Civil Engineer (Design)

About this role

RPO Recruitment is placing a Civil Design Engineer with a leading engineering consultancy in Johannesburg, Gauteng. The consultancy needs a senior designer to strengthen its civil infrastructure team and lead design work on roads, stormwater, earthworks, and water and sewer systems.

What you’ll do

• Lead geometric and detailed road design, including alignments, cross-sections, intersections and pavement design for rehabilitation and new construction.
• Design stormwater and drainage systems, covering drainage networks, attenuation ponds, channels, culvert sizing and hydraulic modelling.
• Carry out bulk earthworks design, balancing and optimisation for large infrastructure projects.
• Design gravity and pressurised pipelines for water, sewer and stormwater, including hydraulic analysis and profile design.
• Build surfaces, corridors, assemblies, pipe networks, drawings and quantities in AutoCAD Civil 3D, and use IDAS in the design process.
• Prepare engineering design reports and contract documents, and coordinate with structural, geotechnical and electrical teams.
• Guide and mentor junior engineers, and attend site visits, design meetings and client presentations.

What you need

• BEng or BTech in Civil Engineering.
• Professional registration as a Pr. Eng. or Pr. Tech.
• Minimum of 5 years’ relevant experience.
• Advanced proficiency in AutoCAD Civil 3D, including corridors, assemblies, surfaces, pipe networks and quantities.
• Strong working knowledge of IDAS.
• Extensive experience in road design (rehabilitation and new construction), stormwater drainage, bulk earthworks, gravity pipeline design, pressurised water and sewer pipeline design, and hydraulic analysis.
• Valid driver’s licence and your own transport.

Is this job for you?

This role suits an experienced civil engineer who has spent time in a design office and wants to take technical ownership of infrastructure projects. You should enjoy hands-on design work and be comfortable guiding others.

Tips before you apply

• Have your Pr. Eng. or Pr. Tech registration details, and your ECSA or professional body number, ready to include with your CV.
• Put Civil 3D and IDAS projects at the top of your CV. Name the element you designed, such as corridors or pipe networks, and the size of the project.
• Show your 5+ years of experience project by project. For each one, state your role, the design type and the scale of the work.