Maintenance Engineer with specialization in preventative and corrective maintenance of mining equipment. Proven expertise in execution, planning, scheduling, reliability engineering and condition monitoring. Demonstrated success in maintaining both fixed plant and ultra-class mobile mining equipment.
Overview
4
4
years of professional experience
4
4
Certifications
Work History
Maintenance Engineer
FQM Trident Limited
Kalumbila, Zambia
07.2025 - Current
Hands-on artisan experience executing preventive maintenance activities on large mining haul trucks (Komatsu 960E, 860E, HD785, and Liebherr T284).
Hands-on artisan experience executing preventive and breakdown maintenance activities on ancillary equipment (Komatsu D375, D475, WA500, WA600, WA900,GD825 and Volvo A40F).
Worked as an artisan in the execution of major maintenance shutdowns on the following Komatsu machines: 960E, HD1500, and HD785. Dump truck, water truck, and service truck, respectively.
Established and continuously updated fleet-wide machine health reports detailing flagged defects, open work orders, condition-monitoring insights, and failure trends to support informed decision-making.
Delivered quarterly presentations to management on maintenance processes, and improvement opportunities.
Reliability Engineering Intern
First Quantum Minerals (Kansanshi)
06.2024 - 06.2025
Condition Monitoring: Implement condition monitoring techniques on critical assets in the plant, i.e. Mills, Pumps, Conveyor systems, Crushers, Floatation systems, CCDs and Tails Lines. The techniques mentioned above include: Vibration Analysis, Oil analysis, Thermography, Visual inspections.
Shaft Laser Alignment: Conduct alignments on newly installed or repositioned components especially motors pumps and gearboxes.
Downtime Validation: Conduct downtime validation meetings alongside section engineers to make sure all automatic system downtimes recorded are accurate and updated with the correct reasons. This inputs into departmental KPIs.
Preventive Maintenance Task Reviews: Review available preventive maintenance tasks for Crushing, milling, floatation and tails sections and update them accordingly with latest findings from condition monitoring analysis results and running inspection recommendations.
Report Writing: Prepare various reports such as failure analysis reports, condition monitoring reports and running inspection reports with recommendations.
Conducted research projects to identify opportunities for improving equipment efficiency: Carry out research projects and propose value adding solutions to reduce equipment downtime and increase availability and productivity during planned production time.
First Quantum Minerals (Kansanshi) is a mining company that mines and processes copper. It is located in the North Western province of Zambia.
Product Support Engineer
Redspot Intertrade Limited
03.2022 - 06.2024
Offered Technical Support assistance to customers and internal teams on product related technical issues, troubleshooting, and maintenance.
Participated in testing and quality assurance tasks for all products leaving the workshop to various customer sites to ensure that all our works met the industry standards and customer expectations.
Coordinated and attended field service support visits with field service technicians to provide technical expertise and support to customers either on request or scheduled.
Managed warranty claims, repairs and returns, ensuring timely resolution and customer satisfaction. I also served as a primary point of contact for customers addressing concerns, and providing product information as well as all after sale support services.
Collaborated closely with internal teams such as sales, workshop and warehouse personnel to ensure effective product support and customer satisfaction.
Prepared component service schedules for all components we rebuilt and sold especially during the warranty period.
Prepared reports such as failure analysis reports, machine service reports, inspection reports and component conversion reports.
Redspot is a Zambian owned company that deals in the repair and sale of earthmoving equipment components and spares. Their majority clientele are in the mining, agricultural and construction sectors.