Senior Engineer / Technical Director (Permanent)

Job Title: Senior Engineer / Technical Director Start Date: 2026-08-25 - 2026-09-24 Vacancy Type: Permanent JHB000302 Sectors: Engineering and Technical Location: Gauteng , Tshwane (Pretoria) Salary: R - Negotiable Brief: A water resilience consultancy in Pretoria is seeking a Senior Engineer / Technical Director: Civil or Mechanical / Senior (Pr Eng or imminent) / Practice leadership + full ECSA 6-Stage delivery. Must have: - Engineering qualification and registration. BSc / BEng in Civil or Mechanical Engineering; ECSA Pr Eng registered or imminent (dated application under way). - A record you can defend in detail. Named projects with your design responsibility end-to-end; drawings and calc packs you authored; a claim free-but-managed delivery record. - Mentoring evidence with names. - Change-carrying temperament. - Driver's licence and own transport. Site work is part of the role. Strongly preferred: - Groundwater/filtration delivery; live site retrofit experience (hospitals, malls); SANS 10252/10400-series fluency; Revit/Civil 3D; JBCC/FIDIC administration. - Client followership. Detail: The role — two senior profiles in scope: Profile A — Senior Water / Wet Services Engineer - ECSA Pr Eng (Civil or Mechanical), or demonstrably at registration standard with a dated, verifiable application in progress. - 10+ years in water engineering, wet services, or water infrastructure consulting, with authored drawing sets and calculation packs you can walk through as your own. - Groundwater abstraction and filtration/treatment delivery experience strongly weighted; fire protection depth valued. - Evidence of mentoring engineers toward registration, and of holding client relationships through difficult conversations. Profile B — Delivery Lead / Engineering Manager - Pr Eng-calibre engineer from a consulting or EPCM environment who has owned delivery governance: design review gates, deliverable registers, commercial assurance on contracts. - Fluent contractual literacy — JBCC essential; NEC/FIDIC valued: payment mechanics, retention, practical completion certification, claims and variations. - Commissioning completions (plural) and a claims/variations record you can narrate in detail. - Ran a self-contained package or area on a major project with your own commercial authority, or was the senior bench of a 20–50 person consultancy. Key responsibilities: Technical leadership - Design responsibility and professional sign-off across wet services, water infrastructure, and (Profile B) delivery governance on all active engagements. - Weekly design review with 24–48 hour red-pen turnaround on junior packages; calc-pack discipline (assumptions page, method statement, self-check, named checker). - QA review gate on the water-audit product within six months of starting. Practice building - Standards, templates, standard details and design tools that become the firm's reference library. - Formal ECSA mentorship for candidate engineers; a named development path for every engineer in your team. - Market support: Company goes to market on your behalf — you shape which sectors we chase, and your delivery keeps the clients we win. Commercial and delivery assurance - Fee proposals, scope control and variations on your engagements; (Profile B) payment-claim interrogation, variation adjudication and practical-completion certification held in-house. - Client trust-holding at senior level: difficult progress meetings, defending design decisions, delivering bad news early. show more... For more information please contact: Jurgens Apply