Purpose Statement
- To supervise the effective and efficient planning, organizing, leading and controlling of national, regional and international standards development, review and maintenance and related functions; conduct relevant research in order to support the development of standards roadmaps; provide professional stakeholder engagements aligned to the Divisional objectives and Organisation strategy.
Minimum Requirements
Qualification
- National Diploma / Diploma in Engineering: Electrical (NQF Level 6)
Work Experiance
- 5 Years relevant work experience in Electrical Engineering field. (Operational Level)
- 2 Years supervisory/ team leader experience. (Supervisory Level)
Duties and Responsibilities
Functional Management
- Plan, schedule and supervise the team to support national, regional and international standards development, review and maintenance.
- Ensure that all targets are achieved according to the SABS standards, processes and requirements within defined time frames.
- Conduct and deliver quality research reports in support of standardisation roadmaps and related scopes
- Ensure standards deliverables meet the requirements of due process aligned to operating procedures and practices
- Support the team to ensure that all standards proposals meet the requirements of relevance and need (e.g., economic, industrial policy, social, health, safety, environment)
- Ensure the output of team members are effectively reviewed, monitored and achieved
- Support the team in taking on standards projects where required
- Keep abreast of standardisation trends within scope of control
- Acquire leadership roles in national, regional and international standardisation forums.
- Supervise and ensure that all standards development work is completed according to the requisite quality and specifications.
- Facilitate standards development training courses/workshops, where required
- Oversee the implementation and monitoring of all workflows and processes during the development process.
- Ensure effective and timely reporting of teams operational performance
- Monitor the programme of work within the area of responsibility with the opportunity to redistribute work and escalate accordingly.
Risk and Compliance Management
- Ensure the mitigation of the functional unit’s risk profile through the application of fraud controls and risk prevention principles and implementing of sound governance and compliance processes and tools to identify and manage risks.
- Responsible for the coordination and maintenance of quality risk management in line with ISO/SANS 31 000, Accreditation and regulatory requirements.
- Monitor changes in the regulatory environment and ensure that appropriate operational controls are implemented to address new requirements.
- Support and provide evidence to all internal and external audit, Accreditation and regulatory requirements.
- Oversee the maintenance and enforcement of related Service Level Agreements to minimise business risk and ensure business continuity.
- Ensure adherence in the team to all relevant laws, policies and Standard Operating Procedures throughout the organisation.
People Management
- Proactively supervise all resources in order to ensure that the operational plans are effectively executed.
- Maintain excellent human capital performance through employee empowerment, skills development and retention and succession planning within the team.
- Maintain an environment where employees respect and adhere to company standards of integrity and ethics by integrating these values into all processes, procedures and practices.
- Contribute to diversity management initiatives.
- Implement a learning culture within scope of control.
- Execute performance management in line with the SABS policy within the team, and address performance challenges and develop subordinates to meet the expected performance standards.
- Provide support in recruiting and retaining key talent and other critically skilled personnel to manage internal processes and supervise the tactical, daily analytical work of the team.
- Train, guide and mentor team members, student interns, candidate and new Standards Writers in the area of responsibility, as required.
Stakeholder Management
- Identify and mitigate internal systems and procedural barriers to enhance excellent customer service.
- Liaise with internal and external stakeholders to gain feedback and ensure that standards are effectively developed through continuous improvement initiatives.
- Build and maintain effective internal and external stakeholder relationships for the purpose of expectations management, knowledge sharing and integration, and to manage the organisation’s reputation.
- Represent and participate in the organisation’s committees and tasks teams when required.
- Convene, chair and attend meetings and present performance and business related information relevant stakeholders when required.
- Actively liaise and build relationships with SABS clients and service providers so as to ensure that the service standards are met appropriately.
Deadline:25th July,2026
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PURPOSE STATEMENT
- To implement preventative, corrective and breakdown maintenance to the physical assets within scope of responsibility according to the required trade, best engineering practices and other legislative and compliance standards.
Minimum Requirements
QUALIFICATIONS AND SPECIAL CERTIFICATIONS/REGISTRATION
- National Diploma / Diploma in Engineering: Electrical or Mechanical, Air Conditioning and Refrigeration or a related field (NQF Level 6)
- Completed Trade Test Certificate (HVAC) is mandatory.
EXPERIENCE
- 3 Years relevant work experience in installation and maintenance of various HVAC equipment i.e. freezers, fridges, aircon units, humidifiers and dehumidifiers post successful trade test.
