Overview
Senior Engineer/Technologist Jobs in Cape Town, South Africa at SMEC (an SJ Group company)
Overview
REPORTS TO:
Function Manager:
Power & Energy, or any other person appointed to supervise him/her from time to time
Primary Position
Purpose:
This position is responsible for providing professional services on projects within the Power & Energy Functional group, including leading, design management and design delivery for projects and managing professional teams of medium/large projects in any of the focus areas;
Renewable Energy, Building Services, Power Reticulation, Distribution Substations, Overhead Power Lines, Underground Power cables, Street lighting, Urban Energy, Water Plants, Asset Management and Master Planning
Key Responsibilities
- General management of the electrical design process on medium/large projects
- Management and coordination of inputs and deliverables to multi-disciplinary project teams
- Manage budgets, resourcing, and deliverables of design team, within the function
- Manage budgets, resourcing, and deliverables of outsourced work (if required), within the function
- Negotiate and agree project budgets and timelines with other sections on large projects comprising multi-disciplinary project teams
- Author competent technical reports of acceptable technical and presentational quality
- Check and review the deliverables of project team
- Take responsibility for project deliverables
- Present / represent designs at technical committees
- Draft successful responses to bids
- Clear knowledge of work procedures and ability to brief project team on them
- Assign tasks, and manage work of others
- Regular client contact under direction of more senior manager
- Build relationships with clients
- Manage project Scope and manage scope creep
- Successfully identify and follow through on leads associated with additional work prospects
- Clear understanding of local functional business technologies and markets
- Discuss in detail with clients the business technologies and markets
- Train and mentor others in respective functional fields and build a team
- Market SMEC’s technical capability
- Supervise Engineers or Technicians in undertaking checks and inspections of constructed works for compliance with design and specifications, including monitoring and proposing remedial actions
- Development and/or improvement of function group specific design procedures
- Plan and coordinate investigations and surveys
- Coordinate work between functions
Key Performance Indicators
- Overseeing and delivery of quality designs and solutions according to standards
- Meeting timeliness of deliverables such as designs and drawings
- Setting clear project goals and requirements that are agreed to by all stakeholders
- Planning of workload to meet deadlines
- Knowledge and implementation of SMEC’s systems and procedures
- Meeting of project and internal requirements such as budgets and utilization targets
- Satisfying Client requirements on project delivery
- Report writing
- Mentoring Graduates
Minimum Qualifications , Skills And Experience
- Bachelor of Electrical Engineering degree/higher degree from accredited university
- Relevant Professional Registration
- Minimum 8 years of professional experience
- Specialist knowledge in one of the following:
- Renewable Energy and/or
- Power distribution, reticulation, Substations (Primary / Control plant), Overhead lines and underground cables and/or
- Building services for utility buildings, commercial buildings, Urban energy, Water plants, Asset Management and Master planning
- Worked with Eskom or South African Municipality
- Knowledge of relevant Eskom or SANS standards
Recommended Qualifications, Skills And Experience
- Knowledge of QA and OHS requirements
- Knowledge of the commercial aspects of project management
- Experience in using design software tools e.g Dil Silent, AutoCAD, Micro Station, Revit, Relux, DIALux etc
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to effectively write reports
- Courteous and business orientated manners when communicating with stakeholders to foster and promote good working relations
- Co-operative and flexible work style to work in a team environment
- Ability to meet deadlines and work under pressure
- Ability to make technical decisions which are outcome driven
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Title: Senior Engineer/Technologist
Company: SMEC (an SJ Group company)
Location: Cape Town, South Africa
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