Senior Materials Technician at Hatch

About the job

Requisition ID: 43381

Job Category: Engineering; Construction

With over six decades of business and technical experience in the mining, energy, and infrastructure sectors, we understand that challenges are changing rapidly in every industry. We respond quickly with solutions that are smarter, more efficient, and innovative. We draw upon our 9,000 staff with experience in over 150 countries to challenge the status quo and create positive change for our clients, our employees, and the communities we serve.

Looking to take the next step in your career? Hatch is currently seeking a highly motivated Senior Materials Technician to join our Project Delivery Group (PDG) in Cape Town .

PDG helps clients reach their business goals through a range of strong technical capabilities. We ensure world-class project delivery through the skills of our people, methodologies, governance, and systems. Our engineering and project management and construction disciplines ensure safe, efficient, and sustainable delivery of projects globally across the metals and mining, infrastructure, and energy sectors.

We manage our clients’ entire project lifecycle from studies to building assets, operating the assets, and developing efficiencies. Join our team and become part of a community that strives for positive change–providing the best solutions for our clients’ toughest challenges!

As The Successful Candidate, You Will

• Work in a close relationship with the laboratory including having regular discussions with the laboratory manager about the condition, progress and standard of the laboratory;

• Conduct regular laboratory inspections and report and draft report;

• Act as liaison between the Engineer’s Representative and the laboratory;

• Advise the Engineer’s Representative where the laboratory does not comply with the contractual and technical requirements;

• Prepare and sign-off materials mix and seal designs or any other relevant matter for submission to the Engineer’s Representative;

• Verify the requests for lot approval submitted by the contractor and ensure the tests requested are in line with the lot submitted;

• Ensure the laboratory is granted sufficient time for sampling with regards to every request received;

• Keeps track of submission time for laboratory results;

• Receive and verify all the test results from the laboratory manager;

• Sign-off test reports and make recommendations for approval or rejection;

• Inspect works daily which shall inter alia include materials sources, layer works, structures and any other materials related to items on site;

• Do visual inspections on materials in lots submitted for approval;

• Inspect all trial sections constructed and complete as well as record trial section checklists;

• Populate progress sheets linking test requests with the position on layer works;

• Draft the monthly materials and laboratory reports;

• Keep As-Built data up to date;

Why join us?

• Develop innovation partnerships

• Think globally, work locally

• Engage with people who make a difference

What we offer you?

• Flexible work environment.

• Long term career development

We are committed to fostering a workforce in each of our locations that reflects the diversity of the communities in which we operate. Hatch is an Equal Opportunity Employer that considers employment applicants without regard to age, race, colour, national origin, citizenship, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, disability or any other protected status. If you have any special needs requirements, please let us know. We will do our utmost to accommodate, in accordance with applicable local legislation.