EBENEZER PAA KWESI ARHIN
Tarkwa
Summary
A Certified Sectional Inspecting Engineer with over 8 years of experience in the Reliability and Maintenance Profession. Demonstrated experience in employing the techniques of oil analysis, vibration monitoring, thermography & NDT in monitoring the conditions of critical physical assets to avoid unplanned downtime and catastrophic seizure. Led diverse teams to achieve and sustain budget key performance indicators in the areas of Reliability Centered Maintenance programs, Defect Elimination and Asset Life Cycle management in both open cast and underground mining operatons. Strong organizational and time management ability; skilled in planning, scheduling and meeting deadlines. Driven to succeed; a valuable addition to a forward-thinking company with strong opportunities for progression.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Ag. Reliability Engineer
AngloGold Ashanti
Obuasi
08.2024 - Current
- Maintaining and driving overall continuous improvement of specific areas in line with maintenance business objective
- Expertise in Condition Monitoring of rotating equipment like mill, pumps, gear box, motors, reciprocating engines, compressors, blowers, turbines, hydraulics etc.
- Responsible for developing and implementing maintenance plans for mobile equipment, rotating and fixed assets, and participation in reliability improvement programs, such as FMEA, RCA, and RCM.
- Reviewing technical reports on lubricating oil, vibration, and thermography for reliability and maintenance activities.
- Performs oil analysis, vibration analysis, and thermography on critical assets, such as mobile fleets, transformers, and rotating equipment.
- Providing expert advice on interpretation of condition monitoring data for fixed and rotating equipment.
- Diagnosing machinery faults pertaining to unbalance, misalignment, and looseness from vibration data.
- Coordinate the condition monitoring activities within the underground and fixed plant operations, and also liaise with OEM to ensure identified product/parts/component problems or maintenance issues are resolved.
- Monitoring equipment performance and identifying potential factors that can lead to failures and unplanned downtimes.
- Conducting underground asset/facility integrity audit, i.e., structures, pumps, dams, winch, etc.
Condition Monitoring Supervisor
AngloGold Ashanti
Obuasi
05.2019 - Current
- Leading a team of Condition Monitoring professionals to ensure safe, efficient collection and analysis of condition data.
- Compiling and analyzing mobile & fixed plant equipment condition monitoring data from various sources (oil samples, Vibration, Thermography, gas emissions, NDT reports etc.)
- Providing recommended actions to the maintenance team to ensure continued safe, reliable, and cost-effective asset performance.
- Writing reports and memoranda as required to communicate findings from analyses.
- Raising notifications for repair and investigative actions in the CMMS (SAP).
- Performing visits to the field/workshop to verify and investigate complex issues, where required.
- Supervised Condition Monitoring and NDT Technicians and assisted Reliability Engineer in gathering information for reports.
- Analysis and trending of predictive maintenance data (vibration, IR, etc) to determine plant condition.
- Assisted in defect elimination programs (i.e. RCA, FMEA etc)
Ag. Reliability Engineer
AngloGold Ashanti - Obuasi Mine
Obuasi
08.2023 - 09.2023
- Maintaining and driving overall continuous improvement of specific areas in line with maintenance business objective
- Expertise in Condition Monitoring of rotating equipment like mill, pumps, gear box, motors, reciprocating engines, compressors, blowers, turbines, hydraulics etc
- Responsible for developing and implementing maintenance plans for mobile equipments, rotating & fixed assets and participation in reliability improvement programs e.g., FMEA, RCA & RCM
- Reviewing technical reports on lubricating oil, vibration and thermography for reliability and maintenance activities
- Performs oil analysis, vibration analysis & thermography on critical asset e.g.,mobile fleets, transformers and rotating equipment
- Providing expert advice on interpretation of condition monitoring data for fixed and rotating equipment
- Diagnosing machinery faults pertaining to unbalance, misalignment & looseness form vibration data
- Coordinate the condition monitoring activities within the underground and fixed plant operations and also liaising with OEM to ensure identified product/parts/component problems or maintenance issues are resolved
- Monitoring equipment performance and identifying potential factors that can lead to failures & unplanned downtimes
- Conducting Underground asset/facility integrity audit i.e structures, pumps, dams, winch etc.
Condition Monitoring Technician
Wear Check - Ghana
05.2016 - 04.2019
- Analyzing machinery oils, lubricants and fuels for Condition Monitoring and Maintenance Operations (i.e; wear metal analysis, water contamination, glycol and particle contamination, viscosity, Acid and Base number titration, fuel dilution)
- Transformer oil analysis and diagnosing
- Diagnosis and reviewing oil analysis reports
- Failure Mode Effect and Criticality Analysis (FMECA)
- Preparing chemical solutions for laboratory analysis.
Environmental Officer
Golden Start Resources - Wassa
Wassa
08.2013 - 12.2014
- Analyze environmental samples for Physico-Chemical parameters (i.e; TSS, TDS, Sulphate, free, total and WAD cyanide and water hardness)
- Environmental pollution control and management
- Environmental compliance activities (i.e
- EPA reports, Min.Com reports)
- Noise and ground vibration monitoring
- Conducting Employee inductions and training.
Metallurgical Plant Assistant
AngloGold Ashanti - Iduapriem Mine
06.2011 - 12.2011
- Monitoring of parameters for plant operations (i.e.; CIL/CIP operations)
- Sampling and analysis
- Monitoring of plant equipment for efficient performance (i.e.; mills, pumps, gear box, motor, rotating equipment, compressors, heat exchanges etc
- By employing vibration monitoring and oil analysis techniques)
- Control room operations (Scada)
- Cyanide Sparging Plant operation.
Education
BTech Mechanical Engineering - (Metallurgy & Materials Engineering) - Engineering Mechanical
Kumasi Technical University
Kumasi09-2024
Mechanical Engineering Technician III -
NABTEX
11.2019
Bachelor of Science in Chemistry -
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
06.2013
Skills
- RCA, FMEA, DMAIC
- SAP-CMMS
- OASIS
- Spectro-Track
Certification
- Certified Inspecting Engineer, Minerals Commission of Ghana, 11/01/21
- Vibration Analyst CAT 1, Mobius Institute, M-147239-01, 03/01/22
- Machinery Lubricant Analyst II, International Council for Machinery Lubrication, 02/01/22
- Ultrasonic Testing & Magnetic Particle Inspection Level II, ASNT, HT/UT/38/16, HT/MT/38/16, 11/01/16
- Ghana Institute of Engineering (GhIE), 10811
Accomplishments
- Participated actively in implementing the Maintenance Strategy/Tactics for Obuasi Mine Redevelopment Project.
- Participated actively in the completion of the Processing Plant PM Optimization process with RCM/FMEA Strategy.
Timeline
Ag. Reliability Engineer
AngloGold Ashanti
08.2024 - Current
Ag. Reliability Engineer
AngloGold Ashanti - Obuasi Mine
08.2023 - 09.2023
Condition Monitoring Supervisor
AngloGold Ashanti
05.2019 - Current
Condition Monitoring Technician
Wear Check - Ghana
05.2016 - 04.2019
Environmental Officer
Golden Start Resources - Wassa
08.2013 - 12.2014
Metallurgical Plant Assistant
AngloGold Ashanti - Iduapriem Mine
06.2011 - 12.2011
BTech Mechanical Engineering - (Metallurgy & Materials Engineering) - Engineering Mechanical
Kumasi Technical University
Mechanical Engineering Technician III -
NABTEX
Bachelor of Science in Chemistry -
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
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