CURRICULUM VITAE. NIGEL BARRY JONES.

OCCUPATION BOILERMAKER/WELDER/SUPERVISOR

GENDER MALE

NATIONALITY SOUTH AFRICA

ETHNIC GROUP WHITE

LANGUAGE S ENGLISH, SHONA,

DESIRED JOB LOCATION WILLING TO RE-LOCATE

AVALIBILTY A.S.A. P

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CONTACT DETAILS

CELL PHONE 063*******

EMAIL adb5da@r.postjobfree.com / adb5da@r.postjobfree.com

SUMMERY

I am resourceful, responsive, and Flexible, focused and very determined individual, driven by achieving personal results and delivering results. I am hard working, and work well under pressure responding effectively to changing priorities. I am quick to learn and adapt to a changing environment

I did my apprenticeship on a mine so gained a lot experience surface, underground and the plant. I have worked on the bench for most of those years. I have worked as a foreman, supervisor, and manager. I have worked on major contracts running the projects. I have done planning, Designs, Quality control, Root cause analyze, KPI’s, Health and safety, Safety audits, ISO 9001, Quotations, Progress reports, Planned maintenance I am honest, reliable and take pride in my work. I take safety very serious. I know I would be a great asset in your company

PROFESSIONAL PROFILE

I am a section 13 highly experienced boilermaker with 30 years in the field. I have worked in all areas of my trade underground, surface, plants and construction. Bio leangle in blueprints, drawings in millimeters and inches. Strong knowledge on occupational health & safety act. Have supervised large scale Projects to running small scale businesses. Huge amount of knowledge in pipe and plate development. Experience in construction and erecting of steel structures. Crushers, vibrating screens, conveyor systems. Strong back ground in steam and oil systems, piping, tanks, boilers, heat exchanges, expansion joints. Fitting and Machining.

KEY STRENGTHS

A team player. Focus on accuracy and attention to detail strong communicator. Hands on when it comes to safety. Well organized, good planner and a team player who plays hands on with continuous improvements to root causes and analyses.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Boilermaker. Welding. Design. Fabrication. Planning Training. Continuous Improvement in Boiler making. Welding Procedures. Rigging and Ropes man. Machining, lathe, line boring and milling machine. Construction. Erection. Belt Splicing. Vulcanized Splicing. Hot Splicing of Mono and Multi-Ply Conveyor Belts with Textile Carcass

Steel Core Belt Splicing Pressure Tanks. Quality Control .Quality Inspection. Supervising. K.P.I‘s, Forman . 2.9.2 Supervisor. Fitting.

EDUCATION

Sinoia High School 1978- 1983.

O Levels. Moths, English, Geography, History, Metal Work, Art, Technical Drawing, English Literature.

Trade in Boiler making 1984-1988 Mangula Copper Mines. Contract Number 840379-E.

Diploma City and Guilds Certificate in Fabrication and Statutory Trade Test. 1984-1985.

Supervising ticket and occupational health and safety exam 2007 Australian collage of health and safety,

N.D.T Level 1 and visual inspection, mining industry skills Centre 2009,

Senior first aid Australian collage of health and safety, number S027593. 2009.

TRAINING & CETIFICATES

Basic Rigging, Advanced Rigging, Over Head Crane, Elevated work Plate form, Confined Space, Working at Heights, Fire Fighting, Senior First Aid, Manual Handling, Hot Work Permits, Explosive Gases, A1-A2, Hot and Cold Belt Splicing. Apply Risk Management Process, Conduct Safety and Health Investigation, Generic Induction to Coal Mining, Underground. Generic Induction to Coal Mining Surface, Job Observation, Incident Reporting, Standard Operating Procedures, Heat Stress. Computer skills, micro soft, word, XL and auto cad 2007.Belt Splicing natural rubber, styrene butadiene rubber, butadiene rubber, steel core Splicing methods bias, overlap splices (mono and two-ply belts) step splices (multi-ply belts), pressure 100-125 psi, heat using heating platens, documentation on splice, curing time, heat, and pressure. Mechanical splicing. Welding 1G, 2G, 3G, 4G, 5G, 6G, 6GR. Anglo S1, S2, S3.

CAREER HISTORY

Current: Metal Fabricator/ Welder New Zealand

Skilled visa

Fabricating Trailers

TZ-VR Steel South Africa. Boilermaker/ Welder Supervisor.

