Mechanical Engineering Field

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Harare, Zimbabwe

Posted:

July 28, 2025

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JOSEPH M GONDO

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ZIMBABWE

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DOB 15-09-1964

Education

Objective Providing one stop smart and versatile engineering solutions drawing from my wide theoretical and solid practical exposure as well as continous career improvement, meeting or exceeding all stakeholders' expectations. Skills WORK RELATED

• 25+ years hands-on exposure in multi-discipline project design draughting solutions and project supervision to close-out (workshop manufacture, process, mining, agricultural and civil) and project management in industrial and commercial settings.

•Seasoned communicator at leadership/subordinate levels and executor of modular and turnkey projects in solo/collaborative projects.

• Work/document flow/control/management and reporting.

• Creation of drawing registry and data packs for production manufactre and maintenance libraries.

• Excellent practical/theoretical (R&D) skills from conception to closure in FMCG, civil, petro-chemical, plant process, mining, automotive industrial settings).

• Pressure/non-pressure vessels design (to approved Standards/Codes) and pump/piping sizing/selection.

• Reverse engineering, upgrades /refurbishments.

• Engineering production manufacture (production, jobbing (fabrication, machining, ENGINEERING COUNCIL (UNITED KINGDOM)

ENGINEERING COUNCIL PART 1ENGINEERING COUNCIL PART 1 1997 — PASSED

HARARE POLYTECHNIC COLLEGE

NATIONAL DIPLOMA IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERING (PRODUCTION) 1989 — PASSED

HARARE POLYTECHNIC COLLEGE

NATIONAL TECHNICIAN CERTIFICATE

1988 — PASSED

Ellis Robins

Advanced Level (Associated Examining Board)

1984 — Physics:- C, Mathematics:- B, Chemistry: - C Ellis Robins

'M' Level (Associated Examining Board)

1983 — Physics: - 3, Mathematics:- 2, Chemistry:- 3 Saint John's High

Ordinary Level

— Mathematics:- A, Physics With Chemistry:- A, History:- A, Shona:- A, English:- B, Geography:- B, English Literature:- B, Biology:- C foundry) and shop-floor loading and supervision.

• Estimating, costing,supervision and evaluation.

• Having wide in-depth design exposure and hands-on and operational criteria enables me to forecast/troubleshoot potential breakdown/maintenance issues.

• Other standards/design codes interpretation and application.

• ISO 45001:2018 Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems application.

•ISO 14001:2015 Environmental Management Systems application.

•ISO 9001: 2015 Quality Management Systems application.

• Can readily interpret and apply other relevant standards/codes.

• Working knowledge of automation (hydraulics, pneumatics and electro-pneumatics).

• Knowledge of relevant factory legislation.

COMPUTER PROFICIENCY

• 2D/3D CAD: SolidWorks, Inventor, AutoCAD.

• Ucancam (a CNC nesting programme).

• Microsoft Suite: PowerPoint, Microsoft Excel, Access, Project & Word.

• Autodesk Vault and PDMS (Product Data Management Systems). Projects Hems Africa/Venice Mine - Level 220 Ore Loading Station Revival Project.

Structural, plate and mechanical refurbishment of Level 220 loading station which had been submerged due to mine closure.

Pan African Mining Ayrshire Mine (Gold Mine)

Shaft Sinking Project - Design and management.

Audie Steel & Engineering (Mine And Water Drill Rig Designers & Manufacturers)

Mine & drinking water drilling machines design and manufacture. Widney Transport Components

Toyota Quantum 640A sliding window type assembly jigging and testing station design and operator training.

Nautilus Projects & Design (Turnkey Mining Project Solutions) Project team designer/draughtsman for an iron ore dry to wet system handling conversion design mining project for a client (African Minerals Limited) in a West African state.

Unilever South Africa (FMCG Group) Indonsa Project Ergonomic layout desgns and updating factory as built drawings for records and replication to other sites.

Vaal (Accommodation & Activities Resort)

Project Co-ordinator responsible for building resort expansion project delivery. Prentec South Africa (Process Water & Waste Water Process Project Engineers)

Expedition of Thickener Project for (Sasol) and wastewater treatment (Exxaro) delivery. Ampcontrol (Electrical Switchgear Manufacturers)

Streamlined relocation, upgrade and merger of 2 factory units. Scaw Metals Group: McKinnon Forge & Mackinnon Chain Standardisation of manufacturing aids and creation of online marketing tool

(Mackinnon Forge) and revival of lifting chain manufacturing station

(Mackinnon Chain).

