CV, Service Supervisor Flow Control, Instrument Technician

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Skills keywords: planning of capacities

Short Bio:

Service Supervisor i responsible for commissioning and installation services, in cooperation with the Regional Service Manager. I lead the workshop, take care of the in-house and on-site service jobs. The core business is to assist the Regional Service Manager in promoting & selling service to our customers. My target is to achieve service sales & gross margin targets together with the Regional Service Manager.
• Leading the workshop with the service technicians
• Planning of capacities

Current location:  Secunda, South Africa - View on map

Nationality: South African

Preferred Sector of Employment:  , Manufacturing and Operations, Oil, Gas and Energy

Spoken languages: Afrikaans, english

Location I am interested in working: Anywhere

Memberships

Mine Workers Union (solerdarity)

Technical/Theoretical Trade Training

Name of Institution:,,Chemical, Oil, Allied Industries Training Board (Sasol Synfeuls)
Dates of Attendance / Training:January 1999 – May 2001
Instrument Mechanician (Process Control)

University / College Training: Evander Technical College
April 1999 -August 2000 – August 2001
Instrument Trade Theory N3
Industrial Electronics N3
Mathematics N3

Apprenticeship

Company Name: Sasol Solvent
Instrument Mechanician Apprentice
January 1999 – May 2001

Duties As an instrument apprentice I had to learn how to work on the following: Pressure, level, flow, temperature, had to know how to read an MFD, data sheets, and drawings,

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Company Name: Marpless
South Africa Head Office In Pretoria / Sandton
December 1996 – December 1997

Field technician

Duties:

Installation of TDMA Rual Radio Systems, Upgrade of eprom. Programming of TDMA Rural Radio Systems, Modification of cards. Worked together with Telkom technicians.

Company Name:Steinmuller
Sasol Synfuels Secunda
January 1998 – June 1998

Semi Skilled Labourer

Duties:

Work on the SAS reactors cleaning and grinding of welds for inspection.

Company Name: ISC (Insulation Sheet metal Construction)
Sasol Synfuels Secunda

June 1998 – December 1998

Supervisor

Duties:

Supervised all lagging and painters on different jobs.

Company Name: Sasol Solvents
Sasol Synfuels Secunda
January 1999 – May 2001

Apprentice Instrument Mechanician

Duties:

As an instrument apprentice I had to learn how to work on the following: Pressure, level, flow, temperature, had to know how to read an MFD, data sheets, and drawings,

Company Name: Carbo Tar
Sasol Synfuels,Secunda
November 2001 – August 2002 (Contract Work)

Instrument Mechanician (Process Control)

August 2002 – June 2005 (Permanent)

Duties/Skills:

Good interpersonal skills

Fully Bilingual

Function independently

Handling of pressure

Function well under pressure

Good organizational skills

Computer literate

Self motivated

Good communication skills

Negotiation skills

Function as team worker

Function as team player

• Maintenance of all instrumentation on running plant equipment which included:

o Inspections

o Reporting of deviations and defects

o Works card generation and execution from reports

o Sourcing and acquisition of all necessary spares and equipment necessary for repairs

o General day to day preventative plant maintenance

o Breakdown and emergency defects

o Shut down and day to day maintenance (removal, inspection, repair of defects, replacement of broken parts, refurbishment of old parts, reassembly, installation and re-commissioning)

o Shut down planning from maintenance perspective:

 Inventory, stock checking and ordering of spares required for shut down

 Coordinate pick up, testing, repairing and return of valves, inline flow meters and critical emergency valves with service providers

o Mentoring and coaching of instrumentation apprentices

• Shutdown maintenance and day to day maintenance on the following equipment:

o Control valves

o Controllers

o Level transmitters

o Flow transmitters

o Trip systems

o Phenol extraction systems

o Pitch extraction systems

o Re-boiler and distillation system

o TDC 2000 system, 3000

o Experion

• Standby duties

Working on these transmitters as well as fault finding and services :

