Chief Engineer: Design-Professional: WASA19076
City of Ekurhuleni · Gauteng
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Job Purpose
To plan, organise, lead and control engineering requirements and initiatives for the department and manage all associated resources requirements in area of accountability.
Minimum Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Civil Engineering, BEng; BSc Eng NQF Level 7
- Registration with ECSA, as a Professional Engineer
- Valid driver's licence.
- MFMA certification or revelant MFMA knowledge will be added as an advantage.
- At least 6 years' relevant experience in water and sanitation design environment and project management, with 2 years in a managerial role.
Core Responsibilities
- Develop operational targets in support of tactical delivery and organisational strategic objectives in partnership with divisional leadership.
- Managing and approving technical water and sewer designs prepared internally and by consultants.
- Ensure that the right engineering standards and specifications are applied.
- Communicate a meaningful strategic context that guides and directs best practice, integration, process alignment and service delivery.
- Implement, plan and drive an overall engineering operational strategy and plan.
- Develop annual operating plan to meet established annual objectives and organise and prioritise tasks and work processes needed to achieve the plan.
- Prepare and deliver monthly and quarterly reports as per developed set standards and requirements, legislation and regulations.
- Assist with the implementation of engineering activities for the department.
- Advise on engineering plans and projects for the area of accountability.
- Scan external environment to identify and take advantage of new knowledge of related acts, regulations and regulatory frameworks to improve results.
- Prepare, devise and give comments on any engineering activities for the department.
- Implement risk management, governance and compliance policy and processes to identify and manage governance and risk expose liability.
- Provide overall direction in terms of overall engineering management and implementation