Experience

Tabo Tech Consulting Engineers (Electrical/Mechanical Consulting Engineers)

Design sub-contractor for a new wood pulp grinding station. Boleng Joint Venture (Pty) Ltd (Project Management Unit) District Project Manager responsible for efficient delivery of district (Dr Ruth Segomotsi Mompati) turnkey housing projects.

Platinum Engineering (Pvt) Ltd (Agricultural Equipment Manufacture) Engineer assigned to oversee quality, effective production medium sized farm implements for a start-up organisation.

Morewear Industries

Task team member assigned to design pilot coal to liquids fuels conversion (the Fischer-Tropsch Process application) and Jatropha bio-diesel pilot turnkey projects. Allied Conveyors (Bulk Material Handling Engineers) Wankie Colliery 3 Main Conveyor Project Tender among other bulk materials handling solutions for commercial and industrial enterprises. Star Africa Group:- Zimbabwe Sugar Refineries.

•Phases I to III sugar refinery turnkey plant expansion acollaboration with Tate & Lyle (UK) to increase throughput by 50%.

•Filter Press Project, expansion to cater for increased muds. The Coal Flow Project to reduce rail demurrage & manual handling.

•Proposed re-routing of Bulk Raw Sugar Off-Loading Project to expedite off-loading of raw sugar & reducing rail/road traffic and reduce demurrage.

•Coal Flow Handling Plant for Bulawayo sister company to reduce manual handling Knight Piésold Zimbabwe (Civil & Mining Engineering Consulting Partnership.)

•Tailings projects for Renco Mine.

•Eureka Mine geological mapping, residential planning, water reticulation, water and tailings dams.

•Zimplats Platinum mines geological mapping.

•Proposed Gokwe North Coal Fired Power Station design project with teamwork drawn from ourselves

(Knight Piesold Zimbabwe), Knight Piesold (Ashford, UK), Rio Tinto (Zimbabwe) & Northern Power (UK). Almin Metal Industries

Under the import substitution scheme:-automotive and component design and their workstations. W S Craster (Pvt) Ltd (Engineers and Founders (Meehanite & Scaw Metals Licencees))

Machining, fabrication, cast and process replacement/refurbishment/upgrades engineering solutions for the following settings: - agricultural, Local Authority, mining, Process settings. On Point Engineering

Design Engineer

1) Custom mechanical and civil engineering designs and drafting and project management solutions as per customer's request.

2) Typical to the above is sub-contracting for Hems Africa for their SMPP (structural, mechanical, platework & piping) projects on behalf of their clientele (mining & civil). June 2022 - To date

Pan African Mining Ayrshire Mine (Gold Mine)

Contract Mechanical Design Draftsman/Projects Supervisor

• Sole contract mine draftsman designer responsible for drafting and detailing and co-designs as directed by the Project Manager and Resident Engineer and external consultants for the shaft Sinking Project, in-house projects and maintenance retrofits as well as project management.

• Co-ordinating and allocating detailed 3D CAD drawings to our workshops and toll manufacturers.

• Rendering assistance to sister mines and inter-departmental liaison

(Engineering Maintenance Department, Technical Services/Survey, design, May 2021 - May 2022

Stores & Procurement) to aid smooth running of the mine production and projects (proceeds from gold production finances projects e.t.c) and other current/future in-house projects.

• Drawing registry update and issuing of updated drawings. On Point Engineering

Design Engineer

As for "Experience 1" above.

February 2018 - April 2021

Audie Steel & Engineering (Drill 4Africa)

Contract Design Draftsman/Projects Supervisor

• Sole draftsman/designer/project supervisor responsible for co-designs and manufacture on the fly, various versions of water drilling rigs, truck and trailer mounted destined for local and international markets as well as:

• Co-ordinating and allocating drawings to the production department

(machining, fabrication, CNC nesting (using Ucancam DXF CNC nesting software), toll manufacture and flame cutting and assembly crews), keeping production floor busy at all times assisting with designs of up- coming projects.

