Mechanical engineer, Maintenance, operations,HVAC,planning,water treat
Resume:
Kennedy Chipasha CV
National Reg. No.: ******/**/1
Address: *****, ***** **, ****** *****, Lusaka, Zambia Mobile: +260-***-***-*** / +260-*********
Curriculum Vitae
Name and Surname:
KENNEDY CHIPASHA
2024
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PERSONAL INFORMATION
SURNAME
: CHIPASHA
FIRST NAMES
: KENNEDY
KNOWN AS
: KENNEDY CHIPASHA
IDENTITY NUMBER / PASSPORT NUMBER
: NRC: 329260/67/1 - PASS PORT : ZN 269743
AGE
: 49 YEARS
NATIONALITY
: ZAMBIAN
RESIDENTIAL AREA
: PLOT No. 24408 LIBALA SOUTH
PREFERRED GEOGRAPHIC AREA FOR WORK
:
MARITAL STATUS
: MARRIED
DEPENDANTS
: SIX (6)
LANGUAGE/S
: ENGLISH
DRIVERS LICENCE
: SADC 220841/3/1
AVAILABILITY / NOTICE PERIOD
: 30 DAYS
PRESENT / LAST SALARY (GROSS)
: USD
PREFERRED SALARY (GROSS) : USD
DESIRED REMUNERATION
: HOUSING,EDUCATION,VEHICLE,MEDICAL
CONTACT NUMBERS
E-MAIL ADDRESS
*********@*****.***
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EDUCATION:
Qualification: Grade 12 General Certificate of Education Institution: Ndeke Secondary School
Date: 30/12/1996
Qualification: Mechanical Engineering Advanced Diploma / Degree Institution: Northern Technical College
Date: 28/08/2001
ADDITIONAL TRAINING:
Skills presentation
Water Treatment
Safety training (IRCA)
First Aid training
Blasting
SKILLS
- Planning
- Mining
- Plant Maintenance
- Structural engineering constructions, maintenance and design
- Preventive Maintenance
- Maintenance planning and Scheduling
- Plant overhauls
- Building maintenance and up grades
- Fleet Management
- Safety Health and Environment Implementation
- Budgeting
- Team building
- Artisan hand on Training
- Project Management and commissioning
- Blasting
- Marketing
- Construction
- HVAC and Ventilation System
- Water supply and Reticulation
- Water and sewer treatment
- Metal fabrication
- Irrigation and landscaping
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ACHIEVEMENTS/AWARDS
SHARES/UNITS IN VEDANTA GROUP – LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE (PRODUCTION COST REDUCTION )
Modified and relocated operation equipment in the coal milling plant to increase availability from 70% to 95%
Modified and incorporated the crusher and belt network systems in order to start coal pees local production
Developed mine care equipment online tracking and maintenance systems in dispatch at the open cast mine
Redesigned the filter house for GHH compressor in order to suit and accommodate the available filter
Developed and implemented construction of slimes driers at the copper refinery
Designed, built and installed sand washing plant in Ndola during the construction of Levy Mwanawasa stadium
Increased plant availability at Dolomite from 45% to 82%
Increased production of quarry from 30,000 to 65,000 tons per month within 2 months of engagement to Dolomite Aggregates Ltd
Completion of all mechanicals tasks at Kazungula Bridge Project (OSBP) 3 months ahead of Schedule ACCREDITATIONS/MEMBERSHIPS:
ENGINEERING INSTITUTION OF ZAMBIA (EIZ)
ENGINEERING REGULATION BOARD (ERB)
COMPUTER LITERACY:
Microsoft programmes e.g. word,excel,powerpoint,project,publisher etc
CMMS
MIMS
ELIPSE
WORK EXPERIENCE:
Date: 02/10/2018 – 15/03/2021
Organization: Anhui Foreign Economic Company Ltd
Designation: OSBP Mechanical Engineer (Kazungula Bridge Project) STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL
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Duties & Responsibilities:
Project Planning and Budgeting
Site works coordination and improvements
Coordination and implementation of all mechanical works on site
Structural engineering
Ensuring all mechanical works and equipment are delivered and installed according to specifications
Assisting in the formulation of company work procedure and policies
Supervision of all mechanical subcontractors
HSE coordination
Supply & Procurement materials co-ordination
Inter-departmental coordination
Subcontractor and contractor contract formulation and coordination
Water reticulation system
Sewer treatment plant installation
Landscaping and Irrigation system
Heating Ventilation and Air conditioning
