Job Opportunities at Zutari

Role responsibilities:

• Collaborate with structural engineers to develop detailed designs and documentation for bridges and other structural projects.
• Create and maintain Revit models, drawings, and details for structures / bridge projects.
• Ensure that the details developed are technically feasible.
• Produce accurate and complete construction documents that meet project requirements and standards.
• Review and check drafting work to ensure accuracy and completeness of project documentation.
• Communicate with project team members to ensure effective project coordination.
• Follow company standards and procedures for quality control, documentation, and project management.
• Keep up-to-date with industry standards and technology advancements in Revit software and add on packages.

Minimum requirements:

• 5 to 10 years Revit project experience in the structures / bridges industry using Revit daily to produce models and project deliverables.
• Extensive experience modelling and drafting reinforced concrete and structural steel work.
• Ability to work in a dynamic environment and adapt to frequent project changes.
• Ability to work effectively as part of a team or independently with minimal oversight.
• Ability to interpret and communicate information of a complex technical nature.
• Able to learn and to develop new skills and workflows for new digital tools.
• Ability to work on fast paced design and construct projects.

Key Experience:

• Experience working with AutoDesk Revit to produce construction documentation (min requirement)
• Structures experience - modelling and drafting (min requirement)
• Bridge experience will be advantageous.
• B.Tech. or N.Dip. will be advantageous.
• Experience working with AutoDesk Dynamo will be advantageous.
• Experience working with AutoDesk Civil 3D will be advantageous.
• Experience working with AutoDesk AutoCad will be advantageous.
• Experience in reinforcement detailing will be advantageous.
• Knowledge of structures / bridge design and construction principles.
• Ability to read and understand structural drawings and specifications.
• Strong attention to detail, organization, and time management skills.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work collaboratively in a team environment.
• This is a full-time position with competitive salary and benefits package. If you are a motivated and skilled structural modeler / draftsperson looking for an opportunity to work on challenging and exciting bridge projects, please apply today.

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Role responsibilities

• Perform complex structural engineering designs, calculations, and analyses of water-retaining structures, penstocks and pipelines with key contributions on 3D models, technical drawings and details, project specifications and Bills of Quantities.
• Assist and support dam safety inspections and build up the Approved Professional Person (APP) on concrete dams within the structural design team.
• Assist in preparing and coordinating tenders/bids and contribute to winning work initiatives.
• Contractual and commercial acumen and assist in the management of construction contracts.
• Ensure timely delivery of projects, within scope and budget.
• Establish a clear understanding of the project goals and stakeholder expectations, specifically, managing client expectations and ensuring that delivery meets expectations.
• Lead and coordinate small, medium, and integrated projects including management of delivery teams, and reporting on budgets and schedules, and maintaining team morale.
• Provide input on other key deliverables on projects, such as technical reports, specifications, and bills of quantities.
• Be a team player that is willing to collaborate across multiple disciplines and international geographies.
• Establish initial project schedules and regularly maintain project schedules.
• Act as senior project-level point of contact for external and internal clients.
• Resolve project level issues independently.
• Mentor junior engineers, project managers/coordinators.
• Support business development activities.
• Motivate the project team towards the determined objectives, by generating enthusiasm for the project, and by maintaining a continued personal interest in achieving set targets.

Minimum requirements

• BEng or BSc Degree in Civil Engineering.  A postgraduate degree in Structural Engineering will be advantageous. 
• Professional registration with ECSA (Mandatory).
• Minimum of 10 years’ water retaining structure-related design experience, including but not limited to pump stations, water storage reservoirs, water treatment and wastewater treatment plants, as well as a good understanding of geotechnical engineering.
• Experience in structural design of Dam related structures and Hydropower plants will be considered advantageous.
• Experience on dam safety inspections and registration as an APP will be considered advantageous.
• Proficiency in the following:
• Design software; Finite Element Analysis e.g. Prokon Suite, Strand 7, CSI Safe, Dlubal RFEM 5 / RFEM 6.
• Drawing / Draughting software; Revit, AutoCAD, Civil 3D (Advantageous).
• Project Management; MS Projects, strong MS Excel ability.
• Full-time construction-related experience in water infrastructure engineering projects (minimum period of one year) will also be an advantage.
• Experience as a project manager in the client space (as the client’s representative or representing the consultant to the client) will be an advantage.
• Willing to travel for projects (local and international).
   

