safety and 5S practices. ❖ Other duties as required. Show less
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R & W METAL FABRICATING INC.
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Canada
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1 - 100 Employee
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Snr Production Welder
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Oct 2020 - Apr 2022
𝑲𝒆𝒚 𝑹𝒆𝒔𝒑𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒃𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒆𝒔 – ❖ Executed the manufacturing of high-quality metal parts exclusively designed for specialized racks in the Automotive industry, meeting stringent requirements and specifications. ❖ Consistently performed repetitive welding of steel components using the MIG (Metal Inert Gas) or GMAW (Gas Metal Arc Welding) process, ensuring precise and durable welds. ❖ Engaged in sub-assembling and welding of specialized racks, meticulously following drawing specifications to guarantee accuracy and conformity. ❖ Played a crucial role in the final assembly of specialized racks, ensuring proper alignment, fitment, and structural integrity for use in the Automotive industry. ❖ Managed the setup of MIG welding machines, ensuring precise configuration of settings such as voltage, wire feed speed, and gas flow to achieve optimal welding parameters. ❖ Operated various lifting equipment, employing safe and efficient techniques to handle heavy materials and components during the welding and assembly processes. ❖ Maintained a clean and organized work area, adhering to strict safety protocols to prevent accidents or hazards related to welding operations. ❖ Collaborated with team members and supervisors to address any welding-related issues, providing input and suggesting improvements for enhanced productivity and quality. ❖ Conducted visual inspections of welded parts, identifying and addressing any defects or imperfections promptly to ensure adherence to strict quality standards. ❖ Consistently demonstrated a strong work ethic and commitment to meeting production targets and deadlines, contributing to the overall success of the manufacturing operations at R&W Metal Fabricating & Design Inc. Show less
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Sasol
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South Africa
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Chemical Manufacturing
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700 & Above Employee
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Fabrication & Welding Foreman
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Oct 2016 - Sep 2020
𝑲𝒆𝒚 𝑹𝒆𝒔𝒑𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒃𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒆𝒔 – ❖ Responsible for the effective and safe operations of the body shop. ❖ Interpreting and conveying company policies to workers and enforces safety regulations. ❖ Recommends measures to improve production methods, equipment performance, and quality of product. ❖ Effectively making changes in working conditions and use of equipment to increase efficiency of shop, department, or work crew thereby improving the lead times for manufacturing machine bodies ❖ Analysing and resolving work problems by assisting workers to solve work problems. ❖ Initiating and suggesting plans to motivate workers to achieve work goals. ❖ Need to ensure that job descriptions accurately record the primary responsibilities, qualifications and terms for each job role in their group. ❖ Effectively set performance standards for tasks, jobs and roles of my subordinates by ensuring that they have appropriate and realistic job goals. ❖ Consistently providing recurring feedback to subordinates about their performances (regular work discussions). ❖ Managing and conducting performance appraisals on a regular basis, including assessing how the subordinates perform and what they can do to improve in their jobs. ❖ Successfully developing performance improvement plans if an employee's performance is not adequate. ❖ Ensure that the section is consistent in regard to its 20 key targets and strictly adheres to it. ❖ Ensure all statutory inspections are done in the section and in section findings are addressed at all times as per schedule. ❖ Assisting the QA/QC inspector in preparation of welding requirements for new orders or projects. ❖ Planning, organising, leading and controlling of body shop personnel in their day to day operations. ❖ Quality control, coaching and monitor welding processes. ❖ Check, verify and sign off products ready for dispatch to Final assembly or to the mines ❖ Manage body shop personnel i.e. Leave, training requirements and Labour relations Show less
