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Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa

Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa

As an assembly line operator at Ford Motor Company, My Responsibilities were as follows: •Precisely made the connections between the electrical cables of the front right hand door and that of the car itself to allow functions such as the door speaker, opening and closing of the electric window to operate and prohibit the car from failing at the end of slat as the cars are more electrical than mechanical.•Inserted a specified protective kick panel for each vehicle. •Inserted the door barrel, tightened it using an air powered tool, plugged it and then inserted the designated cover for the door handles as they differed. •Inserted the door by firstly aligning it to the car and then tightened the door bolts in a sequential form. •Inserted the correct modesty panel following a sequence, attached hooters for certain cars.

Ladysmith Area, Kwazulu Natal

• Carried out desktop studies, researched and collected available information concerning site.• Land zonation using Google Earth and GIS.• Conducted field reconnaissance and developed clearer perspective of the site conditions.• Deduced slope gradient and measured steepness.• Set out boreholes, Supervised drilling and logged boreholes.• Liased with excavating personnel.• Assessed soil profiles and classified the soil characteristics according to their geotechnical zones.• Carried out DCP Tests, Provided the indication of the bed rock and consistency of the soil overlying the site and essentially estimated the allowable safe bearing pressure.• Carried out percolation/permeability tests and measured the rate at which the water seeped into the ground.• Collected and sent soil/rock samples to reputable testing laboratories for further analysis.• Constructed final reports with all relevant findings and provided probable recommendations and solutions.

Pretoria Area, South Africa

• Carried out safety drills prior to investigations to avoid potential hazards.• Carried out desktop studies and collected available information concerning site.• Carried out field reconnaissance and developed clearer perspective of site conditions.• Developed site maps and provided idea of outlined site.• Determined the Geophysical Technique most suited for proposed project.• Prepared and set up desired Geophysical instruments meant to be used on site.• Ran the survey, processed and analyzed data.• Cleaned field equipment to ensure maximum potential usage and longer life span.Geophysical Techniques and Software Trained for include but not limited to :- Gravity Method, Ground Penetrating Radar Method, Seismic Refraction, Induced Polarization, Electrical Resistivity Tomography, Electro Magnetics, Etc.- Grav2Dv, Surfer.

B-Tech Geology, Geology/Earth Science, General

N.Dip Geology