Sinenhlahla Mbatha

I am a dedicated and Mine-Read skilled Instrument Mechanician with hands-on experience in industrial instrumentation. I offer strong diagnostic abilities. I have a solid understanding of process measurements, and proven competence in installing, maintaining, and troubleshooting.

I am committed to safety, accuracy, and operational excellence, and I am seeking an opportunity in a progressive engineering or manufacturing environment where I can contribute to plant reliability, system optimisation, and continuous improvement, while further advancing my technical expertise.

Instrument Mechanician at 7 Stones Construction (Pty) Ltd. Anglo American - Kumba Iron Ore (Kolomela Mine) (2026-03 – Present)

• VSDs installation, wiring, programming and commission
• Pressure transmitters, sensors installation and wiring and commissioning
• Wiring high pressure pumps
• Installation of flow valves

Assistant (Artisan) / Instrumentation Mechanician at Arcelor Mittal Newcastle Works – Mill (Billet Mill, Rod Mill, Bar Mill and Medium Mill) (2024-03 – 2025-07)

• Understanding of safety, company rules and regulations, housekeeping and also first aid
• Ensure correct installation of temperature, flow and pressure
• Impulse line installation and maintenance
• Repairing faulty instruments and performing calibrations on the plant developing loop diagrams
• Working with temperature instrument (Thermocouple and RTD)
• Fault finding on instrument panel
• Reporting to plant breakdowns and fault finding on the plant doing prevention maintenance and also walking about
• SAP (ordering spares, sign off job cards, creating job cards/notifications) performing functional testing on instruments before plant start-up installation of piping and wiring of instruments
• Reporting to team leader/foreman on tasks done and general day planning of maintenance
• Performing proof testing on Safety Instruments and Systems or Emergency Shutdown System
• Experience in calibration of FL-Smith batching scales as well as Ramsey Micro-tech 2000 belt scale
• P&Ds and loop diagram
• Panel mounting, cable running and installation of instruments
• Experience in calibrating scale a weigh motion static scale, weigh hooper, wheatstone bridge, belt scale, tippler
• Experience in working with cameras
• Furnace maintenance
• Testing load cells
• Flow measurements, temperature measurement, control, calve I/P's and regulator, intercommunication equipment, conductivity measurement furnace

Gender Officer at Majuba Tvet College (2019-03 – 2020-03)

Cashier / Packer at Woolworths (2016-10 – 2018-05)

Reason for leaving: Went back to pursue my studies

Senior Certificate in Matric – Velangaye High School (2009)

Engineering Studies Certificate in Instrumentation Mechanician N2 to N6 – Majuba Tvet College (2019-01 – 2025)

Trade Test in Instrumentation Mechanician (Industrial Instrumentation and process control & mass measurement) – Majuba Training Centre (2023-04 – 2024-02)

Trade Test in Instrument Mechanician – Newcastle Training Centre (2023-04 – 2025-11)