wo ladies are shaking up predominantly male-dominated industrial occupations and doing so with aptitude and excellence. They offer encouragement to different ladies to make their mark in their chosen career.
TIG welding surprise
Vuyisile Precious Kubheka is among the latest hires at Werner Pumps, where she’s taken over the company’s TIG welding. She says that through the years she has confronted issues with folks not trusting that she can weld purely because she’s a lady. “But as soon as they see my work, they consider in me,” she says, with a smile.
TIG welding is challenging as a end result of errors made are very obvious. Kubheka says a skilled welder wants to have the flexibility to avoid undercuts and loopholes and create a clean weld. She welds the hydraulic tanks for the high-pressure jetting and vacuuming models that Werner Pumps builds, which can’t afford to have even the smallest hole or weak point, which might create questions of safety.
Vuyisile Precious Kubheka – Werner Pumps
Kubheka came to welding by default, after struggling to search out secure work. In 2010, she had a possibility to pursue welding training, and has been making a residing as a welder since 2013. “I’d encourage other girls to consider welding as a career,” she says. “It’s Approved that individuals need and I really have been in a place to assist my 4 youngsters.”
Wading into water reticulation
One of Werner Pumps’ customers, Vaneetha Govender, runs her personal firm called Lupini Projects, which focuses on civil and project engineering. As a wholly black-owned company headed by one of many solely girls in water reticulation in South Africa, Lupini Projects is making waves.
Its services embody unblocking sewer strains; cleaning dewatering and desludging at pump stations; stage control actions and extraction of soil, sediment and international matter blocking manholes, gravity lines and bulk lines; pipeline building, manhole/junction bins, and formwork; water supply, sewer line, drainage system; earthworks and pipework; and development of civil works, including steel works.
Govender is quick to note that while her skills lie in driving successful business methods and initiatives, she has relied on input from individuals more experienced than herself to navigate the water reticulation business. “Partnering with Werner has been a proxy to my success. They are well known in the water therapy industry, being a forerunner for many years. They deliver technological development and experience and innovative experience to my enterprise,” she says.
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Her background is a mixture of technical experience in credit and operations, business optimisation and strategy implementation in JSE-listed corporations in financial providers and telecommunications. She has an MBA, an Honours diploma in Business Administration (PGDIP), a degree in Business Leadership Management (BML), and an Advanced Diploma in Business Management from the London Business School.
The thought for Lupini Projects came to her whereas doing her Masters degree. She was studying social growth and researching the depletion of worldwide water resources and its direct impression on high quality of life and socioeconomic development.
Living close to the Vaal River, Govender was conscious of extremely publicised stories on sewer air pollution within the space. This, coupled with the desire to start her personal business, drove her decision to become part of the answer within the Vaal.
Lupini Projects was born in 2015. “I have three streams of enterprise that I run within the company portfolio,” says Govender. “These are in the pharmaceutical, private safety gear (PPE) and the water management industries.”
The water administration industry has a quantity of barriers to entry, together with high capital costs of apparatus, entry to finance for small companies and securing preliminary contracts, in addition to meeting compliance necessities (which can additionally be costly).
Govender has overcome these challenges by being prepared to “fail fast” and study rapidly, showcasing her capabilities to safe contracts, and investing in building, creating and empowering her group.
She’s also invested in quality gear, together with two Werner Pumps Combination Truck Units. “Werner Pumps offers a superior high quality product that delivers to my company’s wants and supports my market reputation, if I had an inferior product my company wouldn’t be in a position to deliver the wonderful service, we delight ourselves on,” she says.
“The onsite assist I had when I purchased my first automobile was exemplary. Werner Pumps trained my whole staff on the automobile and all its parts right down to the oils required for every utility. They further absolutely certified my workers as operators of the automobile however most significantly I had on site support for almost every week, with the coach spending time with my group at their work sites, ensuring they use the vehicle accurately and that they are snug operating the vehicle. Sebastian, the MD, has been a great support and it’s rare to have direct access to the pinnacle of the corporate with whom you can focus on your challenges and prepare options. Werner Pumps have made my transition into the water administration business much less daunting and their help, coupled with the company’s expertise, has elevated my confidence to take on new challenges. They have actually empowered me as a woman in business, and Lupini Projects is able to navigate the future knowing that we have sound business partners within the industry.”
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