Job Vacancies at Veritas Engineering and Project Management Consultants

Daily Tasks:

• Planning, Leading, Controlling and Monitoring of electrical projects
• Managing project risks, including the development of contingency plans
• Perform site inspections
• Ensure high quality of work performed by site teams
• Manage and control materials, assets, equipment and PPE – maintain active records for these items.
• Gathering of data and the drafting of reports
• Work allocation
• Ensure safe working conditions at all times for all team members – report on safety
• Ensure work is operated in an orderly fashion
• Maintaining quality control procedures
• Motivating the workforce
• Problem solving
• Be deadline driven
• Develop and monitor project schedule and report on progress

Minimum requirements: 

• Electrical Tertiary Qualification
• Project Management Qualification
• Practical ability to utilise critical project management concepts (e.g. EVM, project planning, risk analysis, configuration management)
• 5 -10 years’ project management experience in electrical projects and good technical skills
• Excellent English written and verbal communication skills
• Proficient with MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook)
• Proficient with MS Project
• Valid driver’s license
• Safety Qualifications - advantage

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Daily Tasks:

• Read and analyse incoming emails, submissions, and reports in order to determine their significance and plan their distribution.
• Open, sort, and distribute incoming correspondence, including post and email.
• File and retrieve corporate documents, records, and reports.
• Welcome visitors and determine whether they should be given access to specific individuals.
• Prepare responses to correspondence containing routine enquiries.
• Perform general office duties such as ordering supplies, maintaining records management systems, and performing basic bookkeeping work.
• Prepare agendas and make arrangements for committee, board, and other meetings.
• Conduct research, compile data, and prepare papers for consideration and presentation by executives, committees and boards of directors.
• Compile, transcribe, and distribute minutes of meetings.
• Attend meetings in order to record minutes.
• Assist with recruitment efforts, new hire orientations, on-boarding and terminations.
• Act as a liaison with landlord and building management on any office-related issues.
• Act as a liaison to vendors/suppliers.
• Coordinate and direct office services, such as records and budget preparation, regular feedback information and follow through of actions arising, in order to aid executives.
• Prepare invoices, reports, memos, letters, financial statements, executive level presentations and other documents, using word processing, spreadsheet, database, and/or presentation software.
• Review operating practices and procedures in order to determine whether improvements can be made in areas such as workflow, reporting procedures, or expenditures.
• Prepare staff communications, media publications and press releases.
• Timesheet management of staff
• Stock control - Procurement, delivery management, reconciliation
• Coordination of timeous reporting to clients and management
• Assist with the management of staff administration
• Overseeing of the whole tender process.
• High quality business and report writing skills.
• Identify and react to tender and bid opportunities.
• Identifying new business opportunities.
• Identify subscriptions and platforms for sourcing new opportunities.
• Ensuring registration on Public Sector databases.
• Developing and maintaining process document templates.
• Ensuring all Business supporting documents are valid and up to date e.g. Tax Clearance, B-BBEE Certificate
• Recording of processed tenders.
• Responsible for obtaining pricing for tenders.
• Continuous updating of tender schedule (tender names, closing dates and site inspection dates etc.) and recording of processed tenders.
• Ensuring tenders submitted are accurate and on time.
• Ensuring relevant personnel are booked for site inspections per tender received.
• Be able to attend site briefings if needs be.
• Ensuring all documentation is in adherence to what BOQ stipulates.
• Vendor applications to be completed correctly.
• Communicate with relevant resources and obtain required information - technical information and methodology and pricing from Business Unit Managers in preparation for proposals
• Ensuring documents are correctly and accurately completed, signed/authorised, copied, securely bound and sealed, to ensure compliance with tender requirements.
• Ensuring tenders are submitted on time and in the correct format.
• Conduct external research to ensure the Business is using accurate and competitive proposal and pricing models.
• Ensuring that weekly and monthly reports are sent out on time and on pre-agreed dates.
• Ability to handle multiple projects and many stakeholders.
• Ability to travel on occasion.
• Impeccable attention to detail.
• Must be able to work independently.
• Assist with company Administration duties/activities.

Minimum requirements:

• Relevant Administration Qualification
• 2-5 years Administration experience
• Proficient with MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook)
• Valid driver’s license 

Job Location:

• Johannesburg, Gauteng

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Daily Tasks:

• Source and evaluate required services / products at the best competitive prices, quality, availability, reliability and technical support.
• Work with project teams to assess their needs and contribute meaningfully to the development of procurement and management strategies.
• Monitor and maintain databases/systems and apply analytical tools, techniques and systems to analyze and interpret a wide range of supplier and organizational information and options to support procurement planning and decision making.
• Develop and provide reports to support effective management of supplier performance and to track and report on benefits delivered.
• Compare prices from different suppliers and deciding which supplier to purchase from.
• Negotiate contracts, improved prices and terms of business with suppliers and review opportunities to make business savings utilising negotiation and procurement best practice tools and methods.
• Assess and evaluate suppliers and undertake performance reviews to ensure contract compliance and manage performance improvement activities.
• Explore business opportunities and contribute to development of procurement strategies and supply arrangements.
• Work collaboratively and negotiate and engage with stakeholders and suppliers regarding new projects, supplies and initiatives and advise of impact of change on purchasing and production activities.
• Maintain the supplier database.
• Stay current and up to date on any changes that may affect the supply and demand of needed products and materials and advise others of any impact.
• Attend and participate in meetings as and when the need arises.
• Report on procurement activities.
• Update stakeholders when there is a risk which could prevent the organization meeting customer demands.
• Develop risk mitigation strategies for procurement arrangements.
• Identify areas of non-compliance to procurement policy and raise with relevant stakeholders.
• Manage, control, monitor and report on procured items throughout its lifecycle.

