Senior Engineer / Technical Director

Senior Engineer / Technical Director

Recruiter: Execustaff Recruiting Services

Job Ref: JHB000302/JVDW

Date posted: Tuesday, August 25, 2026

Location: Pretoria, South Africa

Salary: R - Negotiable

SUMMARY: A water resilience consultancy in Pretoria is seeking a **Senior Engineer / Technical Director: Civil or Mechanical / Senior (Pr Eng or imminent) / Practice leadership + full ECSA 6-Stage delivery.

Must have:**

• Engineering qualification and registration. BSc / BEng in Civil or Mechanical Engineering; ECSA Pr Eng registered or imminent (dated application under way).
• A record you can defend in detail. Named projects with your design responsibility end-to-end; drawings and calc packs you authored; a claim free-but-managed delivery record.
• Mentoring evidence with names.
• Change-carrying temperament.
• Driver's licence and own transport. Site work is part of the role.

Strongly preferred:

• Groundwater/filtration delivery; live site retrofit experience (hospitals, malls); SANS 10252/10400-series fluency; Revit/Civil 3D; JBCC/FIDIC administration.
• Client followership.

POSITION INFO: The role - two senior profiles in scope: Profile A - Senior Water \/ Wet Services Engineer - ECSA Pr Eng (Civil or Mechanical), or demonstrably at registration standard with a dated, verifiable application in progress. - 10+ years in water engineering, wet services, or water infrastructure consulting, with authored drawing sets and calculation packs you can walk through as your own. - Groundwater abstraction and filtration\/treatment delivery experience strongly weighted; fire protection depth valued. - Evidence of mentoring engineers toward registration, and of holding client relationships through difficult conversations. Profile B - Delivery Lead \/ Engineering Manager - Pr Eng-calibre engineer from a consulting or EPCM environment who has owned delivery governance: design review gates, deliverable registers, commercial assurance on contracts. - Fluent contractual literacy - JBCC essential; NEC\/FIDIC valued: payment mechanics, retention, practical completion certification, claims and variations. - Commissioning completions (plural) and a claims\/variations record you can narrate in detail. - Ran a self-contained package or area on a major project with your own commercial authority, or was the senior bench of a 20-50 person consultancy. Key responsibilities: Technical leadership - Design responsibility and professional sign-off across wet services, water infrastructure, and (Profile B) delivery governance on all active engagements. - Weekly design review with 24-48 hour red-pen turnaround on junior packages; calc-pack discipline (assumptions page, method statement, self-check, named checker). - QA review gate on the water-audit product within six months of starting. Practice building - Standards, templates, standard details and design tools that become the firm's reference library. - Formal ECSA mentorship for candidate engineers; a named development path for every engineer in your team. - Market support: Company goes to market on your behalf - you shape which sectors we chase, and your delivery keeps the clients we win. Commercial and delivery assurance - Fee proposals, scope control and variations on your engagements; (Profile B) payment-claim interrogation, variation adjudication and practical-completion certification held in-house. - Client trust-holding at senior level: difficult progress meetings, defending design decisions, delivering bad news early.