Timothy Onyango Aroka

Performance driven Mechanical Production Engineer with 15+ years of hands on experience in all aspects of engineering services rendering, production, quality assurance, Maintenance, occupational safety, health, environment and team management within manufacturing set up. Thorough knowledge/understanding of mechanical engineering design principles, materials selection, specification and standardization. Skilled in designing, fabricating and keeping of maintenance/fabrication tools inventory, management and review of production, quality assurance and Maintenance procedures, standards and systems. Highly skilled in Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) planning and management, swift breakdown attendance/repair and upgrade of capital equipment using advanced troubleshooting, critical thinking and problem-solving in developing
corrective action plans. Demonstrated ability to forge and sustain results oriented teams consistently delivering primeservices. Strong work ethic and willing to work outside standard timeframes to achieve set goals.

PROFESSIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE
PLANT MANAGER– East Africa Spectre Ltd | Feb 2014 – Present
• Lead plant production, quality and Maintenance personnel in day-to-day activities to achieve optimum productivity
from safe and efficiently maintained equipment and facilities.
• Ensure efficient processing of incoming materials and goods while ensuring end products meet set quality standards
and in liaison with external regulatory and inspection bodies.
• Carry out preventive maintenance and repairs on all machinery and equipment to minimize downtime, increase
reliability and improve availability.
• Work with Plant Engineers and supervisors to plan, organize resources, execute work plans, monitor production and
quality, coordinate priorities, resolve issues, and participate in special projects.
• Hire, direct, coach and mentor staff to ensure meeting of set performance targets.
• Plan, organize, implement and monitor work schedules to ensure that external supplies are consistent with regular/
normal plant/ special projects’ needs.
• Enforce occupational health and safety and ensure site compliance to all statutory labor, safety, health and
environmental regulations. Participate in regular health and safety meetings/ committees.
• Prepare, monitor and control plant budget in conjunction with management.
• Prepare management reports as required, update General Manager and Managing Director on plants operational
status and actively participate in management meetings.

• Perform any other duty as may be assigned by management from time to time.
Key achievements
• Introduced, developed, trained, documented and maintained preventive maintenance Quality Management system on
Total productive maintenance (TPM) skills found very compatible to lean maintenance kaizen skill and ISO 9001:2015
and which has been found quite cost-effective.
• Expanded customer base two-fold through operations management excellence, nascent top-quality
inspection/production, ever high machinery availability and impacted/improved production/operations efficiency.
• Through Lean manufacturing principles encompassed in kaizen skills, reduced unit operations cost through process
streamlining to eliminate wastages and impact efficiency, which directed sales and marketing to lower unit item cost
offered to our customers and lure more base.
• Achieved high green banding ranking for the company’s HSSE audit evaluations from customers through strict
administration of OSH act, Environment health and safety (EHS) committee recommendations, training and practicing
of safety toolbox meetings, rigorous CCTV surveillance and firefighting equipment inspection and service.
MECHANICAL ENGINEER–Kaluworks Aluminum Rolling Mills Ltd | Mar 2011 – Jan 2014
• Developed, expanded and managed the existing scope of Preventive maintenance programs, carried out daily, weekly,
monthly, quarterly, semiannually, or annual maintenance programs per planning schedule.
• Breakdown attendance or management intent on reducing the Mean Time to Repair (MTTR) , expanding on the Mean
Time between Failure (MTBF) and inducing High Machinery Availability Ratio.

• Monitored and implemented maintenance budget to ensure no over expenditure, reviewed maintenance for cost-
effectiveness and prepared maintenance reports.

• Practiced Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) on machinery involving regular plant condition monitoring with the
predictive inference of collected data followed by the institution of corrective measures on faults found.
• Identified all critical machinery spares, sourced spares, procured, controlled and managed stock to ensure availability
of spares /equipments within expected lead time.
• Prepared machinery during planned shutdowns considerate of both regular maintenance programs and observed
pertinent problems but with timely machinery delivery or handover for production.
Key achievements
• Developed blue prints for maintenance operations automation programming through enterprise resources planning
on SAP platform on maintenance consumables, spares, preventive maintenance master plan job planning, key
maintenance performance indicators, manpower allocation / control log, Maintenance documentation, budgetary
control and engineering projects timelines.
• Line manager over two (Fata Hunter &Zhuoshen) Aluminum continuous casting production lines each with a fifty
tonne Aluminum ingots melting furnace and assuring production of very high availability and efficiency, high
Aluminum recovery with rotary kiln availability, high water house and cooling towers operations efficiency.
MECHANICAL ENGINEER–Building & Facilities Maintenance Service -Charcon Company Ltd | Oct 2008 – Feb 2011
• Prepared and executed preventing maintenance schemes on building machinery, attend to occurring breakdowns
efficiently, articulated and made available all spares required.
• Serviced building equipment like pumps, boilers, lifts, escalators, compressors, air conditioners, heaters, refrigerators,
water installation and reticulation.
Key achievement
• Designed, fabricated and installed compressed air receivers, air ducts or delivery line systems on clientele basis.
• Installed, serviced pumps and reticulated water and electrical power for clients
• Got more exposed to control systems engineering, electrical power and instrumentations competence while servicing
facilities equipments

ADDITIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE
PRODUCTION SHIFT IN-CHARGE/ENGINEER–Standard Rolling Mills Ltd | Feb 2004 – Sep 2008
• Ensured meeting and surpassing of production targets set per shift.
• Production planning, scheduling, quality control, supervision and man management.
• Ensured availability of all consumables required per shift, efficient management of shift handover and all production records
keeping.
• Safety and Environmental health officer
• Liased with the maintenance team in trouble shooting for quick solution of occurring problem and saving on unnecessary
downtime.
Key achievement
• Improved running gauge /thickness quality through maintaining of expert inspection and calibration services for the gamma
ray employed metrology and hydraulic pressure gauges used in running the cold reduction rolling mill.

EDUCATION BACKGROUND
Bachelor of Technology in Production Engineering – Moi University | 1993 – 2001
Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education – Njoro Boys High School | 1988 – 1991