Available Positions at Zutari

Role responsibilities

• Delivering client proposals and tenders in conjunction with Zutari’s client strategic objectives such as bid planning facilitation, writing, technical inputs, and costing.
• Ensuring full responsibility and accountability for all design aspects within electrical & electronic services, within the Built Environment, from conceptional to final design.
• Developing specifications, cost estimates, and final construction tender documentation.
• Implementation of all relevant codes of practice and ensuring that all design aspects / project standards comply with Zutari’s quality control procedures.
• Competent in Revit, BIM 360 with clear skill capability that can be proven ability to recognize priorities and manage time appropriately.
• Good interpersonal skills, good oral and written communication skills.
• A great can-do attitude, where you listen, think, and respond to clients’ needs to co-create appropriate and sustainable solutions.
• You delight in working in a team, where you willingly contribute your value and teach others with your experience.

Minimum requirements

• BSc/BEng or BTech in Electrical Engineering.
• Candidate engineer/technologist with Engineering Council of South Africa (ECSA). Professionally registered individuals will be considered. 
• Minimum of 3 years in the Built Environment or within an infrastructure engineering consultancy.
• Professional proficiency on design software i.e. Revit, AutoCAD, Navisworks, etc. 
• Professional competency on BIM.
• Regulatory and compliance proficiency i.e. SANS, IEC, OHSAS, NBR, etc. 
• Project planning and scheduling. 
• Team player. 

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Role overview

• The BIM Manager will manage the Civil 3D coordination, model management, and Autodesk Forma workflows across Zutari EX projects. Autodesk Forma (formerly Autodesk Construction Cloud – ACC) provides a unified industry cloud across planning, design, construction, and operations. This role ensures consistent, high-quality civil digital delivery while developing team capability and supporting lifecycle-aligned workflows. 

Role responsibilities

• Lead and standardise Civil 3D coordination across disciplines 
• Drive Autodesk Forma adoption across planning, design, and coordination 
• Define digital delivery strategies for projects 
• Provide multi-project coordination oversight 
• Line manage and develop Civil BIM Coordinators 
• Own standards, templates, and automation initiatives 
• Act as SME in client engagements 

Minimum requirements

• 8-12+ years in civil infrastructure digital delivery 
• Advanced Autodesk Civil 3D expertise 
• Strong understanding of Autodesk Forma (formerly ACC) 
• Experience in multi-disciplinary coordination 
• Knowledge of ISO 19650 principles 
• Leadership or mentoring experience

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Job Summary

• The main purpose of the Payroll Accountant role is to oversee payroll operations across multiple countries within Zutari. The focus will be on payroll tasks, processing of payroll-related journals, preparation of payroll-related accruals, provisions and reconciliations.
• The Payroll Accountant will support the Payroll Analyst in ensuring accurate and timely payroll processing and general ledger accounting. The Payroll Accountant role requires knowledge of accounting treatment of various transactions and reconciliations.
• The role has direct impact on financial reporting accuracy, audit readiness, compliance, and the integrity of payroll-related general ledger balances. Whilst this role does not have any direct reports it has a requirement to be able to operate independently and as such a high level of accountability is required

Role responsibilities

General Ledger Accounting for Payroll:

• Prepare, review, and post payroll-related journal entries accurately and within agreed reporting timelines.
• Ensure payroll costs, employer contributions, deductions, provisions, and liabilities are correctly allocated to the general ledger.
• Maintain the integrity of payroll-related general ledger accounts through accurate classification, coding, and posting.
• Verify that payroll outputs are correctly translated into accounting entries and reflected in the financial records.

Payroll Balance Sheet Reconciliations:

• Prepare and review reconciliations for all payroll-related balance sheet accounts, including salaries control accounts, statutory liabilities, benefit deductions, payroll clearing accounts, leave provisions, bonus accruals, and other payroll-related provisions.
• Investigate reconciling items, unusual balances, and aged items and ensure timeous resolution.
• Substantiate payroll-related balances with complete supporting schedules and audit-ready documentation.
• Monitor reconciliation quality and escalate unresolved or material items.

Month-End and Year-End Payroll Close:

• Coordinate payroll-related month-end close activities to ensure all payroll accounting entries are complete, accurate, and posted on time.
• Prepare payroll accruals, provisions, prepayments, and adjustment journals as required for monthly reporting.
• Support year-end close activities by preparing final payroll accounting schedules, reconciliations, and supporting working papers.
• Ensure payroll-related ledger balances are accurately reflected in financial reporting and year-end audit submissions.

Ledger Alignment and Payroll-to-Finance Interface:

• Ensure accurate alignment between payroll system outputs, payroll reports, third-party schedules, and the general ledger.

