Senior Civil Engineer at Phakisa Group

Duties and Responsibilities:
Recruitment Description / Key Accountabilities
Business Results:

• Understand ECSA's code of conduct
• Define, technically justify, motivate and drive optimal plant improvement initiatives through technical investigations via the asset maintenance management practice
• Understand and apply the standards and descriptors of Operations Standards Framework pertaining to Setting of civil standards, and Maintenance Management
• Develop maintenance strategies related to civil structures
• Develop renewal roadmap to ensure long term sustainability of civil structures
• Recommend additional monitoring and analyses beyond the typical company and industry practices
• Identify, and take the lead on Civil Eng. studies
• Identify the need for Civil Eng. project’s
• Complete the proj obj and dev project charters
• Provide inputs into civil eng position papers
• Collaborate to compile cost-estimation
• Specify the req for civil eng drawings
• Compile the eng scope of work and ensure it translates into cost estimates for various phases of a civil engineering projects.
• Monitor and manage project budget, and cashflow
• Provide technical assistance to the client during the construction phase
• Assure that the designs are carried out as intended and all on-site issues are addressed
• Ensure QA/QC and oversight of construction managers, contractors, consultants, engineers, and technicians inputs and outputs
• Ensure due diligence, throughout various stages/phases of the project lifecycle preliminary layout and up to the final engineering design
• Ensure that all safety and regulatory issues have been addressed and resolved
• Adhere to the best practices, standards, and procedures of the company
• Supervise and peer reviewing the work of other engineers
• Identify civil eng deviation, threats, risks, and opportunities through monitoring
• Analyze deviations, understand the cause of the deviation and eliminate/manage/control re-occurrence
• Ensure quality of technical proposals and ensure applicable technical gov has been applied through formal peer review process
• Review civil eng design drawings for completeness, accuracy and to ensure that it satisfies the intended scope of work
• Develop Civil Eng design specifications

Leadership and Values:

• Interpret and translate bus req into an electrical engineering strategy to enable OME to safely meet production targets
• Translate OME project team strategy into team working model
• Manage and develop people in the team
• Facilitate knowledge sharing and innovation
• Ensure personal dev plans are completed, implemented and tracked within applicable career path
• Notify/inform of changes in resourcing needs
• Be responsible for own as well as team's perf management system
• Report on budget utilization, forecasting and changes
• Ensure teams safety objectives and req training is completed.

Relationships, Teamwork and Collaboration:

• Provide efficient and high-quality services to stakeholders
• Oversee the management of external service providers
• Maintain healthy and stable relationships with contractors and consultants
• Oversee the safety of external service providers
• Active practicing of interpersonal skills to ensure productive working relationships and to work with, or through, others int and/or ext. the organization to get work accomplished
• Display influencing, negotiating, maturity and emotional intelligence
• Operate successfully in a diverse work environment

Formal Education

• University Bacherlor's Degree, B Tech Civil Engineering

Min Experience

• 5+ relevant years in Construction environment

Certification & Professional Membership

• ECSA Registered Professional Engineer (wish)