Plant Maintenance Coordinator

CURRICULUM VITAE

RICHARD DEALL

CONTACT NO 082*******

PERSONAL DETAILS

Name and Surname Richard Patrick Deall

Nationality South African

Languages English

Date of Birth 22 November 1962

Marital Status Married

Residential Address Port Elizabeth

Contact Details +27(0) 82 874 1041

Email ********.*****@*****.***

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Drivers Licence Code 08 (own transport)

INTRODUCTION SKILLS SUMMARY

Richard is a highly skilled and successful Maintenance Coordinator/ Supervisor with leadership skills, and comprehensive experience driving successful technical and production operations, plant maintenance, and staff management in a fast-paced plant, he possesses a range of knowledge and experience that will allow him to contribute toward teh success of any company.

His expertise lies in successfully enhancing operational strategies, innovating new processes, and managing overall plant functionality to maximize productivity and efficiency while cutting costs and exceeding production goals. Through his experience, he TEMPhas become adept at establishing maintenance plans, maintaining manufacturing equipment, and enforcing safety and environmental regulations. His additional success in building and leading teams positions him to make a significant contribution to a plant in this role.

Teh following core achievements demonstrate his qualification for this position:

Advancing through a series of increasingly responsible positions to oversee all aspects of plant maintenance safety compliance, workforce management, hygiene, and cost control.

Boosting plant productivity by ensuring that all equipment is serviced and maintained at regular intervals thus ensuring minimal breakdowns and devising ways to repair equipment without shutting down teh plant which resulted in a cost-saving of R2.5 million rand saving for Eskom.

Managing Plant Safety Program and comply with OSHA standards, and reduce workers’ compensation claims/costs.

Demonstrating superior leadership, communication, time management, problem-solving, and leading team skills insuring maximum production output at all times.

SKILLS

Problem-solving

Production planning

Quality assurance and continued improvement

Troubleshooting

People Management and control

Budget control and Contract Management

QUALIFICATIONS

QUALIFICATION

INSTITUTION

DATE

Grade 12 ( NQF 4)

Ellis Robins School

1980

N3/TECHNICAL (NQF 4)

Pretoria West collage

1983

Grade 12 / N4 (NQF4)

Pretoria West College

1984

National Engineering Diploma ( Mechanical) (NQF 6)

Middelburg College

2003

Fitter and Turner-RED SEAL –(TRADE TESTED) (NQF 5)

Ollisfontein Trade Testing Centre

1985

COURSES AND TRAINING

COURSES

INSTITUTION

DATE

Scaffold Rigging and inspection

SGB

1992

Safety representative training

ESKOM

1992

First aid

ESKOM

1991

Fire Fighting part1

ESKOM

1987

(PSR) Plant safety regulations

ESKOM

2015

SAP PM1

ESKOM

2010

SAP 14.6 Processing PM2

ESKOM

2010

ISO 9001 – 2008 and OSH act

ESKOM

2001

NEC- PSC Contracts

ESKOM

2006

NEC – ECC Contracts

ESKOM

2006

NEC Contract Management

ESKOM

2006

Overhead crane operations

ESKOM

1988

Case Presenter and chairperson (IR)

ESKOM (IR) DEPARTMENT

2014

COMPUTER LITERACY

Micro Soft Word (Intermediate)

Micro Soft Excel (Advanced)

Micro Soft PowerPoint (intermediate)

Micro Soft Outlook (intermediate)

Internet Explorer (intermediate)

SAP (intermediate)

Micro Soft Office (intermediate)

MS Teams

CAREER/ LIFE SUMMARY

COMPANY

POSITION

DATE

Matimba Power Station

Maintenance Co-Ordinator (Outages)

1 March 2018 - Present

Apron Strings

CO Family Owner

Jan 2016 – 28 Feb 2018

ESKOM – Arnot Power Station

1 Maintenance Supervisor

2: Plant Technician

3: Maintenance Fitter/Fitter & Turner

Jun 2007 – Dec 2015

Jun 2005 – May 2007

Nov 1985 – May 2005

ESKOM/ISCOR (TRAINING )

Apprentice Fitter + Turner

3 Jan 1983- 29Nov 1985

Matimba Power Station

Maintenance Coordinator

1 March 2018 to Current

Richard TEMPhas been tasked under contract to assist Eskom at Eskom’s plant at Matimba Power Station to work as an Outage shut down Maintenance Coordinator.

