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Royal Haskoning DHV
Senior Mechanical Engineer (Cape Town / Johannesburg Office)
Johannesburg
FULL TIME
September 16, 2024
Senior Mechanical Engineer - Cape Town / Johannesburg Office
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Senior Mechanical Engineer required to fulfil role of Team Lead Mechanical Engineer and join our Data Centres South Africa team and lead our South Africa based Data Centres Mechanical Engineering team to assist with our growing workload. You will be a flexible and dynamic individual with the ability to lead in the development of our growing team out of South Africa.
You will be responsible for overseeing and managing all mechanical engineering aspects of Data Centre building design projects. Project responsibility will be varied from inception & defining a client’s design brief to inspections, specifications, design, and management of projects. This role requires someone with the ability to lead a team of engineers, deliver quality & robust deliverables, and ensure that all project milestones are met on time and within budget.
Role objectives include:
- Providing leadership to the South Africa Mechanical Engineering team, reporting to the Director Advisory Group
- Maintaining effective communication and relationship with our global teams (NL, GER & UK)
- Provide technical leadership on projects
- Providing technical leadership, mentoring, and coaching to design engineers or technologists
- Business development support including input into bids and proposals
- There will be a requirement to support our global teams (NL, GER & UK) on data centre projects
- There will be a requirement from time to time to assist our South Africa Industry Team with a range of projects.
- Manage and deliver the mechanical work packages in multiple projects.
- Manage and deliver the mechanical work packages in multiple projects.
- Identify the scope, design, and management objectives and delivering project documentation to ensure the quality and flow of information required for contractors, vendors, and regulatory authorities.
- Production of design calculations, sketch drawings, details of drawings using relevant software (HAP, Revit, Revizto, ACC / BIM360, Asite, etc) including checking and reviewing of these prior to issue where completed by others.
- Write technical specifications and reports.
- Assist the project manager in the preparation/review of project costs, risk assessments.
- Develop and maintaining vendor relationships to ensure continuous technical professional development.
- Review contractor pre-qualifications and preparing tender evaluation summaries for tender reviews.
- Evaluate proposals and recommendations to the client regarding vendor selection.
- Write technical specifications for tenders.
- Represent RHDHV on factory acceptance tests and site testing & commissioning activities.
- Communicate the status of projects to internal directors and external stakeholders (clients) on an ad-hoc and formal basis.
What you bring
You are an entrepreneurial, result oriented, proactive individual with a positive flexible and problem-solving attitude. Besides that, you have:
- A bachelor and/or master’s degree in mechanical engineering;
- At least 8 – 10+ years relevant industrial building working experience in mechanical engineering (specializing in HVAC with working knowledge of other mechanical subdisciplines such as Wet Services, Fire, Medical Gas, Mechanical Utilities, Cleanrooms, Lifts, Etc) design and installation in a consulting engineering environment;
- Professional registration with ECSA as a Pr Eng is required;
- Good knowledge of standard practices in the design and construction industry;
- Good understanding of the daily (operational) business of our clients;
- An entrepreneurial, proactive, and flexible attitude;
- Result oriented and have a proactive problem solving attitude;
- You perform best in a multidisciplinary team;
- You have excellent communication skills towards colleagues and clients;
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