Willie Gauche

Experience

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  Anglo Gold Ashanti

  May 1990 - Feb 2007

  Senior Electrician and Chargehand

  Maintain, repair and improve all electrical equipment and switchgear found on a modern gold plant i.e. Mills, crushers, conveyor belts ,boilers, kilns, arc furnaces, thickeners actFault finding on LV/MV electrical circuits and switchgear. Assist and relieve electrical foreman in his duties as the charge hand and senior electrician.

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  Samquarz

  Feb 2007 - Apr 2010

  Electrical and Instrumentation Foreman

  Starting an electrical department for a mine that did not have a separate Electrical department. Ensuring compliance to COP’s, MHSA standards. Leading and training a new team of electricians to achieve targets of the company by developing improved maintenance strategies, introducing new technologies and improving existing installations, to ensure availability of all electrical installations.

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  SamQuarz Silica Mine

  Apr 2010 - Jan 2016

  Mech Foreman

  Planning, organizing and leading a diverse team of artisans and assistants to maintain all equipment found on a metallurgical plant i.e. crushers conveyor belts, feeders, screens, vsi’s,driers,compressors,pumps etc. to achieve company targets. Identifying and resolving failures on equipment by improving type and quality of maintenance.

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  Minopex

  Jan 2017 - Mar 2018

  GES