He TEMPhas been responsible for teh ID Fans FD Fans, PA Fans and Air Heaters, SO3 plant (Howden's contractor ), Main Unit HT transformer ( Siemens contractor ), and Turbine centre line ( Rotek contractor) during various Marimba’s shutdowns and attending to teh following KPI, S

Work monitoring of progress as per Prema Vera planning time plans to ensure proper timelines are met

Controlling of percentage completed compared to actual needed as per time limit

Ensuring that all teh plant that is repaired is returned properly back into service with zero defects

Monitoring cost, material wastage, and manpower time losses due to unwanted hold-ups

Commissioning of Milling plant, HP Heaters, Man turbine centre line.

Managing people discipline, and assisting with teh contractor's safety files

Supervising Howdens contractor of around 45 Fitters, Welders and Labourer s

Problem-solving of all issues, which include teh shortage of critical spares

Communication between contractors and Eskom. Attending all outage meetings to give feedback.

Quality control as per quality plan put in place by Eskom Engineering and signing off tasks completed.

(FME) cleanliness inspections before closing up teh plant, ensuring that there is no debris introduced

Safety control includes safety inspections and plant walkabout.

Doing toolbox and safety talks with all contractor staff

Managing contractor numbers and time worked as per timesheets submitted.

Doing plant inspection to determine any extra scope of work.

Ensuring that specifications and measurements are attended to as per Eskom Engineering specifications

Ensuring timeless delivery of needed spares and equipment.

Commissioning and testing of teh plant when completed.

Attending Eskom outage meetings to report back on findings to Eskom Management.

Giving Eskom Outage management an early warning of time slippages and putting a recovery plan to recover teh lost time.

Keeping a close check that Eskom plant isolation and regulations are not violated.

Controlling of entry to confined spaces

Ensuring that all contractors are in line as per NEC Contract.

Apron Strings

CO Family Owner

Jan 2016 to 28 Feb 2018

Reason for Leaving

Seeking gainful employment within a technical environment where he can apply his technical skills

Started teh venue which consists of a restaurant, bed, and breakfast from teh ground to what it is today. Teh business is a family run concern

Registered teh company, obtained operating licenses, and employed staff

Manage teh day to day running of teh business and responsible for all admin functions

Budgeting

Marketing on social media

Supervision of staff

Achieved 39 five star ratings in total on Facebook, Trip Advisor, and Google map

Maintenance Supervisor

Reported to a Line manager and was responsible for teh whole maintenance of Arnot Power Station Boiler maintenance section which comprised of 6 large Coal-fired ICAL boilers 12 Air Heaters, 24 Draught Group Fans, 6 Alstom bags Filter Plants and Alstom Oil and Pulverised Fuel Burners. Teh position also included all high-pressure valve

Achievement

Won Managers Award for good creativity – saved an estimated R2.5 million

Achieved over 2000 L.T.I accident-free days

Duties included

Supervision, coordination, and Technical staff management:-

Richard was in charge of 18 technical permanent staff and contracting staff

Controlling of all staff production man-hours, overtime control, leave planning, and absenteeism

Assuring teh staff always did teh correct maintenance timelessly and correctly

Teh motivation of staff assuring that teh staff always stayed positive

Coordinating all tasks and ensuring that all technical staff perform what is required from them and making sure that they understand teh urgency of teh work being done

Making sure that teh staff always provide good quality service to their customers and with total pride

Making teh staff feel part of teh maintenance program at all times.

Planning:-

Daily planning of defects, (SAP) planned and corrective maintenance defects

Controlling teh proper and timeless execution of all job cards

Planning of resources for shutdowns and general overhauls

Planning shutdowns with Production Management, other departments, and contractors

Correcting all plant defects at teh planning department and putting them into their correct execution priorities

Ensuring that there were no duplicate defects in teh system and that teh defects were completed timelessly with no bottlenecks and unneeded backlogs occurring

Safety control:-

Daily inspections were done on teh plant to ensure all issues were in line with teh Osha Act and that teh staffs were working safely.

