Saw Doctoring Manager - STEVEN'S LUMBER MILLS
(2020-11)
- Over seeing all saw shop work
- Adhering to safety, health and housekeeping standards
- Managing saw shop personnel and time shifts
- Ordering saw shop consumables and managing stock levels
- Training and helping saw shop personnel to maintain band saws, circular saws, frame saws knives and profile cutters
- Setting changing schedules for all saws in the chipper line, frame saw line; band saw line and dry mill cutters and knives
- Maintaining and coming up with planned maintenance schedule of all saw shop machines
- Supervising saw shop personnel making sure saw shop stick to high quality products
- Stellite tipping
Saw doctoring Manager - Hans Meresnky Singisi Products- Langeni Sawmills
(2019-02 - 2020-10)
- Managing all saw doctoring activities and personnel
- Tensioning band saws
- Tensioning circular saws
- Changing patterns on multirip machines
- Maintenance of all segments for the chipper line
- Changing anvils for the hoggers
- Changing hogger knives
- T.C. tipping side dressing, topping, and sharpening
- Band saw swaging
- Welding band saws and annealing and grinding
- Sharpening and balancing of planer knives for dry mill
- Changing cutters at the dry mill
- Sharpening finger joint cutter and other profile cutters
- Managing stock and consumables
- Ordering of non stock consumables
- Managing budget
- Managing saw shop personnel and time shifts
- Disciplining saw shop personnel
- Responsible for safety and house keeping
Saw doctoring supervisor - A.G Muller (Ringkink saw mills)
(2009-05 - 2019-01)
Reporting to the saw doctoring manager
- Benching frame saws i.e., tensioning leveling and checking the back
- Sharpening frame saws, swaging and shaping (setting)
- Tipping circular saws, side dressing and sharpening
- Tensioning circular saws for multi-rip and double logger
- Benching wide band saws, swaging and sharpening
- Band saw benching, welding, swaging and sharpening
- Supervising saw changing on the band saw line
- Ordering consumables only
- Training all of the saw shop personnel
- Supervising all saw shop work
- Monitoring safety and health standards
Saw doctor - Jo-Da Sawmills - Warburton, Ermelo
(2009-01 - 2009-04)
Reporting to the saw mill manager
- Leveling and tensioning of circular saws up to 1000mm diameter
- Sharpening T.C tipped saws and spring sets
- Sharpening woodmizer blades and setting
- Joining woodmizer blades through oxy-acetylene overlap brazing, and forging
Saw shop foreman - Durawood Products
(2003 - 2007)
- Supervision of all saw shop work
- Setting planner blades on cutter blocks
- Benching circular saws up to 1.500mm diameter and tipping
- Sharpening tungsten carbide tipped saws
- Sharpening profile cutters
- Maintaining band saws, both wide and narrow
- Sharpening planner blades
- Maintaining Lucas circular saws for mobile saw milling
- Maintaining woodmizers blades for mobile saw milling
- Managing and ordering consumables
Apprentice - Forestry Industries Training Center (F.I.T.C-SADC)
4 year apprentice program
- Health and safety
- Use and care of hand tools
- Circular saw benching, sharpening and setting
- Frame saw benching, sharpening and setting
- Band saw benching, swaging, sharpening and stellite tipping
- Saw blade changing
- Band saw welding and brazing i.e. MIG welding, oxy acetylene welding, tooth replacement and build up
- Cemented Tungsten Carbide Tipping and grinding i.e. Oxy acetylene tipping and induction tipping
- Stellite tipping and grinding
- Straight knives sharpening and horning i.e. veneer knives
- Profile cutter development and maintenance
- Saw milling fundamentals
- General machine alignment
- Plywood production fundamentals
- Saw shop management i.e. resource management – consumables, saws, cutters, equipment machines and personnel