Duties and Responsibilities
Functional Management
- Assess assigned and new equipment for comprehensiveness of planned and unplanned preventative, corrective and breakdown maintenance aimed at complying to regulations governing engineering equipment, maintaining its condition and functional performance to minimise downtime.
- Execute the chosen preventative corrective and breakdown maintenance approach with its required quality and safety precautions, execution tasks or activities and people and physical resource requirements as an example.
- Assess assigned tasks for adequacy of problem definition and resolution, and initiate further investigative work if required.
- Assess assigned tasks for most efficient and effective method to maintain or restore to functional requirements.
- Assess assigned maintenance and quantify the physical resource requirements regarding tools, equipment, parts and consumables.
- Assess assigned maintenance and quantify people or skill resource requirements necessary and notably where other disciplines are required and escalate any requirements.
- Assess assigned maintenance for safety and health precautions including mechanical equipment isolations, execution method, risk assessment and mitigation as examples.
- Ensure that all allocated tools of trade including but not limited to spanners, screwdrivers, hammers, cell phone, electrical equipment etc, are safe for use and correctly used.
- Verify that all resource requirements are available for the maintenance execution and if not, redirect to resource providers.
- Verify that all health, safety and environmental precautions have been taken or are in place prior to execution and if not ensure these are implemented.
- Execute required engineering maintenance (i.e. isolate, inspect, overhaul, test, calibrate, acceptance test, repair, install, replace etc.) without supervision to the required trade standards, original equipment manufacturer specifications and other good practices, standards and applicable legislation.
- Continually and comprehensively perform quality control throughout the maintenance procedure and upon completion of trade work.
- Comprehensively record as required the resources consumed, tasks executed and other defined failure and repair data on the facilities management system.
Risk and Compliance Management
- Assist in identifying and adhering to fraud controls, risk prevention principles, sound governance and compliance processes, and tools to identify and manage risks.
- Support and provide evidence to all internal and external audit and regulatory requirements.
- Maintain quality risk management standards in line with ISO and regulatory requirements.
- Maintain and enforce all related Service Level Agreements to minimise business risk and ensure business continuity.
- Adhere to all relevant laws, policies and Standard Operating Procedures throughout the organisation.
Stakeholder Management
- Build and maintain effective internal and external stakeholder relationships for the purpose of expectations management, knowledge sharing and integration, and to manage the organisation’s reputation.
- Represent and participate in the organisation’s committees and task teams when required.
- Convene and attend meetings and present relevant information to stakeholders when required.
- Ensure efficient communication to all auditors and other finance team members.
- Ensure the provision of excellent customer service.
- Resolve queries and problems within span of control and within agreed time frames.
- Follow up on unresolved queries and complaints where required.
- Liaise with relevant stakeholders regarding follow-up of information, as required.
Deadline:16th July,2026
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Purpose Statement
- To provide administrative support to standards writers, SABS committees and chairpersons of SABS committees.
Minimum Requirements
Qualification
- Diploma in Administration, Office Management, Journalism, Records Management, Information Management, Archives and Records Management. (NQF Level 5)
Work Experiance
- 1-2 years' work experience in Administration or a related environment involving records management, records administration, document control, compiling and maintaining records, minute taking, or information management (Operational Level)
Duties and Responsibilities
Functional Management
- Ensure that the annual planning for committee meetings is scheduled and coordinated within sphere of control.
- Arrange all logistics for committee meetings and coordinate pre- and post-meetings with the chairpersons and standards writers to follow-up on action items.
- Prepare and circulate agendas and relevant documentation for committees as per standards processes.
- Prepare minutes and resolutions taken at meetings in an effective and efficient manner within the stipulated timeline with all action items clearly indicated on the minutes.
- Circulate minutes and resolutions to relevant stakeholders within agreed timelines.
- Monitor and keep track of outstanding issues and action items on minutes and resolutions and advise relevant stakeholder on follow-up.
- Register stakeholders on the relevant system, ensure the completion of relevant forms and maintain and update stakeholder list of committees within sphere of control.
- Ensure that all stakeholders are communicated to within appropriate time frames regarding meetings, minutes and other relevant information.
- Upload new and amended SBPs after every meeting and post to the relevant database as required.
- Ensure that committee questionnaires are loaded on the system after every meeting.
