Felix Jenkins
Bulawayo
Summary
Dedicated professional prepared to bring extensive expertise and results-oriented approach to Specialist role. Known for effectively managing tasks and supporting organizational goals through collaborative efforts and adaptive strategies. Recognized for excellent communication and analytical skills, ensuring seamless operations and consistent outcomes.
Overview
41
41
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
HME Specialist (Welding Structural)
Endeavour Mining
10.2024 - Current
- Followed all company policies and procedures to deliver quality work.
- Improved customer satisfaction rates through proactive problem-solving and efficient complaint resolution.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to achieve project goals on time and within budget.
- Implemented new training programs for staff, leading to higher employee retention rates and better overall performance.
- Repair & Rebuild Equipment, Boom, Stick & Superstructure Rebuilds.
- Bucket Repairs & Rebuilds
Structural Engineer
CongReman
04.2023 - 09.2024
- Prepared presentations outlining proposed designs to customers and incorporated feedback into final plans.
- Assisted drafters in developing structural design of products using drafting tools or computer-assisted design (CAD) or drafting equipment and software.
- Completed accurate engineering calculations for weights, loads, and other metrics using both manual and digital methods.
- Traveled to build sites to collaborate with construction personnel and to confirm compliance with design parameters and regulations.
- Collaborated with multidisciplinary teams to ensure seamless integration of structural components within overall project designs.
- Evaluated existing structures for needed improvements or retrofits based on current codes, safety requirements, or client needs.
- Monitored implementation of necessary safety and redundancy principals in design and construction of new structures.
- Reduced construction costs with value engineering techniques and innovative material selection.
Maintenance Supervisor (Structural & Welding),
CAPITAL MINING
07.2022 - 03.2023
- Company Overview: Sukaru Gold Mine
- Supervision of Mechanics, drill fitters, boilermakers and the Maintenance of Shovels, diggers, drills, graders, dozers and mechanical equipment
- Plan and distribute current workload in the team to ensure deadlines are met
- Coordinate and lead team meetings
- Ensuring the production of High quality and zero defects
- Drive a culture of continuous improvement
- Plan and coordinate shutdowns
- Sukaru Gold Mine
- Promoted a safe working environment by enforcing strict adherence to safety policies, procedures, and guidelines.
- Boosted team productivity with comprehensive training on safety procedures, work instructions, and best practices.
- Enhanced equipment reliability by implementing preventive and predictive maintenance programs.
Coordinator Mobile Maintenance (Welding, Fabrication & Machining)
AGOLD
02.2019 - 06.2022
- Company Overview: Bonikro Mine
- Work closely with the Management team to ensure maximum operational effectiveness and minimum downtime
- Plan and distribute current workload in the team to ensure deadlines are met
- Plan the timely delivery of work in line with HSE and quality assurance requirements
- Prepare and write reports as required
- Coordinate, attend and lead team meetings
- Responsible for ensuring the production of high-quality product and zero defects
- Drive a culture of continuous improvement
- Maintain & Repair Haul Trucks, Excavators, Dozers
- Plan & Co - Ordinate Digger shutdowns PCR,s
- Bonikro Mine
General Manager
JF Electricals & Fabrication
07.2018 - 01.2019
- Supervision of 25 Fitter/Welders, 3 Sandblasters, 2 Burn table operators and up to 6 laborers
- Responsible for overseeing Fabrication and Welding with Military, Aerospace and Wind Turbine contracts
- Daily inventory of all material, parts and welding supplies that included gasses to ensure no down time or delays
- Monitor all employees for proper safety practices and PPE
- Review time sheets and work schedules and address as needed
- Adjust working hours and assign over time as needed
- Monitored welders, equipment and paperwork to make sure procedures were being followed
- Performed inspections, Counsel employees and follow ups as needed to include verbal and written warnings
