Senior Material Testers - Civil Engineering Lab (Various Sites)

SGS; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 400 000 - 500 000; Full time

Job summary

A global leader in testing and certification is seeking a Senior Materials Tester in Cape Town. This role involves supervising tests and ensuring compliance with quality standards. Candidates should have strong interpersonal skills, be proficient in English, and possess Grade 12 education. Experience in fieldwork and laboratory testing is advantageous. The company offers a dynamic work environment with opportunities for growth.

Qualifications

• Must be competent and comfortable with SANS and THM 1 test methods.
• Sampling and preparation experience advantageous.
• Fieldwork experience needed, including sampling densities and manufacturing concrete cubes.

Responsibilities

• Supervise testing for all tests deemed competent.
• Report any deviations or non-conformances.
• Perform field and laboratory work accurately.

Skills

Integrity

Interpersonal skills

Energy and passion

Computer literacy

Proficiency in English

Education

Grade 12

Recognition of Prior Learning

Tools

Word

Excel

Outlook

Job description

Company Description

SGS is the world’s leading Testing, Inspection and Certification company. We operate a network of over 2,500 laboratories and business facilities across 115 countries, supported by a team of 99,500 dedicated professionals. With over 145 years of service excellence, we combine the precision and accuracy that define Swiss companies to help organizations achieve the highest standards of quality, compliance, and sustainability.

SGS South Africa, Matrocast Division, is seeking to fill a key role in its Civil Engineering Sites Laboratories in the Western Cape Region. The role includes but are not limited to assisting the Supervisor/ Laboratory Manager with all tasks, whether it’s on site or in the commercial laboratory. To clean all equipment on a regular basis. To complete all preparation of materials to be tested in the laboratory division, including soils, asphalt, seals, concrete, aggregate with bench calculation as and when required for testing. The Senior Materials Tester will ensure that the laboratory is clean at all times and will carry out all work related instructions from the technicians/supervisors or authorized personnel.

The ideal candidate for this position will be a person with integrity and good interpersonal skills and is able to command respect from those he/she deals with, whilst possessing enough energy and passion to maintain good staff relationships. A successful career in delivering performance against agreed strategic objectives and ultimately ensuring that all quality and testing methods are observed, and any deviation is reported without delay.

Job Description

• Senior Materials Tester is responsible to supervise and/or carry out and take responsibility of testing for all tests that the employee is deemed competent for strictly in accordance to prescribed methods. • A Senior Materials Tester is responsible for cleaning up the site or workshop after task is completed or at the end of the day which every comes first, where the job was carried out and will make sure its free off all consumables used to perform the job (masking tape, tins).
• A Senior Materials Tester is responsible to adhere to all quality and safety requirements of the SGS management system.
• A Senior Materials Tester is responsible to orally report any deviations, irregularities and non-conformances
• A Senior Materials Tester is responsible to perform any other reasonable tasks as assigned by the authorized site supervisor/laboratory manager and regional manager.
• A Senior Materials Tester is responsible to perform all field and laboratory work including sampling, calculations and performing test methods accurately
• Complete timesheets accurately on a daily basis.
• Ensure discipline within his/her assigned department,

Qualifications

• Grade 12
• Knowledge, skills and experience sufficient to be recognized as a qualification through - Recognition of Prior Learning.
• Language: Proficiency in English (Read, write, speak
• Computer literacy in Word, Excel, Outlook
• Must be competent and comfortable with the SANS and THM 1 test methods.

Additional Information

• Sampling and preparation experience advantageous
• Administration experience will be Advantageous
• Fieldwork (densities, layer/stockpile sampling, manufacture and handle concrete cubes, DCP, Ring and Ball test (road surfaces), Sand Patch, On Site Viscosity tests, Sampling of Asphalt and Bitumen.
• Competent and qualified to do all tests in all laboratory divisions including soils, asphalt, seals, concrete / aggregate
• Do all calculations in full related to the tests mentioned above
• Control laboratory activities such as quality control under supervision.
• Physically able and willing to work with, move and pick up samples as and when required,