• Organisational-wide departmental liaison (planning, design, procurement, production) to ensure smooth and effective and efficient rationalised production.

• Continuous re-organising and updating new and existing parts and to enable faster production turn-around times, drawing records management, CNC nesting data for in-house and external manufacture for our standard Spider mounted on our custom trailers series along with the mud pumps and custom SAR200 and SAR300 drilling rigs mounted on 4 tonne and upwards trailer chassis cabs.

February 2016 - December 2017

Widney Transport Components

Contract Project Design Draftsman/Project Supervisor

• Design of a work station project for the assembly of a new vehicle sliding window assembly station for a new Toyota Quantum 640A sliding window type.

• Conduct work and work breakdown studies.

• Choose from at 3 possible layouts proposals based on merit.

• Detail 2D and 3D models of approved design comprising four ergonomically design workstations comprising material storage and handling (parts and consumables), assembly jigging (pneumatic and mechanical) with ergonomic manipulating mechanisms, work tables using predominantly off-the-shelf materials, water leakage testing, final storage racking and operator training and involvement.

June 2015 - August 2915

Nautilus Projects & Design (Turnkey Mining Project Solutions) Contract Mechanical Project Design Draftsman/Project Supervisor Contract project team designer/draftsman for an iron ore mining project for a client (African Minerals Limited) in a West African state.

• Conversion of existing iron ore milling and handling stations from the current October 2014 - December 2014

dry system to a wet system.

• Design and detail drawing of 3D mechanical and civil models layouts for presentation and approval.

• Provision of bulk materials handling solutions (crushing, milling, conveyors, storage circuitry and pipe runs).

• Consolidating designs from Process, Mechanical, Electrical, Civil and external service providers.

• Updating factory as built drawings from site adjustments. Unilever South Africa - Indonsa Project

Contract Project Draftsman

• Contract design draftsman with responsibilities of drawings management, ergonomic plant and piping and process layouts at project closure stage of the Indonsa Project.

• Consolidating designs from Process, Mechanical, Electrical, Civil and external service providers.

• Updating factory as built drawings from site measurements.

• Assisting multi-discipline engineers with best practice and potential conflict.

May 2014 - June 2014

Vaal (Accommodation & Activities Resort)

Contract Project Co-ordinator

• Project Co-ordinator responsible for building resort expansion project delivery.

• Attendance of client meetings and determination of project requirements.

• Track and manage project progress and quality done by contractors and appraise client and Project Manager on deviations.

• Use project scheduling and control tools to monitor budgets, project plans and expenditures and communicate with stakeholders.

• Intervene constructively and issue completion certificates. June 2013 - March 2014

Prentec South Africa (Process/Waste Water Project Engineers) Contract Project Design Draughtsman/Project Supervisor

• Familiarisation of company's water and waste water treatment project activities in both mechanical and structural aspects.

• Special emphasis being on the thickener project for a process plant organisation (Sasol) and a mine wastewater treatment (Exxaro) with respect to mechanical design and manufacturing, P&IDs, 2D drafting and detailing 3D modelling, and tendering and workshop liaison. December 2012 - February 2013

Ampcontrol South Africa

Contract Project Draftsman

Existing factory layout proposed 3D layout of production machinery in 2 existing separate factory units to be streamlined and merged and relocated to a new single factory site along with new production machines. September 2012 - October 2012

Scaw Metals Group: McKinnon Forge & Mackinnon Chain Contract Projects Design Draftsman

Scaw Metals Group: McKinnon Forge (Lifting Chain Accessories Manufacture - 9 January 2012 to 30 June 2012)

• Conversion of imperial drawings into metric complete with 3D models and their assemblies.

• Conversion of models into other digital formats for CNC manufacture.

• Standardisation of manufacturing jigs and fixtures.

• Conversion of product drawings into 2D and 3D models.

• Incorporation of 3D models and assemblies for our online Marketing And Sales Departments Sling Design software.

Scaw Metals Group: McKinnon Chain (Lifting Chain Manufacture - March to 30 December 2011)

• Sole draftsman tasked to re-design and draw 1 complete chain producing machine station.

• Incorporate changes from existing cannibalised and redundant machines. Prepare and archive 3D models, P&IDs, and drawings and data packs.

