Christopher Fako Khoanyane

Address: P.O. Box 888 Leribe 300, Lesotho

Phone: +266 68766907
Email: fakokhoanyane@gmail.com

OBJECTIVE My objective is to become a maintenance engineering manager

who leads teams to become high performance teams delivering
true and sustainable value to the company in a manner that is
cost effective, safe and environmentally friendly.

WORK Engineering Superintendent, Letseng Diamond Mine,

EXPERIENCE Lesotho
December 2015 – Present

Reporting to the Engineering Manager, I am in charge of the

mine general maintenance and light motor vehicle fleet. I have
championed, led teams to design, develop and implement
among others the following:

• Physical asset management strategy

• Water safety plan for a national water and sewerage

company

• Cost saving and continuous improvement initiatives (I

am currently leading $360 000/year cost saving
initiatives)

• Emergency preparedness plans

• Maintenance plans including computerized maintenance

management systems (CMMS)

• Various potable and sewerage pumping stations

(including pump selections)

• Draw up HSE programs, including but not limited to

Baseline risk assessments BLRA’s, BOWTIE’s, SOP’s,
JSA, HIRA, Audits, Investigations (5 why and R-CAT),
Emergency Drills, Inspections, Legal Compliance, HSE
turn around strategies to reduce LTI’s, ISO 45001
certification process.

• Initiation of management of change procedures in my

section (MOC’s)

• Currently I am leading my teams on COVID 19

compliance and projects (my section is currently
manufacturing 1000 foot operated sanitizer dispenser
stands to donate to the villages around the mine)
Responsibilities:
• Facilities (HVAC, Plumbing, Carpentry, Electrical,
Buildings, Structural integrity audits and Mechanical)
• Utilities Maintenance, Wastewater and Water treatment
Plants
• Continuous improvement CI initiatives
• Light Motor Vehicle Fleet and Workshop
• Opex and Capex Budgets (preparing board capital
applications)
• Contracts and Small Projects Management
• HSE sectional programs lead
• Roads, Storm Water Management and Snow Clearing
• Performance Management System (PMS’s and KPI’s)
• Management of Change Procedures Sectional Lead and
Initiator(MOC’s)
• Behavioral Based Care and Visible Felt Leadership
(VFL’s)
• Lean Manufacturing
• Reliability Centred Maintenance
• Maintenance Planning and Computerized Maintenance
Management System (CMMS)

Maintenance and Production Manager, Water and

Sewerage Company, Maseru Lesotho

February 2010 – November 2015

Reporting to the director operations, my direct reports were

the maintenance engineer in charge of electro-mechanical
workshop country wide, planner and water safety officer in
charge of production in a combined 75ML per day water
treatment plants in Maseru.

Responsibilities:
• Production in the 75 ML/day water treatment plants in
the capital city Maseru
• Electro-Mechanical Workshop responsible for repairs in
sewer and water treatment plants throughout the
country
• Development and implementation of the company’s
physical asset management strategy
• Development and implementation of the company’s
water safety plan.
• Updating of the drought water emergency plans
• Review and participation in construction of pump
stations, reservoirs and dams
• Part of the team that oversaw the construction of
Metolong dam construction (63 million cubic meters
capacity at 83 m height and 270 m width). The project
included water treatment works and downstream
conveyence system.
 Assistant Engineer, Kao Diamond Mine (now storm
mountain diamonds), Lesotho

May 2008 – December 2009

My Responsibilities were generally to assist the Engineering

Manager.

More specifically my duties were among others the following:

• Facilities Maintenance
• Fleet Management and Maintenance
• Maintenance of the DMS plant (from crushing, screening
DMS, slimes and sometimes in the sort house recovery
section)
• Coordinating production meetings
• Pump selection
• Utilities, electrical, sewer and water

Lecturer II, Engineering Department, Lerotholi

Polytechnic, Maseru Lesotho
February 2004 – April 2008

I was a junior lecturer.

More specifically my duties were among others the following:

• Lecturing mechanical, mathematics, engineering science
and AutoCAD subjects
• Assisting senior students with their thesis
• Guiding the departmental demonstrators to carry out
experiments and demonstrations

EDUCATION BSc in Electro-Mechanical Engineering, University of Cape

Town, South Africa
January 1997 - November 2001

BSc in Mathematics and Physics, National University of

Lesotho, Lesotho
August 1991 – June 1995
 ADDITIONAL
WORK
CERTIFICATES
Certificate Number Agency Start complete
Finance for Non- BUSA 0238 – University of the 27 February 15 March 2017
Financial 16005/01/0005 Witwatersrand, 2017
Managers Johannesburg,
South Africa

New Managers’ 3576/62205 University of 09 August 2016 16 December

Development Stellenbosch 2016
Programme- Business School,
Africa South Africa

Job-Shadowing; Hamburg 14 September 29 September

Wastewater WASSER, 2015 2015
Treatment Plants GERMANY
Köhlbrandthöft
and Dradenau
Reliability SAIMechE-0585- Institution of 06 October 2014 10 October 2014
Centred 08/15 Mechanical
Maintenance Engineers, South
Africa
Dam SAAMA 00678 Southern African 24 March 2014 28 March 2014
Management Asset
Workshop, Management
Hartbeespoort Association,
Dam, South South Africa
Africa
Centrifugal Shukela training 14 July 2008 18 July 2008
pumps and centre, Durban
pump curves
Driving Licence L226719038133 Kingdom of 26 February 07 October 2020
114824M061700 Lesotho 2003
6S

ADDITIONAL ▪ Physical Assets and Facilities Management

SKILLS ▪ Continuous improvement team leader
▪ Computerised Maintenance Systems (CMMS’s)
▪ Fleet and Electro-Mechanical Workshop Management
▪ DMS Diamond Processing Plants
▪ Contract Management
▪ Utilities Management
▪ Project Management
▪ Water and Wastewater Treatment Plants
▪ Dam construction and downstream conveyence systems
▪ HSE programs
▪ Roads and Storm Water Reticulation
▪ Finance for non-financial managers
▪ Lean Manufacturing
▪ AutoCAD
▪ MS Projects
▪ Microsoft Office package: Microsoft Word, Excel,
PowerPoint.
REFERENCES References available on request