Peter Mungai

Self-driven process operator looking to obtain a challenging career where I can utilize my academic background and resourceful experience in time management, troubleshooting, reliability and striving to go beyond to deliver what meets the needs and expectations of my employer. Excellent team player with eventual career goal to become a fully qualified and experienced Process operator.

Process Technician at Manebu Industries Rwanda (2025-11 – 2026-02)

• Pre-Startup Activities System Inspection and Punch Listing: Walking through the plant to check that all piping, vessels, and instruments are correctly installed according to P&IDs (Piping and Instrumentation Diagrams)
• Cleaning and Testing: Participating in blowdown and flushing of pipes to remove debris, and assisting in pressure testing to check for leaks
• Testing pumps, motors, and automated systems to ensure they work properly before introducing raw materials
• Safety Procedures: Implementing Lockout/Tagout (LOTO) protocols to isolate equipment safely while the Engineers perform final work
• Controlled Startup: Starting up machinery and equipment according to new procedures, monitoring temperatures, pressures, and flows to ensure safe startup
• Troubleshooting: Identifying and diagnosing early operational problems, such as faulty valves, malfunctioning instruments, or process leaks
• Working with engineers to adjust and calibrate computerized control systems (e.g., DCS or PLC) for optimal performance
• Carrying out the pre-operational activities
• Caustic solution preparation (maintaining a baume of range 48 to 50)
• Silicate solution preparation and operating the silicate digesters and conducting the quality check on the solution before it's transferred to the storage tank
• Draining water and sludge from the oils storage tank later heating the oil maintaining a temperature range of 55-65 degrees
• Monitoring the quality of the intermediate products and the final product
• Liaising with the maintenance department incase there is a breakdown
• Conducting routine checks on the machines after every shift
• Maintaining inventory

Process operator at Mount Meru Millers limited (2024-03 – 2025-01)

• Conducting pre commissioning checks on plant piping, instrument cabling, gasket fitting where they are missing and ensuring that all the flanges are well bolted and tightened
• Colour coding of pipes
• Carrying out the pre-operational processes of raw materials ie draining of sludge or water, pre-heating of fats, caustic dissolving
• Establishing standard operating procedures for operation
• Training junior employees on soap production processes
• Ensuring that all the safety devices are properly fitted and are in good working condition (safety valves, limit switch)
• Maintenance of various process equipment ie Lubrication of gear box and fitting of gaskets, mounting of valves, pumps installation
• Plant start-up and plant shutdown as per the SOP
• Liaising with the head of the department on issues pertaining production to avoid wastage of raw materials and utilities
• Monitoring quality of the immediate product and final product to avoid packaging of non conforming products
• Initiate work request for maintenance in case of equipment/instrument failure in coordination with fellow Operators and the Head of the department
• Carrying routine checks on the equipment on daily basis
• Carrying out pressure test on new line after fabrication (heating coils for raw materials)
• House keeping

Process Operator at KAPA OIL REFINERY (2017-12 – 2023-01)

• Monitor and control process parameters in soap, utilities, and offloading of fats
• Take timely remedial actions in case of process alarm's or plant upset due to equipment failure, ensure safety of the plant and the personnel
• Troubleshoot and diagnose process upset in process units and Equipments
• Initiate work request for maintenance in case of equipment/instrument failure in coordination with fellow Operators and the shift supervisor
• Follow-up work permits, take equipment/instrument out of service for maintenance and taking it back in service after maintenance intervention
• Recording all activities that occurred during the shift
• In liaison with the offloaders of raw materials (fats, caustic, silicate), prepare necessary storage tank, pumping station and recording for each materials offloaded to the storage tanks
• Recording the raw materials loaded on trucks in cases where there is sales of the materials
• Assist shift supervisor in day-to-day activities by providing proper feedback and follow-up
• Reporting equipment malfunctioning directly to the shift supervisor
• Liaising with the production supervisor on issues related to production planning to avoid over production/under production of intermediate product hence avoiding wastage of raw materials and utilities
• Monitor the quality of the intermediate product and take necessary corrective actions when the lab analysis indicate deviation from standard norm
• Prepare daily production reports of important plant parameters
• Provide guidance to trainees/junior Operators and coordinate their activities in keeping with standard operating procedures and standing instructions complying to companies health and safety policy
• Responsible for starting and shutting down plant operations under normal conditions as well as under emergency conditions
• In case of emergency situation, take appropriate actions as per companies emergency procedures
• Safely shutdown the affected plant partially or totally
• Restore the plant to normal operating conditions safely and efficiently once the situation is normalised
• Contribute to The Health and Safety of the Working environment, cleaning the working and making sure it's free of hazards
• Prepare daily consumption sheets which indicates stock raw material/reconciliation of stocks at the end of the shift
• Tank filler: maintaining cleanliness on tank firm
• Maintaining right temperature for the raw materials (fats)
• Carrying out daily routine checks of temperature controllers
• Check of presence of any leaks on the storage tank and feed tanks, leakages of steam coils and reporting to the maintenance team if there is leakage
• Carrying out pre-operational processes on raw materials
• Carrying out quality management system audit

Intern at KAPA OIL REFINERY (2017-04 – 2017-06)

• Plant operation
• Monitoring, recording and maintaining plant parameters (pressure and temperature)
• Housekeeping practice
• Lab analysis - moisture analysis, Quality checking on the final products (Color uniformity)
• Physical appearance (softness, cracking and breaking), Nominal weight, branding and stamping of the soap, batch numbering, KEBS logo and the S-Mark
• Maintenance - Mounting of pumps/motors, replacing worn out gaskets, Equipment condition monitoring, unclogging the Steam pressure gauges, cleaning the machines/equipments

Cashier at Max land Restaurant (2017-02 – 2017-03)

• Taking customer orders at the counter
• Receive payment and present change to the customers
• Receive food checks from waiters and customers
• Ensure a balance of the register at the end of the shift/working periods
• House keeping

Attaché at Trans Mara Sugar Company (2014-09 – 2014-12)

• Handled troubleshooting and maintenance as well as monitoring and deployment of process equipment

Diploma in Chemical engineering – Nairobi Technical Training Institute (2013 – 2015)

Secondary – Tigoni secondary School (2008 – 2011)

Primary – Mubao Primary School (2005 – 2007)