• Assist with quotations and external manufacture. January 2010 - December 2011

Tabo Tech Consulting Engineers (Electrical/Mechanical Engineers) Design Sub-Contractor

• Project to increase plant production of ground wood pulp throughput by 70% into existing facilities.

• Propose conceptual designs (minimum of 2) to modify existing plant and additions to handle transportation of logs from existing storage facilities to proposed 2 new grinding stations with minimal changes to the existing plant.

• To estimate the cost of the above.

• Detail designing and drafting and costing of approved proposal. January 2010 - June 2010

Boleng Joint Venture (Pty) Ltd (Project Management Unit) District Project Manager

• District project team leader seconded to assist the client to;-

• Monitoring and evaluation and constructive intervention on turnkey subsidy housing delivery on 17 projects at various stages of implementation.

• Enforced set delivery targets to NHBRC approved standards, health and safety and environmental impact analysis compliance.

• Monitored cash flows, facilitated payments of claims vis a vis delivery.

• Advise on inflationary adjustments.

• Monitor, set and enforce adherence to health and safety standards.

• Prepared short and long term strategic plans within projected budgets.

• Advised on clients prevailing policy and contract breach enforcement.

• Manage the district office, co-ordinated and imparted skills to sub- January 2009 - December 2009

ordinates, departments seconded staff, local municipalities, other stakeholders.

• Preparation of progress reports and presentations. Platinum Engineering (Pvt) Ltd

Design Engineer

• Design Engineer assigned to oversee quality, effective and competitive production small and medium sized implements from rented and disused workshop for a fledgling organisation:- elicited excellent working relationship with the lessor.

• Maintained and re-tooled existing equipment and acquired our own to ensure optimal availability.

• Oversaw the research and development of effective designs and costing and materials requirements planning and procurement.

• Recruited and managed technical staff.

• Implemented production line sizing, work study, training, jobbing and use of toll manufacturers.

• Research and development of new products.

October 2006 - June 2008

Morewear Industries (Engineers/Manufacturers)

Contract Assistant Design Engineer,

• Contract projects task team member assigned to design pilot coal to liquids fuels conversion (the Fischer-Tropsch Process application) and Jatropha bio-diesel pilot turnkey projects. The former integrated into existing facilities:-

• Collaborate with civil, instrument and electrical and control sub- contractors for their technical design input.

• Design and drafting of pressure and non-pressure vessels, reactors, mixers, bulk storage tanks and heat exchangers to approved international standards/codes: BS1500, PD 5500 (2006), BS EN14015 (2004) ASME, ASME B31 Piping Codes and TEMA AND API 650, pump and piping sizing and selection.

• Design and develop pipe layouts, structural layouts and site drawings.

• Cognisance of environmental and hazardous nature of the product and processes accounted for.

a) Coal liquefaction plant design:

Conceptualised the design layout, equipment sizing of the coal milling station to achieve the required top size from run of the mill coal, flow beneficiation equipment sizing (stockpile, reclaim hoppers, belt conveyors, classification station circuits, battery of storage bunkers, staging, bucket elevators, gasifier station & ash to dump) and project cost with minimal losses.

March 2006 - September 2006

b) Jatropha bio-diesel plant:

As for the vessels above, including overland bulk storage tanks to approved international standards.

Allied Conveyors (Bulk Material Handling Engineers) Projects Design Draftsman/Projects Supervisor

• Lead design draftsman responsible for design and costing, tendering of bulk materials handling equipment:-

• Design of layouts, elevators, conveyors and their various drive configurations, screw conveyors, trippers, feeders, stackers, loaders, lifts, grading tables, transfer stations and dust suppression and safety equipment.

• Supervised project manufacture and commissioning and handover. June 2003 - February 2006

Star Africa Group:- Zimbabwe Sugar Refineries & Allied Products) Projects & Plant Maintenance Draftsman

• Sole draftsman in Zimbabwe Sugar Refinery plant.

• Reviving drawing office operations which had been unmanned for 3 years.

• Document and update plant changes in collaboration with internal

(workshops, plant process) and external service providers on design, detailing and installation of new projects.

• Maintain drawing office, drawings issues, registry and reference library.

• Participate in project proposals and designs, detail drafting from conception to project management.

