AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY.
Business Development and Support
- Build relationships with key clients to secure new business.
- Business Development to market the transportation engineering capability for Pretoria location as well as nationally and internationally.
- Provide specialist technical transportation advice to clients and colleagues nationally and in Africa specifically.
- Comply with Company procedures and processes in terms of project registration and risk analysis.
- Comply with Quality procedures by ensuring auditable trail of actions during full life cycle of project delivery process all in accordance with company Quality Management Procedures.
- Comply with and embrace Health and Safety requirements in the workplace as well as on construction sites.
- Provide specialist direction, advice and control on transportation projects involving roads and storm water, bridges including multidisciplinary projects containing aspects of transportation engineering.
- Provide specialist knowledge of the following: Transportation master planning, design new and evaluate existing roads and storm water projects, including bridge and major culverts.
- Prepare and evaluate specialist designs, prepare reports professionals, both internally and externally.
- Develop and implement discipline specific technical practices, specifications and procedures.
- Facilitate and assist with the tender process, including tender documentation and adjudication process leading up to contractor appointment and site handover.
- Plan, coordinate and manage the design, procurement and construction of discipline specific and multi-disciplinary projects.
- Responsible for the commercial and technical execution and delivery of medium and large-scale projects. Cooperate with project teams to achieve strategic objectives.
- Develop and promote cost reduction and productivity enhancing initiatives.
- Ensure effective resource management on projects.
- Assist with technical design reviews when requested on projects for the Roads department nationally and for clients.
- Contribute to the drafting of tenders and assist with multi-disciplinary tenders and water engineering.
- Undertake specialist contract management activities including legal aspects.
- Participate in continuous professional development training in order to maintain professional registration.
- Mentor, coach, train and provide technical leadership to team members and candidate Engineers/Technologists/Technicians.
- Build and maintain good working relations with all stakeholders, both internal and external to the company.
- Provide supervisory and technical leadership on projects.
- Manage project teams to control risks and to achieve targets on time and within budget.
- Assist with the compilation and review of discipline specific technical standards, templates and technologies.
- B. Eng and preferably a post graduate qualification.
- Professional registration: Pr. Eng with ECSA is a requirement
- A minimum of 15 years management, technical and practical experience.
- A specialist knowledge of the fundamental requirements of the discipline of transportation and good established requirements of all other disciplines.
- Acknowledged and proven specialist knowledge of applicable local and international standards and statutory and regulatory requirements.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Extensive technical skills in transportation, management of projects and business development opportunities
- Project management and leadership skills
- Ability to work as part of a team
- Diligent and able to work under consistent pressure to meet deadlines
- Accuracy and attention to detail
- Presentable with a professional attitude
- Client focused (both internal and external clients)