Controlled all teh safety statistics in teh department

Accident and incident investigations

Morning toolbox and safety talks

Daily safety inspections of plant and staff working in teh plant

Control of department Safety files and statistics

Did risk assessments

Was chairman of teh department’s safety meeting

Assured teh all work was done with proper isolation and with correct plant isolations and permits

Controlled teh issuing of all PPE, S and ensured that they were always used properly

Did housekeeping audits

Motivation and Discipline:-

Always awarding staff for work well done. Teh staff were awarded utilizing a performance appraisal merit rating contracted yearly, that was drawn up by Richard and each staff member

Disciplining staff when they broke company rules and regulations.

Staff were always disciplined for any violations of teh Eskom’s safety 7 Cardinal rules

Worked with and controlled a very Unionised staff compliment to achieve goals

Quality control:-

All work and defects were signed off by Richard after a quality inspection completed

Testing of all work being done and commissioning teh plant back into service

Richard put in place a QCP documentation process that his staff was required to use

Drew up working procedures with teh correct quality plans

Communication:-

Always ensuring proper feedback to management on any issues

Being available at all times by cell phone and making sure that he was available on all feedback watts-up groups

Weekly meetings with his staff to ensure proper feedback was given to staff members working on teh plant

Training:-

Training staff on Hydraulic, Pneumatics, and air pausing systems.

Training staff for( PSR) Plant Safety Regulations and preparing them to be tested by teh Eskom test panel

Identified staff weaknesses and planned to book them on teh appropriate training courses

Did on teh job training with all his staff and assisted them in teh plant when there were problems

Training staff on OSH Act and working procedures

Trained all staff with statutory issues

Production: -

Daily walkabouts of teh plant and visiting of all control rooms to ensure that there were never any production losses or break downs, and to give feedback to teh operating staff on returning of an isolated plant.

Ensuring that all break downs were attended to timelessly with teh correct staff allocation

Attending daily production meetings with production managers to get feedback on problematic issues and to plan properly for nightly and weekend shutdowns

Arranging plant to be shut down when defects occurred that required total plant shutdown and working out completion dates for teh plant to be put back into service timelessly

Being personally present at all breakdown areas, with all his staff ensuring that no time was ever lost

Budget, cost controls, contracts, and spares:-

Controlled and managed a maintenance budget of around 15 million Rand per year

Motivated 5-year budget plans with senior management, and controlled all sections yearly budgets and cash flows, including all departments pay controls and overtime controls

Controlled three main department contracts amounting to around 5 million Rand, comprising of Howdens, bag fitter, and Fulminating contracts

Motivated teh purchasing of non-stock items with teh main tender boards and assisted buying department to source teh items timelessly and within budget

Motivated stock items to be purchased from OEMs when spares were safety issues and Osh Act related

Management:-

Assisted Senior management and Engineering with Plant investigations and issues

Was always available on his cell phone for any problems or any feedback needed

Acted in line managers role when they were not available, with full responsibilities

Acted in Maintenance Managers role for 6 weeks.

Controlling Statutory issues:-

Was responsible for all Staff authorizations including all crane Forklift usage OSH Act

Responsible for all proper PPE usage and control

Accountable for all OSH Act issues.

Plant Technician (Jun 2005 – May 2007)

Reported to teh Plant Supervisor and line manager daily to give feedback on plant ensuring KPI’s were met

Stood in for Plant Supervisor in his absence

Duties included

Assisted Artisans with hydraulic and air pneumatic controls and pulsing systems.

Controlled quality on spares that were purchased and performed quality inspections on repairs to teh plant

Attended main and sub tender boards’ regularly to get purchases and contracts approved and to motivate teh approvals.

Worked closely with buyers to ensure correct spares were procured in time and attended meetings with teh buyer’s to motivate teh right suppliers at teh right prices

Got sole sources approved at Main tender for class 1 plant spares and for original spares enabling teh buying department to procure from teh original manufactures

Performed Stores inspections and QCP’s daily including teh checking of teh spares preservation

When doing inspections all documentation was checked that they conformed to all material specifications and sizes. Checks were always done on all documentation to see that a qualified 3rd party inspectorate inspected teh manufacturing of teh material and processes.

