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Tiroyamodimo Abel Mmopi

Control And Instrumentation Technician
Gaborone

Summary

Dedicated Control and Instrumentation Technician with experience in maintaining and repairing instruments,machines,and tools and skilled in calibrating all instrumentation devices. Disciplined and hardworking team player with proven history of fast and detailed-oriented work.

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Control and Instrumentation Technician

Botswana Power Corporation
11.2021 - Current
  • Carries out diagnosis on complex control systems and circuits to minimize down time.
  • Investigates and recommends modifications on instrumentation and control systems to optimize performance and address repetitive faults.
  • Identifies risk areas and makes recommendations on maintenance schedules and procedures for review and approval by supervisor.
  • Liaises with and monitors contractors on new systems upgrades to ensure conformity to standards and specifications.
  • Carries out boiler and turbine protection tests in accordance with statutory requirements to ensure functionality and safety of the protection system and produces tests certificates as required.
  • Installs and commissions specialized instrumentation control systems.
  • Supervises a team on my section and shows good supervisory skills.

Projects Done

  • Telemetry system upgrade, did project for upgrading Botswana Power Corporation boreholes system at Paje for Morupule A Power Station from Tele-range to Teleflex system,about eight boreholes and commissioning it.
  • Return to service of Unit 1 from L1 Technical event (restoration of Unit 1 back to normality after it suffered some cable burns) at Morupule A Power Station.

Control and Instrumentation Technician Trainee (Technician on Development Programme)

Botswana Power Corporation
11.2019 - 10.2021
  • During training on Technician on Development Programme (TDP) I was understudying on how to: Carry out diagnosis on complex control systems and circuits to minimize down time.
  • Investigates and recommends modifications on instrumentation and control systems to optimize performance and address repetitive faults.
  • Identify risk areas and makes recommendations on maintenance schedules and procedures for review and approval by supervisor.
  • Liaise with and monitors contractors on new systems upgrades to ensure conformity to standards and specifications.
  • Carry out boiler and turbine protection tests in accordance with statutory requirements to ensure functionality and safety of protection system and produces tests certificates as required.
  • Install and commission specialized instrumentation control systems.

Field Operator

Botswana Power Corporation
01.2016 - 10.2019
  • Adherence to operating policies procedures and standards.
  • Accurate recording of operations data for efficiency planning.
  • Adherence to safety, health and environment (SHE) standards.
  • Effective on identification of faults.
  • Achievements of work targets.
  • Reliability and availability of operational and protection devices.

Electrical Artisan: Locomotives (Intern student)

Botswana Railways
03.2014 - 12.2015

Performs routine maintenance of Locomotives in workshop as per specification.

  • Attend to Locomotives breakdowns on main line in timely manner.
  • Servicing heavy machines like generators and traction motors that drives locomotive.
  • Troubleshooting faults that occur on locomotives to solve problem.
  • Doing electrical tests in generators and motors before use like Insulation Resistance Test, Continuity test and Earth Resistance Test.

Biomedical Technician (Intern)

Mahalapye District Hospital
01.2013 - 03.2014
  • Monitoring all the electronic medical equipments around the hospital and making sure that they are all functional like Autoclaves, X-Ray machines, Patient Ventilators, Dental chairs, Nebulisers and Anaesthetic machines at theatre.
  • To strengthen adherence to occupational health and safety strategies in Medical Equipment Maintenance Services (MEMS).
  • Receives, installs, commission equipment and train users.
  • Performs routine maintenance inspections of equipments to identify and respond to problems in timely manner.
  • Performs maintenance and periodic performance assurance tests on all medical equipments.
  • To strengthen adherence to inflectional control strategies in MEMS workshop.

Electrician

Standard Electrical Company
01.2012 - 02.2012
  • Installation and wiring single phase and three phase distribution boards.
  • Doing domestic installation in general.
  • Doing some electrical tests like continuity tests, Earth resistance tests, Insulation resistance tests after doing each and every work.

Electrical Technician Student (Attachment)

Gaborone City Council
06.2009 - 07.2009
  • Monitoring Gaborone City Council daily to make sure all streets lights have power and in good working condition.
  • Wiring single phase and three phase distribution boards and installing them.
  • Doing installation maintenance of government schools and Gaborone City Council staff houses.
  • Monitoring and perform maintenance of traffic lights making sure they are always in good working condition.
  • Tracing faults along streets lights lines that are not working.

Education

Diploma in Electrical and Electronic Engineering -

University of Botswana
08.2008 - 05.2011

BOTSWANA GENERAL CERTIFICATE OF SECONDARY EDUCATION (BGCSE) -

Moeng College
02.2005 - 05.2006

JUNIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL -

Sefhare Junior Secondary School
01.2002 - 05.2004

Skills

Maintenance Planning,Scheduling and control expert

Proven for Schematic Interpretation and wiring diagrams to make acurate repairs

CCP146 RSLogix 5000 Level 1: ControlLogix System Fundamentals (Programmeable Logic Controller basics)

SPPA-T3000 System Basics Engineering(Distributed Controller System basics)

Supervisory Control and data Aquisition(SCADA) knowledge

Fault finding and trouble shooting

Analytical instrumentation

Pneumatics and Hydraulic systems maintenance

Basic hand tools

Microsoft Office

Personal Information

  • ID Number: 458219017
  • Date of Birth: 12/15/87

Attributes

  • Self motivated.
  • Work well under pressure.
  • Team worker and very cooperative and complies with procedures.
  • Working in a challenging environment brings out the best in me.

Licenseclass

Class B (2013)

References

  • Mr. Masego Otlogile, Senior Engineer (Control and Instrumentation Department), Morupule A Power Station, Botswana Power Corporation, Private Bag 007, Palapye, +267 71823078 /+267 72467535
  • Mr.Kgatlhang Nkoborwane, Locomotive Foreman, Botswana Railways, Private Bag 002, Mahalapye, 71859243

Timeline

Control and Instrumentation Technician

Botswana Power Corporation
11.2021 - Current

Control and Instrumentation Technician Trainee (Technician on Development Programme)

Botswana Power Corporation
11.2019 - 10.2021

Field Operator

Botswana Power Corporation
01.2016 - 10.2019

Electrical Artisan: Locomotives (Intern student)

Botswana Railways
03.2014 - 12.2015

Biomedical Technician (Intern)

Mahalapye District Hospital
01.2013 - 03.2014

Electrician

Standard Electrical Company
01.2012 - 02.2012

Electrical Technician Student (Attachment)

Gaborone City Council
06.2009 - 07.2009

Diploma in Electrical and Electronic Engineering -

University of Botswana
08.2008 - 05.2011

BOTSWANA GENERAL CERTIFICATE OF SECONDARY EDUCATION (BGCSE) -

Moeng College
02.2005 - 05.2006

JUNIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL -

Sefhare Junior Secondary School
01.2002 - 05.2004
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