A Plant Control Room Operator, Metallurgical Services Technician and Laboratory Technician who have extensive background in crushing, screening, hydro-milling, froth flotation, thickening, filtration, and tailings disposal unit operations, gold leaching, adsorption and smelting
Professional Competences
1. Preparation and analysis of metallurgical plans.
2. Project management and reviewing of plant operations.
3. Ensuring optimum output from each work station.
4. Good analytical skills.
5. Report writing and preparation of daily, weekly and monthly budget
Employment and Experience
Quality Control Inspector: Vishnu co SA Metal Group Cape-town February 2015-March 2016
1. Impurity identification and analysis.
2. Corrosion, fatigue and chemical analysis of scrap.
3. Phase separation process design and piloting.
Control Room Operator: Steelmakers March 2013 -December 2014
1. Monitor all aspects of kiln plant via SCADA, trends and operator inputs making adjustments to pressure, temperature and flow rates.
2. Identify and troubleshoot process equipment, process problems and work towards solutions.
3. Perform coal sampling activities and conduct laboratory coal analysis test.
4. Monitor computer systems for safe and efficient operation.
5. Input data into excel spreadsheets and access database to keep records of all daily activities.
Laboratory Technician: Sabi Gold mine November 2012- March 2013
1. Conduct laboratory test-works, collect routine solution samples on the leach pads and do routine tests on carbon (size consists, density and gold adsorption)
2. Conduct ore size distribution and moisture tests.
3. Conduct routine test-works such as leach tests, floatation tests and monthly inventories of concentrates and chemical in both the Met Lab and Plant site store room.
4. Readout company policy and Safety Health and Environment procedures daily to subordinates as a constant reminder so as to increase awareness.
Metallurgy Technician: Impala Platinum -Mimosa Division January 2010- December 2012
1. Carryout mineralogy and Met Lab test works (crushing, milling, flotation, thickening and clarification).
2. Laboratory analyses of grades by fire assay (cupellation), Inductively Coupled Plasma Optical Emission Spectrometry and X-Ray Florescence.
3. Process audits to evaluate equipment performance against design/target requirements this will culminate in updating of PFDs and PIDs and subsequent action plan to address places or equipment identified as bottlenecks.
4. Writing technical reports for process audits, closure reports for process trials and trouble-shooting test-works and motivation reports for new projects or trials.
5. Budgeting for process consumables and control through accounting, controlling and reviewing material usages.
6. Statistical analysis of plant data using regression, graphs, cusum charts and reviewing SCADA historical trends to identify opportunities for process optimization and continuous improvement.