Minimum requirements:

• National diploma or degree in Supply Chain Management or related field
• Minimum 4 years’ experience in procurement which includes supply chain management within a construction environment
• Excellent English written and verbal communication skills
• Proficient with MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook)
• Valid driver’s license

Job Location:

• Gauteng

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Daily Tasks:

• Negotiate pricing with vehicle manufacturers and and/or other stakeholders.
• Work closely with the business to forecast current and future vehicle needs.
• Anticipate demand and coordinate with vendors to ensure proper lead time to avoid constraints.
• Coordinate with the business to standardize the type and makeup of the vehicle fleet to drive efficiency and cost savings.
• Work closely with the business to determine strategies to optimize the fleet and implement cost savings initiatives.
• Communicate specifications and work closely with stakeholders on the leasing and purchasing of vehicles.
• Coordinate with Stakeholders related to fleet vehicle transfers and vehicle repairs.
• Communicate and coordinate with stakeholders regarding fuel cards, vehicle maintenance requests, auctions, and new leases.
• Work closely with stakeholders to ensure all company branding is active and in compliance.
• Process annual fleet registration for entire fleet.
• Ensure all administrative components are up to date and maintained with regards to vehicle fleet.
• Prepare and review reports with fleet information as required.
• Review and validate vendor monthly invoices.
• Review fleet invoices to confirm costs and submit to the business units for approval.
• Update Vehicle and driver information in fleet master list and fleet management database.
• Complete and analyse monthly summary reports on fleet related fuel usage, repairs, mileage, and lease spending. Communicate back to stakeholders as required.
• Coordinate vehicle inspections as and when required.
• Execution of key projects to enhance fleet management programs and processes.
• Obtain, track, and monitor driver abstracts / trends for all drivers of company vehicles.
• Maintain driver files and complete annual audits.
• Document all traffic violations and provide monthly report.
• Coordinate driver performance evaluations and prepare report for review by senior leadership.
• Renew all Vehicle and Driver related certificates.
• Monitor and maintain vehicle Tracking System / GPS / Hours of Service logging units.
• Review Tracking System / GPS system and provide reports to stakeholders regarding driver performance.
• Monitor Tracking System / GPS system for out of compliance vehicles

Minimum requirements:

• National diploma or degree in Administration or related field
• 4 – 10 years’ previous experience working as a fleet administrator or coordinator
• Excellent interpersonal, telephone and time management skills.
• Experience with vehicle and fleet management tools.
• Excellent English written and verbal communication skills
• Proficient with MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook)
• Valid driver’s license

Job Location:

• Gauteng

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Daily Tasks:

• Perform MV and LV Network installations and maintenance
• Electrification of dwellings
• Perform building electrical maintenance
• Perform street and area lighting maintenance
• Perform fault finding
• Perform cable jointing
• Perform daily site inspections
• Guide and lead teams comprising of permanent and non-permanent workers.
• Ensure high quality of work performed
• Ensure working environment is safe
• Manage and control materials, assets, equipment and PPE.
• Gathering of data and the drafting of reports, creation of job cards based on work performed.
• Ensure work is operated in an orderly fashion
• Must be able to read and interpret drawings
• Checking and preparing site reports, designs and drawings
• Problem solving
• Be deadline driven – ensure teams deadlines are met.
• Follow project schedule and report on progress
• Perform risk assessments and safety reports before any work is performed
• Completion of various check sheets as and when required.

Minimum requirements:

• N4 - N6 in Electrical Engineering
• Electrician Trade Test
• 3 - 10 years’ experience in electrical installations / projects
• Valid driver’s license
• Cable Jointing Certification – up to 33kV - advantage
• Valid ORHVS Certification - advantage
• Wireman’s License - advantage
• Cherry Picker / Crane Truck Operator Certificate – advantage
• Safety Qualifications – advantage

Job Location:

• Gauteng

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Daily Tasks:

• Site Supervision on projects
• Site staff administration on projects
• Ensuring site team adherence to Health and Safety
• Ensure all safety requirements are adhered to and records are kept up to date
• Ensure safe working conditions at all times for all team members – report on safety
• Perform site inspections
• Ensure high quality of work performed by site teams
• Manage and control materials, assets, equipment and PPE – maintain active records for these items.
• Creation of job cards based on work performed.
• Work allocation
• Ensure work is operated in an orderly fashion
• Must be able to read and interpret drawings
• Preparing of project reports
• Problem solving
• Be deadline driven – ensure teams deadlines are met.
• Develop and Follow project schedule - report on progress
• Perform risk assessments and safety reports before any work is performed
• Completion of various check sheets as and when required.
• Maintain and report on day to day project expenditure
• Maintaining quality control procedures
• Motivating the workforce

Minimum requirements:

• Electrical Tertiary Qualification
• 5 -10 years’ experience in supervising electrical projects
• Proven Technical skills
• Excellent English written and verbal communication skills
• Proficient with MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Visio)
• Proficient with MS Project
• Valid driver’s license and Own Vehicle
• Management Qualifications – advantage
• Valid ORHVS Certification – advantage
• Wireman’s License - advantage
• Safety Qualifications - advantage

Job Location:

• Gauteng