Andries Masekwa

Experience

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  ArcelorMittal South Africa

  Mar 2004 - Apr 2009

  Shift Millwright

  Carry out corrective maintenance on Electric locomotives, Tipplers, coal charging cars, pushers, oven gas reverse machines, coal stacking and re claimers, and coal conveyors.Maintenance on gas plant, cooling towers,flue gas exhaust/extractors, precipitators, chilling plant.

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  PFG Building Glass

  Aug 2006 - Jan 2007

  Day shift Millwright
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  Sedibeng Brewery

  Apr 2009 - Jan 2015

  Responsible for maintenance of Electrical installations of bottling and packaging lines, performing PM activities weekly on the line, Trending performance of the machines by collecting data of all electrical related errors and breakdowns, and come up with action plan to eradicate the recurrence of electrically related failures of equipment by using problem solving tools like RCFAs (5 why methods, countermeasures, and motivations). Assist with development of SOPs Couch Operators on operation, cleaning, Lubrication, tightening and inspections on INSPECTION & CODING MACHINES. Couch shift technicians on faultfinding of complex electrical circuits like Asi circuits, Safety circuits,profibus networks.Participate on problem solving deployments adopted by TPM problem solving methodologies. Elected as a safety representative of the engineering department for two years. Show less

  • Automation Specialist

    Jan 2012 - Jan 2015

  • Maintenance Technician(Electrical)

    Apr 2009 - Jan 2012
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  Sedibeng Heineken Brewery

  Jan 2012 - May 2016

  Automation Specialist

  Responsible for maintenance , projects, troubleshooting , failure analysis , quality assurance(Analysis of customer complains), problem solving to insure reliability on the following INSPECTION AND CODING equipment .1. Empty bottle inspectors(EBIs).2. Full bottle inspectors(checkmats)3. Laser and ink coding equipment (Domino Vediojet).4. Pack weigher (weighing scales).5.Bottle orientation machines6. Empty crates and full crates inspectors.RESPONSIBLE FOR PACKAGING HALL AUTOMATION.In charge of software and hardware components related to automation like PLCs, automation PCs Touch screens, Asi circuits, servo drives controllers , profibus and Ethernet networks , programs backups of all machines(s7 programs, zenon, dart etc).Coaching of Technicians and Operators. Part of problem solving Teams adopted by TPM (Kaizens)Insuring reliable functioning of production processes like CIPs,Pasteurization , Bottle washing. Bottle filling, labeling , packaging and packing. Show less

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  Heineken SA

  Jun 2016 - Oct 2017

  Snr Technician(Electrical & Automation)

  Serve as a second line of defense during production run, to insure that breakdowns downtime is at minimum as possible.Analyse and insure that breakdown repairs are done in a way that they will not recur.Participate in Technical meetings.Responsible for maintenance , projects, troubleshooting , failure analysis , quality assurance(Analysis of customer complains), problem solving to insure reliability on the following INSPECTION AND CODING equipment .1. Empty bottle inspectors(EBIs).2. Full bottle inspectors(checkmats)3. Laser and ink coding equipment (Domino Vediojet).4. Pack weigher (weighing scales).5.Bottle orientation machines6. Empty crates and full crates inspectors.RESPONSIBLE FOR PACKAGING HALL AUTOMATION.In charge of software and hardware components related to automation like PLCs, automation PCs Touch screens, Asi circuits, servo drives controllers , profibus and Ethernet networks , programs backups of all machines(s7 programs, zenon, dart etc).Coaching of Technicians and Operators. Part of problem solving Teams adopted by TPM (Kaizens)Insuring reliable functioning of production processes like CIPs,Pasteurization , Bottle washing. Bottle filling, labeling , packaging and packing. Show less

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  The HEINEKEN Company

  Jun 2017 - now

  • Automation Engineer

    Oct 2017 - now

  • Automation Manager

    Jun 2017 - now