Electrical Shift supervisor/ Team Leader

Discipline: Electrical and Electronic Engineering (National Diploma). Industry experience: tyre and cement manufacturing / food processing. Years of experience range: 11 to 15 years. Gender: Male. Ethnicity:African/Black. Nationality: Kenyan.

Skillful, Good leadership, Experienced, Enthusiastic, Quick to learn and a Team Player!

Passionate about team building, leading and team motivation; performance driven and committed to service excellence. Responsible to plan, delegate and coordinate duties for shift technicians to ensure machine efficiency and availability. Skill area of competence: Installation of new machines and maintenance and repair: packaging machines (fawema and italpack); planned maintenance and routine maintenance on milling machine motors, maintenance of machines for rubber processing (Banbury); tire building, curing presses machines and X-ray machines. Maintenance of crushers both primary and secondary; stacker and reclaimer maintenance; pre-heater and kilu machine maintenance; control panel assembly, installation and modification; receivers substations and power systems switch gear maintenance; diesel generators routine maintenance; instrumentation and controls, i.e. load cells, pressure valves, RTDs thermocouples and pressure switch calibrations; D.C and A.C drives installation and maintenance; PLC analysis and maintenance (Allen Bradly) and plant commissioning.

Looking to join a company that will offer him an opportunity for career growth and new challenges.

Candidate location: Kenya

Home & other languages: English

Designation: Electrical Supervisor

Highest qualification type: National Diploma

Company size: ‘201 – 500

Division: Maintenance / Field Service / Technical Support / Workshop / Asset and Facilities Management

Seniority level: Technician / Foreman / Supervisor (all disciplines)

Gender:                                    Male

Ethnicity:                                 African/Black

Nationality:                              Kenyan

Current / most recent job title?

Shift supervisor

Primary purpose of current/most recent position:

Plan, delegate and co-ordinate duties for shift technicians.

Core elements or functions that must operate effectively in order to achieve primary purpose:

Machines must be efficiently available.
Team work in department
Safety
Motivation to technicians

Description of self, along with greater purpose and passions:

Performance driven and committed to service excellence.

Ideal business title: 

Team leader.

Key responsibilities and accountabilities of ideal position:

Job planning
Report writing
Power consumption record
Delegating and co-ordinating shift activities.
Ordering for spare parts.

Skill area of competence:

Installation of new machines and maintenance and repair: packaging machines (fawema and italpack); planned maintenance and routine maintenance on milling machine motors, maintenance of machines for rubber processing (Banbury); tire building, curing presses machines and X  rays machines. Maintenance of crushers both primary and secondary; stacker and reclaimer maintenance;  and pre-heater and kilu machine maintenance ; control panel assembly, installation and modification; receivers substations and power systems switch gear maintenance; diesel generators routine maintenance; Instrumentations and controls i.e. load cells, pressure valves, RTDs thermocouples and pressure switches calibrations; D.C and A.C drives installation and maintenance; PLC analysis and maintenance (Allen Bradly) and plant commissioning

Career summary:

3 years tyre manufacturing; 4 years in cement manufacturing; 4 years in food processing
2 years in hospitality.

Working Achievements:

Down time minimized; department costs reduced; training of junior staff and energy saving.
Ideal company (culture and values):

The company which offers me the opportunity to career growth and meet my challenges in life.

What do you absolutely love doing?

Team building

Where would you like to be in your career in the next 5 to 10 years, what would you like to have achieved?

In the next 5 to 10 years I would like to be one of the most trusted and reliable electrical engineer or plant manager.

What are your strengths?

Completing the assigned job in time and results oriented.

What are your weaknesses?

Trusting my fellows much which has made me loose best opportunities.

Motivation to move (please select): Limited growth

Location Preference: I am open to positions both nationally and internationally.

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