Sarel Smuts
Wellington,WGN
Summary
Dynamic and results-oriented professional with extensive experience in metal fabrication and welding. Excelled in project completion, surpassing quality expectations with proficiency in blueprint interpretation and safety control. Demonstrates exceptional teamwork and a keen ability to prioritize job orders, ensuring operational excellence.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
Work History
Fabricator Welder
Atco steel and Engineering
Lower Hutt, Wellington
11.2022 - 11.2024
- Studying blueprints, drawings, and specifications to determine job requirements.
- Selecting, cleaning, and preparing metal stock.
- Cutting marked-out metal sections and shapes using hand tools, flame-cutting torches, and metal-cutting machines.
- Shaping and bending metal sections and pipes using hand and machine tools, and by heating and hammering.
- Aligning parts to be joined using hand tools and measuring instruments.
- Joining metal sections using various welding techniques, bolting, and riveting.
- Examining welds for width of bead, penetration, and precision.
- Finishing products by cleaning, polishing, filing, and bathing in acidic solutions.
- Cleaning and smoothing welds by filing, chiseling, and grinding.
Supervisor Boilermaker/Pipefitter
ERD Fab
Sasolburg, Sasolburg
03.2013 - 02.2021
- Performed fit-up and weld-out of various structural and piping members.
- To include low- and high-pressure piping,
- Accomplishments included that all jobs were completed on time and met or exceeded quality assurance expectations and requirements.
- Install heating and cooling coils.
- Install and maintain water and steam distribution piping, and control equipment.
- Draw layouts, and read and interpret blueprints and
drawings. - Perform general sheet metal work as required.
- Weld using arc, gas, and spot-welding techniques.
- Assist in directing the work of apprentices.
Boilermaker
Universal Rigging and Moving
Sasolburg, Sasolburg
03.2005 - 02.2013
- Performed fit-up and weld-out of various structural and piping members
- To include low- and high-pressure piping, accomplishments included that all jobs were completed on time and met or exceeded quality assurance expectations and requirements.
- Install heating and cooling coils.
- Install and maintain water and steam distribution piping, and control equipment.
- Draw layouts, and read and interpret blueprints and drawings.
- Perform general sheet metal work as required.
- Weld using arc, gas, and spot-welding techniques.
- Assist in directing the work of apprentices.
Skills
- Job order prioritization
- Fabricating and welding
- Measurements
- Material prepping
- Installation and maintenance
- Hand and power tools
- Safety control
- Fabrication
- Assembly techniques
- Blueprints and specifications
- Metal fabrication
- Measurement tools
- Inspection procedures
- Power tool operation
- Blueprint interpretation
- Hand tool usage
- Surface preparation
- Welding and fabrication
- Machinery operation
- Pipe cutting
- Pipefitting
- Piping layout
- Worksite safety
- Pipe bending
- Cutting and threading
- Industrial piping
- Material cutting
- Piping specifications
- Material selection
- Pressure testing
- Pipe fabrication
- Piping installations
- Construction installations
- Blueprint analysis
Timeline
Fabricator Welder
Atco steel and Engineering
11.2022 - 11.2024
Supervisor Boilermaker/Pipefitter
ERD Fab
03.2013 - 02.2021
Boilermaker
Universal Rigging and Moving
03.2005 - 02.2013
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