Technical Specialist

Division           Roads and Highways  

Location           Cape Town

REPORTS TO

Function Manager 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 Roads & Highways Functional group, leading and executing Projects within the group.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Responsible for the general management of medium/large transportation infrastructure projects

• Responsible for the project management and coordination of multi-disciplinary project teams

• Look after budgets, resourcing and outsourcing of project work within the section, as well as agree project budgets with other sections on large projects comprising multi-disciplinary project teams

• Author competent technical reports of acceptable technical and presentational quality

• Check work of all those in the project team and take responsibility for their work

• Ensure that appropriate technical standards and Quality Assurance (QA) requirements are adhered to 

• Present / represent their technical work

• Supervise Engineers or Technicians in undertaking checks and inspections of constructed works for compliance with design and specifications, including monitoring and proposing remedial actions

• Assist in the management and training of staff including mentoring

• Development and/or improvement of function group specific design procedures

• Submission of tenders and proposals for function

• Win and deliver projects for the Function

• Draft successful responses to bids

• Clear knowledge of work procedures and ability to brief project team on them

• Assign work to others

• Regular client contact and management of client relationships

• Build sustainable relationships with clients

• Successful identification and following through on leads associated with additional work

• Clear understanding of local functional engineering environment and markets

• Train others in respective functional field and build a team

• Market technical capability

• Coordinate work between functions

• Development and/or improvement of function group specific design procedures

KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS

• Overseeing and delivery of design standards at a specialist level

• Quality and timeliness of reporting and other deliverables such as reports and drawings

• Planning of workload to meet deadlines

• Knowledge and implementation of SMEC’s systems and procedures

• Reporting to meet project and internal requirements

• Client satisfaction with project delivery

• Technical support and mentoring

• Report writing

RECOMMENDED QUALIFICATIONS, SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE  

• Bachelor of Engineering degree/higher degree in Engineering from accredited university

• Professional Registration with ECSA essential

• Minimum 10 years of professional experience in transportation infrastructure with a strong background in geometric design

• In depth experience of Government standards, codes and documentation

• Demonstrable specialist knowledge in the use of road design software (e.g., Civil 3D, AutoCAD, OpenRoads, or similar)

• Knowledge of web-based project cost control and financial systems (BST)

• Experience in design management and design delivery for projects and managing professional teams of medium/large projects, would be beneficial

• Knowledge of QA and OHS requirements on engineering projects

• Knowledge of the commercial aspects of project management

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

• Ability to conceptualise designs effective report writing

• 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

ADDED ADVANTAGE  

• Experience in project management and site supervision

• Exposure to BIM workflows and digital engineering platforms

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