Responsibilities.

Responsible for the maintenance on TZ WK 55 shovel, repairs to dipper and all welding procedures. Change out of GT on dipper and all root cause analyses. Scope of work reports when sending out dipper handle and dipper to be repaired. Weekly planning of maintenance on shovel, repairs to housing frame, body, boom and dipper. Detailed reports to client on inspections and upgrades. All safety audits and daily inspections on all SOP, risk assessments.

Joy Global Mining. Boilermaker/Welder. Venetia Mine Limpopo.

Responsibilities

All boiler making and welding on P&H 250 XP DRILLS. Contentious upgrades and improvements on drills. Responsible

For all root causes and analyses. Design and fabricate upgrades. All welding done to AWS and Joy Global International

Standards and procedures using flux core. All NDT and visual inspections on welding. All safety standards to be meet and complied with. Send detailed reports to head office on performance and detailed fatigue issues which I then acted on and deigned and fabricated as the machine are built in the states there are numerous issues on performance so I had to upgrade these problems on the drills and make sure that my designs were sent to the states so they could comply with the new designs.

Jaden Engineering. Boilermaker/Welder/Turner. Manager. Zambia.

Responsibilities.

Directly responsible for managing a staff of +- 10. Training and retaining skills. Due to the compliance of a business work visa in Zambia you have to employ local people and train them in all aspects of the trade and safety. Sourcing work and giving quotations. Training graduate students at the University of Zambia in my free time. Outsourced to repair presses, guillotines, lathes, milling machines, pumps.

Ordering steel and consumables. Carrying out all design, fabrication and installation of all jobs. Fabrication of vibrating screens, chutes, complete fabrication of conveyors and installation. Machining components on milling machine and lathe. Left due to visa constraints’.

Conveyor Services Mackay (Outsourced to Sandvik) Queensland Australia 2007-2010 Supervisor/ Boilermaker/Welder

Responsibilities

Maintenance of all conveyors’ surface and underground including wash plant. Fabrication of chutes and wash screens. Transferred to Gove Northern Territory Australia Rio Tinto Alcan Bauxite and Aluminum Refinery. Supervisor. Manager.

Responsibilities

Managing staff of +-35 boilermakers, belt splices, operative’s. On an F.I.F.O rotation of 6 weeks on 11 days off.

Maintenance of 25 km of overland conveyors and stations. Scheduling belt changes and ordering all consumables. Doing all K.P. I. Design and fabrication of 60-ton belt winder that saved Sandvik $230,000 Australian dollars. Design new guarding on overland conveyor. All staff report to me end of day to do K.P.I and audits on belts.

Transferred back to Mackay Queensland.

Responsibilities

Help write J.S. A and S.O. P for project at Hay Point Coal terminal. Install new belt for ship loader total length 4.5 km

Managing staff +- 20, keeping to all safety standard and oversee splicing and installation of belt. Work with customer and keep to deadline. Change out main swivel bearing for Sandvik stacker- reclaimed at Hay Point coal terminal.

Remove upper section, weld in baffles for wind shear jack up top section, remove bearing and replace.

Transfield Boilermaker/Welder Mackay Bowen Basin Queensland Australia

Responsibilities

Fabricate and install all pipe work for new coal prep wash plant. All welding done using TIG and then NDT on all welds.

Install new steel girders and columns, floors, walkways and steps. Commission new wash screens and chutes. Wash plant commissioned in 11 months with no LTI.

P&H Mine pro Boilermaker/Welder Mackay Queensland Australia

Responsibilities

Fabrication of new P&H 1920 Dragline for haul creek. Work from drawings in workshop manufacturing housing frame

Boom, feet and bucket. All prefabricated sections sent to site and fitted and welded. All welding done with flux core

And x-rayed. Bucket empty weight 72 tons. Fabricate truck trays in workshop using submersible arc and flux core.

Sent to mines to do maintenance on P&H SHOVEL’s repairs to dippers and racks on boom. Also repairs to draglines

Change jewelry and pins, teeth on buckets repairer cracks using gouging and flux core.

T.F.M East London Boilermaker/Welder. Workshop Manager.

