Traffic Surveyor - Mikros Traffic Monitoring (KZN) - KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
(2016-02 - 2016-04)
Placed by SINGAKWENZA NDAWONYE. Working with traffic monitoring and survey operations for a period of 2 months.
- Purchasing tools such as steps and paints
- Collecting Vehicle photos and speed taken by road cameras and flashes by downloading these from computers supported next to the road
- Collecting these documents via drive
- Data handling using application of computer such as Micro Soft excel, where I was putting it in a spreadsheet and doing calculations
- Counting number of vehicles on the road and writing it down
- Monitoring traffic stations
- Changing batteries at monitoring stations
- Cleaning Electronic containers and packing these into boxes and making sure that these are protected from any damages
- Cleaning system boards containing cards
- Booking the stock (name and barcode)
- Having stops. Checking for faulty electronic devices at monitoring stations
- Traffic survey (Vehicle, Taxi and Bus counting (6:00 am - 6:00 pm))
- Taxi rank survey
Student Technician - JG Afrika - South Africa
(2016-07 - 2017-01)
Placed by SANRAL. Working on civil engineering projects for a period of 6.5 months.
- Filing
- Site Supervision
- Capturing of recommendations or specifications
- Printing and binding a contract document
- Application of a programmer civil designer to make design of irrigation system (Nsuze Irrigation System)
- Capturing of site details using micro soft excel/spread sheet
- Use of micro soft excel to calculate quantities of pipes
- Inserting field co-ordinates into a spreadsheet
- Creating title block for drawings
- Detailed use of civil designer programmer to create Nsuze Irrigation system drawings
- Richmond road supervision
- Printing emails
- Making Time sheets
- Structural steel and reinforced concrete design for a slab, screed, beam, column, and footing, drawing and detailing
- Culvert design
- Getting explanation about culvert and bridge inspection
- Structural analysis using prokon programmer
- Boring a bridge abutment to found out the depth of pier from pile foundation to the top of the wall abutment
Student Technician - Sobek Consulting Company - South Africa
(2018-07 - 2019-08)
Six months working contract on road maintenance and inspection projects.
- Road Inspection
- Crack sealing
- Attaching measurement sheets to JI's, updating the register and arranging Job Instructions according to subcontractors
- Setting Job Instructions and editing the minutes of the meeting
- Attending SANRAL meeting
- Capturing Road Incidents
- Attaching measurement sheets to Job Instructions
- Capturing Job Instructions using a programmer IT's
- Compiling a Methodology Report
- Site Meeting and checks for existing water coarse and excavation of a trench
- Attending a Tender briefing at Greytown
- Attending a Tender briefing at Pietermaritzburg
- Filing Route Petrol Register and Weekly reports
- Bridge inspection
Site Agent - Sindelani Trading - South Africa
(2024-01 - 2026-01)
2 years working experience on Traffic Accommodation, Road Patching and Stop and Go.
- Accommodating the traffic for the upgrade (Rehabilitation) of Ventersburg to Senekal Road
- Placing road signs according the drawing such as workmen, 80 sign, no overtaking, 60 sign, Tripping stone, 40 sign, Bending sign, soft surface and dump truck
- Placing these signs at a distance of 100 m apart before bypass
- These signs were placed in the same way at the start and at the end of the bypass
- Placing these signs to a bypass to assist when vehicles are moving to the bypass
- Using delineators to accommodate the incoming traffic and outcoming traffic
- Using arrow signs to tell vehicles that must drive on a bypass
- Using a road closing sign, no entry sign, barrier sign to stop the traffic from driving on a working area, placing these on the start and end of the working area
- Mmoving these signs as the road was extended to make a new bypass
- Driving along the road checking potholes occurring on the road (Ventersburg to Senekal) and covering these with asphalt
- Patching the road using cold mix asphalt, water, tamper, two spades and eight labours
- Placing two containers on the road where I was to do stop and go. These containers do have robots to tell the traffic whether to stop or go
- Vehicles were moving on one lane and the other lane, had a working area
- Placing the robots at the start and end of the accommodated road
- Installing delineators and the other signs like arrow signs in- between the robots
- Putting stop and go signs, two labours in each container and flag ladies in front who are to control traffic
- Doing this at the start and end of robots
Student Technician - Raubex Construction Company - South Africa
(2023-07 - 2024-06)
One year working experience in different categories of Civil Engineering (Sections) namely Subcontractors, Structures, Road laboratories, site and Surveying.
- Inserting a subsoil pipe for drainage underneath the side of road. Excavating using a TLB to make a trench, two meters depth. Before we excavate, we were marking using fish line, cement and referring to surveyor poles. We were doing levels for a trench using a timber, controlling a TLB guy. We laid a bedim into a trench acting as a bed
- Putting U19 stones, subsoil pipe and stones again above the pipe after connecting a pipe along a trench. We also engulfed these with a bedim
- Placing river sands on top
- Working on a retaining wall. Erecting a reinforced concrete wall to sustain a wall not to collapse onto a freeway road next to Police station at Camperdown. We were constructing the wall guided by drawings that was prepared by Nyeleti Consulting. We excavated a big trench, doing pad foundation, steel shutters were used for formwork. Butterfly clamps to align shutters. Tying steel (Y bar) for reinforcements. We poured concrete using a concrete mixer
- Working in the laboratory doing soil tests. Working under concrete and compaction. At concrete, we were doing cubes and slum test. We were going to site collecting concrete and pouring it in the plastic mold. Waiting for it 2 days for dry before laboratory testing. After 3days, we were measuring its length, width and mass. I was putting it in the machine to measure its strength
- Preparing soil samples from the road. Laying cube testing we were putting it in the water for 3 days. We crushed it with a tamper. I have been preparing samples from site, keep ready for compaction. We were using sieve (Size 20 and 19 mm) and sieving the soil. We were also crushing it in such a way that we obtain a very small soil size. We were compacting soil using compaction machines. We were also using buckets, plates, scale, cylinder, calculator, mold, tins, metal spoon, oven and worksheets
- Working on stabilizing the road, we were placing a number of bags with cement along the road to be mixed with soil on the road. Miller was used to bond cement and soil with the assistance of water canes and labor. We were also maintaining road barriers along the road. We were cleaning, aligning and removing protruding concrete on it
- Using a dump level, eight-pound hammer, staff to do levels freeway at Camperdown and Cato Ridge
Site Agent - Salitek (PTY)LTD - South Africa
(2026-03 - 2026-03)
One month working experience for roof construction of JW Ennerdale Depot.
- Compiling a Method Statement
- Inspecting construction process
- Inspection after removal of existing roof materials
- Inspection of repaired and reinforced trusses
- Inspection of purlin installation
- Inspection prior to installation of roof sheeting
- Final inspection upon completion of roofing works
- Tile Stripping: Working from the ridge downwards, we were carefully, removing the existing roof tiles
- Stacking: We passed the tile down a human chain or via a hoist to ground level. Stack them on pallets away from the work area to prevent overloading the ground or damaging them for potential reuse (if required, though scope indicates replacement)
- Batten Removal: We were removing tile battens and underlay. Disposing debris in skips
- Braced bays including vertical and cross bracing. We were permanently installing wind bracing to create rigid braced bays
- Safe removal of existing gable wall
