Eddington Chimbwanda Email & Phone Number

New Zealand

New Zealand

Duties Includes:•Expertly assemble, fit, and align mechanical components according to engineering specifications and assembly instructions.•Utilize hand tools, power tools, and specialized equipment to ensure accurate assembly and integration of parts.•Identifying and troubleshooting assembly issues, making necessary adjustments to ensure proper functionality.•Thoroughly analyze and interpret detailed engineering plans, drawings, and blueprints to understand component dimensions, tolerances, and assembly sequences.•Translate blueprint information into actionable assembly steps, ensuring adherence to quality and safety standards.•Collaborate with design and engineering teams to clarify any ambiguities or discrepancies in plans.•Conduct rigorous inspections of assembled components and finished machinery to verify accuracy, alignment, and functionality.•Perform tests and measurements to ensure the final product meets performance and quality requirements.•Collaborate with quality control personnel to identify and address any defects or deviations from specifications.•Maintain accurate records of assembly processes, adjustments made, and quality control checks performed.•Generate detailed reports and documentation to communicate progress, issues, and solutions to relevant teams.

Marondera, Mashonaland East Province, Zimbabwe

Marondera, Mashonaland East, Zimbabwe

• Trouble shooting and fault finding on bakery plant equipment which includes spooner and macadams dough mixers, dough dividers, rounders, proofers and packhouse machines like kwiklocks and food sealers.• Planning and organizing my daily work activities and my trainee’s schedule.• Performing manual metal arc welding on mild steel plates, square tubes, angle irons, channel iron and round tubes both on light and heavy gauges.• Installation and precise leveling of new machinery (biscuit plant Pek Makina type)• Monthly maintenance shutdowns on bakery equipment.• Troubleshooting and fault finding on plant hydraulics and pneumatics systems mainly on Pek Makina and Macadm Mixers• Pumps (centrifugal and positive displacement) overhauling• Conveyance systems maintenance, mainly on belt, bucket, slates conveyor types.• Mechanical drive systems maintenance ( gear drive, chain drives and belts drives)• Performing oxy-acetylene gas welding.• Leading in safety talks/ team talks on weekly basis.

Harare, Zimbabwe

• reading and interpretation of manuals and blueprints, mainly for pre-fabricated machine components.• Refurbishing of old underground ventilation fans through disassembling, servicing, painting and reinstalling.• Performing root cause analysis as a way of trouble shooting and fault finding.• Installation of new equipment (underground ventilation fans) with a high degree of precision.• Performing laser alignment on 850kw prime mover electric motor to fan impeller assembly.• Performing oxy-acetylene thermal heating and cutting.• Performing basic MMA stick welding in different positions including vertical up, down and overhead• Working at heights and confined space safely• Using different power tools to accomplish work in time and achieving satisfactory results, for example the use of and impact wrench.• Performing basic rigging and achieved to lift a 4 tonne ducting.• Scheduling maintenance strategies for the installed equipment (preventive maintenance in particular)• Training junior trainees and ensuring compliance with quality management systems as well as safety , health and environment

Harare

• Generating(autocad), reading and interpretation of blue prints• Machining machine components as per blueprint to satisfy customer’s needs. Components includes hydraulic cylinders, piston rods, pito jaws, shafts for Sandvik TMM machines.• Assembling hydraulic actuators mainly hydraulic and pneumatic cylinders.• Performing taper turning, eccentric turning, facing , screw cutting, drilling, knurling and other lathe operations.• Training junior machinist on manual lathe machines and also ensuring compliance to safety standards

Kwekwe, Zimbabwe

• Installations of the bakery equipment/(plant installations)• Responsible of proper running and maintenance of the bakery equipment which includes dough mixers, dividers, rounders’, mini proofer, slates conveyors and flat belt conveyors, molders, main proofer, oven and de-panning system.• Achieved to come up with a maintenance schedule to achieve maximum plant availability and minimize costly breakdowns.• Performing root cause analysis as a way of fault finding and trouble shooting on equipment.• Maintenance of G&H coal fired boilers, from stockers, valves , pumps, and monitoring the boiler safety devices.• Maintenance on water recirculation systems , agitation systems and also working at heights safely

Chiredzi, Masvingo, Zimbabwe

• maintenance and repairing of ksb centrifugal pumps, vacuum pumps, slurry pumps, mono pumps• Performing machining operations of pump shafts, sleeves and other manual lathe work.• Mechanical drive systems monitoring and maintenance (chain, gear and belt drives)• Pipework – flanged pipe installations, weld joining, thread joining, valves installations and other pipe connections.• Conveyor maintenance (flat belt, chain, bucket, chute, wheel and slats conveyors)• Boiler maintenance (G&H boilers) (fire tube boilers- valves, safety devices, pumps and overall equipment monitoring and maintenance )• Achieved to design an emergency decontamination shower for field workers as a safety requirement.• Trouble shooting hydraulic and pneumatic systems in the sugar manufacturing plant.• Working at heights and confined space safely • Performing thermal cutting on mild steel plates• Proficient installation of bearings and machine leveling and alignment

Bachelor Of Technology - Btech, Industrial And Manufacturing Engineering, Pass

Machineshop Engineering, Mechanical Engineering