Ferdinand ZINGWIRO

My relevant experience and skills, acquired over 25 years are Electrical, Control and Instrumentation EPC/ EPCm Project Design, Engineering and Consulting for the Power Generation, Transmission and Distribution, Substation Construction, Energy Metering, Oil, Gas, Chemical and Mining Industries.

I am a performance-based engineer, manager and leader and believe in creating ethos of excellence to ensure motivating and guiding the team to their fullest potential to ensure tasks, milestones, quality, cost, scope, schedule and ultimately organizational goals are met.

01/04/2013 to Present:   Lead E & I Engineer (Khewija Engineering & Construction)

• Departmental management and supervision for the Electrical and Control & Instrumentations departments, including resource planning and management, scheduling, performance monitoring and evaluation.
• Design and Project Management for oil & gas, process plants, chemical plants and refineries FEED, Detailed and EPC/EPCM projects.
• Monitoring and ensuring that HSSE procedures and guidelines are adhered to, to ensure corporate vision of Zero Harm 24/7.
• Providing manhour estimation for projects and prospects and inputs into business development activities. 

Special Projects of a Similar Assignment

• Lead Engineer – New horizon Tank Farm – A2014
• Lead Engineer – Sasol Bottom loading bays dosing project – A2005
• Lead Engineer – Sasol TFW project – A1803
• Lead Engineer – Sasol Alrode Tank farm & loading Bays- A1702
• Lead Engineer – Chemical Dosing Project – A1706
• Lead Engineer - Sasol Phenosolvant Acid Scrubber at Salt Water Disposal Unit 66, 67 and 68 (Eng) - A1609
• Lead Engineer - Gasification 4th Floor Emissions Reduction Project EPC - A1611
• Lead Engineer - Caustic Evap Thickener Platform (P, E&I and CM) - A1612
• Lead Engineer - PVC Blow Hopper Compressor Replacement (DEP) - A1614

01/2012 to 04/2013: Lead E & I Engineer (KBR South Africa Pty Ltd)

• Departmental management and supervision for the Electrical and Control & Instrumentations departments, including resource planning and management, scheduling, performance monitoring and evaluation.
• Design and Project Management for oil & gas, process plants, chemical plants and refineries FEED, Detailed and EPC/EPCM projects.
• Monitoring and ensuring that HSSE procedures and guidelines are adhered to, to ensure corporate vision of Zero Harm 24/7.
• Providing manhour estimation for projects and prospects and inputs into business development activities. 

Special Projects of a Similar Assignment

• Lead Engineer - Fuel Blending Facility (BEP) - A1615
• Lead Engineer - Detail Engineering, Procurement and Construction for Alrode Expansion II , EPC - A1702
• Lead Engineer – DEP, Chemical Dosing Unit - A1706
• Lead Engineer – Engineering, Procurement and Construction of Replacement of 056TK-1501 Tank Farm West, EPC - A1803
• Lead Engineer – Engineering for Off-spec Wax Recovery - A1807
• Lead Engineer – DE of Fuel Blending & Logistics Facility - A1808
• Lead Engineer – Clean Fuels 2 Baseline Improvement Project, EPC - A1901

18/08/2008 to 01/01/2012: Senior Technical Professional-Electrical (KBR South Africa Pty Ltd)

• Design and Engineering for oil & gas, process plants, chemical plants and refineries Basic, detailed and EPC/EPCM projects.
• Electrical Design from Design Basis & Philosophy, Network design and configuration, MCC design, Cable and Equipment sizing, Hazardous Area Classification, Earthing and Lightning Protection, Lighting design, Cathodic and Heat Tracing Design, etc.

