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Education
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Kidwell Muzhingi

Sippy Downs,QLD

Summary

An Engineer / Technician / Electrician, with a diverse background in gas, mining, heavy iron and steel industry, foundry / smelter maintenance, induction furnace and process engineering with experience garnered over 26 years and a strong willingness to learn, initiate, and take responsibility for long term continuous improvement solutions and projects. I have experience in both FIFO and DIDO roles. I can read and interpret engineering drawings. In addition to proven practical safety knowledge and practice, I can offer professional skills in the following areas:

A results-oriented Electrical Engineer in Training committed to developing cutting-edge electronic equipment. An international exposure and experience in Electrical equipment giving me an added advantage on machine diagnosis. Background working in component and motherboard design.

Overview

27
27
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Electrical Engineer-Project Manager

Comlek Group
Middlemount, QLD
08.2023 - 10.2023

· Project planning and administration. Ensuring correct resourcing and manpower travel and accommodation arrangements are in place.

· Ordering materials. Getting quotes and Raising Purchase Orders.

· Client liaison. Attending site meetings, Site Inspection, and supervision of ongoing works. Weekly and monthly progress reports.

· Production of work packs and QA / QC documentation. Checking Workmanship and Quality Control. Ensuring project specifications, drawings, national and international Standards and site instructions are adhered to.

· Communicating with supervisors and client Representatives to ensure satisfactory delivery of the ROM tunnel remediation project.

· Production of the project ITP and ITRs

· Upkeep and maintenance of site project documents such as master copies of project specifications, project schematics and drawings, red line and as built documents.

· Participation in the production of the WRAC and other risk assessments JSAs and permits including Permit To Work.

· Business correspondence with client representatives, suppliers, fellow contractors, construction, and commissioning teams

· Ensuring safety systems are adhered to especially regarding lockout tagout and personal risk assessment such as JSAs, slam/ take 5,

Electrical Leading Hand

Several Contracting Companies
Mackay/ Bowen Basin, QLD
04.2023 - 08.2023

· Attending site meetings, Site Inspection, and supervision of ongoing works.

· Production of QA / QC documentation. Checking Workmanship and Quality Control. Ensuring project specifications, drawings, national and international Standards and site instructions are adhered to.

· Upkeep and maintenance of site project documents such as master copies of project specifications, project schematics and drawings, red line and as built documents.

· Participation in the production of the MDR

· Business correspondence with client representatives, suppliers, fellow contractors, construction, and commissioning teams

· Ensuring safety systems are adhered to especially regarding lockout tagout.

Preventative maintenance

Electrical Engineer-QA Lead

Valmec Australia
Mackay/ Bowen Basin, QLD
10.2022 - 04.2023

· Attending site meetings, Site Inspection, and supervision of ongoing works.

· Production of QA / QC documentation. Checking Workmanship and Quality Control. Ensuring project specifications, drawings, national and international Standards and site instructions are adhered to.

· Communicating with supervisors and client Representatives to ensure satisfactory delivery of the Gas pumping station project.

· Production of the project ITP and ITRs

· Upkeep and maintenance of site project documents such as master copies of project specifications, project schematics and drawings, red line and as built documents.

· Participation in the production of the MDR

· Business correspondence with client representatives, suppliers, fellow contractors, construction, and commissioning teams

· Ensuring safety systems are adhered to especially regarding lockout & tagout

Field Services Engineer/Field Service Technician

Hexagon Mining, Dawson Mine, Moura, Queensland,
Moura, QLD
08.2021 - 02.2022

· Attending site meetings, Site Inspection and supervision of ongoing works, Checking Workmanship and Quality Control, Ensuring national and international Standards and site instructions are adhered to.

· Commissioning and monitoring proper operation of Collision Avoidance System and Vehicle Intervention Systems in Caterpillar, Komatsu, Liebherr trucks and other mine mobile equipment for maintenance planning purposes. Carrying out routine maintenance on these systems

· Creating, editing, loading, downloading and updating configurations for CAS main units and scope screens.