- Act as point of contact and support to the Committees, SAC Secretary, Standards Writers and Chairpersons and provide assistance with other committee related documentation pertaining to the development of standards, and circulate all relevant documentation to committees.
- Archive all records pertaining to the committee, including minutes, resolutions, draft S.A. standards, and reports.
- Inform committee members of publications, and appointment of chairpersons.
- Forward chairperson documentation to nominees, and administer and submit the documentation for SAC approval.
- Ensure that all documentation within sphere of control is managed and updated as required.
- Provide administrative support where required to the team to ensure that all activities within sphere of control is managed effectively.
- Ensure that the relevant SABS Standards databases are updated and maintained, including the update of membership status, team members per committee and DSS stage codes.
- Ensure that the minutes on the relevant SABS Standards database are recorded properly and updated appropriately.
Risk and Compliance Management
- Assist in identifying and adhering to fraud controls, risk prevention principles, sound governance and compliance processes, and tools to identify and manage risks.
- Support and provide evidence to all internal and external audit, Accreditation and regulatory requirements.
- Adhere to all relevant laws, policies and Standard Operating Procedures throughout the organisation.
Stakeholder Management
- Build and maintain effective internal and external stakeholder relationships for the purpose of expectations management, knowledge sharing and integration, and to manage the organisation’s reputation
- Coordinate the flow of information, providing a central point of contact for internal and external customer’s queries and/or complaints.
- Represent and participate in the organisation’s committees and tasks teams when required.
- Attend meetings and present relevant information to stakeholders when required.
- Ensure the provision of excellent customer service.
- Resolve queries and problems within span of control and within agreed time frames.
- Follow up on unresolved queries, complaints where required.
- Liaise with relevant stakeholders regarding follow-up of information, as required.
Deadline:27th July,2026
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Purpose Statement
- To provide dedicated, senior-level project and programme management for the SABS Laboratory Recapitalisation Programme 2026–2031. The Contract Project Manager is the primary delivery accountable for structuring, originating, and governing three parallel programme tracks (SICP equipment partnerships, Build-Operate-Transfer concessions, and JV/SPV new-lab formation), ensuring all funding is secured on time, all PFMA compliance obligations are met at every gate, and all programme targets are delivered within scope, cost, and quality parameters.
Minimum Requirements
Qualifications
- MBA or MPhil in a relevant field / Postgraduate qualification in Project/Programme Management, Finance, Commerce, or Public Administration/ Bachelor's degree - (Engineering, Built Environment, Finance, Commerce, Business Administration, or related field)
- PMP (Project Management Professional) or PrCPM (Professional Construction Project Manager) certification in good standing — or equivalent internationally recognised programme management credential
- Prince2 Practitioner, MSP (Managing Successful Programmes), or equivalent programme management methodology certification
Experience
- Minimum 2 years direct experience engaging IDC, DBSA, and/or equivalent DFIs — including term sheet negotiation, due diligence management, conditions precedent, and drawdown. References required.
- Minimum 10 years' programme management experience, with at least one programme of R500m+ and 36+ months' duration, including formal gate reviews and PSC-level governance.
Duties and Responsibilities
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Functional Management
Programme Governance and PSC Management
Establish and maintain the full programme governance architecture; own all gate packages G0 through G6.
- Constitute and operationalise the Programme Steering Committee (PSC) within 30 days of contract commencement
- Develop, maintain and update the Master Programme Plan (60-month horizon, all three phases, parallel tracks)
- Prepare and present all seven gate review packages (G0–G6) — including feasibility assessments, risk registers, financial models, stakeholder sign-offs, and PFMA compliance confirmations
- Produce monthly programme status reports for the COO and quarterly reports for EXCO
- Maintain the programme risk register, escalation log, issue log, and change register — reviewed monthly at PSC
- Ensure all programme governance is aligned to the SABS CIPF v2.0 framework and EPMS Toolkit
Phase 1 Delivery- SICP AND Equipment Finance
Manage the procurement and deployment of the SICP Technical Facilitation Partner; oversee all Phase 1B finance agreements.
- Develop and issue the SICP Technical Facilitation Partner Request for Proposals (RFP) within 30 days of G0 approval
- Manage the BEC and BAC evaluation process for SICP partner appointment in compliance with SABS SCM Policy and PFMA
- Oversee the SICP partner's delivery of equipment gap assessments, OEM benchmarking, vendor due diligence, and commercial negotiation for 13 labs
Phase 2 Delivery- Build-Operate-Transfer
Lead the full BOT transaction lifecycle from feasibility through National Treasury approval to partner appointment and construction commencement.