Statutory and Third-Party Ledger Accountability:

• Reconcile statutory deductions, benefit contributions, and third-party payroll liabilities to supporting schedules and ledger balances.
• Ensure payroll-related liability accounts are accurately recorded and cleared in line with payment cycles.
• Investigate differences between payroll reports, payment schedules, and ledger balances and resolve discrepancies.

Audit and Compliance Support:

• Prepare payroll-related audit schedules, reconciliations, journals, and supporting documents for internal and external audit purposes.
• Maintain a clear and complete audit trail for all payroll accounting entries and reconciliations.
• Respond to payroll accounting queries raised by auditors, finance leadership, and compliance stakeholders.

Analysis and Reporting:

• Analyse payroll ledger movements and identify unusual trends, misallocations, or accounting anomalies.
• Provide commentary on payroll-related account movements during month-end and year-end reporting cycles.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of payroll accounting reports and management information.

Process Improvement and Systems Support:

• Recommend improvements to payroll accounting processes, controls, and ledger reconciliation practices.
• Support the documentation and maintenance of payroll accounting procedures, month-end checklists, and reconciliation standards.
• Contribute to process standardisation that improves financial accuracy, transparency, and reporting efficiency.

Minimum requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or Commerce - Essential
• Completed articles - advantageous
• Postgraduate qualification in accounting, taxation, or finance will be advantageous
• Minimum 5 years’ relevant experience in payroll accounting, financial accounting, or general ledger accounting

Demonstrated practical experience in:

• payroll-related journal processing
• balance sheet reconciliations
• accruals, provisions, and month-end accounting
• payroll-to-general ledger integration
• financial reporting support and audit preparation
• Experience working in an integrated ERP, payroll, and HRIS environment
• Proven experience dealing with complex reconciliations, ledger substantiation, and payroll-related control accounts
• Experience in a multi-entity, shared services, or medium-to-large organisational environment will be advantageous

Skills, and characteristics

• Ms Office Proficiency: (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook)
• Stakeholder Management and Communication: Engages professionally with Payroll, HR, Finance, auditors, and service providers to resolve issues and ensure aligned, accurate information flow.
• General Ledger Accounting Expertise: Applies strong knowledge of journals, accruals, provisions, reconciliations, and account substantiation to ensure payroll transactions are accurately reflected in the general ledger.
• Reconciliation and Analytical Ability: Reviews payroll-related balances critically, identifies discrepancies, and resolves reconciling items through structured financial analysis.
• Systems and Data Proficiency: Uses ERP systems, payroll platforms, and spreadsheets effectively to process, reconcile, and report payroll accounting information.
• Payroll Accounting: Prepares and reviews payroll-related journals, balance sheet reconciliations.

Competencies

• Attention to Detail: Checks payroll journals, reconciliations, and supporting schedules carefully to ensure accuracy, completeness, and consistency.
• Problem-Solving and Judgement: Assesses payroll accounting issues, determines appropriate corrective action, and escalates material exceptions where necessary.
• Confidentiality and Integrity: Manages sensitive payroll and employee financial information with discretion, professionalism, and a high standard of ethical conduct.
• Time Management and Ability to Work Under Pressure: Prioritises effectively and delivers accurate outputs within strict payroll, month-end, and year-end deadlines in a high-pressure environment.
• Process Improvement and Optimisation: Identifies inefficiencies in payroll accounting processes and implements practical improvements to strengthen accuracy, control, and reporting efficiency.

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About the role:

The Finance Director: Group

• Reporting and Control is a senior finance leadership role responsible for strengthening financial control, reporting integrity, governance, and performance insight across Zutari. Reporting to the Group Chief Financial Officer, the role provides leadership across group financial reporting, statutory compliance, budgeting and forecasting, finance operations, working capital performance, and financial governance across the organisation.
• The role also contributes to broader enterprise finance priorities by supporting strategic decision making on matters such as business performance, capital allocation, funding considerations, legal entity and jurisdictional complexity, and selected corporate transactions and change initiatives.
• While the treasury function may not report directly into this role, the incumbent will be expected to provide informed guidance, challenge, and strategic finance input on treasury, liquidity, banking, and capital-related matters.
• The role requires a mature finance leader who can operate effectively across multiple entities, jurisdictions, and business contexts; engage credibly with executive leadership, boards, and governance forums; and bring a broad base of experience from complex, multi-jurisdictional, and ideally large corporate environments

Strategic Finance Partnership and Stakeholder Leadership

• Partner closely with the Group Chief Financial Officer and finance leadership team to support the execution of the Group finance agenda and broader business priorities.
• Provide clear financial insight and advice to support executive decision-making, including the financial implications of strategic initiatives, growth options, restructurings, and business performance improvement actions.
• Act as a trusted senior finance advisor to leadership on finance related matters, balancing strategic perspective with operational and governance discipline.
• Build effective working relationships across business units, functions, and leadership teams to ensure alignment between financial priorities and organisational objectives.
• Contribute to executive, board, and committee reporting through clear analysis of financial performance, risks, opportunities, and key business drivers.
• Partner with the broader finance team to ensure that planning, forecasting, and management insight are appropriately reflected in executive, board, and finance decision-making

