Mwansa Chiyanda - Mechanical Engineer
Ndola
Summary
I am a Mechanical Engineer with Experience as Energy & Fluids (Utilities) and Packaging Engineer. I specialize in identifying and resolving issues related to energy systems, fluid dynamics and mechanically automated processes, ensuring the accuracy and safety of large-scale packaging and utility operations. My skills include diagnosing machine issues quickly and effectively to minimize production delays and understanding complex mechanical processes to ensure operational efficiency. I am committed to maintaining high standards of safety and precision while optimizing system performance and contributing to sustainable engineering solutions.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
Work History
Engineer Utilities (Energy & Fluids)
Zambian Breweries Plc - AB-Inbev
09.2022 - Current
- Implement safety standards by enforcing compliance with company policies and regulatory requirements in all maintenance activities and maintain zero injuries.
- Manage utilities maintenance operations and building facilities within planned budget
- Lead utilities team and ensure high resource utilization
- Ensure Improve equipment reliability, availability and product quality by implementing good maintenance practices and optimized reliability measures
- Coordinated annual overhauls as a subject matter expert on equipment specifications and maintenance requirements.
- Maintenance and Optimization of CO2, Water, Refrigeration, BTS, Air and Steam plants
- Ensure manufacturing systems and instrumentation integrity
- Ensure engineering standards and legal compliance
- Facilitate problem solving by using (DMAIC, SDCA, PDCA and ITF)
- Utilize CMMS programs to generate and analyze maintenance KPIs ( MTTR, MTBF, MTFS) and focus on driving machine reliability
- Manage and coordinate all third party maintenance contractors and ensure that all works comply 100% to standards
- Optimize spare parts inventory management by maintaining accurate inventory of critical spares and required stock levels
- Control and optimize maintenance cost-ZBB K5.5M, VIC K6.5M, UPP and CAPEX of up to K19M and ensure no overspends
- Audit existing preventive maintenance plans to reduce unnecessary expenses or redundancies
Engineer Packaging
Zambian Breweries Plc-AB-Inbev
03.2022 - 08.2022
- · Implement safety standards by enforcing compliance with company policies and regulatory requirements in all maintenance activities and maintain zero injuries.
- · Manage packaging maintenance operations and building facilities within planned budget
- · Lead packaging engineering team and ensure high resource utilization
- · Ensure Improve equipment reliability, availability and product quality by implementing good maintenance practices and optimized reliability measures
- · Coordinated annual overhauls as a subject matter expert on equipment specifications and maintenance requirements.
- · Maintenance and Optimization of all packaging automated equipments
- · Ensure manufacturing systems and instrumentation integrity
- · Ensure engineering standards and legal compliance
- · Facilitate problem solving by using (DMAIC, SDCA, PDCA and ITF)
- · Utilize CMMS programs to generate and analyze maintenance KPIs ( MTTR, MTBF, MTFS) and focus on driving machine reliability
- · Manage and coordinate all third party maintenance contractors and ensure that all works comply 100% to standards
- · Optimize spare parts inventory management by maintaining accurate inventory of critical spares and required stock levels
- · Control and optimize maintenance cost-ZBB K5M, VIC K7.5M, UPP and CAPEX of up to K25M and ensure no overspends
- · Audit existing preventive maintenance plans to reduce unnecessary expenses or redundancies
Maintenance Controller Utilities
Zambian Breweries Plc- AB-Inbev
11.2018 - 03.2022
- Ensure safe, healthy risk-free and risk free working environment
- Coordinated all maintenance activities and supported with development of medium and long- term plans
- Monitored priorities and liaised between maintenance team and production team and ensure planned jobs are done
- Analyzed issues emanating from system usage reports and developed action plan to achieve 100% gap closure
- Streamlined workflow processes and create standard work instructions for routine maintenance tasks
- Audited critical spares availability and optimized inventory levels
- Coordinated the team in root cause analysis methodologies RCM, FFA, 5why, DMAIC
- Identified underlying issues behind recurring equipment failures and implemented preventive measures
- Provided technical support to the maintenance team ans ensured maximum equipment availability 98%
- Coached technicians, artisans and aligned team members with good maintenance practices and ensure team achieved 100% competence
Maintenance Planner
Zambian Breweries- SABMiller
08.2015 - 10.2018
- Ensure safe working practices and carrying out risk assessments.
- Plan, scheduled using CMMS, help execute all maintenance activities, and ensure maintenance attainment at 95 %
- Develop medium and long term plans using CMMS
- Identify the required follow-on work and raise the relevant work orders triggers & coordinate Preventive maintenance work order reviews.
