Erasmus Vermeulen
Clive,New Zealand
Overview
24
24
years of professional experience
Work History
FITTER
SHARK ENGINEERING
10.2022 - Current
- Site work – maintenance and repairs and refurbishments on equipment and parts
- Ensure that work is carried out according to technical drawings and specifications
- Breakdowns and completing repairs in a timely manner to minimize productions’ downtime
- Mechanical Fitting
- Assisting in design and building of small to large Meat Processing and rendering plants.
OPERATIONS & PROJECT MANAGER
POWELL ENGINEERING
02.2018 - 10.2022
- Jointly assisting in the design and building of small to large Meat Processing and rendering plants
- Site work – maintenance and repairs and refurbishments on equipment and parts
- Ensure that work is carried out according to technical drawings and specifications
- Breakdowns and completing repairs in a timely manner to minimize productions’ downtime
- Mechanical Fitting
- Rebuild pumps and gearboxes
- Excellent problem-solving skills.
MAINTENANCE FITTER
NAPIER ENGINEERING & CONTRACTING
02.2016 - 02.2018
- Mechanical Fitting and Turning
- Site work – maintenance and repairs
- Checking and ensuring quality on all equipment and workmanship
- Problem solving by generating practical solutions
- Have been working as sub-contractor at Hawkes Bay Proteins since January 2017, where I have been overseeing the maintenance of the plant as well as acting 2IC
- Some of my duties and responsibilities, but not limited to are: Ensuring plants and associated equipment are maintained, inspected, and repaired according to companies’ standards
- Managing and maintaining consumables
- Attending breakdowns and carrying out repairs in a timely manner to ensure production can go ahead without losing valuable time
- Permits – Working at Heights, Confined Spaces, Forklift License
- Full driver’s license.
Self Employed – Owner
LIZMAR ENTERPRISES
07.2008 - 11.2015
- Various contracts within the mining and manufacturing industry throughout South Africa, Zimbabwe, Maputo, and Lesotho.
mAINTENANCE AND MECHANICAL TECHNICIAN
Tongaat Hulett Starch / African Products (SOUTH AFRICA)
01.2000 - 01.2008
Skills
- Extensive experience in the Rendering Industry, dryers, rotary joints, and separators
- Repairing, Servicing and installations of silo’s, conveyer belts, gearboxes, and motors
- Hydraulic Systems and equipment overhauling and fault finding
- Stripping, Fault finding and repairing machinery, pumps, and gearboxes
- Extensive skills in formal fault finding, diagnosis and defect elimination techniques
- Pumps – Pneumatic, Centrifugal, Gear, Mono and Piston
- Boilers – Coal fired and Gas boilers
- Valves – Steam, Water, Slurry and Pneumatic
- Air fans – Induced and Forced Draughts
- Drive Motion Transmission – Belt, Gear, Chain and Fluid drives
- Mine Hoists – single drum up to 200hp
- Sewerage Treatment – Sewerage pumps mixers, Air blowers and Clarifiers
- Boiler mountings and Auxiliaries
- Machining – Lathes, Milling machine, Shaper, Grinders, Drilling machines, Surface grinder, Precision Grinding (internally and externally) and confident with a veneer and mics
- Extensive experience in management/supervisory and planning skills which I obtained during my career, and I confidently operate at a senior level
- Working directly with operations and production departments on instructions and feedback on breakdowns and giving qualitative solutions on rectifying problem areas
- ISO quality inspector – committed to maintaining health, safety, and environment standards
- Comprehensive knowledge of Risk Management
- Read and planning direct from technical drawings and specifications
Personal Overview
A trade certified Engineer with specialist training and certification for the Mining Industries infra structure maintenance and operations, with excellent machining and design manufacture skills for replica and bespoke manufacture of machinery parts. Extensive experience in new installations and recondition work on factories, rendering plants, slaughter floors, food processing factories, meat plants and sawmills. As a disciplined individual, I am passionate about my ability to contribute to a varied trade and apply my multiple skills to the benefit of the business. While maintaining focus of the team objective to complete the project, I am equally confident working independently and at Senior Level. I am confident that my acquired skills and abilities in this trade can be leveraged by my future employer to the benefit of the organisation.
Courses And Permits
- Working on Heights
- Vessel Entry / Confined spaces
- Forklift license
- Certificate in Operating JTB Coal Fired Boiler
- Certificate to Operate Counterbalance Forklift (1 Ton)
- Product Training – BP Industrial Certificate
- Certificate of attendance – Wilden Pump Maintenance Course
- Certificate of Training in Lifting Equipment to operate Rough Terrain Truck (3 Ton)
- Certificate – Health and Safety Representative Development Training
- Certificate – Safe Permit to work Training Course – Initiator of Permits
- SASOL GAS: Pipeline Gas Safety Training Certificate
Personal Qualifications
Qualified Fitter and Turner 1996 (Metal and Engineering Industries Trade Board)
References
REFERENCES CAN SUPPLIED ON REQUEST
Timeline
FITTER
SHARK ENGINEERING
10.2022 - Current
OPERATIONS & PROJECT MANAGER
POWELL ENGINEERING
02.2018 - 10.2022
MAINTENANCE FITTER
NAPIER ENGINEERING & CONTRACTING
02.2016 - 02.2018
Self Employed – Owner
LIZMAR ENTERPRISES
07.2008 - 11.2015
mAINTENANCE AND MECHANICAL TECHNICIAN
Tongaat Hulett Starch / African Products (SOUTH AFRICA)
01.2000 - 01.2008
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