Marko Tokoda

Have worked with Flexco products for six years as a conveyor belt technician/structure fabrication and was promoted to a site leading hand position in 2021 to present date. Have the ability to work in both underground and surface mining environment, including platinum, gold, diamond and quarry mines; as well as cement and sugar processing plants. Have the ability to carry out installations of new conveyor belts, belt cleaners i.e. primary, secondary and plough cleaners; drive, tail, bend, and snub pulleys; impact, troughing and return idlers; belt scales; and lagging of conveyor pulleys.

Have the ability to fabricate conveyor idlers, chutes and design conveyor belt covers specially in food industry eg sugar processing plant.

Welder/Fabrication at Minepro Zimbabwe (2019-01 – Present)

A Conveyor belt and accessories Engineering Company in partnership with Flexco, composed of 50 employees.

• Pulleys lagging; idlers; belts cleaners; belt scales; impact beds; belt trainers; skirting boards and rubber, among other small Flexco accessories.
• Pipe and bend fabrication
• Erecting steel structures for conveyor belts as well as reading and interpreting engineering drawings.
• General fabrication and arc welding of chutes; troughing frames and drop brackets, including modifications by the use of various hand and power tools as well as equipment like oxy-acetylene, interpreting engineering drawings, Tig, Mig, Arc and Gas welding machine; cropper; profile cutter and hand held plasma cutter.
• Repairing tourism boat top decks (Aluminum welder) and Aluminum components repairing Automotive.

Leading hand at Minepro Zimbabwe (2021-01 – Present)

A Conveyor belt and accessories Engineering Company in partnership with Flexco, composed of 50 employees.

• Reporting to high level stakeholders during projects
• Working as a Site leading hand, leading and organising field service staff on various projects.
• Conveyor belt structure fabrication commissioning and handover to client.
• Carrying out chute modifications to suit the new installation.
• Structural design development leader.

Welder/Fabricator and Sheet metal work at LDL Fabrication (2018-01 – 2020-09)

Manufacturing of KAY4 ARMOUR BULL bars, Tourism vehicles design/body restoration, Trailer manufacturers, Sheet metal work designs, Vessel (Aluminum, stainless and Mild steel) and Roof Structural work.

• Reading blueprints of structures design.
• Welding of Aluminum, Stainless, Mild steel Vessels.
• Rolling the sheet and bending pipes
• Sheet Metal roof gutters
• Trailer manufacturing
• Truck body rebuilding
• Water tanks Trailer manufacturing
• General machining and Lathe Milling
• Use of workshop manual tools.
• Tig, Mig, Arc welding machine operating
• Oxy-acetylene torch, cutting and brazing.

Certificate in Class 1 Boilermaker/Plater/Welder (Journeyman) – Ministry of Manpower (2022-10)

Certificate in Metal works (Welding, Structural work, Pipe work and Sheet metal work) – Driffontein Training college (2015-01 – 2017-12)