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Kitwe, Copperbelt Province, Zambia

Key responsibilities:• Marketing and selling Epiroc products to existing and potential customers.• Developing and implementing marketing tools and strategies for related products, such as parts promotions, part kits, and proactive sales approach.• Managing the parts inventory and supply chain, including ordering parts in advance, negotiating prices with suppliers and vendors, and reducing excess or aged inventory through fire-sales.• Managing the fleet of Epiroc machines, including working with customer service and service personnel to utilize the information from the fleet management system to support parts sales and forecasting.• Managing the receivables collection and credit control, including ensuring customer accounts are below credit limit and in line with payment terms offered.• Maintaining relevant customer databases, such as sales vs potential, call card/call plan, and customer relation management.• Hiring, training, and supervising the parts sales team, ensuring they deliver excellent customer service and meet sales objectives.• Overseeing the budget and financial matters of the parts department.• Ensuring a safe and clean work environment and compliance with all company policies and regulations.

Chingola, Copperbelt Province, Zambia

Key responsibilities:• Created maintenance schedules for all earth moving equipment on site, ensuring that they are serviced and repaired regularly and efficiently.• Acted as a relief supervisor when needed, overseeing the work of other maintenance staff and contractors, and ensuring safety and quality standards are met.• Developed full scope and extent of work needed for each maintenance project, estimating the time, cost and resources required, and communicating with the relevant stakeholders.• Prepared reports, collecting and analyzing data and making recommendations for improving the performance and reliability of the equipment, as well as identifying potential risks and issues.• Monitored component target life on machines and making sure there is compliance in changing the components whose target life is due so as to prevent breakdowns, delays and accidents.• Determined the tools and supplies needed for each type of machine, maintaining an inventory of spare parts and consumables, and ordering new ones as needed.• Created and updated timesheets for myself and other maintenance staff, ensuring accuracy and timeliness of payroll and billing processes.• Planned for labor force requirements, hiring, training and supervising new maintenance staff, and provided feedback and guidance to improve their skills and performance

Kitwe, Copperbelt Province, Zambia

Achievements:• Taught and enforced safe engineering practice in all aspect of daily operation in maintenance to ensure minimum or no safety incidences• Successfully created work plans, communicating the tasks to the team leaders (foremen) and physically participating in the maintenance tasks.• Co-coordinated and monitored maintenance operations through the foreman.• Offered technical support to engineers and foremen about the procedure of carrying out preventive maintenance and repair works.• Equipment worked on – Pumps, compressors, filters, conveyor belts, overhead crane, crushers, gear boxes, coolers.

Copperbelt Province, Zambia

Achievements:• Ensured that the products and services of the company were well presented whenever a customer was on site.• Repaired and provided technical advice and services to customers in the field.• Rebuilt and maintained heavy mining and construction equipment to insure continued and optimum production.• Equipment worked on - Dump trucks, Drill rigs, gateman, folk lifts and various utility machinery or vehicles. The repair includes stripping the component from the machine, dismantle and identify defective parts, repair, and assemble the component and fit back to the machine.

Copperbelt Province, Zambia

Achievements:• Repaired and executed planned and preventive maintenance services so as to prevent breakdowns and insure there is continuity in production.• Industrial Equipment Worked On: Various pumps, furnaces /smelter, compressors, conveyor belts, valves, reduction gear boxes, ID and cooling tower fan

Copperbelt Province, Zambia

Key responsibilities:• Repaired, overhauled and modified various types of pumps, valves and mechanical components

Copperbelt Province, Zambia

Key responsibilities:• Repaired and serviced maintenance of plant equipment in order for the production targets to be met.• Equipment worked on - Compressors, Crushers, Overhead cranes, Pumps, gear boxes, tank agitators, cooling towers and ID fans.