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Job description

Job Purpose:

To ensure that water services and related infrastructure provided within a particular area are technically sound, economically justifiable in terms of the Municipality's capital works programme requirements and in terms of relevant legislation and policy.

Key Responsibility Areas:

• Undertake the complex design for the provision of water reticulation, trunk mains, pump stations and water storage facilities and all ancillary works and approves and/or audits complex designs from consultants, developers and staff in light thereof.
• Formulates and monitors conformity to Branch design and drawing standards.
• Assesses the impact of developments within the eThekwini region on the capacities of existing and proposed water infrastructure.
• Undertakes comparative evaluations of various complex design possibilities and ensures design standards comply with the relevant Statutory Acts and are environmentally acceptable.
• Peruse and comments on technical reports and provides information to update the Council's Geographic Information System (GIS) and other relevant asset databases.
• Assumes responsibility for contract management and reporting requirements associated with the functionality.
•  Provides input into policy, design and standards formulation and materials evaluation, and monitors the application in light thereof.
• Assists the Executive in its submission to the Council for inclusion into the Council's capital works programme and to monitor and control project expenditure.
• Ensures optimum utilisation and development of the available manpower.
• Ensure an effective overall service and dissemination of information to the customer.
• Monitor, report and provide assistance to other departments on all Non-Revenue Water reduction initiatives that are being done within the Unit.

Deputise for Senior Manager: WDNRW.

Essential Requirements:

• B.Sc (Engineering).
• Registration as a Professional Engineer (Pr. Eng) with the Engineering Council of South Africa.
• Valid motor vehicle drivers license (Code B).
• 7 years registration experience.