Insured that all quality documentation was stored and filled as per Eskom procedure and policies.

Adhered to all government PFMA, S. (Government rules and regulations).

Was responsible for placing orders onto Eskom SAP system and did audits on all manufacturing processes of orders, to ensure that teh suppliers ahead of all teh purchase requirements and material specifications.

Prepared emergency orders in times of breakdowns and ensured they were authorized timeously

Prepared critical spares list and monitored stock levels

Carried out spot checks on teh safety of all work being carried out including Plant isolations

Provided training to all artisans and junior staff on plant operation and plant safety regulations

Assisted Maintenance staff with issues and advise, and insured that they worked and performed teh tasks as per teh required procedures and that all QCP documentation was done, supplied, and stored properly

Prepared down-time programs for management assuring teh plant returned timelessly.

Assisted teh plant-engineering department with plant issues advice. And plant inspections.

Controlled contracts and ensured that teh suppliers abide by teh contract clauses and conditions.

Responsible for suppliers repairing high-pressure valves, leak sealing, and safety valves repairs and load setting of teh valves. Also responsible for all contractors doing bag filter bag plant repairs and doing maintenance on ceramic pipelining.

Assisted contracted Artisans on teh floor and worked closely with teh Plant Supervisor with defects and project management.

Assisted teh line manager and supervisor to look after teh department’s budget and put in written motivations to increase budget in areas where required

Monitored monthly cash flows.

Monitored plant vibrations and oil out of specifications and arranged plant shutdowns to repair teh defects

Maintenance Fitter / Fitter and Turner (Dec 1985 – Jun 2005) (RED SEAL TESTED)

Summary

Richard was a very goal-focused and production-orientated Artisan with solid experience in his plant and took great pride in his daily inspections and repairs he did.

Achievement

Became a specialist in white metal bearing fitting and scraping and was asked to assist in various sections when they experienced breakdowns

Was part of a team that modified teh Precipitators to a new dust bag filter system consisting of 8800 bags and a Pneumatic pulsing control system

Completed a project as a project chaser in 1994 where 70 tradespeople reported to him were a whole unit Pulverised Fuel system was upgraded with ceramic tiled Pulverised Fuel piping

Achieved oil burner availability about 96% at all times

Duties include

Responsible for teh inspections repairs and maintenance of teh following equipment

Repaired all defects Planned defects and Corrective defects from teh plant SAP planning system daily including shutdowns.

Daily tasks:-

Day-to-day maintenance and repair work on an automated plant.

Worked shift, and overtime, including break downs on a standby basis

Hourly plant operation inspections to check for any running faults that can be repaired and defected.

Regular feedback to plant maintenance supervisor and line manager on any plant issues.

Attending to all statutory and safety-related defects timelessly according to teh Osha act regulations

Type of plant worked on:-

Loesche milling plant: - this consisted of 18 roller and table coal mills. Work consisted of teh following

Teh daily overhauling of all mill grinding element internals including table changes

Hitech Hydraulics and Asco Pneumatics control.

Replacement of all mill drive gearboxes

Removal, replacing of all drive spring Bibby couplings

Laser alignment on all motors

Repair of an overhaul of all PA Fan equipment which teh white metal bearing fitting

Servicing of all lubrication equipment filters and coolers

Overhauling and general repairs to all milling hydraulics

Bag Filter filtration plant:-

Daily inspections on bag filter plant to look for leaking bags and defects on-air pulsing equipment, and repairing of any air leaks

Assisting with major bag changes on general overhauls

Draught group:-

Teh overhauling and rigging out of all fan runners and white metal bearings

Rigging out of all 3.3kva and 11kva drive motors

Laser alignment of Bibby and Fluidex fluid drive couplings

Servicing and overhaul of fan RVC damper controls

Sandblasting of runners and doing Non-destructive NDT testing to inspect for cracking

Assistance with vibration monitoring

Air Heaters (Arnot Power Station)

Repair and inspections of pack elements and repairs to all sealing arrangements and seal control gearboxes on weekend shutdowns

Repairs and inspections on all gas ducting and expansion jointing

Rigging out of all Renex worm in pinion gearboxes and servicing of their drive gear couplings

Assistance with rack and pinion drives and new installations

Turbine and Boiler Auxiliary equipment

Repairing of low pressure and High-pressure steam heater tubing

Teh rigging out of four stages High-pressure Sulzer pumps and alignment of all gear drive couplings

Hydraulic system repairs including hydraulic oil pump overhauling and setting oil pressures. Total overhauls were done to rubber seals and NRV valves and relief valve. Daily inspections are done to determine hydraulic faults.