Group Financial Control, Reporting and Compliance

• Lead and oversee the integrity of financial reporting across the Group, ensuring accurate, timely, and decision-useful reporting.
• Oversee month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close processes to ensure strong balance sheet discipline, accurate profit and loss reporting, and robust cash flow reporting.
• Ensure high-quality group consolidations across multiple entities, including the treatment of intercompany balances, eliminations, and multi-jurisdictional reporting requirements.
• Ensure compliance with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), applicable local statutory requirements, and internal financial policies and standards.
• Oversee the preparation and review of annual financial statements and other statutory reporting deliverables.
• Drive consistency in financial accounting treatment, reporting policies, and control practices across the Group.
• Coordinate effectively with joint venture partners and other relevant external stakeholders to ensure accurate and timely financial reporting where applicable.
• Ensure alignment between financial reporting outputs and the assumptions, risks, and implications arising from planning and forecasting processes

Governance, Board Management, Controls and Audit

• Strengthen and maintain an effective financial control environment across the Group, with clear accountability, sound governance, and appropriate segregation of duties.
• Provide significant support to boards, audit committees, and governance forums through high-quality reporting, insight, and management of finance-related matters.
• Prepare, review, and present finance content for board and committee packs, ensuring clarity, accuracy, relevance, and strong linkage to strategic and governance priorities.
• Manage board and committee finance matters effectively, including follow-through on actions, escalation of key issues, and timely resolution of finance-related risks and decisions.
• Oversee the effectiveness of key financial controls, reconciliations, review processes, and financial risk mitigation practices.
• Support internal and external audit processes and ensure that findings are addressed appropriately and timeously.
• Monitor compliance with delegated authorities, financial policies, reporting timetables, and governance requirements across entities and jurisdictions.
• Support the Group Chief Financial Officer in Audit and Risk Committee and other governance engagements, as required.
• Drive continuous improvement in finance processes, control maturity, and reporting quality.
• Support clear articulation of financial outlook, risk, and key assumptions in board and committee reporting, in partnership with the wider team where appropriate.

Treasury, Liquidity and Capital Guidance

• Provide strategic finance guidance and challenge to the treasury function on liquidity planning, cash forecasting, banking structures, guarantees, facilities, and related risk matters.
• Partner with the Group Chief Financial Officer and relevant treasury stakeholders on matters relating to funding requirements, capital structuring considerations, covenant implications, and banking relationships.
• Review and challenge cash flow forecasts, working capital assumptions, and liquidity planning to ensure alignment with Group priorities.
• Provide informed finance input on foreign exchange, interest rate, counterparty, and cross-border cash management risks.
• Ensure that appropriate governance and oversight are in place over banking and treasury-related processes, even where direct line management does not reside in the role.

Working Capital, Cost Discipline and Finance Operations

• Monitor and improve key working capital drivers, including receivables, payables, contract-related balances, and other relevant cash conversion metrics.
• Provide leadership oversight over accounts payable and related finance operations to ensure strong controls, policy compliance, timely execution, and efficient service delivery.
• Support business leaders in identifying opportunities to improve cost discipline, margin performance, and financial efficiency.
• Ensure accurate recording of revenues, expenses, provisions, accruals, and other key accounting balances across the Group.
• Promote a culture of accountability, accuracy, discipline, and continuous improvement across the finance function.

Corporate Finance and Transactions

• Support the Group Chief Financial Officer on strategic finance matters such as legal entity structuring, capital allocation, business restructuring, and selected investment or transaction related initiatives.
• Contribute financial analysis, business case evaluation, and scenario modelling for major strategic decisions and special projects.
• Support financial workstreams linked to acquisitions, disposals, joint ventures, integrations, or other corporate activity where relevant.
• Contribute to finance transformation, systems improvement, and process enhancement initiatives across the Group.
• Apply broad finance judgement across a range of complex and evolving business issues beyond routine controllership responsibilities.

