Meteorological Technician
The South African Weather Service SAWS · Eastern Cape
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- The Meteorological Technician provides essential services to ensure the optimal delivery of the office's outputs by delivering high-quality climate data and analysis, ensuring compliance with national and international standards, verifying and maintaining remote automatic stations.
Observation
- Perform routine weather observation duties that include: - Visual weather observation and compile routine reports,
- Providing special reports for changes in weather.
- Providing observation reports timeously as per schedule or as per the timeliness of the client's requests
- Downloading of remote observation station data
- Collection and quality control of manual rainfall station
- Quality control of AWS and ARS data and transmission thereof to central data base
- Perform routine and adhoc maintenance of SAWS Observations infrastructure Thorough understanding of Automatic Weather Stations is required
Internal and External Customer Relations
- Liaise with clients as per office plan.
- Represent SAWS at Stakeholder meetings as per plan.
Total Quality Management
- Apply prevention and corrective action procedures on all findings related to weather observation.
- Promote a quality culture amongst the staff within the office.
- Promote the SAWS Quality Policy and intergrade it into the day-to-day activities of the office
- Provide assistance during audits of the regional office as required.
- Perform regular inspections to ensure all work done is according to documented requirements.
- Ensure that the work environment complies with legislative requirements relations to OHS.
Minimum Requirements and Attributes
- NQF Level 4 or Senior Certificate with Mathematics and Physical Science and Weather Observers Certificate NQF Level 5
- ICAO AMO competency certificate
- WMO BIP-T requirements
- A valid code 08 driver's license or higher
- Ability to read, analyse and interpret written request for weather data and information. Knowledge of international standards such as WMO and ICAO.
- Advanced knowledge of observation tools.
Closing Date: 07 September 2026