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Melco Conveyor Equipment (Rulmeca)
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South Africa
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Machinery Manufacturing
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1 - 100 Employee
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Welding Technician/ QC Foreman
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Dec 2014 - Sep 2016
𝑲𝒆𝒚 𝑹𝒆𝒔𝒑𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒃𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒆𝒔 – ❖ Responsible for the effective control of Welding Quality across all operations ensuring that all products conform to customer welding requirements and that all welding processes meet the requirements of the AWS D1.1, WPS or PQR specifications. ❖ Assist Jig makers and boilermakers in deciding how items should be supported prior to welding to ensure distortions are kept to a minimum. ❖ Facilitation and presentation of training for welders and boilermakers, to ensure that all Welders and Boiler Makers are qualified to weld as per requirements for AWS D1.1, Melco and Customer Standards. ❖ Conduct “First Offs Welding Inspections” and “Patrol Welding Inspections” on all products fabricated to ensure that we constantly achieve good quality welding. ❖ Verification and monitoring of all welding process to ensure that the welding processes meet the requirements of the AWS D1.1 specification`s WPS and PQR procedures. ❖ Conduct practical, hands on corrective welding training of boilermakers, welders and general workers. ❖ Management of customer third party inspections and ensuring that all orders that require NDT testing inspections has been inspected and released. ❖ Work directly with clients, 3rd party inspectors and AIA's, where applicable. ❖ Writing welding inspection reports and the maintaining and filing of all documentation in accordance with the company established procedure. ❖ Assist sub-contractors in developing their welding processes & welders to ensure that they are welding to the AWSD1.1 specification requirements. ❖ Assisting the SHEQ Manager in assessing QA/QC welding requirements for new orders or projects. ❖ Assisting the SHEQ Manager and Production Managers in determining welding quality improvements required in the manufacturing plants. Show less
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ArcelorMittal South Africa
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Primary Metal Manufacturing
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700 & Above Employee
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Snr Maintenance Boilermaker and Welder
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Apr 2008 - Dec 2014
𝑲𝒆𝒚 𝑹𝒆𝒔𝒑𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒃𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒆𝒔 – ❖ Coordinating upgrade welding on castings using MMA and FCAW. ❖ Demonstration welding mild steel and stainless steel, using manual metal arc M.M.A, metal inert gas M.I.G and metal active gas M.A.G. ❖ Structural constructing using beams, angles, pipes, round bars and channels. ❖ Carrying out plant equipment and machinery inspections ❖ Supervising day shift teams of multi-discipline trades. ❖ Supervising Health & Safety Program requirements. ❖ Adhering to all company and house rules, controlling availability of work group resources such as vacation, shift changes, hours of work, allowances for breaks, travel time, expectations for arriving at and leaving job site, standby and on call duty. ❖ Managing team members’ accountability for performing their designated tasks against specific work directions, in accordance with plan and schedule. ❖ Maintaining and managing time and attending to direct reports. ❖ Highly responsible for internal supervising on maintenance execution. ❖ Indirectly involved in external supervising on execution. ❖ Responsible for training. ❖ Providing subject matter input into activities such as Safe Work Permits, Confined Space Entry and Work Instruction Development when required by Planning. ❖ Providing input into scheduling logistics development and participating in schedule verification meetings. ❖ Evaluating and suggesting reduced or additional work effort to work activities. ❖ Conducting tool box talks during work assignment and addressing all job and situational hazards. ❖ Assuring job site preparation and correct equipment positioning prior to execution. ❖ Assuring parts, materials, tools and equipment availability and conditions prior to execution. ❖ Managing work order details during execution, including ‘pre’ or ‘post’ equipment and process shutdown tasks and ensuring assigned work is correctly completed. Show less