Leadership and Team Development

• Lead, coach, and develop the relevant finance team members to build capability, accountability, succession depth, and high performance.
• Foster collaboration across finance and non-finance stakeholders in a matrixed and professional environment.
• Create a strong team culture grounded in integrity, responsiveness, technical excellence, and sound judgement.
• Support the ongoing development of finance talent within Zutari while bringing an external lens on leading practice and continuous improvement.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, or equivalent, CA, CPA, CGMA, FCCA
• Chartered Accountant
• Relevant postgraduate qualification in finance, business, strategy, or leadership.
• 15 years’ progressive finance and accounting experience, with substantial senior leadership exposure.
• Proven experience in complex group environments involving multiple entities, jurisdictions, currencies, and stakeholder groups.
• Strong experience across group financial reporting, consolidations, statutory compliance, budgeting, forecasting, financial controls, and performance analysis.
• Significant experience in supporting and managing board, audit committee, and governance-related finance matters.
• Demonstrated ability to operate credibly at senior leadership level and engage effectively with executives, boards, and other senior stakeholders.
• Strong working knowledge of IFRS and applicable statutory reporting requirements.
• Experience in large corporate, multinational, or similarly complex organisational environments

Advantageous:

• Experience across more than one industry or business context.
• Experience in professional services, engineering, infrastructure, construction, or other complex project-based environments.
• Exposure to treasury, funding, capital structuring, banking relationships, or liquidity management at a strategic level.
• Experience supporting mergers and acquisitions, restructurings, legal entity rationalisation, post-merger integration, or other strategic corporate finance initiatives.
• Experience leading or contributing to ERP, finance transformation, or process improvement programmes.
• Experience engaging with joint venture structures, financial institutions, and external advisors.
• Advanced financial reporting, consolidation, and control capability.
• Ability to interpret financial information strategically and translate it into actionable insight.
• Strong commercial judgement and business partnering capability.
• Ability to guide and influence across a broad finance agenda, including areas not directly reporting into the role.
• Strong understanding of governance, board reporting, risk, internal control, and audit requirements.
• Executive-level communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Advanced ERP, finance systems, and reporting tools proficiency.
• High attention to detail, balanced with the ability to maintain a strategic and enterprise-wide perspective.
• Strong leadership, coaching, and team development capability.

Competencies

• Strategic Financial Leadership
• Executive Stakeholder Influence
• Board and Governance Management
• Financial Control, Governance and Reporting Excellence
• Planning, Forecasting and Performance Leadership
• Treasury, Liquidity and Capital Insight
• Commercial Acumen and Value Optimisation
• Cross-Functional Leadership and Collaboration
• Change Leadership and Continuous Improvement
• Sound Judgement in Complex and Ambiguous Environments

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• Based at our Rosebank offices, Zutari is currently seeking an experienced senior Structural Engineering professional who will be accountable for the technical integrity, delivery performance, commercial outcomes, client satisfaction, pipeline support, and capability growth of the structural discipline across assigned built environment projects. 
• The role leads and manages structural design packages across commercial, mixed-use, transport buildings and upgrades, public venues/stadia, data centres, and mission-critical facilities, ensuring that solutions are safe, buildable, efficient, and aligned with client requirements, applicable codes, and Zutari standards. 
• The Associate owns the quality and compliance of structural engineering outputs from concept through detailed design and construction support. The role drives coordinated multidisciplinary delivery, manages scope, programme, risk, and financial performance, and acts as the primary technical representative for the discipline in client and stakeholder engagements.
• Through technical excellence, trusted relationships, and disciplined project delivery, the Associate contributes to repeat business and sustainable pipeline growth. The role also strengthens structural engineering capability by mentoring team members, enforcing discipline standards, and promoting continuous improvement in methods, governance, digital delivery, safety in design, and innovation.

Key Role Responsibilities:

Technical Leadership & Engineering Integrity

• Lead and manage structural design packages for built environment projects, from concept design through detailed design and construction support.
• Deliver and oversee structural analysis and design for reinforced concrete, post-tensioned concrete, and structural steel systems in accordance with applicable codes, standards, and project specifications.
• Interpret and apply client standards and national/international design codes to develop safe, buildable, efficient, and technically robust structural solutions.
• Oversee and approve structural calculations, reports, design briefs, specifications, design risk notes, and other technical documentation to ensure engineering integrity and clarity of design intent.
• Drive continuous improvement in structural engineering methods, technical standards, digital delivery, governance, and risk-based engineering decision-making.

Pipeline Contribution & Opportunity Support

• Identify future opportunities during project delivery by maintaining strong client engagement and understanding evolving client needs.
• Provide discipline-specific input to bids, proposals, and fee estimates, including design strategies, assumptions, risks, and competitive differentiators.
• Ensure high-quality delivery that strengthens Zutari’s reputation and drives repeat business from satisfied clients.
• Advise discipline and sector leadership on emerging market trends, capability gaps, and opportunities aligned with the business strategy.
• Support early pursuit discussions by providing informed, technically grounded perspectives on feasibility, scope, risks, and value creation.

Team Capability, Leadership & Technical Development

• Lead and mentor engineers, technologists, and technicians, ensuring clarity of expectations, disciplined delivery, and strong technical development.
• Assign work effectively based on capability, workload, and risk, ensuring quality and performance standards are consistently met.
• Provide structured technical feedback, support performance reviews, and identify development needs across the team.
• Contribute to recruitment, onboarding, and succession planning to strengthen long‑term structural discipline capability.
• Promote a culture of continuous improvement, technical excellence, accountability, and collaboration across the team.

