Junior Natural Scientist – Water Quality at Vhembe District Municipality (2024-01 – Present)
- Data Management and Verification: Collect operational parameters, daily logbooks, production reports, and incident registers across multiple water facilities to build comprehensive technical databases.
- System Logging and Uploading: Validate chemical and physical water quality test results against SANS 241-2015 compliance limits and record datasets onto the Department of Water and Sanitation's national IRIS database.
- Audit Readiness and Compilation: Assist with compiling, checking, and preparing monthly municipal water quality datasets for official publication in government gazettes and local newspapers and Assist with the preparation of the Blue Drop and Green Drop audit.
- Quality Control Support: Maintain rigorous records of laboratory analytical equipment, chemical reagent inventories, and equipment calibration metrics to ensure data traceability.
Project Officer Assistant - graduate programme at South African Agency for Science and Technology Advancement (NRF-SAASTA) (2021-02 – 2022-02)
- Project Coordination: Planning, organising, and executing competitions (National Science Olympiads and Asto Quiz) and managing live event components, including invigilating the Astronomy Quiz final round.
- Stakeholder & Client Relations: Serving as point of contact for schools, the Department of Education, and external service providers and addressing and resolving client queries and escalated issues.
- Administrative & Data Management: Recording official meeting minutes and compiling detailed portfolios of evidence, demographic data, and progress reports for project coordinators and Structuring and maintaining efficient filing and archiving systems.
- Operations & Resource Management: Managing procurement processes, allocating resources, and supervising external team members and Ensuring strategic business briefs and organizational mandates are successfully met.
Candidate Environmental Assessment Practitioner / District Coordinator at Tholoana Environmental Consulting (2019-01 – 2021-01)
- Managed Basic Assessments (BAs) and Environmental Impact Assessments (EIAs) in line with NEMA (Act 107 of 1998), successfully delivering the Zandspruit Filling Station BA and the Kelland project.
- Conducted pre-project environmental monitoring and risk assessments to evaluate potential site impacts.
- Enforced environmental, waste management, and health and safety regulations through planned and unannounced site inspections.
- Led public participation processes, hosting Q&A sessions and sharing clear project information to enable community engagement.
- Maintained Interested and Affected Parties (I&AP) databases and processed stakeholder feedback.
- Coordinated communality environmental education and training, facilitated environmental legislation workshops, and delivered in-house staff training and basic computer literacy classes.
- Managed participant onboarding, verified project records, and compiled monthly progress reports for the Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (DFFE).
Environmental Compliance and Waste Management Officer at Thulamela Local Municipality: Community Services, Environment and Waste (2017-01 – 2019-01)
- Conducted site inspections and internal landfill audits to ensure strict adherence to NEM:WA, EMPr, and OHS Act frameworks.
- Identified operational irregularities, provided actionable corrective recommendations, and compiled monthly Safety, Health, and Environment (SHE) incident reports.
- Liaised with government officials and external contractors to resolve compliance issues and direct contract sign-off data tools.
- Planned, managed, and implemented municipal waste management activities, compiling comprehensive monthly reports on all environmental issues addressed.
- Tracked and recorded waste data for SAWIS and managed the capturing and validation of Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) data within the National Integrated Reporting System (NIRS) to ensure data integrity.
- Coordinated internal Safety, Health, and Environment (SHE) audits under the OHS Act, compiled monthly incident reports, and directed contract sign-off data tools.
- Coordinated and led monthly community clean-up campaigns to eliminate illegal dumping sites across the municipality.
- Planned and executed local environmental education initiatives and public events aligned with the official environmental calendar.
