Professional Officer – City of Cape Town

What are the requirement:

• B-Tech: Civil Engineering/ Relevant B Degree
• Min of 4-5 years relevant experience to Water and Sanitation, project management and contract administration.
• Computer literacy
• Code B Drivers Licence
• Prepared to work outside normal working hours when required and must be physically fit

What we expect from you:

• Identifies, defines and undertakes immediate, short and long term planning associated with Water & Sanitation infrastructure and project implementation.
• Conducting investigations and working in conjunction with the Planning and Design Section and Operations in completing conceptual designs and project briefs for
• new/upgraded/refurbished infrastructure.
• Analysing and evaluating research data and other information collected from a variety of sources, perhaps also from outside the City Council, and applying this to projects, systems, and policy and procedure development for the Department/Branch.
• Provides inputs to the utilization, productivity and performance of personnel within the section of Reticulation Branch.
• Prepares capital and operating estimates within a planned project, and controls expenditure against the approved project budget allocations.
• Establishing and setting monthly capital expenditure targets, monitoring actual monthly expenditure, and reporting on variances from predicted expenditure.
• Management of minor works multi-disciplinary project teams and serving on major works multi-disciplinary project teams for investigations, design, project management, contract administration, construction supervision, commissioning and hand-over of future infrastructure, upgrades of present infrastructure and operational driven technical projects.
• Preparing and compiling of external and internal applications for development approvals, wayleaves
• Disseminates functional, planning, project implementation and operational information on the immediate, short and long term Reticulation initiatives, objectives, problems and constraints,
• Ensures correct and efficient written communication with internal and external parties and the safekeeping Own transport would be advantageous