Senior Engineer/Technologist
Division: Power and Gas
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 Power & Energy Functional group, including leading, design management and design delivery for projects and managing professional teams of medium/large projects for Distribution Substations.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Responsible for the general management of medium/large 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
Design Electrical infrastructure of high quality according to applicable standards and client requirements.
Author competent technical reports of acceptable technical and presentational quality
Review / Check work of all those in the project team.
Present / represent their technical work
Sign and certify designs and construction work as a professional.
Draft successful responses to bids
Clear knowledge of work procedures and ability to brief project team on them
Assign work to others
Regular clients contact under direction of more senior manager
Build relationships with clients
Successful in identifying and following through on leads associated with additional work prospects on the projects they are involved with
Clear understanding of local functional business technologies and markets
Discuss in detail with clients the business technologies and markets
Train others in respective functional field and build a team
Market technical capability
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
Plan and coordinate investigations and surveys
Coordinate work between functions
KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS
Overseeing and delivery of design standards
Quality and timeliness of reporting and other deliverables such as drawings
Planning of workload to meet deadlines
Knowledge and implementation of SMEC鈥檚 systems and procedures
Reporting to meet project and internal requirements
Client satisfaction with project delivery
Report writing
RECOMMENDED QUALIFICATIONS, SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
Bachelor of Engineering degree/higher degree from accredited university/college
Relevant Professional Registration
Minimum 8 years of professional experience
Knowledge of QA and OHS requirements in SMEC
Knowledge of the commercial aspects of project management
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Ability to effectively write reports
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
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