- Commission BOT feasibility studies for 6 structurally degraded laboratories — Automotive East London, Appliances, Secunda, Richards Bay, Minerals and Coal, Explosion Prevention
- Produce bankable business cases for National Treasury Approval I submission (Gate G3) — including financial models, risk allocation matrices, value-for-money assessments, affordability analyses, and sensitivity analyses
- Procure and manage the BOT Transaction Advisor through competitive RFP; oversee transaction advisor delivery throughout
Phase 3 Delivery - JV and SPV Development
Lead the market validation, partner identification, SPV formation, and operational launch of four new growth laboratories.
- Conduct market feasibility validation for all four JV labs (cannabis, agro-export, counterfeit detection, renewable energy) — Gate G5 prerequisite
- Develop the JV framework including equity structures (30–51% SABS), reserved matters protecting SANAS accreditation authority, partner selection criteria, and governance frameworks
- Manage partner identification and qualification processes; lead JV/partner negotiations
Financial Management
Financial Management, DFI Engagement, and Commercial Negotiations
Serve as SABS's primary commercial and financial interface across all funding tracks and partner negotiations.
- Build and maintain financial models for all programme phases — NPV, IRR, blended cost of capital, sensitivity analysis, and revenue-sharing schedule modelling
- Manage active relationships with IDC, DBSA, National Treasury PPP Unit, and commercial banking partners throughout the programme lifecycle
Risk and Compliance Management
PFMA Compliance, SCM Governance, and Risk Management
- Ensure all programme procurement is PFMA-compliant; maintain a live, actionable risk register across all three phases
Stakeholder Management
Stakeholder Management and Communications
- Manage the full programme stakeholder ecosystem — from EXCO and dtic to DFIs, OEM vendors, and JV partners.
Knowledge Transfer and Programme Close-Out
- Ensure all programme knowledge, relationships, and institutional memory are formally embedded in SABS before contract conclusion.
Deadline:16th July,2026
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PURPOSE STATEMENT
- To provide efficient and effective support for the SABS ICT systems, server, network, video and voice environment by resolving internal and external queries timeously thereby ensuring that SABS ICT resources are always available.
Minimum Requirements
Qualifications
- Grade 12
- National Diploma / Diploma in Engineering, Industrial Maintenance or related fields (NQF Level 6).
- Microsoft Certified Systems Expert (MCSE): Core Infrastructure Certification id preferred.
- Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) Foundation Certification is essential.
- VMware VCP Certification is advantageous
- CCNA Certification is advantageous
Work Experiance
- 3 years’ relevant work experience in an ICT Industry support environment, providing support at a 3rd line level.
- Proven track record in hardware and software repairs, installation of new or rebuild existing servers and configuring of hardware, peripherals, services, settings, directories, storage, backup systems, etc.
- Proven track record in routing / Switching equipment including, but not limited to, Cisco, Dell, HP switches, routers and firewalls.
Duties and Responsibilities
Functional Management
- Provide maintenance and support services to SABS systems and infrastructure to ensure that all systems are fully operational and function as required.
- Ensure that ICT systems and services meet the strategic objectives of the SABS
- Provide and maintain available, reliable and secure systems, applications and operational services to all SABS premises.
- Log and track calls accurately and ensure that calls are timeously resolved and or escalated as required.
- Install new or rebuild existing servers and configure hardware, peripherals, services, settings, directories, storage in accordance with standards and project and operational requirements.
- Create, delete and suspend users contact and email accounts as required.
- Provide users and divisions with access to required network shares as required by relevant line managers
- Provide maintenance services to ensure that active servers and desktop computers are fully operational and functioning as required.
- Provide remote support either in person, telephonically or electronically, as required.
- Report, track and resolve hardware, communication and/or infrastructure failures.
- Install and configure systems as per market best practice.
- Perform daily systems monitoring, verifying the integrity and availability of all hardware, server resources, systems and key processes.
- Review system and application logs and provide relevant information as required.
- Provide tier two and three and other support per requests from the ticketing system by investigating and troubleshooting issues both remotely and on site.
- Repair hardware or software failures and data loss incidents and provide and implement recovery actions.
