Junior Geometric Engineer - Urban and Rural Roads design

SUMMARY:
To provide discipline specific, specialist engineering and project management services to iX enginee

POSITION INFO:

Areas of Responsibilities

1. Business Development and Support

• Build relationships with key clients to secure new business.
• Market the transport engineering capability for the Cape Town location.
• Provide specialist technical advice to clients.

2. Internal Project Management, Health and Safety, Administration and Quality Management Procedures

• Comply with Company procedures and processes in terms of project registration and risk analysis.
• Comply with Quality procedures by ensuring auditable trail of actions during full life cycle of project delivery process all in accordance with company Quality Management Procedures.
• Comply with and embrace Health and Safety requirements in the workplace as well as on construction sites.

3. Project Delivery

• Provide specialist geometric direction, advice and control on transport (roads) projects. Key performance and knowledge areas include, Geometric Road Design (rural roads, interchanges, intersections and roundabouts), Transport Planning,
• Traffic Flow Theory, Intelligent Transport Systems, Road Safety Engineering, Road Safety Audits, Transport Economics, Transport Planning Methodologies, Transport System Capacities, Public Transport Systems, Non-Motorized Transport, Contract Documentation and Administration of Civil Engineering Contracts, and Project Management.
• Prepare and evaluate specialist geometric designs, prepare technical reports and cost estimates and liaise with other professionals, both internally and externally.
• Develop and implement discipline specific technical practices, specifications and procedures.
• Facilitate and assist with the tender and adjudication process leading up to contractor appointment and site hand over.
• Plan, coordinate and manage the design, procurement and construction of discipline specific projects.
• Responsible for the commercial and technical execution and delivery of medium and large-scale projects. Cooperate with project teams to achieve strategic objectives.
• Develop and promote cost reduction and productivity enhancing initiatives.
• Ensure effective resource management on projects.
• Assist with technical design reviews when requested on projects for the Transport Engineering Department.
• Contribute to the drafting of tenders and assist with multi-disciplinary tender

4. Training and Mentoring

• Participate in continuous professional development training in order to maintain professional registration.
• Mentor, coach, train and provide technical leadership to team members and candidate Engineers/Technologists/Technicians

5. Leadership and Relations

• Build and maintain good working relations with all stakeholders, both internal and external to the company.
• Provide supervisory and technical leadership on projects.
• Manage project teams to control risks and to achieve targets on time and within budget.
• Assist with the compilation and review of discipline specific technical standards, templates and technologies.

Education, Language & Qualifications

• Relevant Degree in Engineering
• Professional Registration

Experience

• +8 years’ experience in a similar field.
• Key experience includes the geometric design of urban- and rural roads and infrastructure, interchanges,
• intersections, traffic calming measures, road safety improvements and modern roundabout design, railway alignments, non-motorised transport (NMT) planning and implementation, universal access design, road signs and markings, transportation economic evaluations, highway capacity analysis, road safety audits, (GCC2010, COLTO & SANS1200) contract documentation and -administration; and Project Management
• SANRAL and Western Cape Government roads experience

Knowledge

• Conversant with Civil 3D, Bill, MS Word & MS Excel
• Knowledge of Civil Designer, Autoturn, Trasoft, MS Projects, AutoCad and HDM-4 will be an advantage.
• A specialist knowledge of the fundamental requirements of the discipline, and the basic requirements of other disciplines