Resume: Rowayne du Plessis

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Personal Details

Name: Rowayne du Plessis

DOB: 15 February 1982

SARS TAX NO. 136*******

Phone: 081*******

Address: ** **** ***** *****

Port Elizabeth

Eastern Cape

Nationality: South African Citizen

Career Objective

I am a qualified welder with 13 years of experience, including 3 years in Apprentice School. An SBS student, I started in 2001 and graduated at Olifant’s Fontein, Johannesburg. My immediate goal is to secure long-term employment.

Key Skills

Analytical thinking and issue resolution

o Strong attention to detail;

o A senior level expertise in Engineering issues;

Decisiveness

o The ability to accurately assess alternatives and readily commit to a timely and appropriate action;

Innovation

o I question the status-quo and strive for innovative solutions; o I always try to challenge traditional thinking and to develop innovative solutions to improve performance and processes;

o Safety-minded

o Proper equipment handling

Teamwork and leadership

o I motivate my team, always promote teamwork and good team spirit; o I create opportunities for my team members to showcase their work; o On the job coaching, to less experienced team members to enhance their technical and team performance;

o The ability to program CNC Robot Welder

o A mind set for problem solving;

Communication

o Confident at presenting to my colleagues;

o Approachable and open, my team have to feel that they can come to me with anything;

o I have a good work mind set;

o I encourage my team to look for opportunities to enhance systems; Resume: Rowayne du Plessis

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Attitudes

o Customer Service Oriented

o Quality Awareness

o Cost Conscious

o Reliable and Accurate

o Result Oriented

o Pro-active

o Intuitive

Employment History

Transnet Rail Engineering (South Africa)

Senior Welder

2001-2014

Responsibilities

Operating safety working equipments and applying safety practice at work while performing my duties.

Welding spare parts in various directions: flat, horizontal, vertical or overhead, etc.;

Igniting flame or striking an arc while welding or performing other electricity-related work to weld part of as metal structure;

Supervising and identifying any fault in operating the equipment or in relation to any material or equipment, then notifying the supervisors;

Clamping, holding, tack-welding, heat-bending, bolting, or grinding spare parts as necessary to satisfy the technical requirements and create a welded final product;

Operating other accessory equipments and performing some tasks necessary for welding metal, such as fusing metal segments, using gas tungsten arc, metal arc, flux-cored arc, plasma arc, and other types of welding arcs;

Control the process of fitting, burning and welding to avoid problems in relation to overheat, distortion, expansion or shrink or spare parts.

Examining finish products and spare parts and comparing them with samples to check whether the specifications are met;

Being in charge of preparing and setting up necessary tools and equipments for welding jobs such as shielded metal arc, gas metal arc or other welding equipments;

Arranging and assuring the welded parts to be arranged in order before being assembled into a finished product;

All types of welding:

o TIG Welding: Mild Steel, Stainless Steel, Aluminium; o OAW : Mild Steel, Brazing, Silver Solder

o GMAW: Stainless Steel, Mild Steel

o SMAW: Mild Steel, Stainless Steel, LH Steel

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Achievements

Work done on International Wagon

Repairs and new fabrication

Rio Tinto Wagons and Mozambique Wagon and Volkswagen automotive Wagon

Motoman Robot Welding – 8 months

Quality control on the production line – 6 months Knowledge

Safe working practices

Technical/Theoretical Knowledge

Analytical Methods

Education

Transnet Rail Engineer (South Africa)

School of Engineering

2001-2005

SBS Student

Offshore Survival Course (HUET, Firefighting, First Aid) References

Transnet Rail Engineering Uitenhage, Eastern Cape

Clayton du Plessis – 078-***-****

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