- Identify problem or potential problems & Increase MTBF more than (950min), maintain MTFS to (7 days) and reduce MTTR to less than 35min
- Facilitate problem solving (5Y analysis, FFAs-ABRs) with 98% closure rate
- Identify equipment eligible for design out maintenance
- Capture data, analyze and generate asset care reports as per KPIs & PIs, analyze and improve.
- Analyze the equipment data to identify failure causes and dominant failure modes
- Train, coach & communicate in teams & ensure understanding of the Voyage Plant Optimization Maintenance Pillar
- Develop and drive implementation plans to progress maturity in the VPO Maintenance Pillar principles and practices.
- Conduct deep cleans (clean and tag) and monitor machine improvement.
- Coach, monitor and ensure the proper execution of Autonomous Operations.
- Manufacturing Management Information System data analysis and correction.
- Coordinate spares procurement and Cost control.
- Follow and monitor the use of Management Control & Reporting System to ensure engineering team daily work loading is effective to improve resource utilization
Machine Specialist
Zambian Breweries - SABMiller
10.2013 - 02.2016
- Comply with safety, health and environmental procedures
- Maintain safety and housekeeping standards
- Identify critical and contingency spares
- Carry out planned, preventive and predictive maintenance on the labelling machine
- Plans and prepare for the job
- Operate the labeler and ensure the proper lubrication of the machine
- Continuously improve (optimize) the labelling machine
- Provide high technical specialist support
- Develop fellow employees by Coaching and assess artisans, apprentices and operators
Process Artisan Mechanical
Zambian Breweries - SABMiller
12.2011 - 10.2013
- Operation, maintenance and repair works on all packaging automated machines
- Maintenance and repairing of pumps, valves chain drives, gear drives, belt drives, clutches
- Carrying out running checks, stopped checks
- Maintenance by walk about
- Maintain a safe and health working environment (Good housekeeping)
- Conduct autonomous maintenance
Artisan Fitter
Mulonga Water and Sewerage Company
05.2011 - 11.2011
- Carrying out preventive maintenance checks
- Repairing and maintenance of horizontal and vertical spindle centrifugal pumps
- Repairing and maintenance of positive displacement pumps
- Repairing and maintenance of valves gear drives, belt drives, chain drives
- Worked on the sedimentation plant expansion project of installing new Grundfos pumps and corresponding pipe work
Fitter- Pump Chamber, Underground KCM
Karlsons Consulting Engineers and Project Managers
12.2010 - 04.2011
- Repairing and Maintenance of positive displacement slurry pumps
- Maintenance of valves
Education
Advanced Certificate - Mechanical Engineering
Northern Technical College
Bachelor of Engineering - Mechanical
Copperbelt University
08.2025
Skills
- Standard Work Instruction
- Preventive and Predictive Maintenance
- KPI
- Energy efficiency
- Analytical problem solving
- Lean Six Sigma
- PDCA
- SOP
- Risk assessment
Accomplishments
- With the introduction of the new SKUs on the Krones line, installed the retrofit and saved the company 120,000 Euros .
- Reduced labeler machine downtime from about 12% to less than 1% in less than 5 months.
- On labelling quality; Number 1 in Africa out of 21 breweries and number 8 out of 85 breweries in SABMiller.
- Introduced, developed Logistics maintenance system for Trucks and forklifts and trained the logistics maintenance planner.
- Successfully managed (planned and executed) May C22 Line 1 and 2 shutdowns and produced record ramp up volumes of 3800 hectolitres on both lines.
- Improved machine reliability from average 89% below target to average 93.5% above targets from April to September 2022
- Meeting 99.5% Utilities availability monthly KPI.
- Meeting 98.5% Equipment Availability monthly KPI.
- Successful boiler shutdowns and statutory testing beating the deadline by 3 days.
- Good engagement survey scores 95% manager effectiveness
Timeline
Engineer Utilities (Energy & Fluids)
Zambian Breweries Plc - AB-Inbev
09.2022 - Current
Engineer Packaging
Zambian Breweries Plc-AB-Inbev
03.2022 - 08.2022
Maintenance Controller Utilities
Zambian Breweries Plc- AB-Inbev
11.2018 - 03.2022
Maintenance Planner
Zambian Breweries- SABMiller
08.2015 - 10.2018
Machine Specialist
Zambian Breweries - SABMiller
10.2013 - 02.2016
Process Artisan Mechanical
Zambian Breweries - SABMiller
12.2011 - 10.2013
Artisan Fitter
Mulonga Water and Sewerage Company
05.2011 - 11.2011
Fitter- Pump Chamber, Underground KCM
Karlsons Consulting Engineers and Project Managers
12.2010 - 04.2011
Advanced Certificate - Mechanical Engineering
Northern Technical College
Bachelor of Engineering - Mechanical
Copperbelt University
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