Senior Transport Engineer, Bloemfontein

Division Planning and Traffic Engineering

Location Bloemfontein

Reports To Section Manager or any other person appointed to supervise him/her from time to time.

Primary Position Purpose This position is responsible for Transport Planning and Traffic Engineering services on projects within the Road and Highways Functional group, including project management and delivery and managing professional teams of medium/large projects.

Key Responsibilities

Responsible for the general management of medium/large projects

Responsible for the project management and coordination of multi-disciplinary project teams

Look after budgets, resourcing and outsourcing of project work within the section, as well as agree project budgets with other sections on large projects comprising multi-disciplinary project teams

Author competent technical reports of acceptable technical and presentational quality

Check work of all those in the project team and take responsibility for their work

Present / represent their technical work

Draft successful responses to bids

Clear knowledge of work procedures and ability to brief project team on them

Assign work to others

Regular client visits or contact under direction of more senior manager

Build relationships with clients

Successful in identifying and following through on leads associated with additional work prospects on the projects they are involved with

Clear understanding of local functional business technologies and markets

Discuss in detail with clients the business technologies and markets

Train others in respective functional field and build a team

Market technical capability

Supervise Engineers or Technicians in undertaking checks and inspections of constructed works for compliance with design and specifications, including monitoring and proposing remedial actions

Development and/or improvement of function group specific design procedures

Plan and coordinate investigations and surveys

Coordinate work between functions

Key Performance Indicators

Overseeing and delivery of design standards

Quality and timeliness of reporting and other deliverables such as drawings

Planning of workload to meet deadlines

Knowledge and implementation of SMEC’s systems and procedures

Reporting to meet project and internal requirements

Client satisfaction with project delivery

Report writing

Recommended Qualifications, Skills And Experience Required

BEng or BTech degree in Civil Engineering

Minimum of 7 years’ relevant working experience in the following fields:

Traffic Impact Assessments

Transport planning projects

Policy development

Survey design and research

Technical report writing and presentations

Signal plan development

Competency using the following software would be advantageous for this position: ArcGIS, EMME, Transyt, Sidra, Saturn, HTM, Visum, Vissim.

Understanding of transport economics and transport finance would be advantageous

Competency in Microsoft products such as Word, Excel as well as exposure to programming platforms such as Python

Be an all-rounder with fair experience on transport planning and engineering associated work within the private and public space.

Experience in geometric road design and alignment design will be beneficial, particularly within road and highway projects.

Professional registration with ECSA

Ability to write effective reports and EOI’s.

Co-operative and flexible work style to work in a team environment.

Effective communication and interpersonal capabilities

Be able to operate independently with the support of a team

Valid driver’s licence and access to a reliable vehicle for business travel when required.

Valid passport for domestic and international travel as required.

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