- Re arranged staging and holding areas to improve workflow and create more room
- Supervise the building and installation of a positioning fixture for one of the Sub Arc stations which decreased handling of the part by 75% and increased manufacturing in that cell by 1/3%
- Assisted with setting up the 5S program and did random inspections to ensure continuing improvement in the various departments
- Worked with Robotic Sub Arc operator and QA dept
- To get an approval to increase weld wire diameter which decreased weld passes by 50% and improved production for that part by 25%
Maintenance Co - Coordinator (Senior)
Casmyn Mining Zimbabwe
12.2015 - 01.2018
- Reporting to the Mobile Equipment Maintenance Manager, solely responsible for the maintenance of a fleet of 17+ trucks and other mobile equipment, with a team of regional supervisors, technicians, and third-party vendors, to ensure maximum fleet availability of the mobile equipment
- Contributed to the overall efficiency and productivity of our fleet of 777D Trucks & Excavators through effective preventative and corrective maintenance programs
- Boosted availability and reduced downtime by continually researching and implementing the latest tools, equipment, and Planning
- Reduced turnaround times and saved $100,000/month through steadfast development of standardized procedures
- Substantially improved existing procedures and enhanced the QA process while establishing open lines of communication with management
- Ensured all safety procedures were followed and all records maintained and updated
- Ensure all welding was done to AWS procedures, keep all records of work and corrections for customers
- Send welders for weld test in all 5 weld positions G2, G3, G4.G5
- G6
- Fabricate and install new truck trays, 777D, s Boom repairs on CAT, LIEBHERR, O&K, SHOVELS Bucket repairs
Senior Shift Maintenance Supervisor / Acting Mobile Maintenance Superintendent
DISCOVERY METALS
01.2011 - 01.2015
- Led and managed Mobile Maintenance team & responsible for executing maintenance plans
- Executed Operational maintenance activities based on equipment maintenance strategies
- Oversee Maintenance activities such as preventive maintenance, equipment repairs, maintenance tools, training and employee rotation
- Direct supervision and QA/QC for maintenance tasks and backlog completion
- Developed and implemented best practices, processes, policies and systems within mobile maintenance that align with the organization's goals maximizing operational efficiencies
- Liaised with mine operations and other departments to ensure equipment downtimes are coordinated effectively in such a way to achieve the company's production targets
- Operating cost control and budget management
- Set priorities, performance targets and measures, monitor and manage the overall performance of direct supervising staff
- Safety leadership in mobile maintenance activities: Conducted safety meetings, safety inspections and hazard recognition taking actions to prevent injuries or loss to production
Supervisor Shovels & Draglines
P & H Mine Pro Australia (Joy Global)
01.2000 - 01.2010
- My duties included managing up to 50 employees, both welders and machinists, in all day-to-day operations
- I coordinated with our Safety Department on a constant basis, in instituting and maintaining best safety practices in the weld shop
- Coordinated with our Quality Control Department to ensure the weld shop maintains the highest quality standards
- Day to day coordination with our planning personnel in establishing and maintaining customer driven deadlines, as well as tracking costs associated with individual jobs in the weld shop
- Responsible for interfacing with a large customer base to ensure that their needs and expectations are met with the highest level of performance and delivery
- Some of my other duties included job quoting, coordination with management in the implementation and maintenance of continuous improvement projects in the weld shop and establishing an employee development plan for each of my direct reports
Boilermaker/Welder
Minel Engineering
01.1997 - 01.1999
- Company Overview: Chinhoyi, Gwanda, Mashonaland
- Carry out all boilermaking work underground and surface
- Fabrication of king post, Granby cars, innovation and design New type scrapper for ore pass, fabricate grizzlies, tip ramp, haulage boxes
