Gerda Roberts Email & Phone Number

South Africa

Umkomaas, Kwazulu-Natal

Steelpoort, South Africa

- Responsible for Engineering budget - Supervising Shutdown plans, bar charts and responsible for post-mortem meetings.- Responsible for implementing Maintenance strategies.- Responsible for standardization of the planning process across departments.- Assessing & determining criticality of equipment.- Compiling critical & general spares lists.- Gathering equipment manuals, drawings & certificates from suppliers.- Storing of manufacturer data & drawings on the Data management system (DMS) and linking it to SAP.- Generate Equipment per Functional location & marking thereof.- Creating complete Functional location structure for new Phase. - Creating complete Maintenance plans as per manufacturer’s specifications.- Creation of a subsequent settlement order list for all cost centers per departments & discipline. - Creating new work centers.- Compiling of full equipment Asset register complete with life expectancy. - Training of maintenance planners and planning clerks.- Responsible for completing quarterly KPA/KPI’s with planners and planning clerks.- Responsible for planning department’s time management.

Steelpoort, South Africa

-Prepare bar charts and S-curves for shutdowns.-Conduct Root Cause Failure Analysis on equipment breakdowns.-Maintain, update & create Maintenance Plans, Function Locations, Task Lists, Equipment and Bill of materials-Creating, scheduling, re-scheduling & coordinating daily planned / un-planned notifications and orders-Purchasing & coordination of stock, parts and services by way of Purchase Requisitions between plant personnel, foreman, stores and contractorsSchedule & coordinate labor, resources, services for shutdowns and opportunity maintenance-Responsible management of department’s rotables-Conduct weekly Planners meetings-Do cost transfers when needed, Compile and distribute standby list-Compile daily & weekly reports on : Plant downtime; stock, spares & services outstanding; PM0’s and notifications issued vs. closed-Report on overdue and future work schedules-Compile daily call out reports-Inspecting equipment when it is booked back from Vendors-Manage opportunity work files

Steelpoort, South Africa

- Worked as Instrumentation Technician at Glencores Lion Ferrochrome smelter in Steelpoort, South Africa.I was responsible for preventive and corrective maintenance on the Premus (Raw material; Hot Gas Generator; Dryer; Bughouses; Mills; Palletizing; Grate; Kiln), Loading (Flux Bins; Hot Charge Loading; Furnace bins), Furnace (Furnaces; Venturi; Ladle Heaters; Granulation dams) and Services (Vantec; Recovery; Final Product; Potable Water Plant; Sewage Water Plant) sections. *Traced out and test electronic solid state and vacuum tube circuitry and components to locate defective parts in analog and digital, protection and monitoring systems, using test equipment, schematics, and maintenance manuals. * Removed defective instruments from system, decontaminate, disassemble, and clean instruments, and replace defective parts, using hand tools. * Reassembled instruments and replace instruments in system, using hand tools. * Calibrated readings on instruments according to standards and adjust phasing and align stages to ensure accuracy of recording and indicating function * Recorded calibrations made, parts and components used, and inventory of parts on hand.- *Tested accuracy of flowmeters, pressure gauges, temperature indicators, controllers, radiation detectors, and other recording, indicating or controlling instruments to locate defective components in system, using test equipment, such as pressure gauges, mercury manometers, potentiometers, pulse and signal generators, oscilloscopes, transistor curve tracers, and ammeters, voltmeters, and watt meters *Lubricated instruments and replaced defective wiring and tubing- *Prepared schematic drawings, sketches, and reports to reflect changes or alterations made in instruments, circuits, and systems.

Witbank Area, South Africa

-Worked at the Samancore Ferrometals Ferrochrome smelter in Witbank, South Africa.I was responsible for preventive and corrective maintenance on the Pellet forming plant, Electrode paste manufacturing plant as well as the Services sections (Metal recovery plant; Weighbridges and Laboratory) *Did maintenance / faultfinding on electronic and pneumatic instrument field equipment and Mitsubishi PLC’s. *Did faultfinding on Gx-developer, MelsecMedock, Melsec Medock + PLC programs and Citec PC package.

Sasolburg, South Africa

-Instrumentation Mechancian at the Sasol Power generating and utility (water, steam & instrument/plant air) distribution plant. *Did maintenance / faultfinding on electronic and pneumatic instrument field equipment and Moore APACS Version 4 DCS system. *Checked and created loop-, P&ID and PFD drawings for new Reverse osmosis plant as well as creating standardised speck sheets on all plant loops. *Maintained, calibrated and did faultfinding on pH and conductivity Analyzers. *Did maintenance on Atlas Copco ZR6 Compressors and Hiross LED 110÷225 fridge driers. *Was Responsible for all critical calibrations on Plant. *Was responsible for all Nosa documentation-Instrumentation Apprentice at the Sasol Polyethylene 1 plant. *Did maintenance / faultfinding on electronic and pneumatic instrument field equipment and Rosemount RS3 DCS system. *Did maintenance and standby on high pressure (150MPa) plant *Worked on the Compounding plant where they use LICO system and the scales worked on 'loss of weight' system *Also worked on the FFS machine (Form Filling Machine) at the pack line. *Worked on NORDSON glue machine and PYODEN temperature transmitters.

Instrumentation Control Trade, Trade Test

National Diploma (N4), Industrial Instrumentation

Matric (Gr.12), Math & Science