Preventative Maintenance and Food manufacturing experience

ANDRE NEETHLING

Fitter/Manual Machinist *****.************@*****.***

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

I am a Skilled Maintenance Fitter and Turner originally from Port Elizabeth South Africa currently working in Auckland, New Zealand with 11 years’ experience in machining lathes on both a small and large scale to tight tolerances. During my time working in New Zealand I have been working in the food manufacturing industry performing preventative maintenance and servicing machinery to ensure smooth production and limiting downtime. I have experience in managing teams and planning production on shutdowns. I am a perfectionist when it comes to my work, always making sure projects are completed to the clients specific requirements in the shortest time frame while still maintaining health and safety protocols. I am ready to return to South Africa after gaining a wealth of experience in New Zealand and to take the next step in my career by moving into a management role.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Mechanical Fitter, Machinery Maintenance Plus, Auckland, New Zealand

April 2023-Present

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: - Inspection of equipment for maintenance that needs to be done

-Fault finding

-Responding to and resolving machine breakdowns

-Machining lathe work and milling

-Service repair and modifications

-Alignment of electrical motor gearboxes, pulleys belts and chain drives

-Co2 and stick welding

-Reinstallation of equipment after repairs on site

-General maintenance of machinery in the food, plastics, dairy and pharmaceutical industries

-Performing preventative maintenance on repairs for all plant equipment

-Inspection of and repairs of conveyors

-Installation and dismantling of machinery parts and equipment using power tools, cranes and heavy machinery

-Maintenance on corrugated sheet roll forming machines as well as inspection and repair of all power transmission parts including bearings, bushes, sprockets, chains and gears. Changing of hydraulic power unit filters and oil

-Maintenance on H frame stamping presses

-Maintenance, servicing and repair of Wilken and Mitchell presses 400 to 1000 tons

-GEA high pressure homogenizer machinery maintenance

-Operating horizontal slotting machines

-Wire Mesh welding machinery maintenance

-Volumetric piston fillers maintenance and refurbishment

-Flow Wrapper machinery maintenance and repair

-Repairs and maintenance on Automatic Bar feeder(Mega Genius

Fitter and Turner, Robust Engineering & Maintenance Port Elizabeth, South Africa,

June 2015 – March 2023

DUTIES AND RESPONSBILTIES: - Planning jobs according to high priority and deadlines

-Centrifugal, Multistage & Vacuum Pumps.

-Machining Of New Shafts for Different Pumps

-Machine New Bushes; Brass, Stainless Steel & Cast Iron

-Machine Pumps Impellers & Volute Casings & Fit New Rings For Correct Clearance

-Thread Cutting Shafts

-Re-sleeving Shafts

-Milling Work

-Cutting Keyways On Shafts

-Using Digital Read Outs – Dro

-Housekeeping

-Using Surface Grinding Machine

-Stripping and Repairing Pumps – Clean, Assemble & Respray

-Fitting New Bearings To Shafts & Seals

-Fitting Motor & Pump To Base & Alignment Couplings

-Rebuild of Horizontal Split Casing Pumps

-Maintenance on pumps and inspection of any unusual damage to the pumps

-Paint Belzona protective coatings to various parts

-Remove burrs and sharp edges of work pieces

-Used a torch to hot bend materials

-Refurbish of Gusher pumps

-Machining of Different types of plastics

-Alignment Belt and Chain Drives

-Vertical Pumps Repair

Turner Machinist Apprentice, NOV National Oil well Varco, Port Elizabeth, South Africa,

July 2013 – May 2015

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: - Operate Deep Hole Drilling Machine

-Machine OD, ID Diameters

-Machine Bevels

-Machine Threads: Metric, Imperial Sizes, Square Threads

-Using Taps, Spiral, Pilot, Serial Sets

-Sharpening Drills & High Speed Steels

-Use Drawings to Cut Materials To Size

-Milling Work

-Machine Hexagons & Other Shapes

-Using Dividing Head

-Using Three & Four Jaw Chucks

-Cold Rolling Of Drill Pipe Threads

-Machine Drill Collars Subs With Deep Hole Drilling

-Machine welding bevels on De Beers pipes

-CNC operating experience

-Basic Rigging

Junior Turner Machinist, Robbie Deysel Engineering, Port Elizabeth, South Africa,

January 2011- June 2013

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: - Machining of Shafts, Flanges, Rings & Bushes

-Machine Taper Internal & External

-Threads Internal & External, Metric, Imperial Sizes, Square threads

-Cutting Keyways – Internal & External

-Using Lathe Tools - Sharpening High Speed Steels

-Steadies: Fixed & Travelling

-Milling Work

-Boring & Reaming

-Work Out PCD holes

-Squaring Stock & Face milling

-Drilling & Taping holes

-Using Vices & Dividing heads

-Spline Cutting

-Housekeeping

-Using Surface Grinding Machine

-Grinding Shafts to Correct Tolerance

- Operate keyway slotting Machine

- Sand blasting of parts

-Drilling of holes using Radial Drill machine

-Arc Welding

-Spark Eroding

-CNC operating experience

EDUCATION

Trade Certificate Turner- Metal Machinist- 2015

National Senior Certificate -Otto Du Plessis High School -2010

PROFFESIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Introduction to pneumatics-2024

Elevated Work Platform operating skills Certificate ASWEFA

First Aid Level 1 (CPR and AED)- 2022

Working in confined spaces training - 2022

Belzona Product training -2022

Riskom working at heights competency - 2021

Applied Firefighting Techniques and operation of a Counter Balanced Lift Truck (Capacity F02A 7000KG ) -2021

Turner Apprentice Selected Modules Course Basic Rigging, Handtools, Handskills & Workshop tools- East Cape Training Centre - 2013

Applying SHE Principals and Procedures Applying SHE Principals and Procedures - NOSA South Africa - 2013

SKILLS

Attention to Detail

Quality checking

Read engineering drawings

CNC operating

Organised

Good communication skills

Experience using DRO

Maintenance

Milling

Turning

Health and Safety

Machining to tight tolerances

Machining shafts

Team player

Cutting keyways

Stripping and refurbishing pumps

Fitting

Work well independently

Manual lathe operating

Competent in Microsoft word, excel and office

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