Andries Masekwa

Andries Masekwa

Shift Millwright

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  • About me

    Automation Engineer @ The HEINEKEN Company | Industrial Automation | GCC | Electrical Engineering | Projects | Inspection & Coding | Managements | Legal compliance | Industrial 4.0 | warehouse Management| MES | Grafana

  • Education

    • Wits business school

      2013 - 2014
      Excecutive education Future Leadership development Program
    • CTI Education Group

      2012 - 2014
      Information Systems (Engineering)
    • Sedibeng College

      1999 - 2002
      National N diploma(Electrical) Electrical, Electronic and Communications Engineering Technology/Technician National Diploma
    • Vaal University of Technology

      2003 - 2006
      Electrical and Electronics Engineering
    • Eduvos

      2024 -
      Project Management

      Advanced Project Management

  • Experience

    • 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.

    • PFG Building Glass

      Aug 2006 - Jan 2007
      Day shift Millwright
    • 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
    • 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

    • 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

    • The HEINEKEN Company

      Jun 2017 - now
      • Automation Engineer

        Oct 2017 - now
      • Automation Manager

        Jun 2017 - now
  • Licenses & Certifications

    • Government certificate of competency for engineers

      Department of labour(DoL)
      Nov 2017
    • Isntallation Electrician(wiremans licence)

      Department of labour(DoL)
      Jun 2015
    • Creating Great First Impressions

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      May 2025
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    • Hiring and Developing Your Future Workforce

      LinkedIn
      Jun 2022
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    • Creating a Product-Centric Organization

      LinkedIn
      May 2025
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