Drawing Office Manager at Aurecon

Job Description

Personal skills / qualities:

• Employee fulfillment
• Accountability
• Honesty
• Client satisfaction
• Safety

Qualifications:

• Minimum Grade 12, T2 or N5

Experience:

• 15+ years’ experience in the Mining and minerals industry.
• Extensive knowledge in the design and drafting field. Preferably in a mechanical background. Time served apprentice.
• Drafting for 15+ years

Competencies:

Technical:

• Understanding the principles and techniques involved in management and design facets of managing and controlling a multidiscipline design office
• Knowledge of all design techniques, tools and principals involved in production of precision technical plans, blueprints, drawings and 3D models
• Knowledge of the design requirement necessary to design and construct process and mineral plants
• The use of computer programs and systems to design detailed two- or three-dimensional models of physical objects, such as mechanical parts, buildings, and molecules
• Full understanding of the administrative requirements wrt to company procedures (Design and QA) To ensure full compliance to engineering procedures

Leadership and management:

• Providing face-to-face ongoing support for the development of an individual in order to encourage them to step up to responsibility and continued achievement
• Manages and resolves conflicts, grievances, confrontations, or disagreements in a constructive manner to minimise negative personal impact
• Entrusting responsibility and authority for tasks in your own area of accountability to appropriate personnel
• Knowledge of teaching, training, research, making presentations, lecturing, testing, and other instructional methods
• Creating an organisational climate, which encourages people to learn from their successes and failures, promoting the development of people and processes
• Recognising the value of diversity and harnessing the broad diversity of people as an organisational strength
• Evaluating the performance and skills of staff objectively and identifying suitable action to address performance gaps

Key Performance Areas:

• Manages the Design Office
• Provides input into the project in conjunction with the project team
• Determines the staffing requirements for projects
• Develops and maintains drawing policies and procedures
• Determines the relevant systems, drafting tools and technologies to be implemented
• Adheres to Safety, Health, Environmental and Quality (SHEQ) policies and procedures.