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ADDRESS: P O Box 82166, Molapo Crossing, GABORONE
EMAIL: marksmakgasane@gmail.com
CELLPHONE: 71206148 / 71697692
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EDUCATION
1993 – 1995 Selebi Phikwe Senior Secondary School
Cambridge Certificate (COSC)
1991 – 1992 Makhubu Community Junior Secondary School
JC Certificate
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INSTITUTIONS
1998 – 2002
Electrical (Maintenance Industrial)
Selebi Phikwe Technical College
COURSES
Diploma – Cigarette Making machine / TYPE - 6S
Decoufle – France
Certificate – 350 Hinge Lid Packing Line machines with Beckoff TwinCAT IPC
Focke & Co – Germany
Basic SHE Training Course – Grinaker – LTA M & E
Work Risk Assessment Course - Grinaker – LTA M & E
1st Line Problem Solving – RDM Consultants
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WORKING EXPERIENCE
1. Cadbury Botswana – Jan 2009 to Dec 2014
Production Technician
Duties / Responsibilities
 Carrying out planned maintenance of equipment and smooth plant
operation
 Conducting fault finding and repair electrical and minor mechanical
breakdowns
 Ensuring continuous power supply to production unit

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 Inspecting electrical systems and components to identify hazard defects
and to ensure compliance with regulations
 Responding to breakdowns and faults
 Participating in finished and in process quality related problem solving
 Executing the process area production plan
 Inspecting, monitoring and managing assets
 Creating operational job cards
 Preparing resources and spares for maintenance days
 Doing scheduled maintenance and inspections
 Doing audits in process area
 Doing autonomous maintenance planned job assessment
 Documentation of spare parts for traceability
 Assisting with buildup of new equipment and inhouse activities
 Adhering to and promoting safety, health and environmental policies and
procedures
 Worked on generators, compressors, AC drives, encoders, counters,
solinoids, air-handling units, temperature controls, motors, pumps,
conveyors, metal detectors, scales, vibrator, packaging, labelling and date
coding machines
 Sealing, vaccum, shrinking and boxing machines
 Lubricating machines and mechanical installations
2. Benson Craig T/A Africa Tobacco Holdings (Pty) Ltd – Production
Technician 2007 – Dec 2008
Duties
 Ensuring that factory machines which include vacuum pumps, PLC’s,
compressors and all electrical facets are in good working condition
 Programming PLC’s and VSD’s
 Configuring touch screens and installing software on the machines
according to their interface, save and restoring data.
 Ensuring that conveyors, motors, compressors, blowers are running well.
3. Mathias AC & DC Power Control Systems - Service Technician 2006 -
2007
Duties
 Repairing machinery lifts, hoists, cranes, and attending complex faults in
areas like BDVC, Bank of Botswana, Barloworld, and assisting with
technical skills.
4. Schachter & Namdar Botswana (Pty) Ltd – Senior
Electrician/Technician 2005 - 2006

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Duties
 Maintenance and preparing plant machinery
 Doing complex maintenance of diamond cutting machines
 Initiating service schedules in the plant
 Working continuous on upgrades and improvement of polishing machines
 Providing strategic skills, initiating, innovating and empowering the team
regarding safety in the workplace
 Ensuring smooth running of all plant machinery (Compressors and
motors)
 Ordering material and keeping workshop tools
5. Grunwald Electrical Contractors (Pty) Ltd (Debswana – Jwaneng
Mine)
1st March 2004 to 30th June 2005
Duties
 Connecting distribution boards, control circuits, motors
 Doing maintenance in substations/plants
 Ensuring preventive maintenance to all electrical equipment under
projects
 Installing electrical equipment property and meet all standards
 Connecting and wiring sump-pumps
 Connecting isoloc monitoring system (disneutor)
 Cable joining
6. Randridge Botswana Electrical Engineering & Instrumentation
(Gaborone/Maun) 12th November 2003 – 27th February 2004
Duties
 Maintaining installations, commercial and industrial including checks
 Installing single phase and three phase transformers
 Overhaul test using measuring instruments to measure and interpreting
electrical and other physical quantities e.g ammeters, voltmeters, LCR
testers, etc.
 Domestic and industrial installations using both BE conduits (steel) and
PVC
 Fixing power tools and cookers
 Fixing motors, control circuits, traffic lights
 Connecting distribution boards
7. Electrical Installations (Pty) Ltd (Gaborone) – Construction of new
senior officer’s mess and auditorium at SSKB
(7th August 2002 – 31st October 2003)
Duties

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 Site Foreman
 Job planning e.g. ordering and controlling materials
 Job allocation and record of site
 Helping apprentices
 Testing installations
 Carrying maintenance both in commercial, domestic and industrial
 Checking installations done by electricians on site
 Monitoring all duties
 Reporting all general information to the Site Supervisor
 Interpretation of drawings to the team on site
8. Apprenticeship training at BPC Training Centre (Gaborone)
Duties:
 Learning Safety and First Aid
 Installing meters in domestic dwellings
 Helping in domestic testing and inspection of electrical wiring
 Doing maintenance where possible e.g. transformers, powerlines, HV-
power plants e.t.c
 Bending of BE conduits and wiring of control circuits
SKILLS & COMPETENCIES
 Understanding production plan
 Preventative maintenance principles & processes
 Problem solving & decision making principles & practices
 Good Interpersonal and communication skills
 Pro-active and initiative
 Decisive
 Assertive
 Team worker and good time keeper
 Punctual and good attendance register
 Produces quality work
REFEREES
Mr Arnold Boitshwarelo Mr Molope
Engineering Controller (Pty) Ltd Engineering/Maintenance Foreman
Cadbury/Kraft Botswana Nutri Feeds
GABORONE Pilane
Tel: 3957172/ 72320111 Cell: 72107311
Cel: 71303595

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Mr K Farrari
Production Manager
Benson Craig
GABORONE
Tel: 3165183/4
HOBBIES
Playing chess
Fixing all sorts of electrical/electronic appliances
Listening to music and reading newspapers