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PROFILE : My journey to Professional Registration - Innocent Gininda

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Innocent Gininda shares his journey to becoming a registered Professional Engineer (PrEng), emphasizing the importance of mentorship, early preparation, and understanding ECSA requirements. He offers advice to aspiring PrEngs, highlighting the value of diverse feedback and a positive mindset. My journey to becoming a registered Professional Engineer (PrEng) culminated successfully in November 2024. I was fortunate to begin my career at a company with a Commitment and Undertaking (C&U) Agreement with ECSA and a robust mentorship program. This commitment to training engineers to the standard required for Professional Registration provided me with essential resources and a structured path to track my experience against ECSA requirements. Early exposure to these expectations instilled a positive outlook on registration and solidified my desire to achieve this milestone. My views on Professional Registration have remained consistently positive throughout this journey. Working alongside ...
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CAREERTIPS: An investment in soft skills is required for a succesfull hardhatPROFESSIONAL career.

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Construction Professional Melusi Bhungane shares a hardhatCAREERTIP he would give to his younger self

When I was a Site Agent on the construction of a 21km bulk water, associated connections and toilets project we had a local community disrupting the project and my initial approach to resolving the impasse was not yielding the required results.

I then took some time out to think things through and I realized that my approach was not yielding the required results because it was founded on impatience. As a technical person I was only focused on the technical aspects of the project and I thought the community was unreasonable in their demands.

Notwithstanding the unreasonableness of the communities demands I changed my approach and tried to see this from their point of view to understand the root source of their issues. When I changed my approach to rectify the situation it yielded the required results and we achieved the milestones we set ourselves to achieve on the project with the community on board.

So if I had to give my younger self one advice it would be to avoid being impatient when dealing with outside stakeholders. A successful journey as a hardhatPROFESSIONAL not only requires an investment in upgrading technical skills, it also requires a good investment in upgrading soft skills like patience and empathy.


Melusi Bhungane is a BTech Civil Engineering graduate with 14 years extensive working experience in both established construction and consulting companies on Infrastructure Projects. He is currently employed as a Senior Site Agent with Inkanyeli Construction

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