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Role Introduction

• We have a career opportunity for a dynamic Talent Sourcing Specialist with a proven track record in innovative sourcing within the engineering and/or consulting industries in Africa and the Middle East. To become part of our diverse workforce of highly skilled professionals, see below our requirements for this role in our People Team.

Role responsibilities

• Create talent acquisition strategies including social media campaigns to attract and secure high-performing talent in the African and Middle East markets to support our business growth.
• Source and pipeline passive and active applicants - invite, qualify, interview, recommend candidates to recruiters.
• Commit to proactively communicate and keep key stakeholders (candidates and recruitment leads) informed and engaged.
• Weekly updates to recruitment lead on pipeline of passive candidates.
• Deploy best in class recruiting practices for high volume technical recruiting, screening and pipelining of qualified candidates.
• Proactively build and apply strategic sourcing plans and practices to create pipeline and secure talent requirements.
• Participate in weekly team meetings to discuss current projects and internal updates.
• Provide recruitment leads with creative ideas for sourcing candidates for hard to fill roles.
• Anticipate talent needs by tracking emerging trends, nurturing a talent pipeline, engaging passive candidates, and expanding the database to meet client demands.
• Conduct comprehensive research, provide market insights, create detailed trend reports, and partner with recruitment leads to craft effective recruitment strategies with specific focus on Market Mapping.
• Foster strong client relationships, align strategies with client goals, provide regular market updates, and collaborate on job descriptions and candidate profiles.
• Utilize competitor intelligence for research to gather talent insights for informed decision making.
• Detect deficiencies and areas of high risk through data analysis to enable the development of talent sourcing-related risk mitigation strategies for the business.
• Strong market networks and social media presence and experience.
• Conduct in-depth market research and analysis to stay abreast of industry trends, talent market dynamics, and competitive landscape, leveraging insights to inform sourcing strategies and provide valuable guidance to recruitment leads.
• Operate confidently and strategically with a great “can do” attitude influenced by “fit for future”.
• Ensure a top-notch candidate journey/experience throughout the recruitment sourcing process.
• Stay current on industry trends, salary data, and effective talent sourcing methods to offer valuable insights.

Minimum requirements

• Relevant honours degree preferred, else diploma with additional years' experience
• 6 - 8+ years relevant talent sourcing experience in engineering and/or consulting across Africa and the Middle East.
• Experience with LinkedIn recruiter
• Proficiency in utilizing various sourcing channels, tools, and platforms to identify and engage potential candidates
• Experience using data analytics and metrics to measure the effectiveness of sourcing strategies
• Proven track record of sourcing and pipelining of passive candidates
• Technical sourcing experience preferred.
• Applicant Tracking System experience beneficial
• We believe that a diverse workforce is key to our business success.  We seek the best people for our jobs based on their skills, qualifications, and experience.  We embrace the principle of equal opportunity in employment, and we work towards eliminating all forms of unlawful discrimination in our employment practices.  In support of diversity and the equal opportunity principle, preference will be given to individuals from designated groups within South Africa.

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Role responsibilities:

• In this role, you will perform tasks related to the efficient and effective delivery of business improvement projects including research, stakeholder engagement and understanding of the status quo, project planning and management, and change management. You will also drive quality control of all deliverables on projects you are responsible for.
• Effective and efficient processes are important to us. You will therefor join the co-hort of Lean Methodology Champions and help embed the culture in Zutari by driving use of the relevant tools on your projects.
• We believe that success and innovation is built on sharing what we know. Therefore, you will contribute to the growth of our knowledge database and you will transfer skills and knowledge within your relevant area of expertise through your ability to communicate effectively.

