Thabang Motau

• Led regional infrastructure operations for safety
critical, civil, building & facilities, electrical and
mechanical assets supporting continuous service
delivery across multi-site airport environments,
ensuring asset availability, reliability, and
sustainability aligned with business operational
requirements.
• Directed preventative, corrective, and condition
based maintenance programmes using Reliability
Centred Maintenance (RCM) principles to minimise
service disruptions and optimise lifecycle
performance.
• Established performance dashboards, maintenance
backlogs, and reliability KPIs to drive operational
transparency and executive reporting.
• Oversaw civil, electrical, mechanical and building
and facilities departments as senior manager
maintenance & engineering, relieving the direct
manager during periods of absence.
• Accountable for compliance with Occupational
Health and Safety Act (OHSA), engineering
standards, internal governance frameworks, and
audit requirements within regulated operational
environments.

• Contributing to:
◦ Hazard identification
◦ Incident / near miss reporting
◦ Wellness
◦ Participation in health and safety
• Participates in safety conversations on a regular
basis with peers and stakeholders.
• Required to work as a team to develop asset
renewal, refurbishment, and maintenance
programmes - ensuring that our networks and
assets perform to their specified performance levels
over their full anticipated lives.
• Inform strategic decision-making processes around
maintenance and renewal planning by maintaining
an understanding of Eskom Transmission Energys
Strategic priorities and SAMP.
• Ensuring we have the best view of data for the asset
fleet, enabling the Strategy team to model repex
volumes and risk quantification.
• Driving continuous improvement in Asset
Management Maturity
• Identifying, scoping, and implementing asset fleet
improvement initiatives and actions aligned to the
SAMP.
• Contribution to developing and implementing an
Asset Management Development Plans.
• Asset renewal and maintenance prioritisation and
scheduling over the 10-year investment period with
close cooperation with the Network Planning and
Contract Delivery team.

• Developed discipline-specific philosophies,
technical standards, procedures, work practices,
and specifications for approval.
• Developed maintenance strategies per asset class
by analyzing design base to determine maintenance
requirements.
• Analyzed data to identify potential risk-related asset
management activities.
• Attended and presented technical papers at national
forums.
• Chaired and reported specific status and progress of
strategic and critical spares to the maintenance
study committee
• Participated in the development of criteria evaluation
of equipment and technical for tender evaluations
• Participated in the final check of the new
installations. This included factory and site
acceptance testing that assured adherence to
functional specifications
• Utilized data analysis techniques that include failure
mode effects and analysis, root cause and root
cause failure analysis
• Developed and oversaw the establishment of
national contracts of different strategic and critical
spares
• Identified skills and training requirements and gaps
based on existing and emerging technology
developments
• Compiled different maintenance standards,
engineering instructions, guidelines, and terms of
reference per asset class
• Compiled professional and comprehensive reports
that allowed clients to make informed decisions
pertaining to plant maintenance problems
• Identified issues related to the core technology that
required immediate attention and could be
addressed by applying existing knowledge
• Developed engineering solutions to repetitive
failures and other problems that adversely affect
plant operations
• Evaluated the material for self-build Projects mainly
solar and wind plants.
SHE specifications for various projects were readily
available.
• Assisted with the appointment of various
contractors, ensured that their health and safety files
were evaluated by our SHEQs department, and that
SHE specifications for various projects were readily
available.
• Ensured that the environmental department applied
for water use license applications (WULA),
environmental authorizations, and methods of
statements for wetlands on time for various projects.
• Compiled various New Engineering Contracts for the
Operating Unit, such as Wood Pole Replacement
Projects, Substations Projects, and Maintenance
Contracts
• Assisted the Plant Management Department to
comply with ISO 9001 Quality Management Systems
and ISO 14001 Environmental Quality Management
to retain the accreditation of the certificate of
compliance.
• Determined annual maintenance task requirements,
resources, and maintenance key performance
indexes and set targets.
• Created Purchase Requisitions on SAP and
presented Sole source forms and quotations to the
Procurement Tender Committee, as well as
presented bulk forms for different projects to the
Investment Committee for approval.
• Ensured that the annual maintenance plan was
configured according to the maintenance strategy in
the maintenance system and that outages were
used effectively.
• Acted in a vacant position as Plant Management
Manager (Middle Management Manager Position) to
achieve departmental goals and targets.
• Recalculated the new Required Stock Level of
Power Transformers Spares, High Voltage Cables
Spares, together with its accessories for Eskom
Distribution.
• Appointed as the official incidents/accidents
investigation officer for the Plant Management
Department.
• Managed technical risk and provided a framework
for risk identification, assurance, and control, and
ensured the effective management of strategic and
critical Spares, including different Independent
Power Producers (IPP) sites within Northern Cape
Operating Unit.

