Brian Chingobe
Solwezi
Summary
Experienced maintenance and asset care professional with over 15 years of dedicated expertise in maintaining plant machinery at peak operational levels, ensuring maximum productivity. Adept at analyzing and strategizing, I possess a unique ability to align the maintenance requirements of plant machinery with dynamically changing production schedules, ensuring seamless operations and efficiency. My approach integrates deep technical knowledge with a keen understanding of production demands, making me a valuable asset in optimizing plant performance and sustainability.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Planning & Reliability Engineer
First Quantum Minerals
Solwezi
07.2022 - Current
- Collaborate with the Area Superintendent and Maintenance Coordinator to plan maintenance work effectively; develop planning KPIs, optimize schedules, and review detailed plans for 1 year, 4 months, and 4 weeks.
- Implement and refine weekly maintenance plans, prioritizing critical tasks to enhance operational efficiency and equipment reliability.
- Conduct ICAM investigations and ensure timely resolution of arising issues.
- Oversee daily activities in the workshop, ensuring compliance with established policies and safety procedures.
- Manage and update inventories for all essential tools and machinery, providing regular status reports.
- Provide engineering support for in-house component refurbishment projects to adhere to OEM standards.
- Implement predictive and proactive maintenance systems to monitor equipment health and recommend actions.
- Initiate and execute innovative and cost-effective strategies with measurable financial benefits for the department.
- Offer engineering support for the installation, maintenance, and operation of project works, ensuring safety, efficiency, and network integrity.
- Review and update preventive maintenance plans for production equipment to ensure reliability.
- Develop new inspection procedures to increase equipment reliability.
- Perform root cause analysis to minimize production downtime events.
- Conduct failure mode effects and criticality analysis to identify and mitigate potential risks.
- Analyze data from predictive maintenance inspections to assess equipment health.
- Identify and implement improvements to maintenance processes for better efficiency.
- Develop strategies for spare parts inventory to reduce downtime due to part shortages.
- Coordinate with vendors to source parts for repairs or upgrades efficiently.
- Provide technical guidance to operations personnel on troubleshooting techniques.
- Develop and uphold comprehensive and up-to-date maintenance procedures for all related tasks, ensuring best practices are followed for safety and performance.
Mechanical Maintenance Planner
First Quantum Minerals
Solwezi
05.2014 - 07.2022
- Planning & Scheduling of weekly preventive maintenance tasks and work schedules that improve resource effectiveness by critically analyzing job man hours
- Collaborated with stakeholders to determine project requirements, scope, timeline, deliverables, resources required, and cost estimates.
- Developed detailed scopes of work for major equipment maintenance, such as the Crushers, Mills and Falcons
- Ensured the accuracy of the ERP Maintenance module database, task list, equipment history, spares lists, and Applied Parts Lists (APLs)
- Conducted Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA) on all, major equipment failures at the crushing and milling sections
- Developed and implemented the major mill annual shutdowns forecast in liaison with major stake holders
- Facilitated the selection of critical spare Rotables for use in the upcoming shutdowns
- Prepared and monitored the sectional yearly maintenance budget, contributing in ensuring that all expenses are within the allocated budget
- Analyzed trends in equipment maintenance needs, including breakdown, preventive maintenance, corrective maintenance, MTBF and MTTR
- Produced and reviewed Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for each period and took action to improve work carried out.
Maintenance Planner
Zambia Breweries Plc.
Ndola
08.2013 - 05.2014
- Scheduled machinery downtime for maintenance and repair with close reference to production schedules in consultation with manufacturing management and operators
- Generating plant performance reports for all equipment in the plant
- Developed reliability centered maintenance (RCM) schedules using Computerized maintenance management system (CMMS)
- Ensuring adherence to all safety, health and environmental regulations
- Ensuring optimum plant availability and reducing breakdown times
- Facilitating shut-downs and annual equipment overhauls.
Mechanical Artisan
Zambia Breweries Plc.
Ndola
08.2012 - 08.2013
- Performed root cause analysis of problems, documented faults in the tracking system and generated daily reports
- As Part of the planning team, determining and ranking effective work performance and procedures for each item/unit and apply good scheduling and understanding the cause of Equipment downtime
- Carried out Preventive and Breakdown maintenance on equipment such as: Pumps (KSB and Grundfos), Atlas Copco Compressors (ZR 160), (ZT 75), (ZR4), (GA 18), Ammonia Compressors (GEA GRASSO) and CO2 Compressors (Mehrer), Heat Exchangers, Conveyors (Chain, bucket and pneumatic), Boilers (Fire Tube type).
Artisan Fitter
Zambia Sugar Plc.
Nakambala
01.2012 - 07.2012
- Troubleshot, diagnosed and corrected faults in machines and equipment
- Recorded all job details and work completed in works orders
- Replaced faulty in-line valves and flanges on the juice and steam pipe line system
- Participated in the refurbishment of juice heaters and clarifiers.
Yard Controller
BP Zambia Plc. (Now Puma Energy)
Lusaka
09.2009 - 12.2011
- Supervised all the terminal operations which included receipt, storage and dispatching of petroleum products to customer sites
- Reviewed account reconciliations and journal entries and resolved discrepancies to maintain record and account accuracy
- Developed annual budget and compared actual expenses against projected budget
- Reviewed project related reports, collect and publish departmental KPI reports, analyze trends for performance and report for advise to the management team as and when required
- Trained contractors working in the depot to ensure high quality work conducted within HSSE standards
- Participated in contractor management plan to ensure that all the works carried out in the terminal adhere to the various company policies.
Education
Bachelors of Engineering (Hons) Mechanical Engineering -
Copperbelt University
01.2021
Diploma in Project Planning and Management -
The University of Zambia
01.2017
Diploma in Mechanical Technology -
Northern Technical College
01.2008
Skills
- Lean Maintenance (Six Sigma, DMAIC)
- Microsoft Office Suite (Project, Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
- CMMS Knowledge (Pronto, Coswin, Maximo)
- Professional Report and Presentation Development
- Data Analysis and Solution Formulation
- Time Management and Task Prioritization
- Minimal Supervision Work Ethic
- Teamwork, Leadership, and Communication Skills
- Root Cause Analysis
- Technical Troubleshooting
- Continuous Improvement
- Preventive Maintenance
- Asset Management
- Maintenance Planning
- Team Collaboration
- Reading Technical Drawings
- Project Management
- Defect Tracking
Certification
- Registered Mechanical Engineer; ERB No...
- Professional Engineer; EIZ No...
References
References available upon request.
Timeline
Planning & Reliability Engineer
First Quantum Minerals
07.2022 - Current
Mechanical Maintenance Planner
First Quantum Minerals
05.2014 - 07.2022
Maintenance Planner
Zambia Breweries Plc.
08.2013 - 05.2014
Mechanical Artisan
Zambia Breweries Plc.
08.2012 - 08.2013
Artisan Fitter
Zambia Sugar Plc.
01.2012 - 07.2012
Yard Controller
BP Zambia Plc. (Now Puma Energy)
09.2009 - 12.2011
Bachelors of Engineering (Hons) Mechanical Engineering -
Copperbelt University
Diploma in Project Planning and Management -
The University of Zambia
Diploma in Mechanical Technology -
Northern Technical College
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