Jeremiah Daka

Team player, self-starter and prepared to work additional hours to achieve important deadlines. Self-motivated. Do effective work with no or minimum supervision. Goal oriented To Provide the Best Knowledge and Skills That Will Benefit Both The Employer and My Career.

Enthusiastic To Meet Challenges That

Boost my Expertise and Even Promoting My Technical experience and Firm Benefit.

To Work Under Stimulating Environment That

Allow Me To Employ Positive Skills That Will Serve The Company To Its Full Capacity.

Boilermaker – Senior Artisan - Myred Trading - South Africa

(2022-10)

• Leading subordinates in workshop operations
• Supervising Maintenance work and hands on fabrication
• Mining Equipment maintenance and repair
• Plant maintenance and preventative maintenance
• Leading mobile machinery maintenance boilermaking team
• Structural and Butt Welding (SABS, AWS, AS) standards
• Fabrication of Chutes and Hoopers (Mild and Stainless Steel)
• Structural Fabrication
• Tanks, Pipework and Platework
• Earth moving: Grader and Bulldozer repair and Maintenance
• Mentoring subordinates and apprentices
• Project tracking and execution
• Job planning and organisation
• Root cause analysis
• Risk Assessment and SLAM
• Isolation and lockouts
• MHSA and OSHACT coordination

Supervisor (Boilermaker) - Premier Foods - South Africa

(2016-02 - 2018-12)

Supervised boilermaking operations and coordinated maintenance activities for processing plant equipment.

• Coaching and motivating subordinates to be duty conscious
• Ensuring competence and high level of technocracy
• Ensuring plant efficiency and excellent performance
• Routine inspection and assessment of plant machinery
• Coordinating preventive and corrective maintenance
• Monitoring machine performance and operation
• Monitoring non conformities and incidents
• Quality control, job inspection and assessment
• Continuous improvement
• Invocom activities (TPM equivalent)
• Supervising training and mentoring of Apprentices
• Handling grievances and counselling workers
• Ordering and organizing Structural Fabrication material
• Hands on fabrication of Tanks, Chutes, Hoopers
• Platework, pipework and structures
• Plant equipment and installations
• Monitoring processing plant productivity
• Responding to breakdowns and downtime
• Coordinating risk assessments and RBI
• Ensuring availability and reliability of the plant
• Co-ordinating and Monitoring safety, health and Environment activities. SO/SANS45001
• ISO 9000 (doing things right first time)
• Assessing competence in SHE activities according to ISO (14000)

Boilermaker-Team Leader - VIVA Engineering - South Africa

(2012-01 - 2015-06)

Led boilermaking team and coordinated fabrication and maintenance activities with focus on safety and quality.

• Coaching and motivating subordinates to be duty conscious
• Leading boilermakers and welders
• Supervising Fettlers and quality control
• Handling grievances and counselling workers
• Ordering and organizing Structural Fabrication material
• Hands on fabrication of Tanks, Chutes, Hoopers
• Platework, pipework and structures
• Co-ordinating and Monitoring safety, health and Environment activities
• Assessing competence in SHE activities according to ISO

Industrial Attachment - Cochraine Engineering PVT LTD - Zimbabwe

(2003-04 - 2003-09)

Industrial attachment focusing on welding and boilermaking operations.

• Pipe welding using stick, tig and carbon dioxide welding processes
• Boiler shell welding using sub arc welding (heavy duty)
• Welding de-arators, air receiver and flues etc
• Gas welding and brazing
• Gouging and Oxy-acetylene cutting
• Marking out of boiler plates
• Rolling boiler plates using pyramid rollers
• Fillet welding multiple runs on heavy duty components
• Champhering of boiler plates using straight line and profile cutting machines

Apprenticeship Training - ZISCOSTEEL Mine and Mineral Processing - Zimbabwe

(2000-02 - 2004-02)

Apprenticeship training in boilermaking and welding with exposure to mining equipment fabrication and maintenance.

• Stick welding (mild steel, stainless steel, bronze, copper, cast iron and cast steel)
• Tig welding (mild steel, stainless steel and aluminum)
• CO2 welding (mild steel)
• Sub arc welding (mild steel)
• Gas welding (mild and galvanized steel)
• Brazing
• Welding of Earthmoving Equipment: Dozers and Service and Dump Trucks, Overhead and Mobile Drill Rigs, DHH and Utility Vehicles
• Developments in boilermaking
• Structural fabrication
• Maintenance of Mining Plant and Steelmaking Plant
• Manufacturing
• Earthmoving equipment: Dump Truck, Bulldozers, Excavators, Mobile Crane, Drill Rigs

National Certificate - Fabrication Engineering - Bulawayo Polytechnic

National N Diploma - Engineering Studies - Mechanical Engineering (N4, N5 & N6) - Unknown

Mechanical Engineering - Plant Engineering and OSHACT - GCC

GCE Ordinary Level - Mathematics, Integrated Science, Commerce, English Language, Agriculture - Unknown