Ms Lerato Makoetlane
Summary
Experienced Maintenance artisan with over 10 years in facilities maintenance, combining hands-on technical expertise with proven skills in planning, scheduling, and team leadership. Adept at overseeing preventative and corrective maintenance programs, building and infrastructure, plumbing, electrical, and building systems. Improved equipment reliability, reducing downtime, and implementing cost-effective maintenance strategies. Strong background in using CMMS systems, coordinating contractors, and ensuring compliance with safety and regulatory standards. Committed to maintaining high facility performance through proactive planning and continuous improvement.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
Work History
Maintenance Supervisor
Mpilo Boutique Hotel
03.2025 - Current
- Supervise and assign daily tasks to maintenance staff & technicians
- Inspect and do repairs on hotel facilities and portable electrical equipment, water reticulation regularly to identify issues and ensure compliance with health and safety standards.
- Respond to maintenance requests from clients and staff of the facility
- Schedule and oversee preventative maintenance programs to reduce equipment failure and downtime.
- Ensure proper documentation of maintenance activities and update maintenance logs.
- Monitor inventory and request supplies, tools, and spare parts as needed.
- Collaborate with other departments to support hotel operations (e.g., housekeeping, front office).
- Assist in budget preparation and cost control of maintenance expenses.
- Ensure compliance with safety regulations and hotel policies.
- Overseas contractors on site for any outsourced services such as fire systems, lifts, generators and other equipment’s
Assistant Maintenance Planner
Liqhobong Mining Development Company
01.2022 - Current
- Schedule daily preventative maintenance schedules services
- Sage Job card administrator – open, close and manage back log
- Capture feedback on SAGE to plan for the next planned shutdown and order spares
- Coordinate with plant on maintenance request to accommodate need for repairs and services
- Work with maintenance supervisor, superintendent, artisans to develop a plan for a 12hr bi-weekly plant maintenance shutdown & project in progress
- Prepare for 12hr bi-weekly plant stoppage for maintenance
- Regularly communicate with procurement & stores to expertise materials
- Place orders for all non-stock items and liaise with outsources contractors for when services are due (SLA)
- Facilitate services that are triggered by meters or time based
- Create daily job cards as per request from Artisans and foreman’s
- Daily administration of the mines engineering duties
- Work in engineering team on RCA for breakdowns across the plant
- Manage equipment OEM & mines blue print archive
Client Service Urgent – Medical Equipment
Lesotho Millenium Development Agency
12.2021 - 08.2022
- Site Supervision of Medical Equipment Service
- Monitor service contractors on the maintenance of medical equipment across Lesotho
- Do minor repairs on medical equipment & other clinics small equipment
- Verify job completion and commissioning of service providers
- Order necessary spares for maintenance of equipment
- Site Projects Quality Monitoring
- Do quality check on jobs done by contactors and equipment & signoff
- Works Inspection and Performance Assessment
- Perform preventative inspection and equipment and advice to schedule services
- Projects Site Coordination
- Manage timelines
- Facilitate delivery of resource on time in rural areas
- Monitoring daily tasks and communication
- Weekly reporting to project manager
- Works Performance Reporting
- Weekly reporting on finished job and any outstanding
- Weekly fleet management report
- Compile all spares used and reconcile with finance
Maintenance Planner
Queen Mamohato memorial Hospital
01.2010 - 12.2019
- Company Overview: Botle Facilities Management
- Custodian of the QMMH & filter clinics Planned Preventative maintenance Plan.
- Administrator for CMMS ONKEY system and proper use by the end users across
- Develop job plans and detailed tasks and manpower estimates on all preventative, corrective, daily repairs and breakdowns
- Monthly develop job plans for planned preventatives maintenance including materials, special tools and permit to work/equipment
- Monitor SLA with different stakeholders and arrange visits
- Monitor maintenance work order cycle feedback & management backlog
- Plan, schedule and coordinate planned maintenance activities with external suppliers according to SLA
- Monitor meeting system and register services as per meeting system
- Generate monthly reports
- Spares, labour hours usage and all outstanding maintenance requests.
- Monitor workshop spares usage with stores and manage min & max levels
- Regular engage with storeman to identity running spare, critical and redundant
- Review breakdown and do root cause analysis and advice on improvements
- Assist in the departments long‐term planning strategies
- Botle Facilities Management
Education
Maintenance Planning -
Pragma
01.2015
Certificate in Fitting and Machining -
Lerotholi Polytechnic
01.2002
COSC -
Mohale’s Hoek High
01.1997
Skills
- Predictive & Preventative Maintenance
- Maintenance Scheduling & Planning
- Problem Solving
- Root Cause Analysis
- CMMS -Sage,SAP Onkey
- Computer Skills- Ms Excel & Ms Projects
References
- Motlejoa Tsubane, Mechanical Superintendent, Liqhobong Mining Development Company, Butha Buthe, Lesotho, 56722005
- Daniel Ntlaloe, Maintenance Supervisor, Liqhobong Mining Development Company, Butha Buthe, Lesotho, 59610264
- Fulaha Mde, General Manager Property Development, Lesotho National Development Corporation, Maseru, Lesotho, 58988855
Training
- Basic Firefighting Training, 2016
- Basic Training of trainers - firefighting, 2016
- Maintenance Planning & Scheduling, 2015
- Basic Industrial Relations workshop, 2014
- Enterprise Asset Management & reporting standards PAS55, 2014
Personal Information
Driving License: Code B
Timeline
Maintenance Supervisor
Mpilo Boutique Hotel
03.2025 - Current
Assistant Maintenance Planner
Liqhobong Mining Development Company
01.2022 - Current
Client Service Urgent – Medical Equipment
Lesotho Millenium Development Agency
12.2021 - 08.2022
Maintenance Planner
Queen Mamohato memorial Hospital
01.2010 - 12.2019
Certificate in Fitting and Machining -
Lerotholi Polytechnic
COSC -
Mohale’s Hoek High
Maintenance Planning -
Pragma
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