Client Leadership, Technical Advisory & Relationship Management

• Act as the primary structural representative for assigned projects, leading client discussions, workshops, reviews, and technical decision-making.
• Provide clear, structured advice that helps clients understand trade‑offs, technical risks, value‑optimisation options, compliance requirements, and performance outcomes.
• Maintain strong, trust‑based relationships by ensuring transparency, proactive communication, timely decision inputs, and reliable delivery performance.
• Represent Zutari with professionalism and authority in all external technical engagements, enhancing client confidence and enabling future work.

Minimum Requirements:

Qualifications

• BSc/BEng/BTech in Civil/Structural Engineering from a recognised institution (postgraduate qualification advantageous).
• Professional registration with ECSA.

Experience

• A minimum of 8 years’ experience delivering and leading structural engineering design on complex building or infrastructure projects across multiple sectors (e.g. commercial, industrial, mission critical, healthcare, mixed-use, etc.).
• Demonstrated experience acting as the structural lead on projects, with accountability for technical integrity, delivery performance, multi‑disciplinary integration, and client-facing coordination.
• Proven experience in the analysis and design of complex or large-scale built environment projects, including steel and concrete structures.
• Strong working knowledge of relevant design codes and standards (South African, Australian/New Zealand, American and/or European), with the ability to work across different code environments where required.
• Proficiency in common structural analysis and design software and a solid understanding of CAD/BIM workflows and model-based coordination.
• Demonstrated experience across tender, detailed design and construction support phases, including technical responses, design development, and construction-phase query resolution.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present technical information clearly and confidently.
• Experience in complex finite element analysis and/or specialist assessments (e.g. complex modelling, advanced staging/sequence modelling, seismic analysis and design/ detailing to applicable codes where required).
• Exposure to dynamic/vibration assessments (modal/harmonic/time-history or vibration studies).
• Experience with scripting/coding and automation to improve design workflows and quality checking.

Skills and Characteristics

• Technical excellence: strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to investigate and resolve complex structural design challenges in the built environment.
• Strong ability to lead design strategy, make informed engineering decisions under uncertainty, and provide authoritative technical direction.
• Excellent delivery management skills, including programme planning, work sequencing, risk identification, interface management, and quality assurance control.
• Solid commercial understanding: scope definition, fee alignment, change control discipline, margin awareness, hours forecasting, and rework avoidance.
• Strong client-facing communication skills, with the ability to present design options, explain trade-offs, negotiate technical decisions, and build client confidence.
• Competent in digital design workflows and audit of digital outputs, with the ability to guide automation (e.g., Dynamo/Python) and drive digital delivery improvement (not hands-on modelling).
• Effective leadership and delegation skills, ensuring delivery quality, balanced workloads, and capability development within the team.
• Excellent problem-solving, analytical thinking, and structured decision-making skills.
• Technical Mastery: Demonstrates authoritative engineering judgement, advanced knowledge of codes and systems, and high-standard technical outputs.
• Delivery Leadership: Owns structural delivery performance; ensures predictable, high-quality outcomes across scope, programme, risk, and quality dimensions.
• Commercial Discipline: Protects commercial outcomes through fee alignment, change control, risk management, scope clarity, and avoidance of cost leakage.
• Client Leadership: Builds trust, shapes decisions, manages expectations, and takes accountability for client satisfaction and repeat business.
• People Development: Mentors, upskills, and supports team growth; contributes to performance input, capability uplift, and succession planning.
• Cross‑Disciplinary Collaboration: Works effectively across mechanical, structural, architectural and specialist teams to ensure coordinated and integrated design delivery.
• Digital Fluency: Promotes high standards of digital engineering, QA/QC, and automation adoption to improve accuracy, efficiency, and consistency.
• Risk‑Based Thinking: Identifies technical, delivery, and commercial risks early, takes proactive corrective action, and exercises sound judgement in complex decisions.
• Ownership & Accountability: Takes responsibility for outcomes, not tasks; maintains high standards of professionalism, integrity, and reliability.

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Role Responsibilities

• Partner with an established, leading team of geotechnical engineers and Engineering Geologists.
• Provide a mix of technical delivery, project management, but with significant focus on problem solving, analysis and design.
• Liaise with other design disciplines to develop and maintain design coordination.
• Responsible for winning work for the broader geotechnical team, as well as building and maintaining strong client relationships.
• Periodic travel to projects in South Africa, Rest of Africa and the Middle East will be necessary.
• Ability to apply new knowledge, deliver and devise new approaches in industry in solving complex ground problems.
• Ensure timely delivery of Geotechnical deliverables of projects, within scope and budget.
• Establish a clear understanding of the project goals and stakeholder expectations, specifically, managing client expectations and ensuring that delivery meets expectations.
• Be a team player that is willing to collaborate across multiple disciplines and international geographies.
• Resolve project level issues independently.
• Mentor junior Geotechnical and Geology resources.
• Support business development activities.
• Motivate the project team towards the determined objectives, by generating enthusiasm for the project, and by maintaining a continued personal interest in achieving set targets.

