Mentoring Company of the Year
Koleko
K
oleko is a young black civil
on training the employee on business
larger role to play to improve the industry.
engineering company that
management and leadership aspects.
Through SAICE Young Members, Koleko
specialises in transport
In the candidacy programme, the employee
has supported and engaged with various
is paired with a mentor. This structured
high school learners. Over the past few
has a structured mentoring programme that
training programme, which spans a few
years, Koleko has also worked closely
includes the general training programme,
years, is aimed at upskilling the mentee to
with tertiary institutions to bridge the
candidacy programme and the future
register professionally. The programme is
gap between graduate skills and
leaders’ programme. Koleko is a Level 1
largely based on achieving ECSA’s outcomes
industry requirements.
BBBEE company.
and in 2017, Koleko signed the Commitment
engineering. The company
New staff undergo a skills evaluation to identify their interests, career goals and learning opportunities. The workplace
Skills transfer takes place on public
& Undertaking Agreement with ECSA. All
sector and some private sector clients’
Koleko directors are professionally registered.
projects, enabling them to have a better
Koleko assisted Skhulile Mashele to be
appreciation and understanding of transportation engineering.
development plan empowers the
professionally registered. Wasim Khan and
employees with the necessary skills to grow
Claire Birungi are currently in the Candidacy
professionally and personally.
Programme. They expect to submit their
over South Africa and five other African
ECSA professional engineer applications
countries. Through sound engineering,
in 2022.
ethics and integrity, Koleko is committed
The general training programme aims to upskill staff in software, technical concepts, project management and soft skills. In turn, the future leader programme focuses
Skills development is not limited to employees. Koleko believes that there is a
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Koleko has completed projects all
to building better communities for our future generations.