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Trust Mukwayiwa

Instrument Supervisor
Msasa Park,Midlands

Summary

I am a motivated and enthusiastic time served Senior Instrumentation and control supervisor with 12 years vast working experiencing in mining industry, I am a very reliable self-starter who can work well as part of the team and individually.

I am currently working for Barrick gold cooperation as Mines Instrumentation Senior Supervisor at Loulo Gold Mine in West Africa Mali. Part of my roles and responsibilities are to supervise a number of Instrumentation supervisors, technicians, apprentices and assistants on various mines automation duties maintenance and projects ,ensuring safety standards and working with strict deadlines and tight man hours to completion planned jobs ,breakdowns and projects on time

I also have great skills in design, stakeholder relations, preventative maintenance, system optimization, route cause analysis, fault rectification, exclusive interpersonal, communication, supervision, team building and extreme strategic thinker, problem solver, pressure handler with sound investigative and analytical capabilities.

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Expat Senior Instrument Supervisor

Barrick Gold
Bamako
02.2015 - Current

Duties

• Contact management mines safety audits

• Systems integration

• Ensure system optimizations

• Ensure mines scales balancing and calibration according to certified data sheets

• Executed an automated ventilation on Demand concept via Ramjack on underground ventilation fans

• Executed digitalized underground tagging via Ramjack

• Executed a fiber backbone with minimum 150 managed switches

• Trucks, Loaders and human tracking through Newtrax automation concept

• Newtrax server management

• Sandvik Auto mining network deployment

• Automation and control system loops and instruments management

• Design and development of project schedules and projects check sheets

• SCADA files installations on new control room clients

• VMWARE ESXi Hoist Installations

• Manage and attend cost meeting

• Attend production meeting with Management

• Attend mines planning meeting

• Carry out standbys ( Second call after instruments supervisors )

• Training of Junior Engineers

• Paste plants systems upgrades

• Fan starters power management

• Soft starters

• Variable speed drives

• RM06 Relays configurations and parameters adjustments

• Siemens 1500 series PLC programming

• Siemens 1200 series programing

• Virtual machines installation

• Migrate Intouch scada softwares from old to new desktops

• Rockwell controller upgrades and Firmware adjustments

• Siemens HMI display adjustments

Instrument Technician

Randgold Resources
Bamako
12.2012 - 01.2015

Duties


• Installation of Berker/Icom radio base stations

• Leaky feeder communications underground

• Automation of crushers and conveyors underground

• Installation of Paste plant underground line dump valves

• Installation of Hikvision camera on all mines requirements points

• Fiber splicing underground and surface network infrastructure

• Density meters calibrations

• Valves strokes ,calibration and overhauling

• Installation of radios on trucks and LVs

• RSLogix 5000 PLC programming

• Studio 5000 programming

• Wonder ware InTouch development

• Scales calibrations

• Paste plants instruments maintenance

• Underground fiber backbone extensions

Expat Instrument Technician

Excalibur Engineering South Africa
BENI
07.2012 - 11.2012

Duties

• Installed and wired canning line instruments

• Configured Danfoss drives for the canning line

• Install, wire and commissioning of packaging line

• Wire and commissioning of compressor instruments

• Installation and commissioning of Brew house instruments

• Water plant instruments installation and commissioning

• Installation and wiring of Siemens 1200 series PLC

• Profibus and RS 232 Communication protocols installation

• Loop tuning

• Speed and proximity sensors

• Conductivity meters

Instrument Technician

Glencore Xstrata- Boshoek Smelter
Rustenburg
01.2010 - 06.2012

Duties

• Responsible for safe and effective maintenance of sinter plant ,Furnaces 01 and 02 ,Water services, pallet handling, raw materials, recovery section

• Enforce compliance with housekeeping, safety, health and environmental standards

• Problem Diagnostics ,recommending and effect plant modifications

• Overhauling, calibrating and repairing on plant instruments

• Programming of Siemens PLCs i.e. making of changes to the programs in relation to the plant changes and alterations

• Call out 24 hr. standby duties ( Call outs )

• Carrying out annual shutdowns

• Planning and carrying out planned maintenance schedules

• Identifying and recommending of plant critical spares

• Loop tuning of Industrial PID loops

• On job training of apprentices and attachment students

• Hot and cold commissioning of the plant after statutory stoppages

• Scales calibrations ( Thermofisher Microtech and Process Automation)

• Density meters calibrations ( Process Automation)

• Supervision of Instrumentation Artisans, Apprentices and attaches.