• Assess plant equipment during shutdowns.

• Rendering assistance to sister companies.

Key participant in the following projects:

• Collaborated Phases I to III sugar refinery turnkey plant expansion and upgrade in collaboration with Tate & Lyle (UK sugar process technologists) to increase projected refined sugar output by 50%.

• Structural staging.

• Filter Press Project, expansion to cater for increased muds output and replace ageing equipment.

• The Coal Flow Project to reduce rail demurrage & manual handling.

• Proposed re-routing of Bulk Raw Sugar Off-Loading Project to expedite off-loading of raw sugar & reducing rail/road traffic demurrage. December 1999 - May 2003

• Coal Flow Handling Plant for Bulawayo sister company to eliminate manual handling.

Knight Piésold Zimbabwe (Civil & Mining Engineering Consultants) AutoCAD Draftsman/Structural Detailer

Joined this organisation for multi-discipline interface:-

• Bulk earthworks:- water and mine tailings dams, volumetric calculations and diversions.

• Sewer and storm water.

• Geological mapping.

• Residential planning:- road-works, water and sewer reticulation.

• Structural drawing and detailing.

• Professional collaboration with peers in global sister partnerships. Key participant in the following projects:

•Detailing and residential plans and offices with services.

•Tailings projects for Renco Mine.

•Eureka Mine geological mapping, residential planning, water reticulation, water and tailings dams.

•Zimplats Platinum mines geological mapping and tailings dams.

•Proposed Gokwe North Coal Fired Power Station design project with teamwork drawn from ourselves (Knight Piesold Zimbabwe), Knight Piesold (Ashford, UK), Rio Tinto (Zimbabwe) & Northern Power (UK).

Often rewarded for effort and performance

April 1997 - November 1999

Almin Metal Industries (Non-ferrous Founders/Extruders) Contract Design Draftsman

Design and draftsman responsible for:-

•Detailed designs of copper and aluminium castings and extrusions.

•Under the import substitution scheme:-aluminium gravity die-casting component design, then castiron dies and operator workstations (casting ejection and finishing) and operator training.

August 1996 - March 1997

W S Craster (Pvt) Ltd (Engineers/Founders (Meehanite/Scaw Metals Licencees))

Senior Design Drahtsman

Joined this organisation with excellent R&D facilities on scholarship, had working exposure to various service departments: - jobbing, machine, pattern and production workshops, ferrous and non-ferrous foundries, metallurgy laboratory, estimating, quality control, Management Information Systems, and finally settling in the design and drawing office.

• Design sizing and draughting to customers order or in-house research and January 1986 - June 1996

Reference

development.

• Liaising with workshops and customers on new designs/upgrades and retrofits.

• Mentoring junior draughtsmen.

Key participant in the following projects:

Provision of smart engineering design solutions, site visits measurements, refurbishments, upgrades, retrofitting, project proposals, manufacture of machined, fabricated and castings for the following local and international markets:-

1) Mining: - Driers (rotary), furnaces (arc, converters, underfeed stokers, cupolas), crushing equipment (Hardinge, ball & rod mills, pumps, jaw and gyratory crushers and their liners, grinding media (balls)), sheave wheels, winding drums, grizzlies, drives (pinions & girth gears, couplings, pulleys, bronze and white metal bearings), structural staging, upgrades and modifications.

2) Agricultural: - Crop driers (bulk and batch) design of furnaces, heat exchangers (for water to air and air to air) ducts for heat distribution, control equipment, belt and screw conveyors & heat exchangers. 3) Local Authority: - Valves (swing-check, air, gate, resilient seal and butterfly), incinerators, pumps and piping, water filters (drinking & swimming pool), man-way covers.

4) Process Industry: - Drives brick-making machines (rolls, mixers, extruders, and sorting tables) conveyors, sugar and coating mills rolls, and brick making machines, sieve cylinders, all types of bearings, structural staging, and upgrades/modifications.

Mr Neels Audie - Audie Steel & Engineering (Drill 4Africa) - Company Owner/Designer.

Audie Steel & Engineering (Drill 4Africa)

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Mr Maita Zawaira - Assistant Engineer

Pan African Mining Ayrshire Mine (Gold Mine)

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Mr Schalk Van Dyk - Technical Engineer

Widney Transport Components

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