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Plater/ Welder and Technical Trainer
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Jan 1997 - Apr 2008
𝑲𝒆𝒚 𝑹𝒆𝒔𝒑𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒃𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒆𝒔 – ❖ Marking, rolling and joining shells for fuel storage tanks. ❖ Rolling shells for tank manholes. ❖ Welding circumferential and longitudinal seams on tanks using M.M.A. and M.I.G. ❖ Structural constructing using beams, angels, pipes, round bars and channels. ❖ Marking patterns, developing, cutting, bending and welding sheet metal. ❖ Erecting pipe works for underground fuel storage tanks. ❖ Erecting service station canopies, pipe works and garage enclosures. ❖ Completing fabrication and installing biological filters. ❖ Marking, cutting and preparing manhole covers. ❖ Fabricating ladders, tanks platforms and hand rails. ❖ Fabricating steel pallets for drive-in shelving, according to specifications. ❖ Fabricating and erecting steel structures. ❖ Compiling course content for in house training of semi-skilled workers and apprentices. ❖ Implementing the company’s apprentice technical training procedures. ❖ Coordinating attachment (industrial) and rotational changes for apprentices in the production line and supervising their progress. Show less
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Apprentice Plater/Welder and Qualified Plater/Welder
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Jan 1992 - Dec 1996
𝑲𝒆𝒚 𝑹𝒆𝒔𝒑𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒃𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒆𝒔 – ❖ Measuring and marking boiler parts, boiler shells, tube plates, hot well tank shells, ash troughs and lifting lugs, hoppers and chutes. ❖ Cutting using oxy – fuel, plasma cutters, guillotines and nibblers. ❖ Cutting, bending, developing, joining, threading and welding pipes. ❖ Assembling fire tube and electrode boilers, hot well tanks and stands, bowling hoops and flue shells dish ends, cooler shells and flanges. ❖ Marking, cutting, bending, developing and lagging sheet metal. ❖ Welding mild steel and stainless steel, using manual metal arc M.M.A, metal inter gas M.I.G, metal active gas M.A.G, tungsten inter gas T.I.G and submerged arc SAW coded. ❖ Soft soldering, brazing and silver soldering. . Show less
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Education
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2022 - 2022
Alison
Diploma in Advanced Welding and Joining Technologies -
2022 - 2022
Alison
Diploma in Operations Management -
2022 - 2022
CWB GROUP
Certificate, Welding Supervisor Steel -
2020 - 2021
Industry Training Authority British Columbia
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2016 - 2019
Department of Higher Education and Training Republic of South Africa
National N Diploma, Engineering Sudies -
2019 - 2019
South African Institute of Welding
Welding and Fabrication Inspection Level 1, Welding and Fabrication Inspection -
2018 - 2018
GIBS Business School (Gordon Institute of Business Science)
Sasol Lead Mining Programme, People Management -
2018 - 2018
South African Institute of Welding
International Institute of Welding Inspection Personnel Basic, Welding Engineering Technology/Inspection -
2017 - 2017
University of Pretoria/Universiteit van Pretoria
Global Minerals Risk Management, Supervisor Course -
2016 - 2016
South Africa Institute of Foundrymen
Certificate, Supervisory Management -
2016 - 2016
South African Institute of Foundrymen
Certificate, Quality Control -
2016 - 2016
Spesmet Technology
Seminar, Inspection and Quality Control in Welded Fabrication. -
2016 - 2016
Spesmet Technology
Seminar, Welding and Materials Technology -
2016 - 2016
St Ignatius College
N4 Engineering Studies, Mechanical Engineering -
2016 - 2016
St Ignatius College
N5 Engineering Studies, Mechanical Engineering -
2015 - 2015
Hot Dip Galvanisers Association of Southern Africa
Hot Dip Galvanising Inspection Level 2, Hot Dip Galvanising and Dual Coating -
2015 - 2015
Sirrah
ISO 9001 Quality Awareness, Inspection and Testing -
2015 - 2015
Sirrah
ISO 9001 Awareness -
2014 - 2014
South Africa Assessment College
NQF Assessor Course Level 5, Qualified Assessor -
2000 - 2000
Harare Polytechnic College
Further Education Teacher's Diploma, Further Education Trainers' Certificate -
1994 - 1995
Bulawayo Polytechnic College
NC Metal Fabrication, Fabrication -
1987 - 1990
Glen View No. 1 High School
GCE 'O' Level, GCE 'O' Level
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