Plant operator - Sasol
(1999-07 - 2001-03)
- Starting and stopping equipments and unit sections outside
- Taking plant readings and samples
- Maintaining house keeping and ensuring safety
- Reporting defects in a controll room
- Ensuring equipment effeciency
- Standby duties for contractors onsite
Process Controller - Nampak paper mill
(2007-12 - 2015-03)
- Starting and stopping the machine sections outside and on dcs
- Monitoring the process on dcs and making corrective actions
- Compiling shift report and reporting defective equipments to maintainace dept
- Approving leaves and training
- Ensuring safety; ISO14000 and 18000 compliance
- Ensuring set production target is met, minimiźing down time and quality of the final saleable paper
- Batch starch blending and cooking
Senior plant operator - Talbot and talbot/ Grace water solutions
(2018-11 - 2023-03)
- Taking plant readings and samples
- Lab Analysis of waste water
- Compiling daily metrix shift report
- Updating safety file and ensuring conformance of treated waste water to municipality stream
- House keeping
- Ensuring safety
- Approving leaves and specific training schedule
- Ordering chemicals and keeping levels within reasonable limits
- Optimising chemical dosages and avoiding losses
Inservice Trainee - Potch city council (water purification plant)
(2004-05 - 2005-06)
- Cleaning inlet screens
- Optimising chemical dosages eg chlorine, ferric chloride, alum
- Cleaning settling tanks and manually disludging when neccessary
- Rapid sand filter back wash at the correct intervals
- Lab analysis of raw and final water for turbidity, ph and conductivity, free and total chlorine
- Monitoring the reservoir levels on a telemetric device an free chlorine down stram
