CURRICULUM VITAE: MAHLATSE R MOKWATLO

Name : Mahlatse R Mokwatlo

Date of Birth : 1984 December 07

Profession/Specialisation : Structural Engineer

Nationality : South African

Years experience : 5

KEY QUALIFICATIONS

Mahlatse has spent 4 yrs with a leading construction company, G-LTA (3 as a student and 1 as a site
engineer). He worked as section engineer for a R40 million section on a R190 million Civils Project, the
Sishen Expansion Project at the Sishen Mine in Kathu in 2006. He then spent 3 yrs with a leading Civil
and Structural engineering consulting company within the petrochemical and mining industry (LB
Engineers). He then worked on several water supply scheme projects including the Ohlanga Pump
Station in Ethekwini and the Thune Dam project in Botswana as a Structural Engineer with Aurecon.
Mahlatse also completed his Graduate Diploma in Engineering at the University of the Witwatersrand
(Dec 2010) majoring in Structural Engineering and Project Management.

EMPLOYMENT RECORD

Feb 2010 to Present: Structural Engineer, Aurecon, Centurion

Nov 2008 to Jan 2010: Structural Engineer, LB Engineers, Centurion

March 2007 to Oct 2008: Junior Engineer and Junior Engineering Manager, LB Engineers, Secunda

Jan 2006 to Feb 2007: Site Engineer, G-LTA, SEP Project, Kathu

Jan 2003 to Dec 2005: Student Engineer, G-LTA, Kempton Park

EXPERIENCE RECORD

Feb 2011 to present Sebokeng Wastewater Treatment works

Engineer

The project entails the tender and construction design phases for the 100 Ml additional modules for the
Activated Sludge Waste Water Treatment Works in Sebokeng as the present works are operating beyond
capacity.

Personal responsibilities include:

• Conceptual design of the modules for the treatment works
• Exploration of different alternatives
• Hydraulic calculations and design for the feasible alternative
• Structural design
• Compiling of design reports

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May 2010 to Jan 2011 Thune Dam: Botswana
Structural Engineer

The dam construction is clay core earthfill embarkment 34.5 m high and 1633 m long. The gross storage
capacity is 90 Ml. The central spillway comprises 115m long mass gravity ogee weir with retaining walls on
either side including the intake works.

Personal responsibilities included:

• Structural design of the 30 m high intake structure
• Structural design of the apron slabs downstream of the spillway
• Structural design of the spillway crest
• Determination of structural design loads and requirements
• Early age thermal cracking design and detailing for the above

May 2010 to June 2010 Massingir Dam, Mozambique

Structural Engineer

The 48m high Massingir dam completed in 1977 displayed major defect due to high pore pressures at the
toe form the onset. The top section of the outlet structure burst open on the 22nd may 2008 due to the dam
operating above capacity. The project entailed the investigation into the failure that occurred in 2008.
Remedial works included the replacement of a concrete pipe section with a steel bifurcation.

Personal responsibilities included:

• Structural analysis and design of bifurcation pipe and outlet works’ concrete sections using finite
elements methods.
• Compiling of design reports

Feb 2010 to April 2010 Ohlanga Pump Station

Structural Engineer

The project involved the design of a DN 1250 outfall sewer, approximately 7850m long, a reinforced
concrete pumpstation and a DN 560 rising main approximately 1000m long. The project also included the
design of connection valve chambers, manholes, road and stream crossings as well as wastewater
treatment works.

Personal responsibilities included:

• Structural design, design review as well as proposing structurally efficient designs taking into
consideration the hydraulic effects.
• Determination of structure design loads and requirements
• Structural detailing
• Client liaison

Oct 2008 to Jan 2010 Medupi Connection Design, Medupi

Project Coordinator and structural engineer

The project entailed the connection designs for the Medupi Powerstation’s Boilerhouses.

Personal responsibilities included:

• Dissemination of incoming project information and distribution of work
• Client liaison
• Preparation of designs and design documents
• Connections designs (DIN, BS and SANS)
• Shop detail review
• Compiling in house project management procedures.
• Attending client meeting

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Oct 2008 to Jan 2010 Genrec Workshop and Lifting Devices, Wadeville
Project Coordinator and structural engineer

The project entailed the design of workshop handling and lifting devices.