Minimum requirements:

• Degree in Industrial Engineering or other relevant field
• +3 years’ experience in process improvement, business analysis, project planning and management, stakeholder engagement and change management.
• +3 years experience on technology related projects will be highly beneficial.
• Professional registration or certification recommended.

Skills and characteristics:

• Analytical thinking and problem solving
• Communication and interpersonal skills
• Consultation and facilitation skills
• Detail-oriented and capable of delivering tasks with high level of accuracy
• Leadership and management skills
• Knowledge of business structure
• Stakeholder analysis
• Requirements engineering and process mapping
• Costs benefit analysis
• Understanding of dashboards/reports, networks, databases and underlying technologies
• Commercial awareness
• Time management and organisational skills

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Role responsibilities

• In this position you will join our Waste Management and Circular Economies Team to work on exciting projects that will challenge and enhance your current skillset.  You will join our highly successful Sustainability team, to work on some of the industry’s leading projects.
• The team’s primary role is to push the boundaries of innovation, incorporate sustainability in how we deliver solutions to our client. We know the work we do is vital in assisting our client’s sustainability objectives and, it’s the technical expertise and the depth of knowledge of our people that really sets us apart. Here are the key activities you will do to enable these outcomes as well as the minimum requirements for the role:

Minimum requirements

• Degree/Diploma – Science/ Engineering/ Environmental management or related field.
• Minimum 12 years relevant working experience (with at least 5 years in waste management).
• Project management and organisational skills including financial management of integrated projects.
• Leadership and people management skills including development and mentoring of junior resources.
• Professional registration or working towards registration a requirement (SACNASP or PrEng).
• Experience in providing solutions for alternatives to landfill disposal / zero waste to landfill / waste minimization / circular economies.
• Experience or knowledge of waste management facility design, construction, decommissioning and rehabilitation as well as financial provisioning calculations, would be an advantage.
• Experience with integrated waste management plans and development of waste strategies including feasibility investigations.
• Working knowledge of the National Environmental Management: Waste Act and other related legislation and their application to projects.
• Basic understanding of circular economies concepts. Experience in circular economy projects an added advantage.
• Willing to work with different teams and willing to learn new skills.
• Highly articulated verbal and written communication skills including report writing and communicating technical concepts.
• Strong work winning, client-facing capability and experience, preferably within the consulting environment.
• Project management skills including financial management of integrated projects.
• People management skills and development and mentoring of junior resources.

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Role responsibilities

• Managing and supporting the alignment of Zutari’s people strategy with business strategy.
• Working together with management and employees to solve conflicts and help facilitate positive employee relations, maintain a good working environment, build morale, and decrease unwanted attrition.
• Help business markets become future-ready by focusing on the existing workforce in the market and prepare them for the future.
• Reskilling and upskilling by identifying training needs and assist the LearnX team in aligning training programs with business objectives.
• Strategic workforce planning to ensure the markets workforce has the right size, shape, cost, and agility for the future.
• Succession planning by selecting and develop key talent to ensure there are talents to fill in critical roles.
• Provide guidance on the creation and implementation of people processes and policies.
• Provide performance management guidance to line managers (for example mentoring, career planning, coaching, etc.)
• Reviewing and optimising (where necessary) the market’s organisational design to increase productivity and improve performance of the business.
• Collaborating with people team members on implementing innovative and inclusive attraction and retention strategies.
• Assisting in developing a future-proof compensation and benefits plan for market aligned with wider business remuneration policies and procedures.
• Implementing reward and recognition interventions to support and drive high-performance and employee engagement.
• Provide advice and suggestions for culture-related activities / initiatives, such as embedding of codes and behaviours.
• Implement people interventions on employee wellness, diversity and inclusion, or retention activities.
• Performance management by having the ability to track relevant metrics and goals to drive business results

