Senior Architectural Engineer

About the Role
In this position, you will play a key role in engineering and design practices, ensuring adherence to regulatory requirements and customer specifications. You'll contribute to the standardization of equipment specifications and assist in developing technical knowledge while supporting various project teams to achieve collective goals.

Primary Objectives / Responsibilities

Technical Competency

• Supports adherence to generally accepted engineering and design practices, regulatory requirements, and customer specifications.
• Supports the standardization of equipment specifications, drawings, and document templates.
• Contributes to the understanding of technical knowledge, legal requirements, and customer specifications whenever viable and lawful.
• Uses local/global standards to support technical excellence.
• Supports checking, peer reviews, and incorporation of comments and findings.
• Prepares plans, layouts, and designs with supporting calculations for specifications, and supplies drafting and estimating staff with information to assist in the production of detailed drawings, developing tools, quantities, materials lists, and cost estimates as required.
• Checks plans, designs, and materials for conformity with specifications.
• Performs studies, design concepts, design criteria, reports, plant layout drawings, detail design and construction drawings.
• Prepares materials and writes construction specifications.
• May conduct surveys, studies, and site investigations.
• Prepares and issues drawing packages.
• Provides technical guidance to Drafters and Designers working on the same project.
• Ensures compliance of design with applicable codes and regulations.

Project Execution

• Knows the discipline scope/cost/time requirements, assists the team to meet expectations, and coordinates with other disciplines to ensure project success.
• Supports management of project change and progressing for the discipline and works with the Project Management Team to take corrective actions regarding any issues, staffing requirements, scope changes, progressing, or other events that could affect project completion and profitability.
• Plans discipline quality, monitors quality activities, recommends improvements, and takes action where required.
• Provides technical support within the discipline team, liaises with the project team, and consults with relevant resources as required.

Major Accountabilities

• Coordinates review and approval of design and interfaces on client requirements and specifications.
• Ensures all work is checked and approved before issue.
• Maintains work progress (budget, schedule) and raises change documentation where necessary.
• Liaises with research and development engineers regarding development work or construction and production engineers regarding the manufacture of designed products or planned structures.
• Liaises with suppliers, clients, consultants, or commissioning engineers concerning the design, installation, or construction and commissioning of assigned work.
• Assists in the preparation of technical detail for sales inquiries, quotations, contract documentation, technical literature, or in the analysis of failures following customer complaints.
• Extracts engineering and estimating information from drawings.
• Studies and implements lessons learned from previous projects.
• Responds to Contractor's Requests for Information (RFIs) and reviews Contractor's shop drawings.

Project Deliverables

• Gathers data from multiple sources and prepares engineering studies, analyses, calculations, etc.
• Determines technical issues, defines alternate solutions, establishes pros/cons for multiple solutions, and makes recommendations through official project documents such as technical queries, technical deviations, etc.
• Creates final documentation incorporating all relevant information and pursues customer approval.
• Performs discipline-specific engineering services such as:
  • Identify and report changes to project scope;
  • Contribute to appropriate studies, analyses and recommend actions;
  • Assist with the preparation of detailed designs and drawings, specifications, data, calculations, and reports;
  • Provide assistance during procurement, construction, and commissioning activities.

General Accountabilities

• Comply and keep up-to-date with the behavior and business practices outlined in company processes and with all applicable laws, regulations, and standards.
• Deliver quality services and demonstrate a commitment to understand and meet customer needs.
• Demonstrate a visible and active commitment to achieving the organization's vision and its associated requirements.
• Arrive punctually for work and meetings.
• Demonstrate commitment to the organization.
• Comply with legal obligations and safety requirements of the role.
• Ability to work to tight deadlines and prioritize work to achieve them.

Education – Qualifications, Accreditation, Training

• Full-Time Bachelor’s Degree in Architectural Engineering from an accredited university.
• MME (Ministry of Municipality and Environment) 'Grade A' Professional Registration is a mandatory requirement.
• Candidates not holding this accreditation must be willing to achieve this within the probationary period.
• Chartered Professional Engineer (CPEng) status or undertaking the same will be an advantage.

Job Specific Knowledge

• Demonstrates a visible and active commitment to HSE management and its associated requirements in a project environment.
• Has an intermediate understanding of regulations, codes, and industry standard practices.
• Knowledge of local and international codes and standards applicable to Architectural design.
• Experience with all major building types - commercial, residential, civic, and industrial-type buildings.
• Experience with substations design and industrial-type buildings, in addition to experience in commercial buildings.
• Demonstrates Project Architect responsibility level in medium-size commercial and/or industrial buildings from inception to completion.

Essential Competencies

Relating and Networking

• Relates well to people at all levels; establishes good relationships within and outside the team; uses a range of interpersonal skills to effectively engage with people across the organization.
• Builds appropriate, constructive, and effective business relationships throughout the organization.

Applying Expertise & Technology

• Uses technology to achieve work objectives; develops job knowledge and expertise through continual professional development.
• Demonstrates an understanding of different organizational departments and functions; implements innovative solutions, technology advances, and methods to effectively deal with working out of sequence.

Planning and Organising

• Manages own time and processes effectively and sets own work priorities.
• Prioritizes what needs to be done and has a sense of urgency about achieving outcomes.
• Works with minimum supervision and is able to work to schedule, usually completes work on time.
• Can organize information from many sources and retain according to the prescribed format and policies.

Delivering Results and Meeting Customer Expectations

• Takes responsibility for customer satisfaction and solving customer problems/issues.
• Understands the types and the nature of the work across projects and the capabilities required for different types of projects.
• Excellent customer focus and able to consistently meet the organization's and its clients' needs.
• Able to identify issues, problems, and opportunities; make timely decisions, develop appropriate and innovative solutions, and ask for assistance if required.
• Achieves results set by self and others, meets timelines, and pushes to achieve stretch goals.

Following Instructions and Procedures

• Appropriately follows instructions from the supervisor without unnecessarily challenging authority.
• Follows procedures and policies; keeps to schedules; competent user of workflow procedure for delivering discipline-specific deliverables.
• Demonstrates knowledge of definition and application of Engineering Codes & Standard Practices.

Coping with Pressures and Setbacks

• Maintains a positive outlook at work; works productively in a pressured environment; keeps emotions under control during difficult situations; handles criticism well and learns from it.

HSE Capability

• Maintains HSE focus with the team to ensure OHSE requirements are met.
• Demonstrates behavior and business practices commensurate with a culture of world’s best health, safety, and environmental performance.
• Demonstrates a visible and active commitment to personal well-being, healthy and safe workplaces and activities, and continuously improves the organization's health, safety, and environmental performance.
• Identifies and reports work hazards and incidents.

IT Skills

• Proficient in Revit 3D, AutoCAD 2D, Microsoft Office, Adobe Acrobat.
• Experience in 3D Studio MAX, Lumion, and/or RHINO would be an advantage.
• Experience in Adobe Photoshop would be an advantage.

Moving Forward Together
We want our people to be energized and empowered to drive sustainable impact. Our focus is on a values-inspired culture that unlocks brilliance through belonging, connection, and innovation. We're building a diverse, inclusive, and respectful workplace, creating a space where everyone feels they belong, can be themselves, and are heard.

We are reskilling our people, leveraging transferable skills, and supporting the transition of our workforce to become experts in today's low carbon energy infrastructure and technology. Whatever your ambition, there's a path for you here.