Personal responsibilities included:

• Disseminate incoming job requests
• Setup design clarification meeting with client
• Consult relevant stakeholders, workshop personnel and safety officers
• Investigate existing structures for suitability to continue work and perform structural designs
• Review performance of designs
• Shop review of built designs
• Structural steel design of pipe racks, portal frame warehouses, overhead crane gantries, monorails,
lifting beams, spreader beams
• Workshop material handling devices such as trestles, lifting and rotating devices (Heavy Duty),
singles angle beams in bending requiring design, analysis and verification from first principles

Oct 2008 to Jan 2010 Oxygen Train 16, SASOL Secunda

Survey project coordinator and Structural engineer

This project entailed the design a new Oxygen plant in the SASOL Secunda plant.
Personal responsibilities included:

Phase 1
• Appointing a surveyor to perform a landscape survey. Assisting surveyor in meeting plant safety
requirements as well as required safety nominations.
• Oversee the production of drawings of existing structures and underground services.
• Responsible for final drawings produced for the survey and existing services within the plant.
Phase 2

• Perform pile, and pile cap designs for the 25m Chiller tower structure, Noisehood structure and the
various vertical and horizontal vessel structures
• Perform the designs for the 25-m concrete Chiller tower
• Perform designs for the structural steel Noisehood structure and lifting plan design for the
removable roof structure.

Jan 2008 to Sept 2008 Multiple Small projects, SASOL Secunda

Junior Engineering manager and Structural engineer

As a junior engineering manager, I attended site briefing meetings, perform cost estimates for the company
to perform the works. Upon subsequent employment, my responsibilities included the following:

• Attending client briefing/project requirements meetings

• Cost estimates
• Site visits to understand problem
• Preliminary designs to convey understanding and proposed solutions
• Final design
• Structural steel design of warehouses, portal frames, access platforms, connections, lifting
equipment, gantry overhead and monorail cranes.
• Structural concrete design of mine shaft foundations, foundations of heat exchangers, horizontal
and vertical vessels, retaining walls, liquid retaining structures.
• Maintenance Projects for structural steel and concrete structures
• Project management
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March 2007 to Dec 2007 Multiple Small projects, SASOL Secunda
Structural engineer

The projects entailed multiple maintenance works for structural steel and concrete structures.

Personal responsibilities included:

• Investigations on site with regards to structural adequacy of structures to perform designated works
• Compiling of structural inspection works
• Recommendations on repair procedures
• Design of repair works
• Perform visual plant inspections and report on deleterious activity and repair procedures to minimize
damage due to the chemical environment. Address fire safety and structural durability problems with
regards to structural steel and concrete.
• Perform system structural analysis to investigate integrity of structure and recommend appropriate
action.
• Crane runway Inspections, design and repair
• Conveyor analysis, design and repair
• Callouts for emergency works, investigate, understand and propose immediate structural solution

Jan 2006 to Feb 2007 Sishen Expansion Project, SASOL Secunda

Site Engineer

The project entailed the construction of bulk concrete works. I was responsible for my own section worth
R40 million on a R190 million rand project.

Personal responsibilities included:

• Running numerous sites including the Jig Plant, Dewatering plant, Control room and the pipe racks.
• Ordering of materials required to do the works including long lead items
• Monitoring and chasing of the construction programme
• Management of the construction team, foremen and the workers.
• Adhere to stringent mine safety requirements and still produce work on time
• Plan large pours and coordinate and motivate construction team.
• Setting out survey and site inspections
• Compile man-hour job costing
• Perform quality assurance tasks
• Record dayworks
• Client liaison

Jan 2003 – Dec 2005 Vacation Work

Student site engineer

As a student engineer I was privileged to work on the SASOL Poly III project in Sasolburg.

Personal responsibilities included:

• Site inspections
• Site survey
• Quality control
• Toolbox meetings

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EDUCATION

• B Sc. (Civil), University of the Witwatersrand , Johannesburg , 2005

• Graduate Diploma in Engineering (Structures and Project Management), University of the
Witwatersrand , Johannesburg , 2010

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

• Associate member, South African Institution of Civil Engineering

• Candidate Engineer with Engineering Council of South Africa
• Institution of Structural Engineers

LANGUAGES

Speaking Reading Writing

English Fluent Excellent Excellent
Sepedi Fluent Excellent Excellent
Zulu Fair Poor Poor
Tswana Good Excellent Excellent
Afrikaans Fair Fair Poor

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