• Undertook leadership duties, including attending
meetings and preparing monthly performance
reports (Capex and Opex Projects Progress,
Maintenance Health Dashboard, and Eskom
Distribution Divisional Strategic and Critical Spares),
as well as delivering presentations to both internal
and external stakeholders.
• Managed personnel and approved employee leave,
business trips, and overtime on SAP, as well as
compiled quarterly projections for departmental
budgets, approved purchase orders and
requisitions, and received goods for various project
activities.
• Participated in the execution of major electrical
projects, such as Major Maintenance,
Refurbishment, Reliability, Townships Electrical
Networks Normalization and Strengthening, from
conception to delivery phase.
• Assisted with the appointment of various
contractors, ensured that their health and safety files
were evaluated by our SHEQs department, and that
• Ensured that wind turbines maintenance on IPP
sites was synchronized with Eskoms plant
maintenance schedules and outages.
• As Maintenance and Asset Manager, witnessed the
commissioning tests of various Solar PV plants and
Wind farms in Northern Cape before handover
because they affected Eskoms network in terms of
Grid code Compliance.
• Delivery Engineering across all Eskom Distribution
operating units.
• Managed network risks, which included ensuring the
availability of strategic and critical spares during

Conducted reliability studies for the plant and
analyzed test results from oil laboratories on major
plant equipment.
• Member of various work groups including the Eskom
Distribution Transformer Care Work Group, National Plant Risk Analysts Work Group, and Regional Operations Meetings
• Created Purchase Requisitions on SAP and presented sole source forms and quotations to the Procurement Tender Committee for approval.
• Provided input to a risk management plan that anticipated reliability-related and non-reliability risks that could adversely impact plant operations.

Regularly downloaded and uploaded Quality of Supply data to Eskom's national database, ensuring accuracy and completeness of the records.
• Conducted regular voltage dips-to-trips matching to identify network faults and ensure compliance with regulatory requirements.
Curriculum Vitae
Duties:
• Installed new Quality of Supply Power Quality recorders at various substations and customer supply points to replace faulty ones.
• Conducted investigations into Quality of Supply exceedances, including Voltage unbalance, Total Harmonic Distortions, Voltage regulation, and Voltage Dips
• Conducted technical audits to ensure compliance with NRS048 standards.
• Managed the installation and commissioning of new Quality of Supply measuring instruments, ensuring proper functioning and trending.
• Performed technical audits on areas to ensure that standards are being complied with NRS048.
• Investigated major customer complaints and claims regarding Quality of Supply, providing appropriate recommendation.

• Acted as a Shaft Engineer with full delegated
authority, and supervised foremen, artisans, and
laborers on a daily basis.
• Regularly approved and authorized leave, standbys,
and employee overtime
• Chaired daily safety caucuses, leading discussions
on job-specific risk assessments.
• Oversaw budget control and mechanical spares
procurement, both from the mine store and external
suppliers.
• Responsible for the maintenance execution of
underground pumps, diesel and battery locomotives,
winches, settlers, hoppers, winders, and chairlifts.
• Legally appointed to conduct inspections and sign
off on logbooks for hoppers, personal protective
• equipment, cutting torches, welding machines, and
lifting equipment.
• Conducted successful fault-finding and maintenance
on air compressors at the pump station
underground, fridge plant underground, and surface,
all at Five Shaft.
• Conducted fault-finding and maintenance on
crushers, ball rod mills, and hydro cyclones at the
plant reduction works.
• Appointed as Electrical Foreman to carry out
planned and breakdown maintenance on DC and AC
winding plant.
• Appointed as Mechanical Foreman to carry out
maintenance and investigations on pumps, motors,
and SCADA in the mines water treatment plant.