Mbutana Katiso

Instrumentation and Control Mechanician with significant experience providing installation, support, and repair a wide variety electrical and pneumatic instruments. Adapt in different instrumentation and applications including flow, level meters, valves, analysers, temperature as well as performance inspections, maintenance preventative, breakdown.

Background in project management and a history of working closely and effectively with colleagues to develop and test innovative concepts.

Instrumentation Mechanician / Artisan - Omnia Fertiliser

(2025-12)

• Maintenance, calibration, and troubleshooting of process instrumentation within fertiliser production plants
• Operation and maintenance of belt weighers, feeders, and conveyor systems
• Working with Schenck weighing systems to ensure accurate and reliable material measurement
• Fault finding on control systems, instrumentation loops, and field devices
• Preventative and breakdown maintenance to ensure plant availability and safety

Instrumentation Mechanician - Arcelor Mittal SA (Vanderbijlpark) - Vanderbijlpark

(2016-01 - 2025-11)

Perform fault-finding and knowledge of hmi/Scada and PLC on all measurement and control loops that incorporate the above instrumentation.

• Check and monitor every critical instrument including Rollers, level transmitters, PH meters, temperature transmitters, and flow meter, Chillers, compressor, Auto drain system, Conveyor belt scales.
• Rapidly responded to equipment failure and implementing immediate repairs. Perform maintenance, troubleshooting via PLC (SCADA main server).
• Perform preventative maintenance, field repairs including replacing the transducer For any signals being transmitted and diagnosing faulty transmitters.
• Performed daily inspection of plant instrument including Scales, product printers, rejects and door safety switch to ensure that they are working optimally.
• Resetting, operating and control of burner including configuration of the respective ratio.
• Execute assigned breakdown and opportunity maintenance tasks and complied to breakdown repair/opportunity maintenance schedule.
• Complete evaluation and modification of control emergency tire systems, resulting in increased system efficiency and safety.
• Project / of installation ,wiring and commissioning.
• I work at BOF (basic oxygen furnaces) whereby liquid iron is processes and turned into liquid steel we use Rosemont analyser to analyse the gas removed from the furnaces to prevent explosions. I do maintenance on the analyser by changing the samples filters calibrations and making sure that is not leaking.
• Calibration of hardy scales on the over head cranes , bunkers and silos. Also the dynamic weighing calibration of Ramsey belt scale.
• Update of instrumentation schematic drawing and instruments calibration records
• Order spears on SAP system, confirmation of job cards , PEP notifications and timesheet update
• Work with burners such as multi-function burners, tundish burners. ladle burners and torpedo burners.
• Experience with big integrated water plant that maintains supply and distribute de-mineralised and industrial water to plant water optimisation.
• Maintain the fire system) and report the faulty one to tire department, repair the plant cameras and thermal imaging system Participation in standby and over as requested.

Red seal instrumentation Mechanician (Industrial and Process Control Artisan) - Instrumentation - Arcelor Mittal SA (2016-03)

N3 - Electrical Engineering (Instrumentation) - Jungerger TV El College (2011-09)

N4 - Electrical Engineering (Instrumentation) - Jungerger TV El College (2017-03)

N5 - Engineering Studies (2026-04)

Grade 12 Senior Certificate - Mohloli Secondary School (2006)