Freddie Brits Email & Phone Number

Calgary, Canada Area

Instrumentation & electrical maintenance technician in Froth Plant Area.

Fort Hills

Instrumentation Maintenance Technician in Secondary Extraction (Froth) area.

Alberta, Canada

Kearl Oil Sands.Maintaining, fault finding, Field Diagnostics Checks, repair, install, adjust and calibration of various instrumentation field devices in the Froth/Utilities Kearl Plant area.• Calibration of SMART transmitters using HART communicator.• Calibrate and adjust Pressure, Flow, Temperature and Level Transmitters, PH and Conductivity, LEL, H2S and CO2 gas detectors with several calibration devices. • Testing, calibration and setup of control valves via HART and valve link mobile.• Execute Loop and function tests on various transmitters.

Grande Cache, Alberta, Canada

Planning, implementing, commissioning, testing, maintaining, fault finding and calibrating of all Electrical and Instrumentation controls and field devices in the Coal Washing Plant and supporting areas.• This includes Pneumatic & Electronic instruments, Electro Mechanical beltweighers, Siemens & Rosemount Level, Flow, Temperature and Pressure Transmitters, Variable Frequency Drives, Control Valves, Electrical Actuators, Ohmart Nuclear density devices and CH4, H2S and CO gas Net Safety Millennium Transmitters.• Developing, designing, configuring, programming and fault finding of Allen Bradley RS-Logix 5000 P.L.C’s and Allen Bradley RS-View for new and existing projects.• Developing, designing and configuring of Ignition Automation SCADA system.• Commissioning of WEG CFW09 and Mitsubishi A700 series VFD’s. • Read and interpret electrical, instrumentation drawings, circuit diagrams and electrical code specifications to determine wiring layouts for new or existing installations.

Middelburg Area, South Africa

Was part of a controls & instrumentation team that was responsible for small/medium projects, shut down planning, managing shift technicians, implementing, commissioning, testing, maintaining, fault finding and calibrating of all electrical and instrumentation controls and field devices in the Cold Mill plant.• Developing, designing, configuring, programming and fault finding of ABB AC 450 PLC, Toshiba PLC, Alstom Gem 80 PLC and Siemens S7 PLC’s. • Developing, designing and configuring of Wonderware Intouch and Operator ITHMI’s/SCADA systems. • Maintenance, fault finding, repairs and calibration on Yokogawa Level Transmitters, IFM Pressure and Flow Transmitters, temperature transmitters, laser devices and and Gefran LVDT position gauges• Maintenance, fault finding, repairs and calibration on ABB shape systems, DMC and IMS x- ray gauge measurement systems, CNC machines (Siemens Sinumerik and TosnucPLC/Software operating systems) and EMG Center guides. • Maintenance, fault finding and repairs on Cegelec Actom, Control Techniques and ABB AC 800 VFD’s.• Fault finding on hydraulic and pneumatic equipment which included servo, solenoid and control valves.• Spares control and management to reduce down time during breakdowns. • Monthly backups on PLC and HMI systems • Writing standard work instructions to perform critical tasks.• On job training of new instrumentation technicians.

National Diploma: Electrical Engineering, Electrical And Electronics Engineering

C.E.T, Instrumentation Technology/Technician

Electrical Trade, Electrician

Electrical Red Seal, Electrical Engineering Technologies/Technicians