CURRICULUM VITAE

BHEKANI NDLOVU

FITTER AND TURNER MACHINIST

**** ***** *

Bulawayo

Cell:+263*********

+263*********

+263*********

Email:adpla7@r.postjobfree.com

CURRICULUM VITAE

CAREER OBJECTIVE

Seeking a technically challenging position to develop my knowledge to a level of excellence and to bring forth a significant contribution towards profitable growth, high standard of service delivery and work ethic in the organisation which appreciates a dedicated performance.

PERSONAL DETAILS

SURNAME : Ndlovu

FIRST NAME : Bhekani

PLACE OF BIRTH : Bulawayo

GENDER : Male

MARITAL STATUS : Married

NATIONALTY : Zimbabwean

LANGUAGES : English, Shona and Ndebele

PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES

A thorough, hardworking and self motivated individual with a sound technical background supported by interpersonal communication skills.

BACKGROUND ATTRIBUTES

●Energetic, dynamic and innovative.

●A trustworthy individual who does assigned duties diligently.

●Committed and dedicated to duty.

●Can work in a team with the ability to sustain establishment relations.

●Willing to acquire more knowledge.

TECHINICAL COMPETENCIES

Excellent planning, ability to multi task, plan and prioritise, a good team member, able to work with little to no supervision.

PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATION

National Certificate in Machine shop Engineering (N4 Equivalent) Bulawayo Polytechnic College .

National Certificate in Mechanical Engineering NQF 4(South African Qualification Authority)

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

Zimbabwe General Certificate of Education at Ordinary Level

SUBJECTS : 9(Nine)

Zimbabwe General Certificate of Education at Advanced Level

SUBJECTS : 2(TWO)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

EMPLOYER : Pretoria Portland Cement Zimbabwe

(Portland Holdings)

APPRENTICESHIP : 2003 - 2007

JOB TITLE : Maintenance Fitter and Turner Machinist

DURATION : May 2007 to August 2015

:

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

●Lathe work.

●Milling work.

●Shaping work.

●Reduction units/gearboxes.

●Couplings –Fluid, Rigid, Fennier flex and belt drives.

●Bucket elevators.

●Conveyor belts; adjusting and alignment, screw conveyors, including laser aligning.

●Chain drives; maintenance and alignment.

●Clutches; stripping and assembling.

●Fans; ID and FD

●Very good knowledge of the cement plant operations that is the cement mills (Unidan 100 and Unidan 20 and Polysius ball mill).

●Rotary and Gate valves.

●Hydraulic and pneumatic systems.

●VM Broom wade air compressors. (VM1000 and VM500). And screw compressors

●Heaver and Booker rotor pneumatic packing machine and bulk loading systems

●De-dusting units.

●Oil and water pumps, gear pumps,mono pumps, diagram pumps,and multi-stage pumps.

●Sewage and water reticulation systems.

● Lubrication systems.

●Tipplers.

●Overhead cranes up to 30 Tonnes.

●Maintenance and servicing of crushers Jaw crushers and cone crushers.

●Participated in various projects which include installation and upgrading plant equipment.

●Sound knowledge of NOSA, ISO 9002 and ISO 14000.

●Carrying out of standby duties.

●Hands-on and conceptual training of apprentices, semi skilled workers and other trainees

●Jaw crushers, gyro sphere crushers and cone crushers

●Sieving screws

●Fixed and mobile compressors

●Boilers and slag dryers

●Hydraulic pressing machines

●Repairs on workshop machines i.e shaping machines, lathe machine, milling machine, bending and rolling machines.

NIMR AND CHAPMAN 2005 (FEBRUARY – JULY)

●Machineshop-Vertical and Horizontal boring machines

●Gear cutting

●Lathe work

●Servicing of overhead cranes

●Sand blasting machines

●Furnaces.

●Fettling shop Grinders.

●Ovens

EMPLOYER:PPC CEMENT BULAWAYO FACTORY

JOB TITLE : Plant chargehand

Duration : 3 years

JOB TITLE : MECHANICAL FOREMAN

DURATION : 18 MONTHS

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

● Responsible for mechanical installations.

●Work planning for artisans..

●Supervision of semi-skilled and unskilled personel

●Responsible for planning.using ONKEY 4, ONKEY 5 and SAP.

●Competence assessments on artisan and semi skilled workers.

●Procurement of spares.

●Project management and supervision on plant upgrades.

●Fault finding and troubleshooting( 5 why methodology,fishbone method etc)

KHAMI QUARRIES 2015(TECHNICIAN) SEPTEMBER-MARCH 2016

●Plant refurbishment and upgrade.

●Design and installation of new plant equipment.

●Servicing of jaw crushers and vibro screens.

