Job Description

ELIGIBILITY



All Suitable Candidates



CLOSING DATE



17.10.2025



REFERENCE NUMBER



WS 185/25 (External)



SALARY



R1 071 429 - R1 166 981 p.a.



DEPARTMENT



Distribution Services



DIRECTORATE



WATER AND SANITATION Senior Professional Officer - IPS



Requirements



A BTech Engineering degree. Registered as Professional Engineering Technologist. A Master's degree will serve as an advantage. Five (5) to eight (8) years' relevant experience within development

hydraulic modelling, master planning and construction.



Experience in Wadiso and Sewsan model software will be an

advantage.



Computer literacy in MS Office. Physically fit and able-bodied.

Key Performance Areas



Managing and undertaking the compilation, annual update,

utilisation, operation and information reporting from an Integrated



Infrastructure Hydraulic model and Master Plan which incorporates



the planning of the engineering unit of the Reticulation Branch and



alignment with the capital programme.



Managing and undertaking the routine assessment of bulk

development applications or proposals, based on the Master Plan



and Hydraulic models (water and sanitation models), while



incorporating the operational and planning input of the



operational units and project implementation section, all in order



to evaluate the ability of the infrastructure to service such



developments.



Managing and undertaking ad hoc non-routine modelling and

capacity evaluations and studies of the water and sanitation



infrastructure system, to evaluate the impact of major



Departmental initiatives, Spatial Planning, Town Planning, Human



Settlement or Private sector development proposals in terms of



the capacity of current and proposed infrastructure capacity to



satisfy projected water demand, the development and costing



of conceptual design alternatives and amendments to the



Master Plan.



Facilitating or undertaking specialist advisory support and

research thereon to the branch on innovative or strategic



investigations by applying broadly defined engineering principles.



Providing support to the Branch for the development and update

of its short, medium (five-year)-to long-term (10- to 20-year)