- Commissioned new A RYN shaft at Golden Kopji Mine from collar down to 850 ml
- Equipped shaft with palm bolts and bunttons, bridal for cages and skips
- Construction and erection of new headgear
- Contract work on furuka oil and fuel pipe line and bulk storage tanks, welded pipes and preinstalled tanks and welded into position, then flushed all pipe work using pig
- All welding x rayed
- Equipped out 250 ml haulage with new haulage boxes, water pipes, air pipes and ventilation system
- Designed and experimented a new counter weight system for waste shaft which was installed
- Fabricated new conveyor from A RYN shaft to mill
- Fabricated vibrating screens and commissioned
- Fabricated new settling tanks with racks for Vuba Chekwe Gold Mine
- Fabricated new 4 ton skips for incline with bridal at Vuba Chekwe
- Fabricate and commission new flask system for rock skips at Golden Kopji Mine
- Chinhoyi, Gwanda, Mashonaland
Boilermaker/Welder
Shakelton Mine
01.1989 - 01.1995
- Company Overview: Chinoyi Mashonaland
- Boilermaking underground and surface
- Fabrication of chutes, fans, bridals, cages 30 man, and rock skips 10 ton, slimes dam pipes, flutes, cyclones and maintenance day to day bases
- Chinoyi Mashonaland
Boilermaker/Welder Apprentice
Mangula Copper Mine
01.1984 - 01.1988
- Company Overview: Mangula, Mashonaland
- During my apprenticeship I learned how to fabricate, read plans, weld, gas cut, gouge, pipe and plate development
- From square to round we learned weight formulas and Pie and formula for marking out holes and pipe development
- In my 4 years I fabricated pipes, chutes, and fans and balanced cages, skips, LHD buckets, cyclones, and flotation cells with paddles, haulage boxes, Granby cars, flasks, crushers, vibrating screens, conveyors, camel backs, tipping ramps, loading chutes, haulage boxes, cyclones and fans
- Also learned how to use cropper, guillotine and bending brake, rolls, Straight line cutter, lazy eye, lathe, milling machine, line borer, gas brazing, submersible arc, silver soldering
- Different types of welding, cast iron, stainless steel, aluminum, hard face
- Mangula, Mashonaland
Education
Degree In Mechanical Engineering -
Skills
- Development and Implementation of Standard Operating Procedures
- Maintenance Operating Procedures
- CMMS Programs
- Component change outs
- Gear Boxes
- Transmissions
- Engines
- Electrical Schematics
- Equipment Fault finding
- Light Vehicles
- Mobile Equipment
- Fixed Plant Equipment
- Repair and preventative maintenance
- Proficient with SAP
- Proficient with PRONTO
- Ability to assess maintenance needs
- Ability to communicate with all levels in the organization
- Expert problem solving
- Analytical thinking
- Documentation management
- Quality assurance
- Management collaboration
- Advanced communication
- Proficient in [software]
- Technical communication
- Root-cause analysis
- Quality assessment
Desired Industry
Management
Desired Job Location
Any Where in Africa
Date Posted
11/30/22
Type Of Position
Full-Time Permanent/Contract
Availability Date
Immediately
Desired Wage
Neg
Job Level
Management Superintendent
Willing To Travel
True
Highest Degree Attained
Degree In Mechanical Engineering
Current Country Of Residence
Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
Currently Based In
Cairo, Egypt
Personal Information
- Willing To Relocate: True
- Nationality: Zimbabwean
Certification
Qualified Boilermaker
Degree (Structural Engineer).
Languages
English
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Timeline
HME Specialist (Welding Structural)
Endeavour Mining
10.2024 - Current
Structural Engineer
CongReman
04.2023 - 09.2024
Maintenance Supervisor (Structural & Welding),
CAPITAL MINING
07.2022 - 03.2023
Coordinator Mobile Maintenance (Welding, Fabrication & Machining)
AGOLD
02.2019 - 06.2022
General Manager
JF Electricals & Fabrication
07.2018 - 01.2019
Maintenance Co - Coordinator (Senior)
Casmyn Mining Zimbabwe
12.2015 - 01.2018
Senior Shift Maintenance Supervisor / Acting Mobile Maintenance Superintendent
DISCOVERY METALS
01.2011 - 01.2015
Supervisor Shovels & Draglines
P & H Mine Pro Australia (Joy Global)
01.2000 - 01.2010
Boilermaker/Welder
Minel Engineering
01.1997 - 01.1999
Boilermaker/Welder
Shakelton Mine
01.1989 - 01.1995
Boilermaker/Welder Apprentice
Mangula Copper Mine
01.1984 - 01.1988
Degree In Mechanical Engineering -
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