Yashin Sookai, BSc Civil Eng

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

I am candidate Civil and Structural Engineer with a strong background in design, draughting and implementation. I am seeking a new dynamic and innovative environment where I can complete the requirements for my ECSA registration. I bring a diverse and useful skill set and I am willing to reskill myself in order to adapt to any environment.

PERSONAL DETAILS

Surname : Sookai

Names : Yashin

Date of Birth : 13 October 1994

I.D. No. : 941**********

Gender : Male

Nationality : South African

Home Language : English

Marital status : Single

Contact No. : 083-***-****

Email address : adm3ch@r.postjobfree.com

Location : Pietermaritzburg

Drivers Licence : Code 8

EDUCATION

BSc. Civil Engineering University of KwaZulu-Natal (2018)

Other Educational courses

• My SQL for data analytics and business intelligence

• Python for data science and machine learning Boot camp

• Online Masters of business administration crash course

• Teaching English to speakers of other languages

HIGH SCHOOL

Name of School : Raisethrope Secondary school

Highest Grade Passed : Matric

Subject Passed : English; Afrikaans; Mathematics; Physical Science; Geography;Biology and Life Orientation

Year : 2012

FUNCTIONAL EXPERTISE

•Competent in Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, and SAP.

•Good understanding of applicable laws, standards, and specifications.

•Enthusiastic Civil Engineer with good technical knowledge.

•Excellent in budget control, management skills and managing critical skills.

•High levels of accuracy by keeping attention to detail and correctness.

•Good project Management and Fault-finding skills.

•Possess good innovation and initiative skills in engineering.

•Always maintain a proactive approach in the working environment for ease in taking ownership and accountability.

•Knowledgeable in AutoCAD Civil 3D, PROKON, EPANET, nCode, and CMSW32 (Continuous Monitoring).

•Research and data analysis skills and good in promoting participation for projects.

•Ability to accurately track inventory and compile reports.

•Highly motivated, energetic, Sound judgement and good reasoning abilities.

•Good managerial and interpersonal skills and ability to work under pressure.

•Time management, Organizational and planning skills.

•Great team player and can work well independently.

•I have high level of leadership and decision-making skills.

•Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

•Expert draughting of structural steel, reinforced concrete, earth works, storm water, sewer line layouts, roads etc.

•Strong design expertise in structural steel, reinforced concrete, earth works, storm water, sewer line services, roads etc.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Preben Naidoo and Assoicates

June 2019-Currently employed

A Consulting Civil and Structural Engineering firm

Job Title: Candidate Civil and Structural Engineering

•Site inspections to ensure foundations can be poured

•Site inspections with the Engineer to assess the mode of failure of structures

•Site inspections to attain the levels(Use dumpy level) and measurements of the site

•Attending of tender briefings

•Site inspections for the issue of completion certificates

•Structural detailing and draughting

•Draughting of projects of various scales ( from house jobs to 350 million rand projects)

•Geometric design of an intersection

•Storm water design and management

•Inspection of engineering and architecture drawings

•Supervision of depth of foundations

•Engineering design of structural elements

•Property manager and maintenance manager

•Cost analysis

•Develop business plans, feasibility studies, conceptual designs

•Monitor site/quality assurance tests ( concrete cubes, slump tests etc)

•Preparing Civil layouts for roads, earthworks, storm water, sewer lines and other civil services

•Structural draugting of structural steel and reinforced concrete.

•Water retaining structure experience

•Preparation of preliminary drawings

•Coordination between geoteach, surveyors

•Write technical reports.

AIM January 2019 – May 2019

Job Title :Project Manager

General information about the responsibilities of this role, reserving impact details for bullet points.

• Supervision and Safety operations: Ensured good quality control for the subcontractor’s working on site.

This included regular meetings. Checking if OHS was adhered and ensuring materials testing was carried out and met the engineering specification.

• Mediation and communication management: chaired site meetings between professionals, the community and other interested and affected parties. I had to handle any disputes and raise them with the relevant parties as well as resolve concerns that had arisen.

• Materials management and procurement: Ensured that materials were always available for each phase of the project and stored appropriately.

VOLUNTEERISM

I volunteered to assist by tutoring grade 12 learners in my local high school.

I was empowering other students from University as well by volunteering and tutoring them thus adding value and quality to the community and education development.

I was assisting in screening people in my community and asking them questions for possible Covid-19 symptoms.

RELEVANT PROJECTS

Property maintenance: Run a small property maintenance and construction business. This includes overseeing a team of laborers, plumbers, carpenters, electricians and liaises with clients and vendors on a freelance basis. Clients are typically rental stock owners or home owners.

SOFTWARE COMPTENCIES

Autocad NumPy

Prokon Pandas

Microsoft Office-Excel, Word, power point Seaborn

MathLab (coding experience) Matplotlib

My SQL Plotly

Tableau Scikit-Learn

Python Machine Learning

Relevant skills: • Site management • Site inspections •drafting of structural drawings• Preparing earth works drawings • Preparing Civil services design • Project management• Strong statistics background • Strong math and science• Property management experience • Great problem solving background • Great communication skills• Drivers license• Storm water design • Structural Design • Engineering reports • Reinforced concrete drawings • Structural tee

E: adm3ch@r.postjobfree.com T: 083-***-****

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