TRAINER AND TECHNICIAN IN BUILDING TECHNOLOGY AND CIVIL ENGINEERING at UNIVERSITY OF EMBU (2025-10 – Present)
- Instruction and Training: Delivering curriculum-based instruction, particularly practical skills, based on industry needs and standards.
- Competency-Based Assessment: Designing, implementing, and marking competency-based exams to ensure trainees meet industry standards.
- Industry Liaison: Bridging the gap between the classroom and workplace by identifying industry partners and supervising industrial attachments.
- Mentorship and Career Support: Mentoring students on professional ethics, work attitudes, and career guidance, preparing them for the labor market.
- Curriculum Development: Reviewing and updating curricula to keep up with industry trends, such as digitalization, Green technology and incorporation of AI into construction.
- Student projects and innovation: Guide students in developing construction-related projects and prototypes.
- Workshop and laboratory management: Ensure tools, equipment, and materials are available and properly maintained.
- Construction and project supervision: Assist in planning and supervising university construction and maintenance projects.
- Building maintenance: Assist with repairs involving masonry, concrete, roofing, plastering, finishes, drainage and other building works.
- Health, safety and Environmental management: Ensure safe working practices in workshops, laboratories and construction sites.
- Procurement and materials management: Identify materials, tools and equipment required for practical training and projects.
- Technical support: Provide technical advice to departments and university management on building and civil engineering matters.
- Meetings and seminars: Attending meetings to discuss the growth of the Institution.
TRAINER, BUILDING TECHNOLOGY AND DEPUTY MANAGER AT SHIMBA HILLS TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL COLLEGE at COUNTY GOVERNMENT OF KWALE (2022-06 – 2025-09)
- Instruct trainees in adherence to the respective curriculum and occupational standards.
- Maintaining appropriate records and making them available as required by the directorate and TVET CDACC or any other relevant body.
- Prepare trainees for external exams by providing practical technical skills as required for effective competency acquisition.
- Teach and demonstrate mathematics and measurement calculations in order to interpret blueprints, drawings and calculate materials needed.
- Maintain accurate and complete student record in order to meet the individual student educational needs.
- Supervise and assess trainees in course area. Prepare lesson notes, schemes of work and lesson plan.
- Prepare internal exams, conduct trainees validation and that of the exam.
- Supervise trainees on industrial attachment.
- Attend meetings to discuss the growth of the Institution.
CONSTRUCTION SITE SUPERVISOR at PARKIN INVESTMENT LIMITED (2019-06 – 2021-08)
- Perform regular inspection of the work on site and comparing completed work with Drawings and Specifications.
- Checking that progress is within planned completion dates and budget.
- Identifying defects and suggesting ways to correct them.
- Making sure the site complies with all Health and safety regulations.
- Calculating basic cost and passing them to Quantity Surveyor to make final estimates.
- Attending and chairing meetings between Contractors, Engineers and Clients.
- Interpreting Contract Drawings and supervising the craft workers and the operations on the site.
- Preparing work progress report.
- Measuring and sampling materials to check their Quality.
INDUSTRIAL ATTACHMENT at MINISTRY OF TRANSPORT AND PUBLIC WORKS KIRINYAGA COUNTY (2018-09 – 2018-12)
- Interpreting contract drawings.
- Giving safety measures to workers.
- Preparing work progress report.
- Ensuring good workmanship in the site.
- Supervising work progress in site.
FIRST YEAR WORKSHOP EXPERIENCE at BROWNBUILT ENGINEERING & CONSTRUCTION LTD (2017-09 – 2017-12)
Worked as a Mason and participated in general construction work:
- Block laying and wall construction.
- Steel fixing and formwork.
- Civil works i.e. Water systems and drainage systems.
- Plastering work, Roofing and Floor Finishes i.e. Tiles fixing.
