Johann Louw

Competency of Johann Louw

The following are areas of expertise that I have:

Electrical (Electrician)

Qualified electrician with Wireman’s license

Was responsible for the following:

• Transformer testing and maintenance
• Maintaining switch gear and substations
• Electrical reticulation maintenance
• Emergency Generator maintenance
• Office and surrounding building electrical maintenance
• Air conditioner services and repairs
• Overhead crane maintenance
• Electrical motors testing and replacing
• Earth leakages testing (Legal requirement)
• UPS maintenance and testing
• Testing of UPS plugs and critical equipment
• Monthly tagging of Portable Electrical Equipment
• HT cable jointing and termination (Indoor and outdoor)
• LT cable jointing and termination (Indoor and Outdoor)
• Panel wiring
• Fault finding and cable fault location
• Cable installations
• Performing save switching procedures
• Electrical measuring systems and protection
• Infrared scanning on electrical reticulation and compiling reports.
• Condition monitoring on critical equipment

Generator maintenance

As electrician I checked the following:

• Checking fluid levels
• Battery inspections and cleaning of terminations weekly
• Timely remove worn out parts for maximum availability and reliability
• Weekly test generator ensuring that the automatic transfer switch is working. (Load banking)
• Verifying control panel readings and indicators
• Changing fuel, oil and filters are per set running hours as from OEM.
• Weekly readings recorded in a log book.

Air conditioner maintenance

• Cleaned indoor filters
• Washed outdoor condenser with chemical
• Cleaned indoor unit evaporator coil.
• Inspected drain pipe for blockage and washed it out.
• Inspected electrical terminals.
• Checked for any gas leaks on pipes.
• Stripped barrel fan out of air conditioner and cleaned it with hi Pressure washer.

CMMS (Computerized Maintenance Management Systems) Competency

• Have had a lot of training on SAP on the PM (Plant Maintenance) system.
• Have worked on SAP since 1998 until 2016 where I was responsible for creating maintenance plans for critical assets.
• Generated schedules according to the OEM to ensure maximum availability and reliability of equipment.
• Created tasks lists as per frequency set out by the OEM.
• Load warranties on SAP for new equipment.
• Generated asset registers for the equipment in the plant.
• Do condition monitoring on critical equipment.
• Generating reports from SAP to Excel.
• Started working on Pragma (On Key 5) as from 2017 up to date managing the maintenance of assets in the plant.
• Projects management. (Microsoft Projects) Responsible for the coordination of the monthly shutdowns in the plant for both crushers and Process Plants.

Management skills

• Had being the HOD for the Maintenance Planning department as from 2006 up to date.
• Managing people reporting to me
• Work in teams
• Planning and controlling of work
• Solving problems
• Budgeting
• Working according to the MHSA (Mine Health and Safety Act)_

I have learned to managed by sub coordinates time sheets, sick leave, annual leave, KPI’s and training. I was  involved in the implementation of an upgraded version of On Key 5 at the Company I worked for in May/June 2017. Did learn different approaches to do RCFA’s on equipment failures to prevent similar occurrences. Follow up on outstanding action out of RCFA. Monthly Management reports were compiled by myself to show equipment availability, utilization and running time of critical equipment such as Jaw and Cone crushers & Ball Mills. Weekly follow up reports was compiled to ensure that all outstanding actions on RCFA'S and any other external reports was dealt with as quick as possible. Ensured that all legal inspections were done as per legal register by External Service Providers and that all legal certificates were filed and were electronically available for future reference as per DMR requirements. Weekly backlog reports were sent out to all relevant parties to ensure backlog is kept to a minimum. The Planners send out a Weekly Engineering report to all foreman and Engineers for outstanding job cards and discussed it in a weekly Engineering meeting. As the Maintenance Superintendent responsible I was to ensure that all Plant asset Management procedures were to be followed and implemented as Set out by Company. Plan corrective, organize, plan and assist in scheduling. Maintenance activities. Provide plans and estimates for maintenance work. Investigate work request. Do shutdown Planning where we have pre shut meetings and post shut meetings. Voyager Crusher Plant, Voyager Process Plant, Genesis Crushers Plant, Genesis Process Plant and our new Vulcan Plant with there outside sections was part of my responsibility. Onkey was giving us a lot of system problems therefore management decided to move away from Onkey and go with AMT. This is still to be enrolled in future.                  

I have done  2 courses in Pragma as I was familiar with SAP when I started at this Company. Worked with Pragma for the last six Years and prior to that I have work intensively with SAP at Glencore for 9 Years and 14 Years at Anglo Platinum for 14 years with SAP in the Planning Departments. My highest Qualification is my National certificate N5,N4,Microsoft Projects, Certificate in Maintenance Planning, Wireman's License, Matric Certificate, Pragma certificate, Foreman Certificate, Law and Standards certificate