Mawande Ndhlovu

Experience

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  ZEISS Group

  Mar 2019 - Feb 2020

  Trainee Technician

  • Provide after sales support to all Zeiss Medical Technology and RMS products.• Attend emergency call outs, resolve and report.Perform maintenance, installation and debugging Zeiss Medical Technology and RMS products.• Technical troubleshooter for ophthalmic, ophthalmic surgical and surgical medical equipment.• Technical troubleshooter for light microscopes, laser scanning microscopes, imaging systems, scanning electron microscopes.• Commissioned Medical Technology and RMS equipment.• General administration work, filling the service book, report writing, stock taking and cleaning.• Exposure to basic networking, routing and pigging. Show less

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  Tiger Brands

  Oct 2020 - Dec 2020

  Process Optimization Engineer

  •Responsible for analysis, management, problem solving and continuous improvement of manufacturing process.• Drive overall loss reduction and lead technology innovation to enable market competitiveness and margin growth.• Prepare new project CAPEX’s.• Monitored and reported on Overall Equipment Efficiency.

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  AVI Limited

  Jan 2021 - Nov 2023

  • Provided process design support for automation projects.• Supported automation projects commissioning and ensured they conform with NBL Automation Standards. • Ensured all automation and control backups are kept orderly, with swift availability in case of a software failure.• Spearheaded backups procedures and ensured they are adhered to.• Ensured OEM remote support is functional and facilitated preventative maintenance measures via periodic testing.• Streamlined improvement on NBL automation standards and ensured they are adhered.• Maintained automated industrial equipment (Industrial network, switches, HMI’s, PLC’s, client PC’s). • Supported maintenance with automation breakdowns.• Researched and applied principles and theory of electrical and instrumentation circuits. Show less • Improved control and automation standards and ensuring they are adhered to.• Developed control and automation software (Particular for Mitsubishi and Siemens).• Revised and improved management of automation documents (Manuals, diagrams, instrument data sheets, software packages).• Supported production with operation tasks, provided control system technical support.Assisted artisans with PLC, HMI and drive fault finding and configuration.• Commissioned automation and control projects, ensured adequate training and development for end users. • Supported projects department with electrical, control and instrumentation.• Assessed, revised and ensured proper automation and control spares management.• Ensured automation and control backups are current and proper backup procedures are in place.• Advised on automated equipment requiring upgrades.• Audited site control and automation components (PLC, HMI and Drives).• Attended and resolve automation and control breakdowns, spearheaded Root Cause Analysis and provided recommendations to reduce.• Set up product check cameras on machines.• General administrative activities associated with leadership position, engineering and project management. • Assist maintenance on planned maintenance and shut-downs. Show less

  • Junior Electronic Engineer

    Jan 2023 - Nov 2023

  • Electronic Engineering Graduate

    Jan 2021 - Dec 2022
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  PROXA Water

  Dec 2023 - Mar 2024

  Junior Control and Instrumentation Engineer

  • Developed, optimized and maintained control and automation software.• Maintained plant control systems.• Supported plants with operation tasks, provided control system technical support and identified improvement opportunities.• Monitored plant control system health and performance. • Troubleshoot and debugged control system software bugs. • Troubleshoot process instrumentation errors. • Commissioned automated projects.• Exposed to ignition SCADA programming.

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  Greenro Solutions

  Jul 2024 - now

  Control and Instrumentation Technician