Qhakazile Mathebula
Project Manager, Capital Projects at Joburg CityPower- Claim this Profile
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Credentials
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Finance for Engineers, Technical & Project Managers
ALUSANI SKILLS & TRAININGSep, 2015- Oct, 2024 -
Techinical Report Writing
ALUSANI SKILLS AND TRAINING NETWORKAug, 2015- Oct, 2024 -
D25 RTU
Powertech ISTMar, 2013- Oct, 2024 -
D20 RTU
Powertech ISTJun, 2012- Oct, 2024 -
Certified Fiber Optic Technician
Fiber Optic Association -
Women In Engineering
ABC Sector
Experience
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Joburg CityPower
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Appliances, Electrical, and Electronics Manufacturing
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1 - 100 Employee
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Project Manager, Capital Projects
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Feb 2018 - Present
• Initiating, planning & managing capital projects using PMBOK methodologies to achieve the strategic, technical & financial objectives of my business unit (Project Management Office - PMO).• Executing projects within cost, quality & time, while managing & mitigating project risks.• Ensuring that projects are executed in line with specifications, policies, system designs, installation guidelines, company standards, engineering principles & international practices.• Overseeing that capex funding allocated to projects is utilized optimally within the allocated projects & managing cash flow in projects. • Ensuring that bid specifications, bid evaluations & bid adjudications are in line with governance requirements.• Consulting & managing appointed contracting entities throughout project life cycles to ensure delivery of project deadlines.• Leading a project team of Project Coordinators, Project Administrators & Clerk of Works.• Collaborating with multi-sectoral teams within the company (Infrastructure Planning, Finance, Supply Chain Management, Legal, & End User departments.)• Establishing & maintaining good stakeholder engagement & management amongst all project stakeholders (internal & external).• Ensuring effective financial management of my business unit in compliance with relevant legislation & company policies. Show less
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Senior Technician, Telecommunications
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Jan 2013 - Jan 2018
Identifying, planning and executing projects on telecommunications technology, systems and fiber optic networks.Compiling planning report, progress reports and final completion reports of the project.Managing projects executed by various entities to ensure the contracting entity executes the project according to the scope, standards set, meeting the major milestones within the approved budget, timelines and quality requirements.Managing performance of contractors on site and in substations, ensuring compliance with regulations, health and safety in the high voltage environment.Conducting monthly contractor & project evaluations, report writing, generating and presenting project’s progress reports at high level management meetings.Liaising with various stakeholders (internal & external) and maintaining good working relationships with clear business ethics.Devising and executing maintenance & inspection plans to improve system reliability and to minimize failures.Carrying out maintenance & fault-finding on telecommunications systems in various substations.Providing telecommunications support & services to various departments within the company.Creating new records, updating and amending existing records as per project results.Mentoring and training students.Certified Fiber Optics Technician (CFOT). Show less
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SCADA RTU Technician
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Jan 2012 - Dec 2012
Ensuring the availability of monitoring & control equipment, vital to operating the power network safely and effectively, through the overseeing of installations and standards of new field equipment at sub stations, the testing and commissioning of new field equipment as well as ongoing maintenance of field equipment to ensure that information and control systems, vital to the optimal supply of power to end users, are available and operational at all times.Application of technical knowledge to ensure that the implementation of the software applications is reflective of the physical power network & aligned to its behavioral characteristics.Ensuring that software & configurations are operational & correctEnsuring that power system protection functionality is not compromised by monitoring & control systems.Performing on-site & end-to-end commissioning of individual connected functions from primary plant & protection devices to remote control center.Ensuring that all installations have been properly commissioned & alarms correctly configured.Ensuring that there are reliable early warnings to prevent the destruction of plant and to reduce injury to operating staff.Contributing to Systems Control being able to remotely operate primary plant, thus enhancing safety by reducing high risk, on- site switching operations and that safety & operating procedures are adhered to while testing functions in remote locationsTesting systems under simulated outage conditions to ensure continuous operation in order to supply vital information to system control under real outage conditions. Remedying faulty alarms, controls & status indications (point faults). Show less
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SCADA Load Management Technician
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Sep 2008 - Dec 2011
Ensuring the availability of load management systems and equipment, vital to controlling the peak demand for power on the distribution networks, to safely and effectively control load to reduce energy procurement costs and avoid primary plant overloading, through the overseeing of standards, the installation and commissioning of new equipment at sub stations and customer premises, testing and ongoing maintenance of field equipment. Programming and software configuration of micro-processor based field devices and utilization of associated data communication systems.Application of technical knowledge in software configuration to ensure that the systems control geyser load and street-lighting at appropriate times without inconveniencing customers.Programming errors resulting in cold water and street-light failure incidents.Ensuring that field faults are correctly diagnosed and conclusively remedied.Providing City Power with controls to manage and monitor load, and take decisions to reduce deferrable load (geysers) at critical or expensive times.Monitoring of the status of load management systems to provide early warnings of potential cold water outages.Cost containment on energy purchasesAvoiding outages due to overloading, reduce stress on primary plant & reduction of equipment down time.Component level fault finding and repair of electronic modules.Performing on-site commissioning of substation installations and ensuring the integrity of MV enclosures associated with load management systems.Contributing to Systems Control to be able to reduce load and operate plant to within technical limits, thus enhancing safety.Ensuring safety procedures are adhered to while testing functions in remote locations.Assisting with the creation and continuous improvement of safe working procedures. Show less
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Transnet Freight Rail
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South Africa
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Truck Transportation
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700 & Above Employee
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Engineering Technician: Signalling
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Jul 2005 - Jul 2008
Ensuring a safe regulation and movement of trains on the network with minimum conflict and delay by doing signaling engineering. Faultfinding on various signaling systems which include but not limited to color light signals, track circuits, train detection systems, point operation and detection systems, vital interlocking systems, level crossings and remote controls. Testing and commissioning of new and upgraded signaling systems. Maintaining signaling systems (Routine Preventative Maintenance & Corrective Preventative Maintenance) to ensure system integrity. Safety tests of equipment to ensure compliance to railway and safety standards. Quality inspections, replacing damaged and degraded signaling & related electronic equipment. Working in conjunction with other departments on projects which are Perway & Electrical. Planning & executing projects and compiling technical reports. Doing standby duties and assisting in other sections when needed. Creating & scheduling maintenance plans using SAP. Supervision of sub-ordinates (Technical Workers and Process Workers). Show less
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Highveld Steel and Vanadium Corporation
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South Africa
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Real Estate
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1 - 100 Employee
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Junior Technician
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Jan 2003 - Jun 2005
Doing in-service training (P1 & P2): Plant checks in the beginning and end of shift. Optimizing various processes in the plant which include temperature, weight, flow, pressure & level. Installations, calibrations, faultfinding, maintenance & wiring of process control instruments & pneumatic field instruments in the plant. Faultfinding, repairs, tests, programming on electronic cards & circuits, control loops, sensors, valves, transmitters, switches, gas analyzers, controllers, analog & digital meters. Troubleshooting, wiring and programming PLC & SCADA (Allen Bradley). Show less
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Education
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2013 - 2015
Tshwane University of Technology
Bachelor’s Degree, BTech Electrical Engineering -
2009 - 2010
Intec College
Diploma, Project Management -
2009 - 2010
University of South Africa/Universiteit van Suid-Afrika
Bachelor's Degree, Business Administraton -
2000 - 2004
Tshwane University of Technology
National Diploma, Electrical Engineering
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