Current Openings at Royal HaskoningDHV South Africa

Main Responsibilities:

• Manage complex, multi-disciplinary building projects from inception to completion, leading diverse technical teams
• Execute building projects successfully by meeting stakeholder expectations, maintaining commercial excellence, achieving quality outputs and driving team cohesion and satisfaction.
• Execute cross border building projects & manage cross border teams.
• Budgetary and financial responsibility for building projects.
• Project tendering and preparation.
• Project resource management, including management of project resources over multiple locations.
• Client relationship management during project execution.
• Business development and client liaison at project level.
• Growing market position within new and existing client groups through quality project execution.
• Engage clients, determining their needs, qualify opportunities, developing custom solutions and compiling proposal documents.
• Negotiating and concluding new assignments with Clients.
• Developing, reviewing and executing project contract documents.
• Contribute to strategic growth of the Industry Advisory Group Project Management Team.
• Other project and operational support as required.

Minimum qualifications, skills and experience:

• Mechanical/Electrical/Civil Engineering/Architecture Degree.
• Post Graduate Project Management Qualification is beneficial.
• A minimum of 8 years post graduate experience managing multi-disciplinary building projects as a consultant and preferably in the private sector.
• Professional registration with a relevant body (SACPCMP / PMI / ECSA / SACAP) is required.
• Demonstrable experience on multidisciplinary design coordination, preferably on industrial / data centre building projects.
• Fundamental knowledge and experience in greenfield and brownfield industrial building / data centre building projects.
• Good understanding of industry practices, trends, processes and standards as well as their impact on project activities.
• Ability to liaise with relevant stakeholders on all levels and through-out the life cycle of the project.
• Commercial/design/project management competencies/experience, comfortable with playing central role in both project acquisition, design and execution, with excellent communication skills.
• Practical management experience having led a project team.
• Competent report writing skills and excellent communication ability.
• Computer literacy in MS Office and Project, Common Data Environments & other platforms at an advanced level i.e. ACC, ASITE, Revizto, etc.
• Consulting background/knowledge/skills.

Behavioral competencies:

• An energetic and enthusiastic team-player who is prepared to work across business units in the company.
• Commercially astute with a strong marketing, growth and profit orientation.
• Results orientated and target driven.
• Ability to meet multiple deadlines and handle pressure.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication and management skills.
• Client centric approach.

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• Senior Mechanical Engineer required to fulfil role of Team Lead Mechanical Engineer and join our Industry South Africa team and lead our South Africa based Industry Mechanical Engineering team to assist with our growing workload. You will be a flexible and dynamic individual with the ability to lead in the development of our growing team out of South Africa.
• You will be responsible for overseeing and managing all mechanical engineering aspects of Industrial building design projects. Project responsibility will be varied from inception & defining a client’s design brief to inspections, specifications, design, and management of projects. This role requires someone with the ability to lead 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 leadership to the South Africa Mechanical Engineering team, reporting to the Director Advisory Group
• 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 input into bids and proposals
• There will be a requirement to support our global teams (NL, GER & UK) on industrial projects
• There will be a requirement from time to time to assist our South Africa Data Centre Team with a range of projects.
• Manage and deliver the mechanical work packages in multiple projects.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Manage and deliver the mechanical 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, etc) including checking and reviewing of these prior to issue where completed by others.
• Write technical specifications and reports.
• 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 mechanical engineering;
• At least 8 – 10+ years relevant industrial building working experience in mechanical engineering (specializing in HVAC with working knowledge of other mechanical subdisciplines such as Wet Services, Fire, Medical Gas, Mechanical Utilities, Cleanrooms, Lifts, Etc) design and installation in a consulting engineering environment;
• Professional registration with ECSA as a PrEng 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;