Specialist Construction Engineer (3032)

In brief

**Overview** This role is for a Specialist Construction Engineer (3032) at the South African National Roads Agency (Sanral). The position involves providing leadership and expertise in the planning, technical support, national oversight, communication, stakeholder relations, audit, and risk management pertaining to Construction CAPEX projects across the country, with a focus on ensuring compliance, sustainability, and community engagement. **What you will do** The Specialist Construction Engineer will be responsible for a range of activities, including: * **Planning of Community Development Projects:** Liaising with Provincial Construction Managers on project pipelines, scope identification, planning, design, and implementation. This includes preparing and managing overall budgets for Construction CAPEX Projects, ensuring funding availability, determining required project management resources, and assigning projects and budgets to provincial managers. * **Technical specialist support:** Contributing technical input during design and construction phases, particularly regarding sustainability and socio-economic impacts on communities. This involves active participation in functional working groups, sharing industry knowledge, providing feedback on ITIS SMMEs, maintaining internal relationships, researching best practices and innovation, and participating in the development and improvement of SANRAL's standards and specifications. * **National Construction CAPEX Project oversight:** Proactively monitoring the progress of all national Construction CAPEX projects, including financial performance, cashflows, issues, risks, and transformation targets. Responsibilities also cover preparing management reports, reviewing project information in ITIS, conducting status meetings with Contract Engineers, managing escalated contractual issues (disputes and claims), and providing advice on contractual matters. This further includes guiding engineers on project management and community engagement, conducting ad-hoc site visits to ensure consistent execution of works, ensuring adherence to environmental and occupational health and safety standards, monitoring Project Liaison Committees (PLCs) and community engagement, and ensuring proper documentation storage. * **Communication and Stakeholder Relations Management:** Maintaining strong working relationships with colleagues across all provinces and areas of expertise, as well as with key internal and external stakeholders, consultants, and contractors. The role involves supporting provincial heads and managers in engagement meetings, responding to media queries related to Construction CAPEX projects, ensuring internal collaboration, and promoting SANRAL's aims and objectives. * **Audit and Risk Management:** Ensuring that all Construction CAPEX contract documentation is electronically uploaded into ITIS and the records management system, or submitted for physical storage. This also involves overseeing and monitoring the timely provision of audit and risk responses related to Construction CAPEX project contracts. **Requirements (from the original advert)** * **Minimum Requirements:** * BSc. / B.Eng. / B.Tech. degree in Civil Engineering at an NQF Level 7. * A minimum 10 years’ experience as a Civil Engineer Roads. * Minimum 5 years’ experience in Construction Contracts Management. * Minimum 3 years managerial experience. * Experience in managing relationships with multidisciplinary stakeholders. * Must be registered as a Professional Engineer / Engineering Technologist with the Engineering Council of South Africa (ECSA). * Must be registered as a Professional Manager with the SACPCMP. * **Added advantage:** * M.Eng / MSc / MTech in Engineering Civil / Transportation. * **Workplace Competencies (Knowledge & Abilities):** * Extensive knowledge of relevant industry standards and specifications, the FIDIC Suite of General Conditions of Contract, and relevant legislation. * Ability to demonstrate attention to detail and sound engineering and project management judgement, and work well under pressure. * Extensive knowledge of civil design and Construction practices related to road works, as well as road network maintenance and operations activities. * Ability to manage and oversee the successful management of critical strategic internal, public and media stakeholders. * Ability to evaluate available options and select an appropriate course of action to achieve a specific objective or solve a problem. * Ability to examine information and facts in detail to gain a comprehensive understanding. * Sound ability to manage contracts made with third party vendors, contractors or consultants and the ability to negotiate, support and manage the effectiveness of those contracts. * Ability to manage teams of people for simple and complex co-located processes and train, develop and coach teams, assisting with activities as needed. * Accountable for setting and management of budget allocation for area of control. * Ability to objectively analyse and evaluate issues and factual evidence in order to form judgements. * Extensive experience in the planning, design, and Construction of road infrastructure projects. **Who should apply** The ideal candidate is a highly experienced Civil Engineering professional with a minimum of a BSc/B.Eng/B.Tech degree at NQF Level 7, ideally with a postgraduate qualification in Civil or Transportation Engineering. They must possess at least 10 years of experience as a Civil Engineer specializing in roads, with a significant portion (5 years minimum) in construction contracts management and at least 3 years in a managerial capacity. Essential professional registrations with ECSA (as a Professional Engineer/Engineering Technologist) and SACPCMP (as a Professional Manager) are mandatory. The successful applicant will demonstrate extensive knowledge of industry standards, FIDIC contracts, road construction practices, and civil design. They should be adept at managing multidisciplinary stakeholder relationships, leading teams, exercising sound engineering and project management judgment under pressure, and taking accountability for budget allocation. Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills are crucial for this role, as is a commitment to promoting SANRAL's objectives and ensuring compliance with environmental and safety standards. **Deadline** Not specified **Reference** Original posting: https://www.myjobmag.co.za/job/specialist-construction-engineer-3032-the-south-african-national-roads-agency-sanral Source: myjobmag

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• At least 3 years of experience.

• Project management
• Health and safety (OHS)
• PLC programming

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