Senior Project Engineer - PCM Engineering Consulting and Resources
(2023-06)
- Feasibility studies, reviewing all broad engineering, maintenance issues, sustainable and commercial viability of future potential projects.
- Develop custom grid and hybrid Solar PV solutions for proposals, tenders, and projects, ensuring legal and regulatory compliance.
- Establish provisional costings for engineering aspects of projects.
- Confirm detailed Scope of Work / Bill of Quantities / PV Plant design, engineering, and commissioning.
- Quality assurance of Projects
- High-level and Detailed drawings & designs
- Fault-finding and Analytics with the ability to provide solutions and results.
- Ensuring overall cost-effectiveness of the project
- Conducting grid impact studies, analysing the results, and writing a technical report focusing on the required NRS outcomes.
- PV design and simulation
- Investigations, design, and supervision of projects
- Business relationships with clients.
- Advisor for Solar projects and Renewable energy projects
- Vast expertise in Photovoltaic Solar Systems & Battery Storage Solutions
- UPS units and Standby generators expertise
Solar Project Engineer - PH Engineering Consulting (Pty) Ltd
(2022-09 - 2023-05)
- Feasibility studies, reviewing all broad engineering, maintenance issues, sustainable and commercial viability of future potential projects.
- Develop custom grid and hybrid Solar PV solutions for proposals, tenders, and projects, ensuring legal and regulatory compliance.
- Establish provisional costings for engineering aspects of projects.
- Confirm detailed Scope of Work / Bill of Quantities / PV Plant design, engineering, and commissioning.
- Quality assurance of Projects
- High-level and Detailed drawings & designs
- Fault-finding and Analytics with the ability to provide solutions and results.
- Ensuring overall cost-effectiveness of the project
- Conducting grid impact studies, analyze the results, and write a technical report focusing on the required NRS outcomes.
- PV design and simulation
- Investigations, design, and supervision of projects
- Business relationships with clients.
- Advisor for Solar projects and Renewable energy projects
- Vast expertise in Photovoltaic Solar Systems & Battery Storage Solutions
- UPS units and Standby generators expertise
Solar Electrician - Khanyisile Afrisolar Consulting
(2022-01 - 2022-08)
- Installing and repairing complex electrical controls.
- Connect panels to the power grid.
- Follow Sans 10142 standards and codes when doing quality assurance, fault-finding, and commissioning installations.
- Fault finding on AC and DC reticulation systems and repair faults and/or escalating critical issues.
- Testing and commissioning of PV systems to ensure compatibility and safety.
- Plan layout and installation of PV-related electrical wiring, equipment, and fixtures.
- Maintenance of solar systems.
- Management of projects
- Team supervision
- Site logistics, administration, and general office tasks
- Installing solar panel arrays in residential and commercial settings, including on roofs, walls, and ground mounts
- Connect electrical components such as inverters, batteries, and charge controllers to ensure that they operate properly.
- Installing wiring and other electrical components in new construction projects, including commercial buildings, industrial facilities, and residential homes
- Meeting with clients to discuss project goals and requirements.
- Installing batteries, battery boxes, and other battery components for solar power systems
- Installing wiring for solar energy systems in homes and businesses, including mounting solar panels, wiring panels to the main electrical box, connecting batteries or other energy storage devices to the system
Electrical Project Engineer - Zeal Engineering Consultancy (Pty) Ltd
(2015-02 - 2022-05)
- Project Management, Contract Management, Procurement, Direct and control the projects to ensure that the company achieve its objectives and that the best possible use is made of available resources.
- Compiling Tenders and Adjudication and managing the entire tendering process for small to medium tenders.
- Manage the entire tendering process for small to medium tenders.
- Plan and prepare budget estimates and ensure SHEQ compliance.
- Monitor and report on project progress in a structured manner, drawing particular attention to deviations from the original project plan.
- Monitor and report on financials relating to the overall Project: Cash flow, Supplier Invoices, Customer Invoices, Debtors, Sureties Bonds, Guarantees, and Records.
- Keep proceedings of each meeting and files systematically to ensure accessibility.
- Maintain and update the project plan.
- Review all assigned projects modify performance measures as necessary and monitor progress on duties related to the project.
- Project Management of the various electrification projects for Thulamela Municipality as a both Project Technician and Project Manager of Zeal Consulting Engineers.
- Site Investigation to do site inspection, number of stands & layout, took coordinates of the area to be electrified and Eskom existing pole numbers for planning to check capacity availability in the network around the area.
- Planning proposal request as per the request of the projected output, proposal to Eskom to check network capacity and confirm the load capability within a network.
- Proper aerial mapping or stands layout as requested and surveyor stands layout of the area to be electrified to start with the actual design process.
- Conclude the preliminary design of the area to be electrified and present it to the Eskom Technical Evaluation Forum for approval.
- Site inspection in line with Eskom required distribution standards until completion of the project.
- Inland and Coastal Eskom distribution network audits for refurbishment, inspection, and feeder network optimisation capacity
Electrician - Vhembe District Municipality
(2011-09 - 2015-01)
- Fault finding on LV and HV electrical networks. Switching up to 132kv.
- Construction of LV and HV lines.
- Cable terminations and installation, maintenance on LV and Underground and overhead lines.
- Three-phase and single-phase motor connection and maintenance.
- Kilowatt-hour meters, prepaid, split, and smart meters' connections.
- Operate and maintain 220V upwards machines, Connection of underground cables.
- Connection of borehole pumps, erecting, installation of streetlights, and Project management
- Preventative and fault maintenance and construction on distribution systems up to 33kV, inclusive of transformers, isolators, sectionalizes, auto-reclosers, D-fuse links, circuit breakers, overhead lines, and underground cables, solar panels, charge controllers, batteries, voltage-droppers, and inverters as well as AC & DC motors, resistor banks, liquid resistors.
- Motor - generator sets, alternators, rectifiers, all forms of lighting, domestic, industrial, agricultural, and commercial supplies, CTs, VTs.
- Metering and protection, switching operations up to and including 33Kv.
- Training apprentices, effective supervision of subordinates, report-writing and presentation, inspections, creating and operating in an environment of utmost.
