Structural Engineer, Cape Town

Job Description

A large consulting company with offices across South Africa working on large international projects is looking for a Structural Engineer to join their Cape Town offices.

Minimum requirements:

•Minimum 5 years of relevant experience in the Structural Engineering environment, within the built environment, preferably within a consulting engineering business

• A strong background in lateral design of structural using software such as Tekla, Etabs, or Robot.

• Experience with managing design teams, to complete tasks and produce high quality deliverables such as drawings, reports, schedules, and calculations on time.

• Relevant tertiary qualifications in civil engineering, B.Eng. (Civil),

• Pr. Eng registration (beneficial)

• M. Eng in structural engineering will be advantageous.

• Previous exposure to datacentres, stadiums, education facilities, healthcare buildings, commercial buildings, warehouses, and other commercial projects.

• International project experience (outside South Africa) (beneficial)

• A willingness to learn and investigate technological systems.

• A strong interest in working on innovative and complex projects.

• A passion for design data management and coding (beneficial)

• BIM and Revit experience is an advantage.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Provide leadership to a team of digital designers, engineers, technicians, and modellers.

• Coordinating the design and virtual construction of the relevant building such as data centres, education and sports facilities, hospitals, commercial buildings, and warehouses.

• Managing and quality checking deliverables (incl. modelling works, data/parameter management) carried out by global and multinational dispersed & remote teams, Co-ordinating with other disciplines.

• Facilitating virtual and mixed reality sessions for co-ordination and consultation purposes and be interested in the research and implementation of new BIM technology into projects.

• Maintain project records in accordance with internal quality system.

• Challenge the team to remain ahead of the technology curve, regarding technical trends, as well as design execution.

• Provide technical guidance and mentoring to junior engineers.