Manager Maintenance Technician

ANGELO MALANDRA

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Contract manager / Maintenance Manager / Planner Supervisor Fitter

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Maintenance Manager and Planner with over twenty-five year’s invaluable experience of successfully overseeing and completing projects from conception to completion. Blend of managerial qualities and experience and technically sound to undertake hands on workshop requirements. Ability to implement and oversee maintenance planning including maintenance of all ancillary equipment, lighting plants, water pumps, generators, and Underground Trackless and Surface Earthmoving equipment. In depth experience of fault tracing/troubleshooting on mechanical (vehicles), electrical (earthmoving equipment) and hydraulic problems while possessing the ability to read diagnostic equipment on Liebherr CAT, Bell & Volvo, Sandvik (Drill rigs). Interact well with departmental teams at all levels, customers and other stakeholders while possessing the skill to handle change and adapt to new situations. Excellent leadership skills accumulated from leading and supervising multi-projects and multi-country teams with a staff compliment of over twenty personnel per project. Ability to coach and mentor junior staff to create a solid high-performance team. Ability to interact with professionals from a wide range of individuals from different cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds having worked in more than five countries including Southern, East, Central, Africa, India.

Core Competences and Skills

• Working with international standards & OEM Values • Applying continuous improvement practices

• Contamination control in workshops. • Root cause analysis on all major breakdowns

• Perform Workshop Audits • Prepare failures and failure analyses reports

• Strong management processes and discipline • Knowledge of diagnostics & trouble shooting

Language Proficiency

English, French, Portuguese, Afrikaans, Italian, Beginner Russian.

Major Achievements

Supervised and coached 52 apprentices through a trained programme to become qualified artisans at Sandvik Global India in 2008 and 2009 as a Competence Development Technical Specialist.

Awarded a Certificate for Exceptional Commitment to Safety of the Year 2012 at Sandvik Mining and Construction as a Senior Artisan and Safety Rep.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Downer Group Australia 05/2019 – 05/2020

Stand in Supervisor & Snr Fitter

Trained technical development in the workshop on product knowledge (Fault-finding Diagnosing repair procedure on Electrical, hydraulic, mechanical) of the machines.

Ensured adherence to safety measures in the workshop on safe working procedure and best practices on running the workshop department.

Carried out work and inspections of work in accordance with Work Health Safety & Quality Assurance requirements and the relevant codes and industry standards.

Assisted Corporate Engineers with programming of PLC's, VFD's and installation of new equipment.

Identify, plan, manage & execute preventative and corrective maintenance tasks as well as provide technical assistance as required.

Conduct routine and complex diagnosis of issues; preventive maintenance to measure wear and access whether parts need to be replaced or repaired.

Developed close working relationships with operations personnel to ensure that all plant downtime issues are escalated correctly and remedied promptly.

Sandvik Global, Dariba Rajasthan India 04/2018 – 04/2019

Competence Development Technical specialist

Streamlined the company’s technology, and individual job tasks to align with the specific tech focus.

Train & coach staff and newly hires including Apprentices and Qualified on Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).

Oversaw and coordinate staff technical development in the workshop on product knowledge (Fault-finding Diagnosing repair procedure on Electrical, hydraulic, mechanical) of the machines cover safety measures including of remote systems set up and mobilization.

Mentor Snr staff (Foreman & Supervisors) in the workshop on safe working procedure and best practices on running the workshop department.

Coordinated the precheck and operation of LHD, Dump Truck & drill rigs (Jumbo & Solo ) training.

Troubleshot technical programs, products, and applications used by the company, and redesign programs as needed to make them more efficient and effective

Techmina Group, Lulo & Kamutwe Mine Angola 09/2016 – 04/2018

Diesel & Maintenance Technician Supervisor. Engineering

Worked as a Maintenance supervisor / Technician Maintaining on a large fleet of Liebherr, Caterpillar and large Bell Equipment.

Managed and supervised a fleet consisting of ADT (740) size, Excavators, Dozers, Graders etc. Installing and maintaining maintenance processes and stock control mechanisms.

Developed training materials and trained local mechanics on proper maintenance technics while maintaining a high level of safety and environmental policies and procedures including Diagnostics & trouble shooting.

Maintained a clean, safe work area in compliance with Corporate / OSHA Standards, and performs all work in accordance with established safety procedures.

Provide accurate and timely progress updates on managed work on a daily basis including contractor managed work in areas of responsibility.

Kanu Equipment West Africa Region 03/2014 – 08/2016

Project Maintenance Manager

Oversaw and coordinated planning and daily operations including ensuring machines are always maintained and working on various sites (Mining, Forestry & construction) for our customers and our own machines.

Including and delegating the workshop rebuild center and service teams in-house and mobile teams (Field Service) Diagnostics & trouble shooting.

Trained administration and technical staff on a variety areas including new developments in the industry and professional conduct.

