Expression of Interest - Arup Facades - South Africa

Arup; Johannesburg; Hybrid; ZAR 50 000 - 90 000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global engineering and design firm is seeking passionate engineers and designers to join their team in Johannesburg. The role offers opportunities to design innovative building façades and work collaboratively on sustainable projects. Ideal candidates should have an interest in façade engineering, strong communication skills, and a proactive approach. This position allows for flexibility through a hybrid work model, supporting professional growth and meaningful contributions to the built environment.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Medical aid

Flexible working hours

Ongoing training and development

Profit share

Qualifications

• Interest in façade engineering or design.
• Previous experience in relevant disciplines.
• Desire to grow within façade engineering.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English.
• Proactive problem-solving mindset.

Responsibilities

• Deliver engineering services for clients.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams.
• Contribute to innovative façade designs.

Skills

Façade engineering

Structural Engineering

Architecture

Communication skills

Problem-solving mindset

Job description

Joining Arup

Arup’s purpose, shared values and collaborative approach has set us apart for over 75 years, guiding how we shape a better world.

We invite expressions of interest from passionate engineers and designers who want to shape the future of the built environment with Arup. Our South African teams are looking for talented individuals eager to design innovative building envelopes, drive the growth of the Arup Facades business, and make a meaningful impact through thoughtful, sustainable design. If this excites you — we’d love to hear from you!

Arup’s Façade practice is an enthusiastic, energetic, multi-disciplinary team of designers working with Building Envelopes focused on creating sustainable solutions and effective interventions. It includes engineers, technical specialists, building physicists and architects, all of whom share a passionate interest in building envelope design.

The Opportunities

At Arup, you belong to an extraordinary collective – in which we encourage individuality to thrive. Our strength comes from how we respect, share and connect our diverse experiences, perspectives and ideas.

You will have the opportunity to do socially useful work that has meaning – to Arup, to your career, to our members and to the clients and communities we serve.

You will complement our facades team and help deliver engineering services for our clients. As part of facades skills network across 20 offices, your role will involve interactive and collaborative working with colleagues and multidisciplinary teams at Arup . Please visit the following link to find our more about our Total Design approach: https://www.arup.com/insights/arup-explains-what-is-total-design/

We appreciate that everyone’s circumstances are different and it’s not always easy to commit to standard working hours. Work Unbound is our innovative hybrid approach to working and gives all our members greater flexibility in deciding how and where they work.

We would like to speak to people at early or intermediate stages of their career and have opportunities across a breadth of skills including but not limited to following skill areas:

• Structural Engineering
• Architecture
• Façades Engineering / Façades Design
• Building Physics
• Mechanical / Electrical / Acoustic / Fire / Wind Engineering
• Materials Science
• Sustainability in the Built Environment

We’d love to hear from you if you have:

• An interest in façade engineering or façade design.
• Previous engineering experience in one or more of the above (or other relevant) disciplines.
• A desire to grow your career within the façade engineering specialism.
• Demonstrable strong written and verbal communications skills in English.
• A proactive and imaginative problem solving mindset.
• Spatial visualisation ability to interpret complex geometry.
• An ability to communicate technical concepts in clear, simple, and visually compelling outputs.
• Passion for delivering meaningful impact through design, with a strong focus on sustainability and long term environmental performance.

What we offer you

At Arup, we care about each member’s success, so we can grow together.

We are owned in trust on behalf of our members, giving us the freedom, with personal responsibility, to set our own direction and choose work that aligns with our purpose and adds to Arup’s legacy. Our members collaborate on ambitious projects to deliver remarkable outcomes for our clients and communities. Profit Share is a key part of our reward, enabling members to share in the results of our collective efforts.

An environment that will give you freedom to design with a purpose, focus on your skills to deliver quality work to our clients, opportunity to learn and share knowledge openly. You will have the opportunity to utilise your technical expertise to improve the lives of the most vulnerable in the communities in which we live and work through Arup's community engagement programme .

You'll have access to lots of learning opportunities and ongoing training through Arup university and other learning programmes.

Beyond a competitive guaranteed annual salary package, core benefits include medical aid and hospital gap cover, as well as provident fund covering retirement savings, life insurance and income protection in the event of disability. Core benefits form part of your guaranteed annual package .

Different People, Shared Values

At Arup, we believe when talented people collaborate, great things are possible. Arup hires people with proven skills and open minds. We are taking deliberate action to create an inclusive culture that is grounded in our purpose to shape a better world.

At Arup, we welcome candidates from all backgrounds, regardless of age (within legal limits), disability, neurotype or mental health, gender, gender identity, gender expression, race, ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, whether you’re pregnant or on family leave. We are an open environment that embraces diverse experiences, perspectives, and ideas – this drives our excellence.

Guided by our values and alignment with the UN Sustainable Development Goals, we create and contribute to equitable spaces and systems, while cultivating a sense of belonging for all. Our internal employee networks support our inclusive culture: from race, ethnicity and cross-cultural working to gender equity and LGBTQ+ and disability inclusion – we aim to create a space for you to express yourself and make a positive difference. Discover more about life at Arup at http://www.arup.com/careers/your-life-at-arup.

Our Application Process

To understand what to expect next, please visit: https://www.arup.com/careers/recruitment-process/

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