· Programming CAN Bridge units and repairs to existing CAN circuitry and tracking radars

· Training the production trainers, maintenance trainers, operators, and maintenance personnel in CAS and VIS

· Liaising with all stakeholders: Business correspondents with suppliers, Consultants, contractors and senior management and mine management etc.

· Commissioning and handover of completed projects

· Purchasing and ensuring the availability of spares. Managing the company credit card and ensuring responsible use of such card and other company assets at my disposal.

· Breakdown Maintenance, Reactive Maintenance, Planned Preventative Maintenance

· Application of and ensuring proper use of the lock out tag out system, and generating the relevant reports to management

Electrical / Appliance Technician

QANTAC, Curragh mine, Backwater, Queensland, Australia
Blackwater, QLD
09.2018 - 08.2021

· Attending site meetings, Site Inspection and supervision of ongoing works, Checking Workmanship and Quality Control, Ensuring national and international Standards and site instructions are adhered to. Monitoring electrical and electromechanical equipment for maintenance planning purposes

· Supervision and training of apprentices and ensuring conformity of their work to state and federal standards.

· Liaising with all stakeholders: Business correspondents with suppliers, Consultants, contractors and senior management and mine management etc.

· Commissioning and handover of completed projects

· Maintenance and refurbishment of organisational movable and immovable assets

· Breakdown Maintenance, Reactive Maintenance, Planned Preventative Maintenance, Installing, Repairing, Refurbishing electrical and electromechanical machinery, kitchen and laundry appliances and all other electrical and electronic circuits and systems in the camp accommodation villages.

· Electrical Installation ensuring good workmanship and adherence to drawings, standards, specifications and acts of Law on all new projects

· Installation and maintenance of air conditioning, power and lighting circuits and light fittings in accommodation rooms, Kitchens and Dining rooms, laundries, gyms, street lights and walk way lights

· Compliance Tests and inspections (Test and tag )

· Installation and maintenance of electrical DBs and power circuits

· Installations and repairs and maintenance to box and split air conditioners.

· Repairs and Maintenance of pump stations and water treatment plants.

· Repairs and Maintenance of Maytag and Speed Queen washing machines and Dryers.

· Repairs and Maintenance of appliances such as Bratt pans, Baine marries, mixers, dish washers and ovens and any other Kitchen and Dining room equipment

· Application of and Ensuring proper use of the lock out tag out system, and generating the relevant reports to management

Electrical /Appliance Repair Technician

Hays Recruiting
Middlemount, QLD
02.2018 - 06.2018

· Breakdown Maintenance, Reactive Maintenance, Planned Preventative Maintenance, Installing, Repairing, Refurbishing electrical and electromechanical machinery, kitchen and laundry appliances and all other electrical and electronic circuits and systems in the camp accommodation villages.

· Electrical Installation ensuring good workmanship and adherence to drawings, standards, specifications and acts of Law on all new projects

· Installation and maintenance of lighting circuits and light fittings in accommodation rooms, Kitchens and Dining rooms, laundries, gyms, street lights and walk way lights

· Tests and inspections (Test and tag )

· Installation and maintenance of electrical DBs and power circuits

· Repairs and Maintenance of pump stations and water treatment plants.

· Repairs and Maintenance of Maytag washing machines and Dryers.

· Repairs and Maintenance of appliances such as Bratt pans, Baine marries, mixers, dish washers and ovens and any other Kitchen and Dining room equipment

Application of and Ensuring proper use of the lock out tag out system, and generating the relevant reports to management

Electrician

Teys Australia (FMCG), Biloela, Queensland, Australia
Biloela, QLD
11.2014 - 02.2018

· Breakdown Maintenance, Reactive Maintenance, Planned Preventative Maintenance, Repairing, Refurbishing electrical and electromechanical machinery and overhauling and replacing electric motors, transformers, cables, bus bars, variable speed drives and soft starters, sensors and all other electrical and electronic circuits and systems

· Plant Installation ensuring good workmanship and adherence to drawings, standards, specifications and acts of Law on all new projects

· Commissioning of completed engineering projects

· Tests and inspections (Test and tag )

· Ensuring high plant availability through timeous attention to both breakdown and planned maintenance

· Maintenance of cold store and plate freezers

· Maintenance of plant machinery and equipment such as knocking box, hide puller, chain conveyors and conveyor belts, cryovac machines, lidding machines, blast freezers, scales, coal fired boilers, drilling machines, condensers, pumps and associated electrical circuitry, variable speed drives, soft starters, PLC fault finding, star-delta, direct online

· Attending to break downs of plant machinery timeously to ensure minimum plant downtime and maximum machine availability.