Key Projects completed:

• Lead Engineer - Sasol Alrode Expansion Project BEP - A1604
• Sasol MT7 HC & BF FEED Project (completed, moved to detail/EPCm)
• Sasol CRT open lid technology project - BEP (South Africa) (completed)
• Sasol ATR Condensate polishing plant- BEP (South Africa) (completed)
• Afrox CO2 FEED, Detail and EPCM (South Africa) (completed)
• PetroSA Offshore Gas Platform FEED (South Africa) (completed)

11/2007 to15/08/2008: Operations Director (Khubeni Construction (Pty) Ltd)

• Management of the business unit with staff compliment of 25
• Project management of electrical distribution lines & rural electrification construction projects
• Design of reticulation, including control and protection 
• Preparation of tenders, bills of quantities, risk analysis, project execution and supervision of construction works.
• Planning, execution and auditing of Department of Minerals and Energy funded electrification projects.
• Budgeting and cost control

Special Projects of a Similar Assignment

• Eskom rural electrification projects
• Eskom minor works 
• Eskom Infills 
• Standby diesel generators

04/2007 to 10/2007: Projects Manager (ScanMin Africa (Pty) Ltd)

• Preparation for Analyser Instrumentation Tenders and contract/sub-contract documents, including technical specifications, detailed design drawings.
• Project management, including commissioning of major capital works in mining and power stations, scheduling work, time management and cost control

Special Projects of a Similar Assignment

• AngloPlat Mines (South Africa):
• Installation and Commissioning of online particle size analyzers - Waterval Platinum Mine, Amandelbult Platinum, Waterval Retrofit Platinum Mine and PPL Platinum Mine.

1/1998 to 10/2002: Business Systems Manager (Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA)) 

• Project leadership of a major business process reengineering, computerization and software development project as follows;
• Project budgetary control, scope management, resource planning and scheduling practices, communication and risk management and reports. 
• Systems analysis and business process re-engineering, planning processes, construction practices, maintenance practices and fault reporting and resolution practices. 
• Application development and/or customization of various applications using PowerBuilder.
• Implementation, Training and Customer/User support.

Special Projects of a Similar Assignment

-     Computerization and business process reengineering of Customer Connection / Utility Reinforcement projects, Asset maintenance planning, fault management and stores and Inventory management systems, networking of all ZESA national districts/depots, software development, testing and commissioning through to handover and support.

8/1994 to 1/1998: Section Engineer (Metering) (ZESA)

• Management of metering staff of 86 engineers, technicians, testers and repairers.
• Project Management of energy metering, measurement & DSM projects.
• Metering design, schematics, specifications and standards.
• Development and maintenance of quality systems and procedures.
• Support to Areas, Districts, Depots and customers on metering, demand side management and Power Quality measurements. 

Special Projects of a Similar Assignment

• Programmable time of use meter installation (US$2.5m)
• Prepayment Meter project (US$3m)
• Computerized handheld meter reading system (US$0.5m)
• ISO9002 Certification for meter test workshops.

8/1991 to 7/1994:  Senior Engineer (E & I) Hwange Thermal Power Station 

• Project management, design and modification of plant upgrading and rehabilitation, including fault calculations, equipment sizing and dimensioning, detailed design drawings and diagrams and protection schematics and commissioning.
•    Management of construction and outage works, including technical specifications and tender documents and administration of   contracts.

Special Projects of a Similar Assignment

• Upgrading of Hwange Power station control instrumentation from pneumatic to Digital Distributed Control System (US$13m)
• Installation and commissioning of 3 * 1.5MW diesel generators for emergency /blackout startup of the power station.
• Water Treatment Plant control system rehabilitation to PLC control (US$0.5m)
• Coke oven gas project, including burner management system refurbishment. (US$2.9m)

01/1987 to 8/1991: Construction Engineer 

• Project management of electrical substation and power station projects, including design of commercial and technical specifications, tender inquiry documents and procurement of materials.
• Design and preparation of calculations for substations using approved standards, including detailed structural, civil and electrical layout plan and section drawings and detailed earthing, earth grid, switchyard layout drawings etc.
• Equipment selection and sizing, including transformers, switchgear, busbars, auxiliary AC and DC power systems, cables, etc.
• Detailed design of control and protection panel layout, control and protection, cabling and wiring drawings and schematics.
• Supervision of construction and commissioning works, up to handover.

Staffordshire University (UK):   MSc. Computing (09/2002 to 02/2005)            

Institute of Supervision and Management - UK:  Diploma in Management (1997)

City University-London (1983/6): B.Sc. Control, Instrumentations and Systems Engineering.

Atlantic College (UK) (1981-1983):   International Baccalaureate Diploma