Senior Electrical Technologist / Engineer

HR Genie; Pretoria; On-site; ZAR 800 000 - 1 200 000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering firm in South Africa seeks a dedicated Project Manager to oversee multi-disciplinary teams and ensure project delivery. Responsibilities include managing budgets, preparing technical reports, and developing project designs. The ideal candidate will have a degree in Engineering and experience in project management, along with strong leadership and client relations skills. This role emphasizes compliance with health, safety, and environmental standards and seeks individuals who are driven to achieve results.

Qualifications

• Experience in managing multi-disciplinary project teams.
• Proficiency in preparing and evaluating project designs and budgets.
• Strong communication skills for client interactions.

Responsibilities

• Lead project management tasks ensuring compliance with company procedures.
• Monitor and manage construction activities, ensuring quality and compliance.
• Develop detail designs and prepare tender documentation.

Skills

Project Management

Coordination of Teams

Technical Reporting

Quality Control

Client Relations

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related field

Job description

Areas of Responsibilities

Responsible for Project Management, Coordination of Multi-disciplinary Project Teams and Project Delivery

Managing teams composed of members from different disciplines, ensuring their coordination and collaboration towards project goals.

Ensure that iX project start-up processes are followed, and the project scoping is clear and approved. Prepare and evaluate alternative concept designs, prepare reports and estimates and liaise with other professionals, both internally and externally.

Develop detail designs, manage the preparation of drawings and prepare tender documentation. Facilitate and assist with the tender and adjudication process leading up to contractor appointment and site hand over. If required, act as the project discipline Lead Engineer.

Budget Management

Handling project budgets, resource allocation, and potentially outsourcing project work when necessary. This may also involve negotiating project budgets with other sections or stakeholders.

Authoring Technical Reports

Preparing technical reports that meet quality standards in terms of technical content and presentation. These reports are often used for documentation and communication purposes.

Quality Control

Reviewing and checking the work produced by team members to ensure accuracy and compliance with project requirements and standards.

Presentation and Representation

Presenting technical work to stakeholders, clients, or higher management. Representing the project or organization in meetings or discussions related to the project.

Bid Responses

Preparing responses to bids or proposals for new projects, ensuring that they are well-structured and competitive.

Business Development and Support

Attend tender briefings, providing inputs into tender documentation, writing method statements, assisting with pricing calculations and providing general support during tender processes as and when required.

Regularly communicating with clients, addressing their needs, and building strong client relationships. This may involve discussing business technologies and markets.

These responsibilities demonstrate a combination of project management, technical expertise, client relations, and leadership skills typically required in roles that involve managing complex projects in technical or engineering fields.

Internal Project Management, Health and Safety, Administration and Quality Management Procedures

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 work place as well as on construction sites.

Project Delivery

Ensure that iX project start-up processes are followed and the project scoping is clear and approved.

Prepare and evaluate alternative concept designs, prepare reports and estimates and liaise with other professionals, both internally and externally.

Develop detail designs, manage the preparation of drawings and prepare tender documentation.

Facilitate and assist with the tender and adjudication process leading up to contractor appointment and site hand over.

If required, act as the project discipline Lead Engineer.

Monitor and manage construction activities including :

• Attending site and inspection meetings.
• Managing changes to work scope.
• Managing installation quality and compliance with specifications.
• Managing contract finances including valuations and payment certifications.
• Managing and witnessing testing and commissioning of works.
• Managing close out of project.

Training and Mentoring

Participating in continuous professional development training in order to maintain professional registration.

Assisting with training and mentoring of others who are registered as in-training engineers / technologists.

Leadership and Relations

Maintain good working relations with all stakeholders, both internal and external to the company, and demonstrate professionalism at all times.

Interact with leaders and peers in such a way to command respect and to grow leadership skills.

Be motivated and driven to take on the succession planning role as required

Generally comply with the company required core competencies as set out below :

HSE

Demonstrates awareness of and commitment to health, safety and environment issues and actions to address these issues; takes action to ensure zero harm to all employees, clients, contractors with zero environmental incidents.

Action Orientation

Gets results - achieves job goals set by self and others, meets timeslines, pushes to achive stretch goals, demontstar