– Pressure – Honeywe

– Rosemount

– Level

– Honeywell

– Rosemount

– K-Tek

– Flow – Honeywell

– Yokogava

– Micro Motion

– Endress & Hauser

– Tempreture – Rosemount

Honeywell

Cat Switch

– Weighing Systems – Ramsey

– Trek Scale

Working/Overhaul on these valves as well as fault finding and services :

Camflex (masoneilian control valves)

Mitech valves

Valtek

Fisher control valves

Neles control valves

CCI

Calibration Equipment:

Druk – Hand Held (pressure Applications)

Memocal – Temperature

Honeywell – communicator/HP hand held

Rosemount – Communicator

Druk – Unomat

Fluke – 77/87

Company Name: Sasol Refinery
Sasol Synfuels Secunda
June 2005 – July 2009

Senior Instrument Mechanician (Process Control)

Duties:

Good interpersonal skills, Fully Bilingual, Function independently, Handling of pressure, Function well under pressure, Good organizational skills, Computer literate, Self motivated, Good communication skills, Negotiation skills, Function as team worker, Function as team player.

All Instrument equipment, Use of hand tools, Use of power tools, Plant related work, shutdown work, worked on jobcards. Doing standby on plant and maintenance on running plant.

Standby, Call outs, shutdowns, Calibration of transmitters, Overhauling of valves, contact with suppliers, small project work, Ordering spares, update of drawings, attending meetings, giving feedback on plant related work to groupleader and relevant parties, Maintenance on plant related work, housekeeping, safety representative for artisans. Registering of plant defects (notifications) on SAP.

Maintenance instrumentation:

-Inspections

-Reporting of deviations and defects

-Works card generation and execution from reports

-Sourcing and acquisition of all necessary spares and equipment necessary for repairs

-General day to day preventative plant maintenance

-Breakdown and emergency defects

-Shut down and day to day maintenance (removal, inspection, repair of defects, refurbishment of old parts, reassembly, installation and re-commissioning)

-Shut down planning from maintenance perspective:

-Inventory, stock checking and ordering of spares required for shut down

Coordinate pick up, testing, repairing and return of valves, inline flow meters and critical emergency valves with service providers

-Mentoring and coaching of instrumentation apprentices

Shutdown and day to day maintenance:

-Control valves

-Controllers

-Level transmitters

-Flow transmitters

-Trip systems

-Density meters

-Weighing systems

-Conveyer belt metal detector system

-Steam/electrical coil heating systems

-Flame detection and failure systems

-Thermal scanning equipment

-Gas fired furnaces

-Nuclear source levels

-High pressure compressors (hydrogen)

Health and safety representative:

-Attended all required training

-Part of the team that assisted with roll out of the BBS (Behavioural based safety) for the steam station plants

-Assisted with all incident investigations on site and help make recommendations on improving safety on site

-Part of committee which addressed all requests and complaints from employees concerning health, safety and environment issues

-I was elected chairman of the BBS committee for refining. It was our responsibility to roll out the BBS on the business unit.

-I did standby for all the refining units on the western factory and was involved in several projects and continuous improvement projects for the instruments on these units.

Working on these transmitters as well as fault finding and services :

– Pressure – Honeywe

– Rosemount

– Level

– Honeywell

– Rosemount

– K-Tek

– Flow – Honeywell

– Rosemount

– Yokogava

– Micro Motion

– Endress & Hauser

– Tempreture – Rosemount

Honeywell

Cat Switch

– Weighing Systems – Ramsey

– Trek Scale

Working/Overhaul on these valves as well as fault finding and services :

Camflex (masoneilian control valves)

Mitech valves

Valtek

Fisher control valves

Neles control valves

CCI

Calibration Equipment:

Druk – Hand Held (pressure Applications)

Memocal – Temperature

Honeywell – communicator/HP hand held

Rosemount – Communicator

Druk – Unomat

Fluke – 77/87

Company Name: Metso Automation RSA
1B Dumat Place Mt Edgecombe Durban
August 2009 – Current

Service Supervisor

Duties:

Good interpersonal skills, Fully Bilingual, Function independently, Handling of pressure, Function well under pressure, Good organizational skills, Computer literate, Self motivated, Good communication skills, Negotiation skills, Function as team worker, Function as team player.

