CHAZELE GERRY NYAMBE

Personal Information: Marital Status: Married

Nationality: Zambian

Date of Birth: 19 th October 1977.

Sex: Male.

Cell: +260*********/ +260*********

E-MAIL: adski9@r.postjobfree.com

EDUCATION BACKGROUND

2001 – 2006 Copperbelt University Degree in B. Eng. Metallurgy 1995 – 2000 Chingola High School Certificate

1988 – 1994 Matete Primary School Certificate

Previously worked as Shift Incharge at FQML-Kalumbila Mine-Sentinel Site running the biggest GYRATORY PRIMARY, SECONDARY AND PEBBLE CRUSHERS in the world with a crushing capacity of 4500tph with the objective of receiving foreign ore from sentinel open pit delivering it to the Secondary Crushing Section to further reduce in Ore size from 15 cm to minus 25 mm which is the feed to the mills in the grinding plant. The Plant is a complete Concentrator consisting of the following processing units,

● Crushing

● Milling

● Floatation

OBJECTIVE

To attain Metallurgical Engineering status and work in a competitive environment with a company that will benefit from my broad knowledge, experience and abilities. PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES

KONKOLA COPPER MINES PLC Underwent a 6 months intensive training program to acquaint myself with operations at Acid plant, Smelter, Handling plant and Refinery. I was part of the team at the flash smelter and Acid Plant at KCM and among the sections commissioned was the materials handling section which includes a series of conveyors, feed bins, the steam dryers, compressors and the PDCs with the Central Control Room. June 2010 - October 2015

Operations/ Technical Engineer at Gerliz Contracting Company in charge of operations and technical duties for maintenance and service of the filters at Nchanga and Konkola Copper mines.

December 2009 - June 2010

Process Engineer/ Shift Incharge at Konkola Copper Mines New Smelter Acid Plant in charge of controlling process parameters, equipment availability, issue necessary instructions and in charge of acid production. January 2009 - December 2010 Process Engineer in the Refinery distributed control system (DCS). In charge of controlling process parameters and issuing necessary instructions. August 2008 - December 2010

Plant Metallurgist, Konkola Copper Mines Nkana refinery Plant in charge of Slimes Plant, Stripper Area and Wenmec/ Wenberg starting sheet preparation machines. February 2008 - August 2008

Plant Metallurgist, Konkola Copper Mines Nkana refinery plant in charge to control the operations of the tank house.

June 2007- February 2008

Metallurgist, Konkola Copper Mines Nkana refinery plant in charge to control the operations of the Refinery Tank House.

April 2006 - May 2007

Senior Assistant Metallurgical Engineer, Mopani Copper Mines Smelter. In charge of the Converters and Anode Furnaces operations.

December 2005 - March 2006

Worked at Tailings Leach Plant, where I did my final year Project. As a student Metallurgical Engineer in charge to analyse the benefits and Performance of the Solvent Extraction with the introduction of the Split Circuit.

December 2003 - February 2004

Worked as a Student Metallurgical engineer at Mopani Smelter Department, Mufulira division.

KCM PLC, COPPER REFINERY

● Reporting to Production Controller–Technical and Operations refinery. Working as Metallurgist responsible for investigatory work on metallurgical constraints and persistent problems pertaining to product (REC COPPER) quality in order to recommend solutions.

● Provide technical assistance to the operating staff in order to improve plant performance.

● Use of initiative to identify technical problems affecting efficiency and carry out investigations to overcome them.

● Carry out laboratory and plant test works to evaluate new reagents, equipment and procedures for improving plant performance.

● Working on monthly production planning for the department and recommend ways of optimizing production on a daily basis in order to attain monthly targets.

● Assist the systems implementations officer to evaluate and update operations regarding the department’s role in safety, environment and quality of our operations in order to attain and maintain our BSI certification.

● Monitor Copper Refinery Tank house operations and daily laboratory results to ensure that the Company’s REC Cathode copper metal destined to markets is of high quality standards to satisfy customer’s requirements and win Market.

● Maintain liaison with the Analytical Services Department in areas of weighing, sampling and analyses of metallurgical accounting materials.

● Provide daily technical instruction to the operating staff after analysing the daily laboratory result pertaining to electrolyte quality.

● Provide weekly and monthly tools audit and recommend on shortfalls and status of departmental operating tools.

● Procure reagents, sulphuric acid and capping board for the department to use in our daily operations.

MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS

(a) Investigated high stripper scrap rate and presented implementable solutions that resulted in reduced scrap rate from 12 % to 9%.

(b) Carried out plant test work on electrolyte TOTAL SUSPENDED SOLIDS (TSS) reduction method and achieved a reduction from an average of 50 ppm to 10 ppm with resulting improved dispatchability (exportability) of REC Cathodic copper by 8% to 98.9%. (c) Investigated causes of low current efficiencies in one part of the Refinery Tankhouse and recommended ideas, which were adopted after a technical presentation to all Refinery personnel. Overall improvement in Current efficiencies from 89.5% to 93.9%.

(d) Investigated and resolved the cause of high copper cathode slime contamination for the period in which 890T of potential finished cathode was rejected at a processing cost.

Experimented and implemented 95.57% PCR Cycle Efficiency tonnes copper per annum and 3.1% reduction in electric energy consumption.

(e) Studied and recommended the best operating procedure in order to minimize high copper inventory in the form of heavy copper anode scrap. This reduced the operating average inventory from 2100 tonnes to 150 tonnes.

(f) Carried out and successfully implemented an experiment on use of heavy scrap copper anodes in place of copper starting sheet in impurity removal cascade units. This increased copper starting sheets production by 160 tonnes per annum and reduced reprocessing cost at Smelter.

(g) Carried out toll copper anode treatment at company (KCM) level to establish, as a reference for any future contract KCM will undertake to treat any foreign concentrates, practically attainable recoveries to slimes of gold and silver.

(h) Pioneered the Refinery Tank house Control Room (DCS) modernization as the Lead Metallurgist.

CAREER OBJECTIVE AND AMBITION

● I see myself as a flexible, practical and self-motivated person who has been trained in analytical methods and would like to utilize this training within an Engineering/Metallurgical environment.

● I have great interest in technical equipment and passion for understanding and designing them.

● Have a passion for Environmental care and protection from degradation for benefit of mankind.

● Have the ambition of applying myself in the efficient, effective running of a big corporate business body.

● I also want to further my education so that I can equip myself to run a big corporate organization in an efficient and sustainable manner that makes both business and environmental sense.

LEISURE INTERESTS

Gardening

Football

Playing music

Watching movies

EXTRA SKILLS

Computer literate: capable of working with the following software:-

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft PowerPoint

Microsoft Outlook

REFERENCES

Mr. Raymond Cheeba Mr. Teza Kasengele

MANAGER MANAGER- SAFETY

NKANA REFINERY KANSANSHI MINE.

097******* 096*******

Mr. Maambo Chooye Mr. Zebedia Chima

GENERAL MANAGER MANAER DAMS TLP

MOPANI MINE. NCHANGA MINE

096******* 096*******

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