Young Engineer of the Year
Xolani Mandidi AECOM
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olani Mandidi is a passionate
He has worked on numerous challenging
civil engineer who thrives on
projects in the past eight years, in numerous
helping people and making a
different areas, but those that give him the
difference in society.
greatest sense of fulfilment, other than the
A natural leader that manages people and
technically stimulating projects, are those
projects with understanding and efficiency,
where he can see that he is helping the
Xolani has a thorough knowledge of his
community through the development
team’s ability and manages to challenge
of schools, hospitals and other much
them to develop further while still ensuring
needed services.
they are supported.
Since graduation, Xolani has furthered his education and development by an ongoing range of courses and certifications, including
and further education of the mentees and
a Construction Project Management
more recent graduates under his wing. He
Certificate from Columbia University
joined the programme at the first opportunity
(2017) and the recently created Business of
once he qualified as a professional himself,
Consulting Engineering Certificate from
once again demonstrating his dedication
CESA (2020).
towards training and development.
He combines technical excellence with a
Xolani is a dedicated engineer who performs
passion for helping others and is an active
at a level that far exceeds his years. He
mentor within the AECOM mentorship
demonstrates the key characteristics that we
programme, contributing to the development
would like to see in all our young engineers.
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