· Maintenance of hydraulic and pneumatic circuitry including solenoid valves and sensors.

· Plant Planned Maintenance

· Training and supervision of apprentices and other junior staff.

· Application of and Ensuring proper use of the lock out tag out system, and generating the relevant reports to management

· Installation, repairs and maintenance to lighting and lighting circuitry

· Maintenance and calibrating of Checkweighers, scales, multi-head weighers

Electrician

Thomas Foods International (FMCG), Murray Bridge, South Australia
Adelaide, SA
07.2014 - 11.2014

· Breakdown Maintenance, Reactive Maintenance, Planned Preventative Maintenance, Repairing, Refurbishing electrical machinery and overhauling and replacing electric motors, transformers, cables, bus bars, variable speed drives and soft starters, sensors and all other electrical and electronic circuits and systems

· Plant Installation ensuring good workmanship and adherence to drawings, standards, specifications and acts of Law on all new projects

· Commissioning of completed engineering projects

· Tests and inspections (Test and tag )

· Ensuring high plant availability through timeous attention to both breakdown and planned maintenance

· Maintenance of cold store and plate freezers

· Maintenance of plant machinery and workshop equipment such as electrical grinding machines, drilling machines, cooling towers, pumps and associated electrical circuitry, variable speed drives, soft starters, PLCs, star-delta, direct online

· Attending to break downs of plant machinery timeously to ensure minimum plant downtime and maximum machine availability.

· Maintenance of hydraulic and pneumatic circuitry including solenoid valves and sensors.

· Plant Planned Maintenance

· Training and supervision of apprentices and other junior staff.

· Statutory duties of Health and Safety Representative as per OHS act

· Ensuring lock out system, and generating the relevant reports to management

· Installation, repairs and maintenance to lighting and lighting circuitry

Senior Electrician (Electrical Foreman)

RCL Foods (FMCG), Rustenburg Processing Plant, South Africa
Rustenburg, South Africa
05.2009 - 06.2014

· Breakdown Maintenance, Planned Maintenance, Repairing, Refurbishing electrical machinery and overhauling and replacing electric motors, transformers, cables, bus bars, variable speed drives and soft starters, sensors and all other electrical and electronic circuits and systems

· Leading and Supervision of the electrical maintenance team

· Design and modification of electrical circuitry to suit new and continuous improvement projects

· Plant Installation ensuring good workmanship and adherence to drawings, standards, specifications and acts of Law on all new projects

· Quality Assurance and Quality Control of ongoing projects, and Commissioning of completed engineering projects

· Arranging and overseeing tests and inspections on MV and LV switchgear, 11kv-380v stepdown transformers and transformer oil purification

· Ensuring high plant availability through timeous attention to both breakdown and planned maintenance

· Maintenance of tunnel freezers and spiral freezers

· Maintenance of plant machinery and workshop equipment such as electrical grinding machines, drilling machines, cooling towers, pumps and associated electrical circuitry, variable speed drives, soft starters, PLCs, star-delta, direct online

· Attending to break downs of plant machinery timeously to ensure minimum plant downtime and maximum machine availability.

· Maintenance of hydraulic and pneumatic circuitry including solenoid valves and sensors.

· Plant Planned Maintenance

· Training and supervision of apprentices and other junior staff.

· Statutory duties of Health and Safety Representative as per OHS act

· Inspection of the lock out system, and generating the relevant reports to management

· Interviewing and taking disciplinary action on subordinates when necessary to ensure objectives of the company are met.