Hydraulic control systems including teh nitrogen bladder and backup cylinder. This included all teh 24 v change over control two directional control valves at each control gate damper.

Pneumatic control Sempel control valves

Asco Pneumatics pulsing control including teh Asco valves systems

Repairs to all sizes of centrifugal pumps both single and 4 stage pumps and piston pumps

Conveyers including cold slicing of teh belts, also including all teh pulleys, bearings, belt and drive motor, and gearbox alignments.

Heater repairs including large cylindrical roller bearing and tapper sleeve replacements, and lube oil systems, including Varley lube oil pumps.

Lurgi Precipitators and gearboxes for hammers. Repairs a done when teh plant is isolated and plates properly earthed from teh HV voltage. Warn old hammers replaced and aligned to plates, shorting out loss wires were removed from teh system.

Chain drives and V - belt drives including teh pulley alignments of teh belts.

Air compressors both piston and cooper turbo compressors

Rigging, including teh operating of internal Morris cranes up to 180 tonnes

Valves of all types and pressures. Sempel Screw down non-return and globe stop valves from 10mm to 50mm ID. Hopkinson HP valves Parallel slide, Tapper gate, and Screw-down non-return and globe stop from 10mm up to 350mm. All were serviced on Go’s and Outages

Oil purifiers and clarifiers, centrifugal and heater types, including teh lead ball drive couplings.

Gas welding (including brazing and silver soldering) and normal arc welding with stick

White metal bearing repairs and replacement. Repairs and replacement to bearing of our electric motor and Fan runner journals from 6 inches to 18 inches in size

Fluidex oil variable speed drive couplings alignments and replacements both 46 inches and 52 inch OD in size

Pressure steam vessels, steam ways, steam and oil flanges, Boiler drum doors, valve gland packing’s, all sealed with Klinker spiral wound gaskets, and Klinker gland packing and Chesterton seals and live loading

Safurnco oil burners and gun and electric panel control system repairs and fuel oil pumps.

Credfield four-way fuel oil control valve overhaul.

Daily inspections had to be made on all fuel oil plants to check for any fuel oil leaks on all storage tanks piping, flanges valve glands valve oil burner guns, and 4 way Cranfield control valves. All leaks had to be cleaned timelessly and repaired A.S.A.P

Inspections had to be done daily on teh H2 plant to identify and be repaired with non-sparking tools timelessly

Worked when doing mods as per certified OEM drawings and procedures

Assisted Engineering with drawing up operating and maintenance procedures

All hand tools and portable tools, e.g. electric drills and valve lapping equipment

Drive couplings Bibby spring type, gear types, Feni – Flex, and rubber tyre types. Couplings were fitted with tapper sleeves

Repair and mods also completed of samplers and 10mm stainless supply tubes and Ferrules for teh Laboratory

Work also TEMPhas been done in water purification plant, on clarifiers chemical mixers, ploughs, and settling tanks

Assisted other junior Artisans and apprentices with on job training including training Artisans with plant safety regulations. Was an Apprentice Mentor.

Did all QCP, S of spares that were received at main stores from outside suppliers

Was qualified with Plant Safety Regulations to take out and except plant insulations

Workshop lathe and radial drill work done, including hydraulic press equipment

Training of Apprentices and new Artisans:-

Training of all apprentices in his section

Training and assistance to junior artisans in teh plant

Assisting teh training department with teh training of all new employees

Communication and feedback:-

Daily plant meetings with operating and planning staff to plan factory shutdowns and plant isolation.

Working with and assisting other artisans of other departments.

Working closely with all plant engineering staff with plant modifications.

MAINTENANECE SUPERVISOR (ARNOT POWER STATION)

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