Graduate / Candidate Engineer

Recruiter:

Execustaff Recruiting Services

Job Ref:

JHB000298/JVDW

Date posted:

Monday, August 24, 2026

Location:

Pretoria, South Africa

SUMMARY:
A water resilience consultancy based in Pretoria is seeking a Graduate / Candidate Engineer: Civil, Mechanical, Chemical or Environmental / 0-4 yrs / ECSA Candidate pathway.

The role:
Candidate starts where every strong consulting engineer should: on real sites, with real data, inside a structured review pyramid.

POSITION INFO:
Candidate's First Year: - Execute water-audit fieldwork to our minimum standard - after supervised passes - with capture-error rates measured and falling. - Draft structured report sections that survive review with diminishing red pen. - Support design work: drawings coordination, calculations under supervision, site inspections and progress meetings. - Register as an ECSA Candidate Engineer (if not already) with your logbook current from month one and quarterly mentor reviews on record. - Own one improvement to the capture workflow - a validation rule, a checklist, a schema suggestion that makes the data better. Must Have: - Engineering degree. BEng \/ BSc in Civil, Mechanical, Chemical or Environmental Engineering from a recognised institution. - ECSA pathway. Candidate Engineer registered or immediately eligible. - 0-4 years' experience in a consulting or infrastructure environment - strong vacation and practical work counts. - Structured technical writing. A report, thesis chapter or practical write-up you authored and can share. - Strong academic record. Expected at this level; any repeated subjects declared upfront with context - declared repeats are considered, undeclared ones are disqualifying. - Systems curiosity. You want to understand water infrastructure at systems level, not just the component in front of you. - Driver's licence and own transport. Site travel across Gauteng and nationally is part of the role. Strongly preferred: - Water or treatment exposure (labs, plants, projects); CAD\/Revit basics; spreadsheet or scripting ability (Excel to pivot level, Python a plus). - A genuine, articulable interest in water in South Africa.

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