Job Description

TECHNICAL SPECIALIST: ROAD & HIGHWAYS Cape Town, SOUTH AFRICA

Competitive Package on Offer!

Our Client, a Global Civil Engineering firm is in search of a Roads & Highway Technical Specialist who will be responsible for providing professional services on projects within the Roads & Highways Functional group, leading and executing Projects within the group.

Main Purpose of the role:

Overseeing and delivery of design standards at a specialist level whilst providing quality and timeliness of reporting and other deliverables such as reports and drawings to ensure client satisfaction with project delivery.

One would describe you as having the ability to conceptualise designs with your effective report writing skills. You possess the ability to make technical outcome driven decisions, meet deadlines, communicate in a courteous and business orientated manner with stakeholders as well as have a co-operative and flexible work style within a team environment.

Key Responsibilities include:

• 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
• 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
• 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

QUALIFICATIONS, SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:

• 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
• Proven leadership skills
• In depth experience of Government standards, codes and documentation
• Specialist knowledge of Bentley MicroStation and Open Roads Design Software or similar
• Knowledge of QA and OHS requirements on engineering projects
• Knowledge of the commercial aspects of project management

• 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

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