Palesa Paulina Potlaki

***** ******** ********

Virginia

South Africa

9430

078*******. 053*******

ac9z2y@r.postjobfree.com

I am very diligent and trustworthy person with the ability to work for any positions coming my way and I like challenges. I am a highly motivated self-starter with a passion for what I do and always willing to learn more. A conscientious and professional electrical engineering with extensive experience in engineering. A highly organised and efficient individual, whose thorough and precise approach to projects has yielded excellent results. Recent achievements with my current employer include technical designs on electrification projects and asset management through Maximo configurations software.

Secondary Education

Name of School : Meloding Secondary School

Year attended : 2007

First Certificate : National Senior Certificate

Tertiary Qualifications

Institution : Central University of Technology

Name of course : National Diploma: Electrical Engineering (HCB) Institution : Central University of Technology

Name of course : BTECH: Electrical Engineering

Institution : North West University

Name of the Course : Postgraduate Diploma in Management Institution : Oxbridge Academy

Name of the Course : Certificate in Project Management Computer Literacy

• Micro-Soft Word

• Micro-Soft Power Point

• Micro-Soft Access

• Micro-Soft Excel

Achievement & awards

• Been a design lead in an electrification projects performed in different villages.

• I did design on reticulation project, a customer applied for 1MVA transformer supply. Test on HV/MV equipment in a substation up 765kV.

• Best Achiever in Sesotho Certificate (Grade 12) 2007

• Debating Certificate (Grade 11) 2006

• Public Speaking Certificate (Grade 11) 2006

• Community engagement certificate 2012

Leadership roles

• Class prefect (Grade 11,12) 2006-2007

• Secretary of Environmental club(Grade 11) 2006

• Delegation of Authority granted once in a while as a manager. Work Experience Company: Eskom Distribution

Position: Senior Technician Electrical (Maintenance and data) Pr. Techni Eng. (ECSA)

Period/Duration: August 2017 - Present

Job Duties:

• Perform quality assurance and Task process audits

• Obtain asset location data Site verification

• Consolidate presentations

• Attend meetings

• Involved in Plant projects to efficiently meet the Plant Sector objectives.

• Problem-solving on not so well performing equipment on assets at plant Company: Eskom Distribution

Position: Technician Electrical (Designing)

Period/Duration: May 2013- July 2017 Job

Duties:

• Project scope of work and budget quotes (Preliminary Design) by producing preliminary designs and final designs after evaluating site conditions.

• Managing Technical Project/Design Team by appointing the technical project team.

• Detail design package by compiling final design packages.

• Technical support service.

• Project quality control by providing project quality control units.

• Customer liaison with Customer Service and external Eskom Customer.

• Administrative

Company: Mac Donald Restaurant

Position: Crew Member

Period/Duration: October 2012- April 2013 Job

Duties:

Till or cashier, food court, cleaning

Company: Eskom Transmission

Position: Technician in Training

Period/Duration: January 2011-March 2012 Job

Duties:

• Performed together with seniors, maintenance and commissioning projects

• on HV/MV/LV electrical equipment’s.

Company: FIFA World Cup 2010(Volunteer)

Position: Administration Support

Period/Duration: June –July 2010

Job Duties:

• Set up boardroom for meetings.

• Take minutes during Press conferences.

• Filing and typing in the minutes.

Company: FIFA Confederations Cup (Volunteer)

Position: Language Support

Period/Duration: May-June 2009

Job Duties:

• Help tourists around with information.

• Interact during training with the players

Company: Zelpy in Store Promotions (Part-time)

Position: Promoter

Period/Duration: June 2008-October 2010

Job Duties:

• Product marketing and promotion

• Advise customers on a suitable product

• Stock taking and balancing

Summary of accomplishments

• Goal Oriented

• Enthusiastic

• Energetic

• Dedicated

Reference

Available on request.

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Applicant's Signature: Date: 17/06/2019

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