Civil Technologist

Division               Urban Development

Location              Cape Town     

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

• Management of small projects and write technical reports

• Skill transfer to junior personnel

• Draft bid responses and Price estimations

• Quality control throughout the project life cycle

• Ensure that appropriate technical standards and quality assurance requirements are adhered to

• Apply a deeper understanding of engineering principles to devise and deliver practical and economical solutions to problems

• Supervision of drawing production ensuring appropriate technical standards

• Be a member of a multi-disciplinary team in project delivery

• Provide 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

• Improve and standardise 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

• Accuracy of drawings and meeting set deadlines

• Ability to work independently

RECOMMENDED QUALIFICATIONS, SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• BEng or B.Tech Degree at an accredited institution in Civil Engineering

• Minimum of 3 years’ experience in design

• Proficiency in Civil 3D

• Proficiency in Idas and BIM360 will be an advantage

• Understands the principles of the design process and how design is translated into deliverables through the use of software tools

• Proficiency in designing and detailing municipal civil services

• Can make good decisions on own initiative

• Ability to draft technical reports of acceptable technical presentational quality

• Demonstrated understanding of the principles of the design process and how design is translated into deliverables through use of software tools

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