Senior Professional Engineer: Electrical - (ENG-036) at Royal HaskoningDHV South Africa

Job Description
Senior Professional Electrical Engineer

• Senior Professional Electrical Engineer to fulfil role of Technical Lead in MCF & Industry in South Africa teams which are looking to recruit to expand and develop its South Africa based Electrical Engineering team to assist with our growing workload. You will be flexible, dynamic with the ability to assist in the development of our growing teams out of South Africa in our Cape Town, Johannesburg, and Umhlanga offices.
• You will be responsible for overseeing and managing all technical aspects of electrical engineering of MCF & Industry design projects. Project responsibility will be varied from inception of defining a client’s design brief to inspections, specifications, design, and management of projects. This role requires someone with the ability to be technical lead to a team of engineers, deliver quality & robust deliverables, and ensure that all project milestones are met on time and within budget.

Role objectives include:

• Providing technical leadership to the South Africa Electrical Engineering team, reporting to the Associate Director / Director.
• Maintaining effective communication and relationship with our global teams (NL, GER & UK)
• Provide technical leadership on projects.
• Providing technical leadership, mentoring, and coaching to design engineers or technologists.
• Business development support including technical input into bids and proposals.
• There will be a requirement to support our global teams (NL, GER & UK) on MCF & Industry projects.
• Manage and deliver the electrical work packages in multiple projects.

 Your responsibilities will include:

• Further development of technical standards, libraries, templates, etc. Drives quality and efficiency improvements.
• Lead discipline technical quality reviews to ensure all project deliverables meet client expectation & brief.
• Manage and deliver the electrical work packages in multiple projects.
• Identify the scope, design, and management objectives and delivering project documentation to ensure the quality and flow of information required for contractors, vendors, and regulatory authorities.
• Production of design calculations, sketch drawings, details of drawings using relevant software (Revit, Revizto, Dialux, ETAP, etc) including checking and reviewing of these prior to issue where completed by others.
• Design, lead, construction supervision for electrical engineering services with respect to multidisciplinary projects.
• Assist the project manager in the preparation/review of project costs, risk assessments.
• Develop and maintaining vendor relationships to ensure continuous technical professional development.
• Review contractor pre-qualifications and preparing tender evaluation summaries for tender reviews.
• Evaluate proposals and recommendations to the client regarding vendor selection.
• Write technical specifications for tenders.
• Represent RHDHV on factory acceptance tests and site testing & commissioning activities.
• Communicate the status of projects to internal directors and external stakeholders (clients) on an ad-hoc and formal basis.
• As a member of our multidisciplinary team, you will have the opportunity to work remotely and collaborate across borders. Your contributions won't be limited to project involvement alone, as you will also play a key role in optimizing our internal business processes and sharing knowledge within your field. By doing so, we aim to ensure continuous growth and development for both our company and our team members.

What you bring

You are an entrepreneurial, result oriented, proactive individual with a positive flexible and problem-solving attitude. Besides that, you have:

• A bachelor and/or master’s degree in electrical engineering;
• At least 20 years relevant working experience in electrical, electronics, control, SCADA design and / or installation in a consulting engineering environment; Considered well-known and respected expert internally and externally in field of expertise.
• Professional registration with ECSA as a PrEng/PrTech is required;
• Good knowledge of standard practices in the design and construction industry;
• Good understanding of the daily (operational) business of our clients;
• An entrepreneurial, proactive, and flexible attitude;
• Result oriented and have a proactive problem solving attitude;
• You perform best in a multidisciplinary team;
• You have excellent communication skills towards colleagues and clients;