Minimum Requirements

• BEng or BSc degree in Civil Engineering.
• Registration as a Professional Engineer (Pr.Eng. or equivalent).
• A post-graduate qualification in Geotechnical Engineering will highly beneficial.
• A minimum of 5 years postgraduate experience in Geotechnical Engineering within the Transport discipline.
• Solid understanding of soil and rock mechanics is essential.
• Solid experience in the design of foundations for buildings and structures, slope stabilisation and ground improvement, earthworks and retention structures.
• Experience in foundation and pile design, settlement, earth pressure, slope stability, and bearing capacity etc. would be highly beneficial.
• Skills and experience in geotechnical analysis and design.
• Solid knowledge of design standards.
• Skills in geotechnical analysis including the application of the latest analysis methods and software.
• Communication and report writing skills are required, along with the ability to work with clients to develop new and existing business opportunities

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Role Responsibilities

• Partner with an established, leading team of geotechnical engineers and Engineering Geologists.
• Provide a mix of technical delivery, project management, but with significant focus on problem solving, analysis and design.
• Liaise with other design disciplines to develop and maintain design coordination.
• Responsible for winning work for the broader geotechnical team, as well as building and maintaining strong client relationships.
• Periodic travel to projects in South Africa, Rest of Africa and the Middle East will be necessary.
• Ability to apply new knowledge, deliver and devise new approaches in industry in solving complex ground problems.
• Ensure timely delivery of Geotechnical deliverables of projects, within scope and budget.
• Establish a clear understanding of the project goals and stakeholder expectations, specifically, managing client expectations and ensuring that delivery meets expectations.
• Be a team player that is willing to collaborate across multiple disciplines and international geographies.
• Resolve project level issues independently.
• Mentor junior Geotechnical and Geology resources.
• Support business development activities.
• Motivate the project team towards the determined objectives, by generating enthusiasm for the project, and by maintaining a continued personal interest in achieving set targets.

Minimum Requirements

• BEng or BSc degree in Civil Engineering.
• Registration as a Professional Engineer (Pr.Eng. or equivalent) OR clear evidence of registration progress.
• A post-graduate qualification in Geotechnical Engineering will highly beneficial.
• A minimum of 3 years postgraduate experience in Geotechnical Engineering within the Transport discipline.
• Solid understanding of soil and rock mechanics is essential.
• Experience in the design of foundations for buildings and structures, slope stabilisation and ground improvement, earthworks and retention structures.
• Experience in foundation and pile design, settlement, earth pressure, slope stability, and bearing capacity etc. would be highly beneficial.
• Skills and experience in geotechnical analysis and design.
• Solid knowledge of design standards.
• Skills in geotechnical analysis including the application of the latest analysis methods and software.
• Communication and report writing skills are required, along with the ability to work with clients to develop new and existing business opportunities.

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Role Responsibilities

• Partner with an established, leading team of geotechnical engineers and Engineering Geologists.
• Provide a mix of technical delivery, project management, but with significant focus on problem solving, analysis and design.
• Liaise with other design disciplines to develop and maintain design coordination.
• Responsible for winning work for the broader geotechnical team, as well as building and maintaining strong client relationships.
• Periodic travel to projects in South Africa, Rest of Africa and the Middle East will be necessary.
• Ability to apply new knowledge, deliver and devise new approaches in industry in solving complex ground problems.
• Ensure timely delivery of Geotechnical deliverables of projects, within scope and budget.
• Establish a clear understanding of the project goals and stakeholder expectations, specifically, managing client expectations and ensuring that delivery meets expectations.
• Be a team player that is willing to collaborate across multiple disciplines and international geographies.
• Resolve project level issues independently.
• Mentor junior Geotechnical and Geology resources.
• Support business development activities.
• Motivate the project team towards the determined objectives, by generating enthusiasm for the project, and by maintaining a continued personal interest in achieving set targets.

Minimum Requirements

• BEng or BSc degree in Civil Engineering.
• Registration as a Professional Engineer (Pr.Eng. or equivalent).
• A post-graduate qualification in Geotechnical Engineering will highly beneficial.
• A minimum of 7 years postgraduate experience in Geotechnical Engineering within the Transport discipline.
• Extensive understanding of soil and rock mechanics is essential.
• Solid experience in the design of foundations for buildings and structures, slope stabilisation and ground improvement, earthworks and retention structures.
• Experience in foundation and pile design, settlement, earth pressure, slope stability, and bearing capacity etc. would be highly beneficial.
• Skills and experience in geotechnical analysis and design.
• Solid knowledge of design standards.
• Skills in geotechnical analysis including the application of the latest analysis methods and software.
• Communication and report writing skills are required, along with the ability to work with clients to develop new and existing business opportunities.