- Apply operating system patches and upgrade on a regular basis and upgrade administrative tools and utilities.
- Upgrade and configure system software that support SABS internal systems.
- Contribute to and maintain system standards plan and design audits to assess and address risks and ensure compliance with all relevant legislation.
- Develop and maintain installation and configuration procedures.
- Prepare technical documentations and report on the operation systems and applications as required.
- Implement systems security and management processes in line with approved ICT policies and procedures.
- Conduct regular security monitoring of systems to identify any possible intrusions and ensure effective virus monitoring.
- Implement daily back-up operations to ensure that all required files systems and system data are successfully backed up to appropriate media.
- Monitor the SABS disaster recovery (DR) site and administer all critical data systems replications to the DR environment and ensure that all testing and verifications are completed efficiently.
- Perform system administration activities on an ongoing basis such as performance tuning, data management of RRM tools, hardware upgrades and resource optimization as required.
Risk and Compliance Management
- Assist in identifying and adhering to fraud controls, risk prevention principles, sound governance and compliance processes, and tools to identify and manage risks.
- Support and provide evidence to all internal and external audit and regulatory requirements.
- Maintain quality risk management standards in line with ISO and regulatory requirements.
- Maintain and enforce all related Service Level Agreements to minimise business risk and ensure business continuity.
- Adhere to all relevant laws, policies and standard operating procedures throughout the organisation.
Stakeholder Management
- Build and maintain effective internal and external stakeholder relationships for the purpose of expectations management, knowledge sharing and integration, and to manage the organisation’s reputation.
- Represent and participate in the organisation’s committees and task teams when required.
- Attend meetings and present relevant information to stakeholders when required.
- Ensure efficient communication to all relevant stakeholders.
- Ensure the provision of excellent customer service.
- Resolve and follow-up on queries and problems within spams of control and within agreed time frames.
- Liaise with relevant stakeholders regarding follow-up of information, as required.
Deadline:16th July,2026
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Purpose Statement
- To ensure that the day to day operations of the laboratory is optimized so as to ensure effective and efficient service delivery to clients.
Minimum Requirements
Qualifications
- Diploma in a relevant scientific related field
- (NQF Level 5)
- Valid Driver’s Licence is essential
Experience
- 1-2 Years work experience within the relevant scientific environment
Duties and Responsibilities
Functional Management
- Prepare samples for analyses as per standard operating procedures.
- Ensure that all samples are packed according to their tested stages.
- Ensure that samples are classified according to their Laboratory protocols.
- Accurately track samples to ensure that all samples are accounted for.
- Conduct sampling analysis at sampling points or as instructed (cluster dependent) and basic routine testing as required.
- Collect and transport samples from required sites as per standard operating procedures. (cluster dependent)
- Comply with health, safety, security and administration regulations that apply to sampling sites. (cluster dependent)
- Receive, register and prepare test samples in the laboratory or onsite as per standard operating procedures and accreditation requirements.
- Where applicable record and monitor environmental testing conditions and escalate any deviations to relevant stakeholders.
- Develop a preventative maintenance and calibration plan and schedule as required in collaboration with the Test Officer.
- Carry out preventative and routine maintenance and/or calibration of laboratory equipment in area of responsibility.
- Report faulty equipment and breakdowns to the relevant stakeholders.
- Apply the appropriate maintenance and basic trouble shooting required for laboratory equipment maintenance and functioning.
Risk and Compliance Management
- Assist in identifying and adhering to fraud controls, risk prevention principles, sound governance and compliance processes, and tools to identify and manage risks
- Assist in the preparation and support and provide evidence to all internal and external audit requirements.
- Maintain quality risk management standards in line with ISO, Accreditation and regulatory requirements.
- Maintain quality risk management standards in line with ISO requirements.
- Adhere to all relevant laws, policies and Standard Operating Procedures throughout the organisation
Stakeholder Management
- Build and maintain effective internal and external stakeholder relationships for the purpose of expectations management, knowledge sharing and integration, and to manage the organisation’s reputation.
- Participate in the organisation’s committees and tasks teams when required.
- Attend meetings and present relevant information stakeholders when required.
- Ensure the provision of excellent customer service.
- Resolve queries and problems within span of control and within agreed time frames.
- Follow up on unresolved queries and complaints where required.
- Liaise with relevant stakeholders regarding follow-up of information, as required.
Deadline:24th July,2026
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