Gawie Pienaar

Gawie started with Eskom in 1980 as an Aprentice, qualified as an Electrician November 1983, and worked as an electrician at Eskom Higveld Power Station. Gawie started as an technician 1986 at Eskom Matimba Power Station and perform electrical and protection commissioning activities. Gawie then qualified as an engineer 1990 and performed commissioning, Maintenance and Engineering activities within the Eskom Generation, Distribution and Transmission environment. Gawie performed commissioning and Project management activities on various Eskom Generation, Transmission and Distribution stations. Gawie also performed commissioning and Project management activities in Nigeria and Ireland for Eskom. Gawie was the commissioning Manager at Ankerlig and responsible for commissioning of the first 4 gas turbine units. Gawie became full time involved with the Medupi project January 2009 and starting with commissioning of site construction supplies and are currently still performing commissioning activities of electrical and protection systems at the same project.