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Australia

Coordinates all maintenance activities and ensure high machine reliability across the plant, through driving the organization’s maintenance program. Responsible for driving maintenance schedule compliance, work order management and work execution quality.Coordinates and oversees work carried out by contractors and ensure all the work is completed within project timelines and to the prescribed expectations.Work successfully with a multi-disciplinary team to accomplish goals and production key performance indicators.Provides technical support to the engineering and production teams in resolving machine breakdowns.Facilitates and leads problem solving techniques to address plant breakdowns and production challenges.Manage and ensures all site infrastructure is maintained in a usable condition.Controls the local engineering stores and ensures critical machine spares are kept at the right quantities.Maintain a safe, health and risk-free working environment, through adherence to Australian statutory regulations.Identifying opportunities of improving process capability through systematic improvements.Responsible for coaching and enforcing correct standardized maintenance practices, safety, and good housekeeping standards on the production machines.

Bulawayo Zimbabwe

Responsible for driving best asset care practices on the KHS and KRONES beverage packaging lines through planning and execution of maintenance and overhaul activities. Provided engineering support to the maintenance and process teams through contributing to the development and implementation of engineering policies and strategies.Monitored and analyzed machine downtime and implemented schedule reviews to improve machine reliability. Managed the maintenance database system (SAP) and ensured effective utilization of the ERP database.Facilitated proactive asset care program by applying reliability engineering tools such as Failure Mode Effect and Critical Analysis (FMECA),root cause analysis techniques such as Formal Failure Analysis, DMAIC and 5WHY.Managed the procurement and buying of spares for the packaging line, engaging local and international suppliers.Managed a safe, health and risk-free working environment, through adherence to statutory regulations and reviewing safety policies and procedures.Controlled the maintenance stores and kept critical spares and consumables at optimum levels.Managed and controlled the packaging engineering Repairs and Maintenance (R&M) budget.Implemented Good Manufacturing Practices.Carried out job pre-task risk assessments and work permit issuing

Bulawayo Province, Zimbabwe

The main focus of this role was providing specialist technical support and maintaining high machine reliability on the KHS and KRONES bottle washers.Execution of scheduled planned, corrective maintenance and overhauls on the bottle washer.Leading root cause analysis and problem solving session for all bottle washer breakdowns.Planning and ordering machine spares for overhauls and operational spares cover for the bottle wash

Bulawayo Province, Zimbabwe

Job responsibilities included Monitoring process performance and attending to production breakdowns on KHS and KRONES high speed packaging lines.Conducting root cause analysis for all process breakdowns during the production shift.

Bulawayo Province, Zimbabwe

This role mainly focused on providing engineering support to the beverage packaging department.This included, servicing and maintaining of packaging line gearboxes, valves ,pumps and conveyor drive systems and beverage bottling machines.Execution of planned and corrective maintenance.

M.Eng Manufacturing Systems And Operations Management

B.Eng. Industrial And Manufacturing Engineering, Industrial Mechanics And Maintenance Technology

Class 1 Fitting And Turning Including Machining, Mechanical Engineering, Class 1