Career Opportunities at Delta Built Environment Consultants

Main Responsibilities:

• As a mechanical engineer in the mechanical engineering department, the employee will be responsible for the following:

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT

•  Driving new business opportunities.
•  Compiling and submitting of bids, quotations, and expressions of interest.

RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

•  Determine project roles of team members based on project requirements, timeframes, and budget.
•  When necessary, work with external consultants in addition to internal resources.
•  Define skill sets required for the project based on project specifications and requirements.
•  Determine resource requirements (including staffing, software, hardware, facilities and vehicles) of projects, based on project specifications.

CLIENT MANAGEMENT

•  Continually seek opportunities to increase customer satisfaction and deepen client relationships.
•  Build a knowledge base of each client’s business, organization, and objectives.
•  Manage the client stakeholders, team members and contract personnel.
•  Manages day-to-day client interaction.
•  Set and manage client expectations.
•  Develop lasting relationships with client personnel that foster client ties.
•  Communicate effectively with clients to identify needs and evaluate alternative business solutions.

INTERNAL PROJECT REPORTING AND ADMINISTRATION

•  Oversee project quality, client and team satisfaction, and project success metrics during regularly scheduled and ad hoc project review meetings with project managers.
•  Track and report weekly metrics including percent complete, budget spend and duration to completion.
•  Keep an accurate risk tracking document with an associated mitigation plan.

PROJECT FINANCE

•  Track and reports team hours and expenses on a weekly basis
•  Manages project budget
•  Accurately forecast revenue, profitability, and margins
•  Understand basic revenue models, profit/loss models and cost-to-completion projections and makes decisions accordingly
•  Understand company pricing model and invoicing procedures
•  Assure project legal documents are completed and signed
•  Ensure timely and accurate invoicing and monitors deliverables for project
•  Follow up with clients, when necessary, regarding unpaid invoices
•  Analyse project profitability, revenue, and margins.

PROJECT PLANNING

•  Establish and maintain a usable and well-communicated project programme for all phases of a project
•  Explain implications of changes to project scope and/or objectives to the client and to the project team
•  Lead the team to prioritize signed off work based on analysis of strategic importance and deadlines
•  Create, or participate in the creation of, project documentation
•  Work with the client to ensure any changes are understood and approved

PROJECT CONTROL

•  Manage clients request for changes in scope by revising scope and budget in a timely manner
•  Evaluate all key project deliverables, as well as final product to ensure traceability of requirements, high quality, and client acceptance
•  Responsible for formal sign off on all project deliverables
•  Ensure project meets internal and client expectations with respect to quality, budget, delivery timelines, and strategy; and
•  Identify, track, manage and mitigate project risks.

PROJECT COMMUNICATION

•  Ensure clients’ understanding of expectations, deliverables, dependencies, risks and progress
•  If needed, create customized reporting for the client or team
•  Work directly with clients to secure sign off on deliverables or documentation
•  Ensure that stakeholders, including the team, client, and management, are aware of project activities in a timely manner.
•  Communicate progress, risks, expectations, timelines, milestones and other key project metrics to clients and team members.

STANDARD DOCUMENTATION

•  Prepare sector specific standard documentation and procedures.
•  Ensure team and output compliance with the sector and company standards and procedures.
•  Performing any other duties/activities reasonably related to the above functions which management may instruct from time to time.

Special Requirements:

•  Substantial HVAC and Fire experience
•  Professionally registered engineer at ECSA
•  Consulting engineering experience
•  Bachelor of Engineering degree

Qualification

• B.Eng. / BSc Mechanical Engineering

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About the job
The DELTA Group comprises 18 vertically integrated companies operating in the built environment.

The GROUP has the expertise and resources to participate in all phases of project development and operation, including but not limited to feasibility studies, funding, planning, design, construction and maintenance.

The DELTA Group companies employ architects, economists, facility management specialists, financial analysts, engineers, health and safety practitioners, quantity surveyors, environmentalists, project and construction managers, town planners and visualizations specialists.

The following companies are part of the DELTA Group:

• Delta Built Environment Consultants (Delta BEC) is a professional multi-disciplinary consulting company.
• D-Con (D-CON) undertakes residential and agricultural projects.
• Delta Waste Management (DWM) provides comprehensive waste management services with the ultimate goal of ‘zero waste to landfill’.
• Delta Sender supplies quality consumables and equipment at competitive prices.
• Delta Realty is a property development company specializing in middle to high-income residential developments in Pretoria.
• Delta Cleaning & Hygiene (DCH) offers general cleaning, carpet cleaning, hygiene and pest control services.
• Lynnwood Academy is an accredited training provider.
• Delta IT Services provides clients with a comprehensive IT service that inter alia includes desktop, system and server support, hardware supply and maintenance, hosting, and data network cabling.
• Delta Studio is an online e-commerce store, specializing in 3D Models in various digital formats, for architectural visualizations.
• Delta Facilities Management (DFM) offers integrated facilities management services.
• Delta Cafe offers catering and corporate canteen management services.
• Delta Facilities Services (DFS) offers all-encompassing property management services.
• Delta Infrastructures Solutions (DIS) is a consulting engineering company that provides professional infrastructure maintenance services.
• Delta Landscaping Services (DLS) undertakes the maintenance and construction of hard and soft landscaping.
• Delta Dawn specializes in the operation, development and construction of hydroponic and aeroponic systems, and greenhouses.
• Delta Airport Solutions specializes in the development of airport focused software solutions.
• 3BM Asset Management is the asset owning and financing company of the DELTA Group.
• Delta Turnkey Solutions combines the skills and resources of all DELTA Group companies to undertake projects on an engineering-procurement-construction (EPC) basis.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Degree in Electrical Engineering
• Registered as a Pr Eng with ECSA

PREFERRED SKILLS:

• Attention to Detail
• Time Management
• Interpersonal & Teamwork Skills
• Critical Reasoning
• Pressure management
• Innovation

EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:

• 5+ years’ experience in an Electrical Engineering Environment
• Design and build experience in large scale solar PV ground mounts

PREFERENCES:

• Homer/PVSOL/PVSYST
• Willing to travel
• Helioscope
• MV and Substation design
• Communication systems design
• Perform and review power system studies
• Valid driver's license and own car

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Solar Project Engineering:

•  Preliminary & detailed project design
•  System commissioning
•  Contribution to project budgets
•  Control and issue construction drawings and related project documentation
•  Site investigations & quality inspections
•  Performance monitoring and error reporting
•  Technology research
•  Client meetings and business development assistance, including into Africa
•  Technical support and client liaison including troubleshooting
•  Review and approval of peer designs
•  Smart metering system design
•  Technical reporting

2. Project Management

•  General project management input
•  Contract review
•  Assist with health and safety compliance, planning and implementation
•  Grid connection applications to relevant authorities
•  Technical internal and external communications and presentations
•  Construction team liaison/contractor management