Katya Anicka Sutherland

I am a quick learner, adaptable and dependable. I enjoy being busy all day but know when I have reached my limit. I am a hands on learner that enjoys learning and the physical work that is put into all of it.

When faced with a challenge I will tackle it head on and be persistent in my efforts to overcome it. I am a natural born leader but when having to be a member of a team I know how to step down and work as a team. I am a headstrong individual but when given advice or guidance from my peers or elders, I respect their advice, guidance or opinions and will adapt myself to it.

NYS student, Department of Public Works and Infrastructure Amathole

My job is to learn, through assisting the unit I am assigned to which was Architecture in the buildings component. I have been on site visits to assess sites and help organize many offices thus far. I have met every deadline given to me before the deadline arrived and learnt how to use the drawing software on my own and with the help of an intern in the unit, as well as I did the administrative work in the unit, drew up memos and assisted with fuel claims and small detail orientated tasks. I then however moved on to assisting in the Regional Directors office under his executive assistant, where I took up the role of her personal assistant and doing the smaller tasks as asked. If she was on leave, I would step into her role as she mentored me to be able to handle such. In July 2022 I was rotated to the electrical team under the AptCOT program. My first week on the team was spent putting in light fitments, connecting lights to the built electrical lines and then doing the outside lights that were connected to a daylight sensor/photocell on a singular site the entire week, the week after was spent on a singular site, terminating, replacing cabling, installing lights and D/B Boards, connecting switches and building electrical lines due to the size of the projects we spent a month onsite. A part from that we replaced, converted and repaired light fittings, outside/street lights, repaired electrical lines and did maintenance in our property.