Contract Electrician

Tutuka Power Station (An Eskom Electrical Power Generating plant), Standerton, South Africa
Standerton, South Africa
01.2009 - 04.2009

· Shut down Planned Maintenance

· Overhaul, cleaning, testing and setting overloads of Medium Voltage and low voltage switchgear such as Air Circuit breakers and contactors

· Cleaning and testing transformers for dielectric strength

· Checking that all electrical connections are tight and electrically sound

· checking the position sensors for the stacking machine at the ash Dumping site

· Running and securing HT cable

· Cable joining for MV cable

· Cleaning and testing of overhead cranes switchgear and circuits

· Cleaning and testing of pump station switchgear and circuits

· Repair and replacement of fluorescent and high bay discharge lights

Electrician ( Electrical Team Leader )

Dikuno Process Solutions (Foundry/ Smelter), Rustenburg South Africa
Rusternburg, South Africa
05.2007 - 12.2008

· Repairing, Ordering and inspection of new and refurbished spares such as electric motors, transformers, cables, bus bars, variable speed drives and soft starters

· Quality control Inspection of Contractors’ Workmanship to ensure adherence to drawings, national and international standards, specifications and acts of Law on all new projects

· Commissioning of completed engineering projects

· Arranging and overseeing tests and inspections on MV and LV switchgear, 11kv-380v stepdown transformers and transformer oil purification

· Ensuring high plant availability through timeous attention to both breakdown and planned maintenance

· Maintenance of plant machinery of electrical induction furnaces, molding machines, heat treatment furnaces, grinders, workshop equipment such as electrical grinding machines, drilling machines, cooling towers, water pump, oil pump and associated electrical circuitry, soft starters, PLCs, star delta, direct online

· Attending to break downs of plant machinery

· Maintenance of hydraulic and pneumatic circuitry including solenoid valves.

· Supervision of junior staff

· Interviewing and taking disciplinary action on subordinates when necessary to ensure objectives of the company are met

· Plant Planned Maintenance

· Switching HT up to 11kv

Senior Electrical Engineering Technician /Project Engineer

Public Works Department of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe
Harare, Zimbabwe
01.2002 - 04.2007

· Carrying out Electrical and Electromechanical Building Services designs for proposed new constructions and renovations.

· AutoCAD drawing, Production of Tender Documents including working drawings and bills of quantities supplementary Electrical Specification, Tendering and Tender evaluation and adjudication.

· Project Supervision and Management: Attending site meetings, Site Inspection and supervision of ongoing works, Checking Workmanship and Quality Control, Ensuring national and international Standards and site instructions are adhered to. Monitoring electrical and electromechanical equipment for maintenance planning purposes

· Supervision and training of junior staff and ensuring conformity of their work to national and international standards IEE, CAS, SAZ, SABS etc.

· Liaising with all stakeholders: Business correspondents with clients, Consulting Engineers, contractors etc. including some Government Departments and sponsoring NGOs.

· Commissioning and handover of completed projects

· Maintenance and refurbishment of organisational movable and immovable assets

Electrical Engineering Technician

Agrifoods Zimbabwe (Pty) Ltd, Harare, Zimbabwe
Harare, Zimbabwe
03.2001 - 12.2001

· Design and Installation as well as maintenance of electrical and electromechanical control systems, electrical motor starters, electrical lighting systems and power systems. Overhauling of electrical motors and electric motor drives. Repair and maintenance of AC and DC drives, Electro-pneumatic drives, Hydraulic circuits, solenoid valves, star delta direct on line and sequential starters, transformers, compressors, cooling towers, boilers, overhead cranes, limit switches, proximity switches, level sensors, divertors and sliding doors, contactors, lath machines, grinders and fans, tipping tables, furnaces and temperature controls, PLCs, AC and DC welding Machines etc

· Carrying out both planned and breakdown maintenance

· Supervision of Workshop staff and ensuring quality workmanship

Reporting to Maintenance Manager and attending Workshop Meetings

Electrician/Apprentice Electrician

Tube and Pipe Industries (Pty) Ltd, Harare, Zimbabwe
Harare, Zimbabwe
12.1996 - 01.2001

· Design and Installation as well as maintenance of electrical and electromechanical control systems, electrical motor starters, electrical lighting systems and power systems. Overhauling of electrical motors and electric motor drives. Repair and maintenance of AC and DC drives, Electro-pneumatic drives, Hydraulic circuits, solenoid valves, star delta direct on line and sequential starters.