Security systems Installation coordination and supervision ( CCTV, Intruder alarm, Fire alarm, Public Address, Fibre infrastructure and Perimeter fencing)
Date: 20/01/2017 – 30/09/2018
Organization: Hilsachi Investments Ltd
Designation: Technical Consultant Manager
Duties & Responsibilities:
Project Planning and Budgeting
Plant improvements
Structural engineering
Trades training
Assisting in the formulation of company work procedure and policies
Plant operations
International Student administration
Supply & Procurement materials co-ordination
Budgeting
Plant Spares inventory management
Date: 30/05/2013 – 30/07/2016
Organization: Dolomite Aggregate Ltd
Designation: Plant Maintenance Manager
Duties & Responsibilities:
Planning and maintenance of processing equipment such as conveyors, screens, cone crushers, impact crushers and jaw crushers
Plant improvements
Construction
i. Daily to monthly planning and work allocation
ii. HVAC (Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning), plumbing, industrial piping, other mechanical equipment, and auxiliary component. Building design, from structural integrity to material selection, putting in their place in engineering principles and engineering mathematics. all machinery within the building considered part of a mechanical domain – (E.g. East park mall, Lusaka, Dolomite offices) The HVAC equipment includes the ducts and ventilation shafts that take off from output assemblies / STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL
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outdoor units, towards the different story of the structure, and all of the associated pumps and pipes that tie these independent systems together.
iii. Mechanical equipment installations to internationally acceptable standards iv. Maintenance of all mechanical operatives
v. Materials and Mechanical spares inventory
vi. Water supply and reticulation installations as well as delivery to site vii. Construction materials schedules assessments and recommendation viii. Generating weekly and monthly site reports
ix. Fire fighting and suppression systems installations and maintenance x. Risk assessments and safety policy and procedures xi. Machines and building inspections
xii. Building maintenance ( Acacia park,Dolomite Offices)
Assisting operation teams to train operators and shift supervisors
Assisting in the formulation of company work procedure and policies
Pit management
Plant operations
Workshop and fleet maintenance
Heavy equipment maintenance such as Doosan wheel loaders, excavators,back hauls and 25 ton ADT and 15 tones ashiock tipper trucks
Supply & Procurement co-ordination
Budgeting
Plant Spares inventory management
Date: 05/02/2012 – 21/05/2013
Organization: Mukubaila Investments Ltd
Designation: Technical Manager
Duties & Responsibilities:
Budgeting
Managing inter-company business and corporations such as, procurement, projects and engineering consultancy.
Formulating company policies and procedures
Training of technical and non technical staff
Corporate advisor
Date: 08/03/2011 – 04/04/2012
Organization: Powerflex Engineering Zambia Ltd
Designation: Plant Manager
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Duties & Responsibilities:
Planning
Budgeting
Management of 25member maintenance unit 56 operations teams.
Management of materials handling, production and maintenance units such as conveyor belts, tipplers, 30” x 23” Hadfield jaw crushers, impact crushers, two 5 1/2 Ft cone crushers, vibro screens,10-7ft ball mills,10 – 20 t truck fleet, front end loaders and back hoes, excavators.
Schools and housing constructions
i. Water reticulation systems, starting from overhead tank fabrication, pump and structural installations to home pipe work systems.
ii. Spares inventory
iii. Building inspections
iv. Safety and health implementation and adherence v. Consistent Water supply to construction sites
vi. Site dewatering
Date: 30/09/2009 – 25/06/2011
Organization: Saloba Limited
Designation: Workshop manager / site manager
Duties & Responsibilities:
Carry out designs and plant installations (Sand washing plants).
