Daluxolo Mtebele
Principal Technician (Supervisor Instrumentation and Control)
About
Experienced Instrumentation and Control Principal Technician with expertise in PLC programming, SCADA systems, HMI development, and industrial automation. Proficient in multiple PLC platforms (Siemens, Schneider Electric, Mitsubishi, GE FANUC, Toshiba, Delta, WAGO) and SCADA systems. Skilled in electrical drawings, network systems, and plant maintenance with strong project management capabilities.
Experience
Principal Technician (Supervisor Instrumentation and Control) - City of Cape Town - Cape Town, South Africa
(2012-01)
Water and Wastewater Engineering maintenance department. Responsible for supervising technicians, managing maintenance operations, and overseeing instrumentation and control systems across multiple water and wastewater treatment plants.
- Ensuring all work protocols are followed, conducting safety inspections and promoting a culture of safety among the team.
- Manage Maintenance team and ensure all tasks are carried out effectively.
- Manage contractors on site to ensure they meet legal and company requirements.
- Writing PLC application software using control philosophies, algorithms and flow charts by using IEC standards
- Carrying out Preventive Maintenance Programme to ensure all scheduled activities are being carried out timeously and effectively.
- Complete all Work Orders generated in SAP and generates reports as necessary for the maintenance work done.
- Draw and analyze electrical drawings and P&ID for fault finding using CAD software
- Maintains and updates operating and training manuals and software backups for the maintenance department.
- Overseeing the quality of work performed, conducting inspections and ensuring that all work meets the required standards using ISO 9001 (Quality)/14000 requirement (Environment).
- Maintenance of PLC and DCS, Maintenance and calibration of field instrumentation (pressure, flow, level, temperature), SCADA and HMI upgrade projects
- Supervising Technicians, Coaching, and ensuring full compliance with OHS Act.
- Timeously and appropriately responding to equipment system failure using dedicated diagnostic and programming tools and available on standby for emergence breakdowns.
- Carrying out of planned maintenance schedules through regular equipment check and drawing of reports from various electronic devices and software such as SAP.
- Diagnose plant and equipment problems (fault finding) using PLC, Scada, HMI's and identify opportunities to modify, upgrade, improve or replace equipment and spares
- Adhere to daily and weekly checks to ensure smooth operation of site and reduce downtime.
- Ensure that critical spares and consumables are available.
- Fault finding PLC, HMI, Instrumentation, SCADA and PLC Networks – Modbus Plus and Industrial Ethernet.
- Optimise equipment according to standard procedure, enhancing performance and product quality.
- Reprogramming of SCADA & PLC Projects application software using various dedicated programming tools.
Technician (Instrumentation and Control) - City of Cape Town - Cape Town, South Africa
(2010-01 - 2012-01)
Water and Wastewater Engineering maintenance department.
Electronic Technician - Fast Fire Security Systems Pty - South Africa
(2009-04 - 2009-11)
Electronic security systems industry. Resigned for better offer.
- CCTV, Servicing Fire alarms systems, programming fire control systems Projects, installations and public Address Systems and installations
- Servicing Intercoms and access control Projects
Electronic Technician - Intens Engineering Solutions Pty Ltd - South Africa
(2007-09-03 - 2009-03-31)
Railway Systems industry, Transport Solutions department. Retrenched.
- Assembling, testing, fault-finding and installing, maintenance and commission of integrated communication system Projects, electronic information display boards and public address systems for rail industry
- Testing and faulty finding of electronic cards used for electronic display boards
- Install and commissioning of back-up systems (U.P.S) Projects for ICS electronic system
Control Systems Technician - H&J Automation cc - South Africa
(2006-04 - 2007-08)
Instrumentation and Control projects (PLC, HMI & SCADA). Resigned for better offer.
- PLC and SCADA system programmer and project management
- Wire-ring electrical Panels and installations of Electrical Projects
- Design electrical drawings using turbo cad software
- Installation, fault-finding and maintenance of electrical and electronic equipment on site
Electronic Technician - Fire Spec Systems Pty - South Africa
(2005-11 - 2006-03)
Electronic security systems industry. Resigned for better offer.
- CCTV & Servicing Fire alarms systems projects, programming fire control systems and installations
- CCTV & Servicing public Address Systems projects and installations
- Servicing Intercoms and access control projects
Control and Instrumentation Technician - Lodicon cc - South Africa
(2003-11 - 2005-05)
Instrumentation and Control projects (PLC, HMI & SCADA). Contract expired and business was slow.
- Wire-ring electrical Panels Projects and installations
- Design electrical drawings using Turbo Cad software
- Installation and Projects commissioning, fault finding and Maintenance of electrical and electronic equipment on Factories
- PLC, HMI and SCADA system programming
Education
National Diploma - Electrical Engineering, Majoring Electronic - Walter Sisulu University of Technology (2000-01 - 2004-01)
High School Diploma - Ngcinibuzwe Senior Secondary School (1996-01)