· Supervision of apprentices(after qualification)

Education

Certificate IV (Electrical) in Instrumentation

TAFE
Qld
11-2020

Certificate IV (Electrical) in Hazardous Areas

TAFE
QLD
11-2020

Certificate II in Split Air Conditioning & Hazard

TAFE
QLD
11-2020

Bachelor of Science - Bachelor of Engineering Honours in Mechatronic

CUT
Harare Zimbabwe
11-2009

Associate of Science - Diploma in Electrical Engineering

Bulawayo Polytechnic College
Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
11-2001

Skills

  • Quality Management
  • Operational Analysis Expert
  • MatLab and Minitab Trained
  • Product Testing
  • Electrician Class One Artisan Trade Certification 2001
  • Queensland Electrical Mechanic Licence
  • Western Australian Electrical licence
  • South Australian Full Electrical Worker’s Licence
  • Apprenticeship training as an Electrician
  • Australian Recognized Trade Certificate- Electrician
    Open class C Driver’s License
    Work Safely at Heights RIIOHS204
    Standard 11 Generic induction
    Operation And Maintenance Of A 4 Wheel Drive Light Vehicle
    CPR/LVR
    ISO 9002 – Quality Awareness In-House Training Course
  • Safety Representative – Rainbow, Dikuno
  • Lock Out Tag Out Isolation responsible person – Dikuno, Rainbow, Teys
  • Electrical Safety Observer­ – Curragh Mine

Certification

South Australian Full Electrical licence

Queensland Electrical Mechanic Licence

Western Australian Electrical licence

Timeline

Electrical Engineer-Project Manager

Comlek Group
08.2023 - 10.2023

Electrical Leading Hand

Several Contracting Companies
04.2023 - 08.2023

Electrical Engineer-QA Lead

Valmec Australia
10.2022 - 04.2023

Field Services Engineer/Field Service Technician

Hexagon Mining, Dawson Mine, Moura, Queensland,
08.2021 - 02.2022

Electrical / Appliance Technician

QANTAC, Curragh mine, Backwater, Queensland, Australia
09.2018 - 08.2021

Electrical /Appliance Repair Technician

Hays Recruiting
02.2018 - 06.2018

Electrician

Teys Australia (FMCG), Biloela, Queensland, Australia
11.2014 - 02.2018

Electrician

Thomas Foods International (FMCG), Murray Bridge, South Australia
07.2014 - 11.2014

Senior Electrician (Electrical Foreman)

RCL Foods (FMCG), Rustenburg Processing Plant, South Africa
05.2009 - 06.2014

Contract Electrician

Tutuka Power Station (An Eskom Electrical Power Generating plant), Standerton, South Africa
01.2009 - 04.2009

Electrician ( Electrical Team Leader )

Dikuno Process Solutions (Foundry/ Smelter), Rustenburg South Africa
05.2007 - 12.2008

Senior Electrical Engineering Technician /Project Engineer

Public Works Department of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe
01.2002 - 04.2007

Electrical Engineering Technician

Agrifoods Zimbabwe (Pty) Ltd, Harare, Zimbabwe
03.2001 - 12.2001

Electrician/Apprentice Electrician

Tube and Pipe Industries (Pty) Ltd, Harare, Zimbabwe
12.1996 - 01.2001

Certificate IV (Electrical) in Instrumentation

TAFE

Certificate IV (Electrical) in Hazardous Areas

TAFE

Certificate II in Split Air Conditioning & Hazard

TAFE

Bachelor of Science - Bachelor of Engineering Honours in Mechatronic

CUT

Associate of Science - Diploma in Electrical Engineering

Bulawayo Polytechnic College
Kidwell Muzhingi