Management of workshop works, marketing of products/services, material mobilization, machine maintenance and project coordinating.
Artisan training.
Equipment and civil installations / constructions i. Refurbishment of Kitwe and Lusaka NAPSA buildings ii. Reinstallation of fire suppression systems pipe work and water reticulation iii. Re-design and installation of the building sealing structures iv. Materials control and inventory
v. Structural and beam erection
vi. Building inspections
vii. Material schedule control
Building maintenance
Motor vehicle and fleet management
Budgeting
Date: 21/09/2001 – 20/05/2009
Organization: Konkola Copper Mines Plc (KCM)
Designation: Senior Section Engineer
Duties & Responsibilities:
To provide, monitor and control plant / equipment / unit engineering maintenance and services in the section, as defined in the statutory appointment as section Engineer, to achieve the maximum equipment availability and enable production and other department meet their targets, whilst upholding high safety, maintenance standards, statutory and domestic regulation compliance. STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL
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To ensure that all safety, environment, health and quality standards are met at all times in the course of duty
Budget and control of expenditure within the section with a view towards cost reduction wherever possible
Develop, control and direct labour to achieve acceptable standards of work quality and quantity and ensure satisfactory stuff development
Produce and implement designs necessary to continue or improve the operations of the section and company
Monitor the continued availability of both stocked and non stocked spares to avoid delays to production
Maintain close and effective liaison with operating and service organisations to promote cooperation and sound relationships
SECTIONS UNDER KONKOLA COPPER MINES PLC
Date: 2007 - 2009
Section: Power Plant
Designation: Section Engineer
Duties & Responsibilities:
Auxiliaries: Management, construction and maintenance of cooling water ponds, water/acid storage tanks, air- water scrubber unit, all water and air lines
Compressors & Blowers and Ventilation System: Management and maintenance of both blowers and compressors.ie periodical change of conical and cylindrical Donaldson filters as well as maintenance of intercoolers, after coolers and water boxes for compressors.
Boilers: Carry out maintenance overhauls and construction of waste heat boiler; ID fans,FD fans, related valves(blow down,feed,check,safety valves etc) on the boiler
Maintenance of feed water, oil pumps, boiler water feed pumps etc
Demin Plant: Maintenance of demineralising water plant, by way of maintaining acid lift venturis, degasser pumps.
Oxygen plant: Maintenance of lox pumps, steam heater, all pipe works, power management and energy control i. Installation and maintenance of chillers
ii. Intallation and maintenance of water pumps, pipe work and other reticulation systems iii. Maintenance of HVAC equipment
iv. Erection and monitoring of structures
v. Installations and maintenance of fire suppression networks vi. Intallation of machinery
vii. Building inspections
viii. Spares and materials inventory as well as control ix. Safety practice and enforcement as well as compliance monitoring
Statutory: Carry out all periodical statutory tests on boiler and air vessels as required by law and mine safety department.
Condition monitoring: Vibration and oil analysis of machines/gear boxes
Turbine maintenance and power management
Date: 2005 – 2007
Section: Materials Handling Plant / Copper smelter Designation: Section Engineer
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Duties & Responsibilities:
CCPP: Responsible in the maintenance/overhauls of ball mills, cyclones, screw conveyors, stocker furnace, coal pulverization bag houses, fans, air slides, Fuller Kinion screw pumps, receiving and surge bins
Conveyor system: Maintenance/overhauls and management of the conveyor system by structure rectification, roller replacement, belt tracking, chute repairs, maintenance of trippers and shuttle conveyors
Tippler: Maintenance and overhaul of deckings, gear segments, bushes, landing rollers and pinion gears.
Crushers: Maintenances of flex tooth coal crusher, swing jaw and cone crushers.