Use of hand tools, Use of power tools, Plant related work, shutdown work, worked on jobcards. Doing standby and maintenance for the client.

Service Supervisor is responsible for commissioning and installation services, in cooperation with the Regional Service Manager he leads the workshop. Take care of the in-house and on-site service jobs. The core business is to assist the Regional Service Manager in promoting & selling service to our customers. My target is to achieve service sales & gross margin targets together with the Regional Service Manager.

• Leading the workshop with the service technicians

• Planning of capacities

• Insuring high utilization rates

• Supporting National Service Manager at long-term agreements with existing customers and new end-users

• Creating predictive maintenance programs – diagnostic services

• Taking care of all safety and insurance issues related to the workshop

• Responsible for the quality of the service jobs done

• Responsible for all internal inspections and certificates needed for the equipment used in the workshop

Subtasks:

1 Identification of inquiries

(customer contacts, technical clarification, identification of the products, verification of service job-related documentation)

2 Preparation of quotations

(Clarification of price and delivery time with Supply Centers, creation of quotations by using our systems, Checking terms of conditions)

3 Identification of orders (Comparison of order and quotation, technical clarification, checking terms of conditions)

4 Support by order handling

(Consideration and clarification of internal framework)

5 Documentation and archiving of order related papers (e.g. inspection sheets, service reports, deficiency reports)

6 Notification of defects

(Coordination and mentoring of customer claims by using our claim network, coordination of service support and service technician, cooperation with product management)

7 Identification and elimination of mistakes and flaws, pass on of major malfunctions

8 Leading of the workshop service team to be able to reach the target

9 Capacity planning in cooperation with the National Service Manager

10 Target setting to team-members to develop and increase efficiency of the workshop

11 Taking care of meeting laws and requirements, taking care of inspections, certificates necessary for the workshop

12 Responsible for safety, insurance and well being organization in the service organization

13 Ability for using and developing internal and external service network

14 Handling service activities and repairs with challenging contents (all kind of special valves, all kind of actuators, different kind of controls with positioners and ancillary instrumentation), includes optimization of work-time and productivity, specialist work (after proper training)

15 Tubing of pneumatic, electro-pneumatic and hydraulic actuators incl. Accessories

16 Assembling of valves, actuators and positioners/accessories to a field device incl. adjustment and calibration

17 Execution and documentation of forced quality tests (e.g. pressure test, torque test, leakage test), providing of deficiency reports, repair- and service reports

18 Participation of customer inspections (new business), showing component functionality of the field device

19 Conduct auditing (security, criticality, installed base)

20 Installation supervision and general supervisory work at start-up and commissioning

21 Performance of service jobs in the home country and in foreign countries

22 Performance of trainings at end-users side or in the service centre

23 Implementation of intelligent solutions (Smart Products) in existing and new process/production units and integration is the existing process control system

24 Verification of specifications in relation to need specifications (e.g. ATEX), learn and understand SIL calculations and ESD applications

25 Initialization of required documentation for repair/modernization jobs, coordination of necessary actions in cooperation with construction department and/or order handling department

Training

FSC Engineering

Industrial Nuclear applications and safety

Endress and hauser level control (TOF TOOL)

Explosion proof and zone identification.

Feildview

SVI 2

FSC

Root cause analysis technique (RCAT) IRCA 2012

Health And Safety Representative Course IRCA 2012

Legal Liability For Supervisors Course IRCA 2012