• System management and backups

• Maintain motor cimocodes

• Maintain ring networks on profibus network linking all the plant PLCs

• Quality control after annual shutdowns

• Perform min-max for instrumentation spares

• Tracking of Direct and special order to the system

• Maintain cake disc filters for cake production

• Perform loop upgrades when required

Electrical and Instrumentation Technician

Blue-sphere Investment -Manganese Smelter
Nigel
02.2009 - 12.2009

• Performed standbys when required

• Worked on arc Furnaces_ Manganese smelting

• Hydraulic power packs for tilting furnaces

• Crushers with ASRI SANDVIK HMIs

• Compressors

• Maintain the entire smelter centralized to Mitsubishi Plc.

Apprenticeship-Instrument Technician

Sable Chemicals
Kwekwe
09.2006 - 11.2008

Duties


• Trained on Electrolysis of water on Allen Bradley PLC

• Air separation Plant – production of Nitrogen gas

• Ammonia Synthesis Plant _production of ammonia( Ratio control systems mixing of hydrogen and Nitrogen

• Nitric Acid production _ Ratio control loops of Mixing air and gas (Rockwell controlled system)

• Batching and Dispatching _ weighing systems

• Air compressors Loading and Off Loading Omron PlC,setpoint protection of compressors BBC,Sulzer

• Boilers control systems and protection

• Overhauling and serving of control valves

• Configuration of Electronic micro processors

• Understanding of communication protocols , Ethernet , RS232 etc

• Major plant shutdowns

• Installation of flowmeters, Level transmitters

• Density meters

• Gas analysis instruments

Scales installation and calibrations

Attachee-Instrument Technician

Ziscosteel Company
Kwekwe
01.2005 - 12.2005

Duties

• Trained Blast Furnaces process and related instrumentation

• Sinter plant process and instrumentation

• Mills section process and Instrumentation

• Energy and Distribution section

• Coke ovens process and Instrumentation

• Steel plant Instrumentation and process appreciation

• Boilers control systems and protection

• Overhauling and serving of control valves

• Configuration of Electronic micro processors

• Understanding of communication protocols and PLCs appreciation

• Major plant shutdowns

• Installation of flowmeters, Level transmitters

• Gas analysis instruments

Scales installation

Education

High School Diploma -

Kwekwe Poly-technical College
Kwekwe Zimbabwe
01.2004 - 12.2006

High School Diploma -

Harare Poly-technical College
Harare Zimbabwe
01.2007 - 12.2008

Skills

Rockwell PID loop tuning

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Timeline

Expat Senior Instrument Supervisor

Barrick Gold
02.2015 - Current

Instrument Technician

Randgold Resources
12.2012 - 01.2015

Expat Instrument Technician

Excalibur Engineering South Africa
07.2012 - 11.2012

Instrument Technician

Glencore Xstrata- Boshoek Smelter
01.2010 - 06.2012

Electrical and Instrumentation Technician

Blue-sphere Investment -Manganese Smelter
02.2009 - 12.2009

High School Diploma -

Harare Poly-technical College
01.2007 - 12.2008

Apprenticeship-Instrument Technician

Sable Chemicals
09.2006 - 11.2008

Attachee-Instrument Technician

Ziscosteel Company
01.2005 - 12.2005

High School Diploma -

Kwekwe Poly-technical College
01.2004 - 12.2006
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