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• The Business Development Manager (BDM) role provides operational, coordination, and administrative support to the Business Development Director. The role focuses on pipeline tracking, proposal coordination, client research, and bid support, ensuring efficient execution of the sales process.
• This role does not own client relationships or originate opportunities but enables the BD team to operate effectively by ensuring high-quality submissions, accurate reporting, and timely coordination across internal and external stakeholders.

Role Responsibilities

Bid Management & Proposal Delivery — Primary Focus

• Lead and coordinate end-to-end bid processes for assigned opportunities.
• Translate RFPs and ToRs into structured, compliant, high-quality proposals.
• Develop proposal outlines, compliance matrices, win themes, and value propositions.
• Drive inputs from technical, commercial, legal, and partner teams.
• Maintain proposal tools, templates, CVs, project sheets, case studies, and standard bid content.
• Ensure proposals are submitted on time and in line with client requirement

Pipeline & Opportunity Management

• Maintain and track the Energy BD pipeline.
• Apply structured qualification criteria to support go/no-go decisions.
• Report on pipeline health, deadlines, risks, values, probabilities, and next actions.
• Support opportunity shaping through research, positioning inputs, and internal coordination.
• Maintain accurate opportunity data in CRM systems and trackers

Client & Market Engagement

• Support client engagement planning, preparation, and follow-up.
• Conduct client, market, competitor, and project research.
• Develop client and project intelligence packs to support BD decision-making.
• Identify new opportunities and log these for review by the Business Development Director.
• Prepare briefing notes, meeting agendas, and follow-up action trackers.

Technical Business Development Contribution

• Contribute to technical positioning by translating client needs into relevant Zutari solutions.
• Support preparation of project references, capability statements, team structures, and CV selections.
• Engage with technical teams to ensure proposal content reflects delivery capability.
• Support client-facing technical discussions where required and under BD leadership guidance.
• Assist with the setup of technical teams for bids and early-stage opportunities.

Commercial & Strategy Support

• Support pricing strategies by coordinating assumptions, exclusions, resource inputs, and commercial information.
• Assist in implementing Energy growth strategies and BD priorities.
• Support preparation of commercial governance documentation.
• Contribute to BD process improvement, tools, templates, and reporting systems.
• Participate in win/loss reviews and support continuous improvement initiatives.

Internal Coordination & Utilisation

• Act as an interface between BD and technical teams to ensure timely information flow.
• Support resource mobilisation for proposals and early-stage opportunities.
• Track actions, responsibilities, deadlines, and dependencies across bid teams.
• Support utilisation through agreed technical, proposal, and business development tasks.
• Coordinate with Sales Enablement, technical teams, commercial teams, and leadership as required.

Minimum requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering – Essential
• Professional registration (Pr Eng/Pr Tech/ Pr Techni with ECSA) - advantageous
• 5–10 years’ experience in energy or consulting
• Experience supporting EOIs, RFQs, and RFP submissions
• Exposure to proposal preparation, document management, and bid processes
• Experience working with multidisciplinary teams (technical, commercial, legal)
• Familiarity with CRM systems, tender portals, and proposal tools advantageous

Skills, and characteristics 

• Ability to support coordination of bid and proposal processes
• Ability to interpret RFPs and ToRs and assist in structuring proposal responses
• Skilled in preparing proposal outlines, compliance matrices, and draft content
• Ability to support development of win themes and value propositions
• Strong document management, formatting, and quality control skills
• Ability to coordinate inputs across multiple stakeholders
• Ability to maintain proposal templates, CVs, and project references
• Ability to track and update pipeline and CRM systems
• Strong organisational and time management skills
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• High attention to detail and ability to follow structured processes

Bid & Proposal Delivery

• Coordinates bids and proposals with accuracy, structure, and attention to detail.
• Manages multiple concurrent proposal activities and deadlines.
• Produces compliant, high-quality, client-focused proposal documents.

Commercial & Market Support

• Demonstrates awareness of market trends, client needs, and competitor activity.
• Supports opportunity qualification and pipeline reporting.
• Contributes to value propositions, win themes, and commercial positioning.

Client & Relationship Support

• Supports professional client engagement through research, briefing notes, and follow-up.
• Helps translate client needs into relevant technical and commercial responses.
• Maintains accurate records of client and opportunity intelligence.

Collaboration & Communication

• Works effectively across BD, technical, commercial, legal, and partner teams.
• Communicates clearly, follows up proactively, and escalates risks early.
• Builds trust internally by being reliable, organised, and responsive.

