Senior Engineer / Technical Director

Execustaff; Pretoria; On-site; ZAR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Execustaff is seeking a Senior Engineer / Technical Director (Civil or Mechanical) with Pr Eng registration or imminent, to lead water resilience projects from Pretoria. The role demands design leadership across wet services, strong mentoring, and active client engagement.

Candidates should have 10+ years in water engineering and demonstrable end-to-end delivery, including groundwater, filtration, and site experience. Excellent governance and communication are essential for practice leadership.

Qualifications

• BSc/BEng in Civil or Mechanical Engineering with ECSA Pr Eng registration or in progress.
• 10+ years in water engineering, wet services or water infrastructure consulting with authored drawings and calc packs.
• Groundwater abstraction and filtration/treatment delivery experience.
• Evidence of mentoring engineers toward registration and maintaining client relationships.

Responsibilities

• Design responsibility and professional sign-off across wet services and water infrastructure; delivery governance for Profile B engagements.
• Weekly design reviews with 24–48 hour red-pen turnaround on junior packages.
• QA review gate on the water-audit product within six months.
• Develop standards, templates and design tools for the firm’s reference library.
• Formal ECSA mentorship for candidate engineers with a development path for each team member.
• Market support: shaping sectors pursued and delivering for clients.
• Fee proposals, scope control and variations; in-house handling of payment and variation adjudication.
• Lead client meetings and communicate design decisions clearly, managing risk early.

Skills

Mentoring

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Change management

Education

BSc / BEng in Civil or Mechanical Engineering

ECSA Pr Eng registered or in progress

Job description

A water resilience consultancy in Pretoria is seeking a Senior Engineer / Technical Director: Civil or Mechanical / Senior (Pr Eng or imminent) / Practice leadership + full ECSA 6-Stage delivery.

Must have:

• Engineering qualification and registration. BSc / BEng in Civil or Mechanical Engineering; ECSA Pr Eng registered or imminent (dated application under way).
• A record you can defend in detail. Named projects with your design responsibility end-to-end; drawings and calc packs you authored; a claim free-but-managed delivery record.
• Mentoring evidence with names.
• Change-carrying temperament.
• Driver's licence and own transport. Site work is part of the role.

Strongly preferred:

• Groundwater/filtration delivery; live site retrofit experience (hospitals, malls); SANS 10252/10400-series fluency; Revit/Civil 3D; JBCC/FIDIC administration.
• Client followership.

The role - two senior profiles in scope:

Profile A - Senior Water / Wet Services Engineer

• ECSA Pr Eng (Civil or Mechanical), or demonstrably at registration standard with a dated, verifiable application in progress.
• 10+ years in water engineering, wet services, or water infrastructure consulting, with authored drawing sets and calculation packs you can walk through as your own.
• Groundwater abstraction and filtration/treatment delivery experience strongly weighted; fire protection depth valued.
• Evidence of mentoring engineers toward registration, and of holding client relationships through difficult conversations.

Profile B - Delivery Lead / Engineering Manager

• Pr Eng-calibre engineer from a consulting or EPCM environment who has owned delivery governance: design review gates, deliverable registers, commercial assurance on contracts.
• Fluent contractual literacy - JBCC essential; NEC/FIDIC valued: payment mechanics, retention, practical completion certification, claims and variations.
• Commissioning completions (plural) and a claims/variations record you can narrate in detail.
• Ran a self-contained package or area on a major project with your own commercial authority, or was the senior bench of a 20-50 person consultancy.

Key responsibilities:

Technical leadership

• Design responsibility and professional sign-off across wet services, water infrastructure, and (Profile B) delivery governance on all active engagements.
• Weekly design review with 24-48 hour red-pen turnaround on junior packages; calc-pack discipline (assumptions page, method statement, self-check, named checker).
• QA review gate on the water-audit product within six months of starting.

Practice building

• Standards, templates, standard details and design tools that become the firm's reference library.
• Formal ECSA mentorship for candidate engineers; a named development path for every engineer in your team.
• Market support: Company goes to market on your behalf - you shape which sectors we chase, and your delivery keeps the clients we win.

Commercial and delivery assurance

• Fee proposals, scope control and variations on your engagements; (Profile B) payment-claim interrogation, variation adjudication and practical-completion certification held in-house.
• Client trust-holding at senior level: difficult progress meetings, defending design decisions, delivering bad news early.