Senior Project Engineer, Civil Design

PURPOSE :

• Custodian of Civil Engineering for feasibility studies and ensure discipline engineering standards and specifications are defined and maintained throughout study development
• Responsible for all technical and engineering aspects related to design through project lifecycle to ensure optimum performance to business requirements, organisational objectives, and sound engineering practice.
• Act as an interface between project team and operational teams.
• To deliver technical solutions that comply to design process requirements
• Lead design reviews/audits to ensure that designs are in accordance with project lifecycle requirements and produced in a timely and cost- effective manner

MAJOR CHALLENGES :

• Time pressure to develop high quality design requirements and deliverables
• Design reviews during study development phases
• Quality of design discipline deliverables that comply to customer and regulatory requirements
• Scope development and management
• Change management
• Working on multiple feasibility studies simultaneously.
• Ensure continuation from study phase to implementation
• Aligning study phase standards and procedures with operational standards and procedures.

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

Best Practice and Knowledge Management

• Initiate continuous improvement initiatives leading to cost saving ideas
• Keeping abreast of technology trends
• Conduct applied research work to initiate process changes
• Provide inputs throughout the project life cycle towards improving process flow for projects
• Assume responsibility for engineering discipline design as representative of the feasibility study teams in projects
• Implement knowledge management processes (professional networks)
• Business Performance and Operations
• Support service delivery within department and project budget parameters
• Investigate complex engineering problems and develop solutions for optimisation of engineering systems
• Technical contribution in individual skill area based on sound principles
• Increase awareness of tech advancements to ensure access to appropriate technology to meet business deliverables and can expand technical base to access new areas of business
• Adhere to appropriate quality management systems
• Ensure skills and technology communication to business units
• Adhere to appropriate quality management systems
• Ensure skills and technology communication to business units
• Liaising with operational, maintenance, services, and project teams
• Compliance, Governance and Assurance
• Manage project in compliance with Enterprise-Wide Project Management (EWPM) procedures
• Recognise, understand, and take action to manage risks that can impact on project(s)
• Implement quality management systems for project(s)
• Ensure compliance to sound engineering standards and practices
• Ensure Safety Health Environment and Community (SHEC) compliance during project life cycle
• Customer and Client Relationship Management
• Provide expert technical support and direction to project teams and business units
• Provide technical oversight and manage interface between project team and design consultant.
• Effective People Management
• Adhere to the systems and initiatives to drive performance excellence
• Contribute to high-performance teams
• Articulate, adopt, embrace, and live the Companys values
• Functional Management
• Adhere to functional policies, standards, guidelines, procedures, end-to-end processes, tools, templates etc.
• Assist in standardising, simplifying and speeding-up functional processes, eliminating duplication/bureaucracy within feasibility studies
• Apply functional best practices, promote sharing of bestpractices/knowledge
• Implement project management principles and practices for planning and design of project outcomes
• Conduct complex analysis of project systems and processes to support business case
• Provide technical inputs to the project team
• Provide inputs in designs, technical reviews, Hazard and Operability
• Study (HAZOPS) and other project related reviews
• Ensure design for operability, maintainability, and efficiency
• Review discipline design drawings and technical documents
• Review of engineering deliverables including models, drawings,
• calculations, specifications, reports, evaluations and preparation of
• technical specifications and design criteria
• Provide inputs to capital estimates
• Provide inputs to schedule estimates
• Project Management
• Evaluate and complete projects with minimum risk, within allocated
• timeframes and according to specified budgetary requirements.
• Manage projects regarding design processes, and technology andequipment selection.
• Manage project life cycle
• Safe and Healthy Work Environment
• Maintain and ensure a healthy environment, safe operations, and
• practices, ensuring compliance with all applicable SHEC policies and
• procedures in line with set standards
• Encourage a culture that focuses on safety in all operations

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS & REQUIREMENTS:

• BEng Civil Engineering ( Essential/Minimum or )
• BSc Civil Engineering ( Essential/Minimum or )
• B Tech Civil Engineering ( Essential/Minimum )
• Management Development Programme ( Recommended/Desirable )
• 6 years Strong understanding of civil engineering principles and design experience
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team
• Ability to lead technical aspects of design