Maintenance of copper convertor/anode furnace gear drives
Maintenance of overhead 50T cranes, coal and oxy –fuel burners, star feeders, chain conveyors, reverb maintenance of tap plate/holes and water jackets,
Maintenance of pneumatic ash hopper cylinders
Maintenance of furnace hole punching machine- transverse rail type
Maintenance of dry electrostatic precipitators, butterfly valves,, the hoods, copper casting wheel, anode cars, copper concentrate injection system on the teniente convertor [CT]
Maintenance, overhauls and management of ID fans, main gas blowers, scrubbers,dry /wet electrostatic precipitators, drive chains, scrubbers in the gas cleaning plant,cooling /candle towers at contact sections, acid loading bays, valves,pumps, coolers/Heat exchangers, hot and cold wells etc.
Construction and installation of new plants such as CT, coveyoral structures and buildings
Machine shop management; lathe, milling, sharper, boring, broaching machines etc.
Concentrator/TLP: With wide experience with decantation/leach processes technologies. Reliability and Maintenance of slurry pumps, thickeners, press/ceramic filters, ball/rod mills, conveyor systems etc. The service, condition monitoring and maintenance of plant equipment such as ball mills, rod mills, belly feeders, thickeners, scrubbers, drum filters, conveyor belt systems/filter belts/gravity belts, slurry pumps etc. The areas exposed to and maintained include girth gears, pinions, gear boxes, conveyor belts/rollers, pulleys, filter drives, air/water systems, classifiers, air slides, pipe maintenance, pachukers, screens,maintenance of the lime plant. Date: 2004 - 2005
Section : Open pits (Nchanga and Chingola)
Designation: Section Engineer
Duties & Responsibilities:
Managed daily maintenance of shovels, excavators and drills in the pits; cloud machinery, dump trucks, crawlers, sprugs, ropes & drums, buckets etc
Subassemblies for all field vehicles and machinery
Maintenance of Ingersoll rand compressors
Mobile equipment maintenance
Maintenance and installation of mills, crushers and conveyor belts
Real time maintenance: Managed real time repairs of dump tracks 630s, 793s, komatsus, 3.3 Kv drills and shovels. Developed failure notifier and tracking trend system.
RTV work shop management; maintenance and management of komatsu, caterpillar dump trucks, front end loaders, bull dozers etc.
Condition monitoring and Maintenance: Lube-systems and swing transmissions
Pit dewatering and water reticulation installations
Water supply to work sites
Building statutory inspections
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Date: 2003 - 2004
Section: Winders (Underground Mine)
Designation: Assistant Section Engineer
Duties & Responsibilities:
Rock and Man winders maintenance
Maintenance and upgrade of rock winders from caliper to hydraulic disc break ecam system
Management of subassembly workshop
Date: 2001 - 2003
Section: Engineering Training (Development Programme) Designation: Assistant Section Engineer (On Development) Sections attached to:
Refinery
Mechanical Workshops
Smelter Reverbs
Smelter converters
Contracts
Materials Handling plant
Concentrator
Tailing Leach Plants
Power plant/compressor house
Mine garages
EMPLOYMENT REFERENCES
Contact Name and Designation:
Julius Ndhlovu
Company Name and Address
Zulu Barlow
Kitwe, Zambia
Capacity or Position:
Consulting Engineer
Period of interactions:
Two years + (From 2018)
Contact E-mail address:
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Contact Telephone Number
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2.
Contact Name and Designation:
Philip Phiri
Company Name and Address
Konkola Copper Mine Plc
P/Bag KCM (S) 2000
Kitwe, Zambia
Capacity/Position:
Resident Engineer / Unit Head
Period of interactions:
Fourteen years (From 2006)
Contact E-mail address:
******.*****@***.**.**
Contact Telephone Number
3.
Contact Name and Designation:
Vincent Mulenga
Company Name and Address
Mukubaila Investments Ltd
Capacity/Position:
Managing director
Period of interactions:
Eight years (From 2012)
Contact E-mail address:
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Contact Telephone Number
260-***-***-*** / 260-***-***-***
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