Daniel Evans

Over the past year, I have been training as a Field Service Technician. I now have fundamental skills, understanding and excellent experience of the tech side of the machinery.

I have learnt so much in this period and am competent in many aspects of the the technician work which further adds to my knowledge and experience of 6 the years on mechanical installs.

I learned all aspects of the role from an intense kiwi season covering all packhouses in the B.O.P. I then travelled to the U.S.A and and covered Tech and Mech pre season duties and tech installs. Mostly on my own where I put all training and experience together.

I have covered all kinds of service work in this time, which includes;

• Commissioning of Boxfiller and Carton handling lines
• Spectrim installs
• Pre Season Calibrations and Auditing.
• Full experience of kiwi season issues across all of B.O.P
• PC upgrades
• Tech boot camp course and Spectrim Training

First 2 years I covered all machine and peripheral equipment at workshop. Since becoming fully competent with all machinery I have spent the large majority of my time with the company on installs. I have covered all aspects of the job, from production, service and install.

At the workshop, I would build machines to time frame given, report quality issues. Create methodical ways of working. Have full use of workshop tools and equipment. Use all in house systems for reporting issues, finding parts, research drawings. Have covered the Project Leader role many of times at the workshop so have excellent understanding of all processes within production.

On installs, I have covered all area of this side of the job too, from laying down floor plans of the build to the commissioning of the machines once completed. Have been Project Leader on numerous installs completing full installs in NZ and overseas. I have managed teams, worked with customers and dealt with contractors. I have full mechanical knowledge on all our products.

Between projects and installs I have covered plenty of service work on the machines. Using all experience from site and workshop builds, have excellent know how on how to take apart, service and rebuild all machinery that we do.

Initially starting as an agency worker in 2008, then onto Tata employment in 2010. Within 5 years I progressed to the Senior Operator role and stand in shift Team Leader. The plant was a heavy industry job working under COSHH and COMAH regulations.

My duties here included taking team briefings and shift plans. Attend planning and update meetings. Complete in depth shift reports. Using SAP operating system for logging plant data and task performances.

As a plant operator my role was to make visual inspections on mechanical and electrical components, conveyor belts, large machinery and monitor production screens. Always having to be on standby for calls to investigate problems, relaying messages to the correct people and organising workload priorities on faults found through radio and face to face communications.

As a strand senior operator I was the responsible controller of everything on the plant. Controlling the operations of a complex process using multiple PC’s in a high pressure environment. Continuously monitoring dust emissions, temperature & quality control.

The main responsibility of this role was to ensure plant was run in a safe and efficient manner, dealing with continuing phone calls and radio messages from other plant operators, management and other departments. This role involved computer skills in the operating system, constant decision making and writing up reports. As a team we worked well and efficiently to deliver 7500 tonnes of sinter per shift to the furnaces without breaching our emission control targets and deliver the sinter to the correct specification. Working with ores and minerals and understanding chemistry lab results and make any alterations required. In this process the safety of personnel is fundamental making this a high pressure job which provided me with great job satisfaction.