Analytical & Operational

• Applies a structured, process-driven approach to bids, pipeline tracking, and reporting.
• Uses CRM, trackers, templates, and proposal tools to support BD effectiveness.
• Identifies process improvements to improve bid quality and delivery efficiency.

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Role responsibilities

• Set the engineering strategy, design/shop drawings/quality assurance and control approach, and technical direction for HVAC systems across all project stages.
• Approve and take responsibility for all critical HVAC decisions, ensuring solutions are safe, compliant, coordinated, maintainable, and energy‑efficient.
• Oversee and sign off the discipline’s calculations, reports, schematics, specifications, and design documentation.
• Drive continuous improvement in HVAC engineering methods, standards, technical governance, digital maturity, and risk‑based decision-making.
• Lead design execution, deliverable quality, technical completeness, and integration across HVAC workstreams, ensuring adherence to programme, scope, and budget.
• Coordinate proactively with electrical, Public health, structural, civil, fire, architecture and specialist teams to ensure early interface alignment and a fully integrated design.
• Define and control the HVAC delivery plan, including sequencing, work allocation, stage‑gate reviews, design decisions, and resource utilisation.
• Identify and address delivery risks early (technical, programme, commercial, performance, or interface), escalating appropriately and implementing corrective actions decisively.
• Provide construction-phase oversight, including RFI responses, technical clarifications, design deviation evaluation, site inspections, commissioning oversight (FAT/SAT), and ensuring final installation meets design intent and operational requirements.
• Align discipline delivery with fee budgets, scope boundaries, and commercial assumptions before detailed design begins.
• Enforce change-control discipline, ensuring all scope shifts, risks, or rework drivers are identified, documented, communicated, and commercially managed.
• Forecast and monitor HVAC discipline hours, cost performance, and resource utilisation, ensuring margin protection and avoidance of non‑recoverable effort.
• Support Project Executives in fee proposals, pricing strategies, variation claims, and Mechanical/HVAC‑specific commercial negotiations with clients and contractors.
• Ensure all engineering decisions support commercially viable delivery and do not compromise financial performance.
• Act as the primary Mechanical/ HVAC representative for assigned projects, leading client discussions, workshops, reviews, and technical decision-making.
• Provide clear, structured advice that helps clients understand trade‑offs, technical risks, value‑optimisation options, compliance requirements, and performance outcomes.
• Maintain strong, trust‑based relationships by ensuring transparency, proactive communication, timely decision inputs, and reliable delivery performance.
• Represent Zutari EX with professionalism and authority in all external technical engagements, enhancing client confidence and enabling future work.
• Lead and mentor engineers, technologists, and technicians, ensuring clarity of expectations, disciplined delivery, and strong technical development.
• Assign work effectively based on capability, workload, and risk, ensuring quality and performance standards are consistently met.
• Provide structured technical feedback, support performance reviews, and identify development needs across the team.
• Contribute to recruitment, onboarding, and succession planning to strengthen long‑term Mechnical/HVAC discipline capability.
• Promote a culture of continuous improvement, technical excellence, accountability, and collaboration across the team.
• Identify future opportunities during project delivery by maintaining strong client engagement and understanding evolving client needs.
• Provide discipline-specific input to bids, proposals, and fee estimates, including design strategies, assumptions, risks, and competitive differentiators.
• Ensure high-quality delivery that strengthens Zutari EX reputation and drives repeat business from satisfied clients.
• Advise discipline and sector leadership on emerging market trends, capability gaps, and opportunities aligned with the business strategy.
• Support early pursuit discussions by providing informed, technically grounded perspectives on feasibility, scope, risks, and value creation.

Minimum requirements

• BSc/BEng, or MSc/MEng in Mechanical Engineering. 
• Minimum requirements: Active professional registration with a certified engineering body 
• Minimum of 10 to 12 years’ experience delivering and leading HVAC engineering design on complex building or infrastructure projects across multiple sectors (e.g., commercial, industrial and healthcare).
• Demonstrated experience acting as the HVAC lead on projects, with accountability for technical integrity, delivery performance, multi‑disciplinary integration, and client-facing coordination.
• Proven experience managing HVAC scope within fee, programme, and quality parameters, including hours forecasting, scope control, and early identification of commercial or delivery risks.
• Proven experience managing three or more proficiently registered Mechanical/HVAC engineers. 
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience mentored and developed junior engineers.  
• Strong understanding of local, international codes and standards, preferably including those applicable to South Africa, Middle East and Europe.  
• Strong technical and view of building services, focussing mainly on Mechanical (HVAC). 
• Strong proficiency in Revit would be an advantage working on your projects. 
• Strong proficiency in mechanical simulation software is highly advantageous. [HAP/IES]
• Being confident, a team player, approachable.   
• Minimum of 1 to 2 years’ experience developing shop drawings