Reports To
Section Manager or any other person appointed to supervise him/her from time to time.
Primary Position Purpose
To prepare final layout and detail drawings for building structures and civil structures.
Key Responsibilities
With a minimum of 3 years’ experience post qualification, the key responsibilities will be:
- Management of small projects
- Writing technical reports
- Skill transfer to junior personnel
- Drafting bid responses
- Price estimations
- Building and maintaining relationships with clients and other professional team members
- Quality control throughout the project life cycle
- Regular client contact
- Ability to supervise and manage a construction site from a consultant’s perspective
- Ensuring that appropriate technical standards and quality assurance requirements are adhered to
- Applying a deeper understanding of engineering principles to devise and deliver practical and economical solutions to problems
- Supervision of drawing production ensuring appropriate technical standards
- Being a member of a multi-disciplinary team in project delivery
- Providing technical support and guidance to peers and other functional groups within relevant level of expertise
- Ensuring SMEC’s quality standards and management systems are adhered to
- Improving and standardising the implementation of training, design processes and output, implementation procedures and quality control in order to improve efficiency and design standards within the discipline
- Responsible for stakeholder liaison in projects, regarding own portion of work
- Good software tool understanding, works alone with minimum supervision whilst producing tool deliverables
- Taking ownership and responsibility for his/her own work and completing it to time and cost
- Understanding local functional business technologies and markets
Key Challenges
- To work independently
- To be self-motivated
- To produce accurate drawings to a high standard within set deadlines
- To be able to do civil infrastructure calculation and designs
Key Contacts
- Draughtsperson, Civil Designs and Calculations
Key Performance Indicators
- Accuracy of drawings
- Meeting set deadlines
- Ability to work independently
- Interest in structural work
Recommended Qualifications, Skills and Experience Required
- B.Tech Degree at an accredited institution
- 3 – 5 years’ experience post qualification
- Proficiency in software essential
- Understands the principles of the design process and how design is translated into deliverables through the use of software tools
- Understands the key project issues and how these influence his/her work
- Proficiency in draughting and detailing of:
o Commercial
o Industrial and
o Civil structures.
- Can make good decisions on own initiative
- Ability to draft technical reports of acceptable technical presentational quality
- Demonstrated understanding of local functional business technologies and markets
- Good software tool understanding
- Ability to organise information well and communicate design intent through software tool output
- Demonstrated understanding of the principles of the design process and how design is translated into deliverables through use of software tools
- Demonstrated understanding of key project issues and how these influence his/her line of work
Closing Date: Tuesday, 01 June 2021
Details of the package on offer will be shared with shortlisted candidates.
SMEC is an equal opportunity employer. Diversity is a source of strength for our people, our clients, our partners and our communities.
How to apply
All applications must be submitted online. To apply, click on the “Apply Now” link below and follow the prompts.
Only candidates who meet the above minimum requirements will be considered. Correspondence will only be conducted with shortlisted candidates. Should you not hear from us within 4 weeks, please consider your application unsuccessful.
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Preference will be given, but not limited to, candidates from designated groups in terms of the Employment Equity Act.
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