Civil Engineer – Umhlanga needed at Royal HaskoningDHV South Africa

Job Description
Key responsibilities/main job outputs (Bulk Sanitation):

• Detail design of gravity sewerage networks, trunk outfall sewers, pressurised pipelines and pumpstations for conveyance and distribution of wastewater.
• The detailed design of waste-water treatment works, with a comprehensive understanding of wastewater and sludge treatment processes.
• Preparation of detailed concept and detail design reports.
• Proposal preparation, including drafting of technical methodologies and/or approach papers.
• Undertaking (pre- and detailed-) feasibility studies, applying technical and financial criteria and drafting feasibility study reports.
• Leading and coordinating multi-disciplinary design teams on complex projects ensuring tasks are distributed to team members and ensuring quality of deliverables by apply Information management principals.
• Detailed design review and approval of project deliverables using digital workflows and processes this includes 3D models drawings, reports, BOQs, specifications, etc.
• Using company standard collaboration and coordination tools in line with our Digital Ways of Working.
• Proactively liaising with project managers and client’s representatives, managing expectations and communicating alternatives, deviations and issues encountered during design.
• Provide guidance and mentorship to junior engineers and technicians on engineering design and software usage.

Minimum required qualification:

• B.Eng/B.Sc.  Civil Engineering with 10+ years in the relevant field
• Professional registration with ECSA (Pr.Eng) Essential.
• M.Sc – Would be advantageous.
• Preferred training and implementation of ISO19650 standards

Minimum experience, knowledge & skills:

• Computational design thinking
• Good understanding outputs from hydraulic and surge analyses and design and optimise networks based on outputs.
• Ability to work with and apply a wide variety of codes and standards and compile and review project specifications.
• Experience with Large bulk sanitation design is advantageous.
• Leading multi-disciplinary teams on sanitation and briefing team members on scope of work and overseeing coordination of design using ISO19650 standards.
• Sanitation design for distribution as well as treatment and processing plant internal pumpstations.
• BIM implementation – Creating/using BEPs, MIDP and TIDPs with applying CDE principals.

Experience in the following software and applications:

• Advanced experience with hydraulic analysis software doing extended period analysis
• Working knowledge of EPANET and EPASWMM as the backbone of analysis software packages
• Advanced experience with using surge analysis software such as KYPipe an OpenFlows, HAMMER
• Working knowledge of Revit and Civil 3D.
• Experience in using Devotech iDAS will be advantageous
• Using tools such as BIM360, Revizto, and Asite for design coordination and review
• Competence in using PowerBI or similar packages is advantageous.
• Scripting, workflow automation and programming is advantageous.
• Competency in Ms Suites