East London: Senior Engineer Water Services posted by Milton Resourcing

About the Role

Milton Resourcing is seeking a Senior Engineer or Engineer with extensive experience in water services to join our East London office. The successful candidate will be responsible for detail design of water and sanitation projects, coordination and supervision of technical drawings, and management of tender processes.

Key Responsibilities

• Detail design of water and sanitation projects
• Coordinate and supervise the production of technical drawings, design and reporting inputs by supporting staff
• Carry out, oversee, evaluate Preliminary and Detailed Design for water supply, urban and rural water reticulation systems, pump stations rising mains and pipework for reservoirs
• Prepare, oversee and evaluate Tender and Contract Documents including detailed Specifications, Special Conditions of Contract and Bills of Quantities
• Undertake hydrological investigations, reports and determine flood lines
• Manage, train and mentor technical staff
• Check all drawings, designs, reports and documents produced in accordance with the Company’s Quality Management Systems requirements
• Contract administration and Inspection as well as construction monitoring, as necessary, and management of site staff as appropriate
• Attend meetings and write minutes, notes and reports
• Produce progress reports
• Financial management of own projects and monitoring of performance and profitability

Requirements

• 8-10 years experience in the water and sanitation field
• Sound experience and technical capacity in municipal projects specifically in the evaluation, planning, design and construction of pump stations, water reticulation, sewer reticulation, bulk pipelines, canals and storm water management
• Competency in using MS Office suite and MS Project
• Project management and construction monitoring experience
• Proficient in various water, sewer and stormwater computer aided design packages such as AutoCAD, Civil 3D, iDAS (or Civil Designer), HEC-RAS, EPANET

Qualifications

Recognized BSc / BEng in Civil Engineering. Registered as a Professional Engineer (Pr Eng) with ECSA is preferred. Candidates with the required experience and who are close (less than 12 months) to submitting their professional registration application as a Professional Engineer (Pr Eng) will be considered.

Additional qualifications / memberships, which are advantageous:

• Masters degree in Civil Engineering
• Active member in CESA/SAICE/WISA
• NQF7 (labour based construction)
• PR CPM and/or PMP