Overview
Work History
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Colin Fuller

Careys Bay, Dunedin,OTA

Overview

47
47
years of professional experience

Work History

Fitter Machinist.

Farra Engineering.
05.2025 - Current

Part of the fitting team.

Liaising with customers.

Working to high safety protocols.

Overhead crane servicing and maintenance and repair.

Biomass boiler maintenance and repair.

Building Maintenance Unit (BMU) construction/fitting.

Hydro Work, always in teams:

MIV (manual intake valve) removal, reconditioning, testing and reinstalling.

Overhauling control gate lifting winches and servicing associated mechanical equipment.

Works Engineer.

Giltech Precision Castings Ltd.
09.2002 - 05.2023

Giltech was a non ferrous foundry and machining facility which I had the privilege of being the works engineer.

Working with customers.

Organising christmas maintenance shut downs which included: organising contractors, ordering parts and materials to be on site and ensure safety of the contractors.

All aspects of factory and plant maintenance.

Building and emissions compliance.

Quality assurance.

Plant records.

Tool making.

Induction furnace maintenance and instalation.

Design and building of machinery, jigs and equipment.

Power tool maintenance.

Emissons control and monitoring.

Maintenance and overhaul of conveyors, pumps, transmissons, factory extraction, plumbing, pneumatics, compressed air, hydraulics, machine tools, apliances, central and portable diesel heating heating, presses, shot blasters and numerous other pieces of plant and equipment.

Owner/Operator

Allied Mechanical Engineering.
06.1994 - 09.2002

All aspects of running a business, including book work, invoicing, budget, planning and organising.

Liaising with customers.

Factory and plant engineering and maintenance.

Machine design and building.

Hydraulics.

Pneumatics.

Bearings.

Machining.

Lubrication.

Vehicle hoist sales, installation and service.

Maintenance Engineer

Methven Tapmakers
06.1985 - 05.1994

Factory and plant maintenance:

Maintenance, diagnostics and reconditioning of machine tools including super precision class bearings and lubrication systems.

Design and build jigs and machines.

Maintenance of factory central heating units which ran on 220sec fuel oil.

Bearing maintenance and installation including bushes, spherical bearings, unversally paired angular contacts, precision and super precision.

Gearbox work, pump work, rootes blower work, induction furnace work.

Machining of new parts.

Fitter and Turner.

Paterson and Poland Engineers.
05.1978 - 06.1985

Factory and plant maintenance.

Liaising with customers.

Working autonomously and in teams.

General engineering.

Manual machining.

White metal bearing casting, machining and scraping.

Var Spe and Carter Gear reconditioning.

Compressed air installation, service and reconditioning.

Compressed air reticulation.

Pneumatics, design, installation and service.

Power tool servicing and repair.

Steam cleaner and water blaster servicing and repair.

Light fabrication.

Timeline

Fitter Machinist.

Farra Engineering.
05.2025 - Current

Works Engineer.

Giltech Precision Castings Ltd.
09.2002 - 05.2023

Owner/Operator

Allied Mechanical Engineering.
06.1994 - 09.2002

Maintenance Engineer

Methven Tapmakers
06.1985 - 05.1994

Fitter and Turner.

Paterson and Poland Engineers.
05.1978 - 06.1985
Colin Fuller