Abram Maema

Experience

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  Samancor Chrome

  Dec 2011 - Jan 2012

  Vacation Work Student

  I was on a vacation work student in the Engineering, and worked on the fluid coupling conveyor project. The coupling was a connection between the motor. The project was successfully done and submitted as my Practical Experience work for my degree.• Risk assessment development for maintenance activities around the conveyors• Conveyor plant inspections• Crusher plant inspections• Report developments for crusher plant and conveyor plant inspections

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  Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd

  Feb 2014 - Jan 2024

  Responsible for boiler plant which contains combustion system (combustion air fans, flue gas induced draft fans, milling plant, and light up system), boiler cleaning system (Flue gas condition and cleaning system, submerged scraper conveyor system, and soot blowing system), and pressure parts (water walls, super-heaters, re-heaters, economizer, boiler circulating pumps, steam drum, high pressure piping system and valves).• Ensuring compliance to SHEQ systems, OHS Act and other industry applicable legislation.• Critical spares management.• Maintenance contract management.• Management of OPEX budget.• Analysis of the performance of plant and systems.• The optimization of technical and economic performance of the plant.• The development of inspection and testing schedules• Providing technical advice and assistance.• Management of plant modifications and Engineering projects.• Managing spares availability and assisting maintenance department with planned activities.• Ensuring that the plant has enough spares for running maintenance and outage maintenance.• Provision of acceptance criteria for maintenance activities.• Life of a plant planning and ensuring that there are resources allocated.• Root cause analysis of plant failures, incidents and occurrences.• Regular HIRA and FMECA analysis on the boiler plant.• The co-ordination of inputs to design, testing and other technical activities from suppliers.• Development of maintenance strategies.• Carrying out equivalence studies of replacement spares.• Consultation service on maintenance problems/ defects.Reporting• Quarterly boiler plant health reports.• Plant availability status.• Plant limitations.• Boiler light up difficulty strategic plans.• Boiler operation difficulty strategic plans.• Project plan status.Projects • Fuel oil gun and 5-way valve replacement• Burner tilting mechanisms analysis• Oil gun atomizer head firing and re-circulation analysis Show less • Power station operating philosophies, plant layout, purpose, basic principles and detailed understanding of auxiliary plant, boiler plant, turbine plant, electrical plant, and process plant.• Risk assessment with maintenance department.• Corrective maintenance planning.• Preventative maintenance planning and execution.• Monitoring repeat plant failures and planning corrective maintenance execution.• Boiler plant critical spares management.• Performing RCFA on the boiler tubes.Projects • SO3 plant process design calculations.• Electrostatic precipitator hoppers outage maintenance activity management.Reporting• Operating training report• Maintenance training presentation and report• Engineering training presentation and report• Soot blower plant health status Show less

  • Boiler Plant Engineer

    Nov 2015 - Jan 2024

  • Assistant Boiler Engineer

    Feb 2014 - Oct 2015
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  Sappi

  Jan 2024 - now

  Senior Engineer: Maintenance (Utilities)