Jonathan Tungunga

Certified Electrician with a well built experience in domestic, commercial, and industrial electrical installations for more than 5 years. Skilled in faults finding, testing, DB board and panel upgrades. Reliable on-site for tidy installations with strong focus on safety and compliance. Adaptable and committed to continuous upskilling. (Registered with the DoL)

Electrician at Solar Energy Africa (2023-01 – Present)

Leading a team throughout various achieved electrical industrial, commercial and residential projects.

• Check electrical supply, DB Board capacity, and earthing
• Read plans/ schematics, and take measurements for layout
• Install inverters (Deye, Victron, Sunsynk, Atess, Megarevo,...), isolators, AC/DC DBs, surge protection and batteries (Freedom Won, Sunsynk, Dryness, Greenrich, Solar MD, IES, WeCo,...)
• Follow SANS 10142-1 and electrical safety: lockout/tagout, PPE
• Do continuity, insulation resistance, polarity, and string Voc/ Isc tests
• Complete earth leakage, and loop impedance tests
• Commission inverter, configure monitoring/ portal, and set export limits (for Sunsynk and Deye)
• Fault finding, visual inspection and performance check
• Upgrades and expansion (adding panels and batteries).

Electrician at GreenSun (2022-01 – 2023-12)

Supervised and led a team successfully completing many solar PV systems installations.

• Installing, testing (SANS 10142-1 compliance) systems, and fault finding
• DC/AC wiring, inverter and DB set up
• Mount PV panels and wire strings, conduit, and trunking
• Supervised installation mounting rails and roof anchors.

Electrician at Betsani Holdings (2021-01 – 2022-12)

• Installed and maintained solar PV systems. Splitted and wired three phase and single phase DB boards for residential
• Installed DBs, panels, switchgears, and busbars and terminate cables, glands, and conductors on various construction sites.
• handled residential electrical installations services(three-phase and single-phase)

Electrician at CMGA & Electrical (2020-01 – 2020-12)

Installed and wired electrical systems at Terraco Data Center.

Electrician at GregLong Services (Dung Beetle Project) (2019-01 – 2020-12)

• Wired PLC Distribution Board
• Installed generator systems
• Repaired and maintained electrical motors
• Installed VFDs
• Rectified electrical circuits of the Dung Beetle machine.

Assistant Electrician at Gray Tech (2018-01 – 2019-12)

Handled some electrical tasks on construction sites.

• Fetched and prepared electrical materials ensuring they are kept organised
• conduit bending
• Pulled cables through conduits
• Mounted brackets, rails, and DB blackplates
• recorded measurements

Semi-skilled Electrician at Mtanda Electrical (2017-01 – 2017-12)

• Cable pulling
• cut conduit and trunking
• drill holes
• fished wires through walls
• routed cables in trunking

N5 Electrical Engineering in Electrical Engineering – Northlink College (2019-01 – 2019-12)

N4 Electrical Engineering Certificate in Electrical Engineering – Northlink College (2024-01 – 2025-12)

Electrical Certificate of Competence (Semi-skilled) in Electrical Engineering – Ekurhuleni Artisans and Skills Training Center (2016-01 – 2016-12)