Responsibilities

Started on the floor fabricating tippers and trailers, cargo vans and cement mixers working in the workshop. Then had an opportunity to be supervisor directly managing staff of +- 30. Time keeping, work procedures and job performance and Interacting with customers and keeping all work done for our major customer.

Mercedes benze to international standards. Work carried out extensions and shorting of truck chasse, fabrication of

Tippers, trailers and cargo vans, new and custom spray paint on horse, fabricating and installing bigger fuel tanks.

Sending all trucks, trailers and cargo vans through road worthy. Uphold and train safety awareness.

D.S.E. Richards Bay / Group Five Boilermaker/Welder Welding Supervisor B.H.P Billiton Hillside

Responsibilities

Directly supervise +- 20 boilermakers and coded welders. Ensure all safety procedures were followed and all

Records maintained and updated. Carry out all welding and correct all prefabricated steel columns, pipes, bracing,

Purloins, girders and tanks and cyclones. Ensure all welding was done to AWS procedures, keep all records of work

And corrections for customer. Send welders for weld test in all 5 weld positions G2, G3, G4. G5. G6. Carry out upgrades to Oil Refinery Ship GLAS DOWER. Remove and replace all pipe work on gas platform. Remove and replace steel structure on gas burn off platform. All renovations done on wharf and installed as one unit. Fabricate and install new cable trays.

C&P Group of Companies Boilermaker/Welder Harare, Chinhoyi, Bulawayo 1998-2001

Responsibilities

Work from drawings and fabricate trailers, cargo vans, and vacuum tanks. I personally designed and fabricated a Towing system for big trucks which was called a MAXLIFT. This system was patent and sold to other truck companies.

Companies in Zimbabwe.

Engineering Boilermaker/Welder/Turner. Chinhoyi, Gwanda, Mashonaland Minel

Responsibilities

Carry out all boiler making work underground and surface. Fabrication of king post, Granby cars, innovation and design, machine all bosses, pins and bushes.

New type scrapper for ore pass, fabricates grizzlies, tip ramp, haulage boxes. Commissioned new A RYN shaft at Golden

Kopje Mine from collar down to 850 ml. Equipped shaft with palm bolts and bunt tons, bridal for cages and skips. Construction and erection of new headgear. Contract work on farruca oil and fuel pipe line and bulk storage tanks, welded pipes and preinstalled tanks and welded into position, then flushed all pipe work using pig. All welding x rayed.

Equipped out 250 ml haulage with new haulage boxes, water pipes, air pipes and ventilation systems. Designed and experimented a new counter weight system for waste shaft which was installed. Fabricated new conveyor from A RYN shaft to mill. Fabricated vibrating screens and commissioned. Fabricated new settling tanks with racks for Vuba Chekwe Gold Mine. Fabricated new 4 ton skips for incline with bridal at Vuba Chekwe. Fabricate and commission new flask system for rock skips at Golden Kopje Mine.

Shakelton Mine Boilermaker/Welder Chinhoyi Mashonaland

Responsibilities

Boiler making underground and surface. Fabrication of chutes, fans, bridals, cages 30 man, and rock skips 10-ton, slimes dam pipes, flutes, cyclones and maintenance day to day bases.

Mangula Copper Mine Boilermaker/Welder/Fitter Apprentice Mangula Mashonaland 1984-1988

Training and Equipment Use

Square to round learned weight formulas and Pie and formula for marking out holes and pipe development. In my 4 years I fabricated pipes, chutes, and fans and balanced cages, skips, LHD buckets, cyclones, and flotation cells with paddles, haulage boxes, Granby cars, flasks, and crushers, vibrating screens, conveyors, camel backs, tipping ramps, loading chutes, haulage boxes, cyclones and fans. Also learned how to use cropper, guillotine and bending brake, rolls. Fitting of gearboxes, driveshaft’s, bearings, seals, packing of glands, overhaul compressors, pumps 24 stage, winders, counter weights.

Straight line cutter, lazy eye, lathe, milling machine, line borer, gas brazing, submersible arc, silver soldering, Different types of welding, cast iron, stainless steel, aluminum, hard face.

References

Emmanuel Munenge Products Engineer Joy Global 073*******/015*******

Roeloff Christie Manager Quality Control Fabrication 083*******/ 011*******

Howard Armour Manager C&P Group 082*******

Paul Collins Manager Sandvik Australia North +614********

Thys Kruger Manager VR Steel 082*******

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