Collaborated with the sales team to generate more leads and close details.

Bell Equipment Zambia 06/2013 - 05/2014

Contact Manager

Managed the Bell Equipment Contract on Barrik Mine Zambia & Diagnostics & performed trouble shooting.

Assisted in the consolidation of the multi-state project as well as created processes and procedures for administrative and operational functions.

Responsible for critical incident investigations and management related to internal/external regulatory responses and/or serious safety concerns

Compiled, analyzed and reported data and trends relating to operational effectiveness and service level compliance.

Team lead on specific projects; responsible for general oversight, assignment delegation, skills training and performance review.

Sandvik Mining & Construction 02/2009 - 05/2013

Snr Artisan as well & Snr Safety Rep.

Conducted inspections on Sandvik machines underground while in production and provided a detailed report to senior management.

Diagnostics & trouble shooting. Commissioning of all new Sandvik machines test and recovery of machines using SOP’s on Dump Truck, Drill rigs & LHD including remote loading for open stopes production.

Motivate subordinates in such a manner as to achieve maximum efficiencies and productivity.

Advise Engineering Supervisor and/or SHE Manager on all matters regarding safety of plant, machinery, and equipment and implements measures to ensure that line personnel is properly protected to ensure optimum economic plant availability.

Responsible for the mechanical/electrical improvement maintenance of all equipment, machinery and plant as directed by the Engineering Supervisor

Williams Hunt Midrand/ co GMSA 01/2007 - 01/2009

Service manager and workshop Manager

Manages and directs the day to day work of the service team to ensure that work is carried out in a professional and timely manner by managing customer requirements and assigning jobs and resources, as required.

Supervised a staff compliment of 30 people including front Line staff.

Ensured productivity and sustainable profits to the department and setting up of training programs for all.

Oversaw the total running of the truck department (Commercial workshop) and maintained contracts and fleet accounts.

Provided ‘on the floor’ technical expertise to the service team and remote technical support and expertise in the field.

Fury Sandton (Ford) 03/2006 - 12/2006

Senior Workshop Foreman

Allocated job cards to technical staff, supervised and monitored their tasks to ensure the quality of work.

Works closely with the Service Administrator to ensure that all administrative tasks for the workshop are completed in an efficient and timely manner.

Actively monitored reports to ensure that workshop KPI’s are met including workshop productivity, operational summary, closed jobs etc.

Undertook workshop associated administrative tasks as required and at the request of the Service Administrator.

Leon’s Rustenburg (Ford, Mazda, Volvo, & Land Rover) 02/2004 - 02/2006

Service manager and workshop Manager

Allocated of job cards to the technical staff & ensuring the quality of work

Work with the team and key reports to ensure that On Time Delivery is met to the planned delivery dates to our customers.

Created weekly/monthly/quarterly activity plans to present to key stakeholders of the business.

Ensured Aftermarket workshop Team reduce non value added activity in all processes by using lean / kaizen tools and techniques.

Responsible for the full departmental budget responsibility, reducing costs whilst maximising efficiencies without compromising quality and standards.

Other Roles

John Williams Motors (Mercedes Benz), Service Advisor, 2003-2004

Club Motors (BMW), Service Advisor, 2001-2003

Mercurius Motors (Mercedes Benz), Service Advisor, 1997-2001

Cargo Motors (Mercedes Benz) Commercial (Trucks), Technician, 1995-1997

Sandown Motors (Mercedes Benz) Commercial (Trucks), Apprentice.

EDUCATION

N1 N2 N3, Wits Tech College, Johannesburg, 1992

Auto Electrical, Level 1 & 2, Johannesburg, 1992

Matric, Dawn View High, Gauteng, 1991

TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT

Value Based Management Admin Management

Time Management Finance & Budget Management

OSHAC ISO Standards HR Management & Motivation Skills

Business Strategies & Negotiation Business Processes & Planning

Contract Diplomacy & Maintenance Legal Liability For safety measures in mining

Liebherr Crane’s LTM 1070, LTM1050 Caterpillar Excavator & Dozers & Loaders

Sandvik Drill Rigs maintained and operation Sandvik Haulers maintained and operation

Sandvik Loaders maintained and operation Komatsu maintained and operation

Bell Equipment ADT B Series maintained & operation Volvo (ADT) maintained and operation

Liebherr Excavator R944, R964, R934 C & Loaders & Dozers 764,754

EREFERENCES

Michael Ayers, Downer Group Australia, Project Director, +614********

Retha Louw, Contract Manager, Sandvik Mining, +278*-***-****

Duncan McNichol, Director West Africa, Kanu Equipment,, +233*********

Anaud Addinavile, Technical Director Cameroon, Sosucam, ************@******.*** +230********

Mr Ravindra Maintaince Director Sandvik India +919*********

Michael Ayres Contract Director Downer Group +614********

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