●Mobile compressors.

●Gearboxes.

●Mobile compressors.

●Conveyor belts

●Structural work

●Fabrication and installation.

●Arch welding, brazing and gas welding.

●Fabrication of components ie chutes, structural work.

●Making out for developments, pipe work.

●Instalations of conveyor belt structure, chute liners.

●Fabrication of screw conveyors and screw conveyor casings.

●Repairs on damaged plant equipment eg liners, chutes pipes.

●Use of cutting torch in gas welding and general cutting.

●Maintenance on Vibrating screens and jaw cruchers.

ADDITIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

●BEARING TECHNOLOGY LEVEL 1-3 (SKF ZIMBABWE).

●COMPRESSOR MAINTENANCE (COMPAR SOUTH AFRICA)

●ROTARY PACKER MAINTENANCE (PORTLAND PACKAGING SOUTH AFRICA)

ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE

PPC GROUP TRAINING CENTRE (SLURRY, IN SOUTH AFRICA)

(4 MONTHS IN 2010 AND 6 MONTHS IN 2012)

SECTIONS WORKED

●Attended a Pneumatics circuit reading, drawing and fault finding course.

●Attended a Hydraulics circuit reading, drawing and fault finding course.

●Attended a Basic Rigging course

●Electro-magnetic braking systems.

●Hydraulic braking systems.

●Maintenance of Petrol and Diesel Engines.

ACQUIRED EXPERIENCE

●Basic motor mechanics (petrol and diesel).

●Basic knowledge of welding and cutting.

●Sound understanding of household electrical gadgets.

●Basic computer repairs (software).

NATIONAL FOODS LTD

SHIFT FITTER AND TURNER FLOUR DIVISION

●Worked on micro sifters

●Bucket elevators

●Roller mills

●Linear packing machines

●Airlocks

●Blowers

●Low pressure fans

●Buhler vibratory screens

●Mixers

●Bran dusters

●Chain conveyors

●Bulk loading systems

●Seal banks

●Purifiers

●Separators

●Bulk loading systems

●Volatile measurers

●Impact detachers

●Maxim maintenance system

●Mono and multi stage pumps

ARTISAN AND TEAM LEADER AT GEC (Subcontracted to ZPC Hwange power station) from February 2018 –June 2018

Site : Stage 1 Unit 2 Statutory Outage

Location: Precipitation plant

●Dismantling of chain drives

●Servicing of gearboxes

●Inspection and fitting of bearings

●Servicing of universal couplings

●Fitting of turflon screens

●Replacing of anvils on plate and wire rappers

●Procurement of spares

●Aligning of chain drives

●Replacing of porcelain torque insulators

GENERAL BELTING HOLDINGS LIMITED(PIGOTT MASKEW)

06 JUNE 2018 TO DATE.

●Stoker grates and boilers.

●Lapping of valves.

●Rubber mixers.

●Extruders.

●Servicing of hydraulic presses.

●Servicing of high and low pressure pumps.

●Machining of moulds as per specified drawings.

●Servicing of mono and multi stage pumps.

●Servicing of soot blowers.

●Servicing of compressors.

LAFARGEHOLCIM CEMENT ZIMBABWE - FITTER AND TURNER.

. Servicing of plant equipment as per service notifications.

. Repairs and servicing of plant equipment which includes:

. Ball mills

. Rotary kilns.

.Pumps

.Drives

.Transport systems.

. Hydraulic and pneumatic systems.

. Work planninng and feed back input on SAGE.

. Training of apprentices and semi skilled workers.

. Repairs and servicing of the quarry plant.

HOBBIES

●Cycling

●Fishing

●Internet surfing

REFERENCES

J.G.F Michillies

Training Offices-Fitting & Turning

PPC-Technical Skills Academy

Cell:074-*******(South Africa)

Tel: +277-*********

Email:adpla7@r.postjobfree.com

Mr. J. Sibanda

Mechanical Foreman PPC Bulawayo Factory

Tel; +263-*-***-*** -16 Ext 248

Cell;+263-***-***-***

E-mail adpla7@r.postjobfree.com

Mr. Steve Robinson

Plant Engineer PPC Bulawayo Factory

Tel; +263-*-****** -16 Ext 279

E-mail- adpla7@r.postjobfree.com

Mr Derrick Ncube

Maintenance Manager Flour Division

Tel – 002***********

E-mail – adpla7@r.postjobfree.com

Lafargeholcim Cement

Mr L Mavezere

Plant supervisor

Tel - 002***********

Thomas Gumure

Site Manager

Cell:077737521

E-mail: adpla7@r.postjobfree.com

Mr P Dabengwa

Site Foreman GEC Field service Hwange

33 Derby Drive

Hwange

Tel :002***********

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