Minimum requirements

• Degree or diploma in relevant People / HR field
• Minimum of at least 6 or more years’ experience in Human Resources Management, or as a People Business Partner preferable within a professional or consulting services environment.
• Working knowledge of different human resource disciplines, including compensation practices, organisational structuring, employee relations, CCMA experience, diversity, performance management and basic project management.
• Lead and / or manage specific HR projects and programmes
• Must have strong ability to build relationship at various levels within the firm.
• Excellent knowledge of S.A Labour law.
• Business acumen in understanding finance principles, risk and reward, and business outcomes.
• Great communication and presentation and problem-solving skills.

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• The ideal candidate will have experience developing web applications using React and TypeScript and a solid understanding of front-end technologies such as HTML and CSS and deploying and managing the related AWS cloud infrastructure.  The successful candidate will become part of a small, growing team responsible for developing tools to disrupt the way large Solar PV projects are designed and built globally. We expect this candidate to play a key part in all development activities, including testing, debugging and deploying applications onto our AWS platform. The candidate would be expected to gain a comprehensive understanding of both the existing code base and the underlying solution domain.

 Duties and responsibilities

• Responsible for developing a high-quality, scalable and maintainable front-end solution for AUTOPV™ using React and TypeScript by implementing modern design patterns, technologies and approaches.
• Responsible for deploying and integrating the front-end applications on a full AWS stack, including
• EC2, CloudFront, API Gateway, Lambdas, Route53, Aurora, and DynamoDB, amongst others.
• Responsible for troubleshooting and resolving issues on all front-end-related matters in development and production environments.
• Responsible for managing the outputs of the entire front-end development team.
• Responsible for implementing AUTOPV™’s appropriate security, authentication and permissions across the front-end application.
• Collaborate with the AUTOPV™ back-end development team with the implementation and maintenance of standardised back-end micro-services APIs.
• Collaborate with and support the UX/UI team in implementing the AUTOPV™ design systems.
• Responsible for all front-end code reviews to ensure code quality and best practices are followed.
• Write clean, maintainable, and testable code, adhering to industry best practices and  7SecondSolar’s coding standards and style guides.
• Participate in the agile development process, release and sprint planning, and workload estimations.
• Continuously learn and keep up to date with the latest front-end and back-end technologies, frameworks and best practices.

Qualifications

• BSc Computer Science or similar
• Proven AWS Stack Knowledge: You must have hands-on experience deploying, integrating and troubleshooting front-end applications using a full AWS stack. This includes services such as EC2, CloudFront, API Gateway, Lambda, Route53, Aurora, and DynamoDB, amongst others.
• Expertise in Authentication and Permissions: You must have knowledge and practical experience implementing robust authentication and permissions systems within front-end applications. This includes designing and integrating secure login mechanisms, managing user sessions, and ensuring that users have appropriate access rights to different parts of the application based on their roles and permissions. Experience with OAuth, JWT, and other standard authentication protocols is highly desirable.
• Troubleshooting and Problem-Solving Skills: You must have experience identifying, troubleshooting, and resolving front-end-related issues in development and production environments. Part of this is a good understanding of issues, including domain routing, CORS, REST API responses, etc.
• Git: You will be comfortable using the Git versioning system.
• Collaboration with Cross-Functional Teams: Experience working closely with back-end development and UX/UI design teams is necessary.
• Code Review and Quality Assurance: A strong commitment to code quality is required. You should have experience conducting front-end code reviews to ensure adherence to best practices, coding standards, and style guides established by 7SecondSolar.
• Agile Development Process: Familiarity with agile development methodologies is expected. You should be comfortable participating in sprint planning, estimation, and the agile development process.
• Leadership and Team Management: As this is a senior role, you are expected to have experience managing the output of a front-end development team. This includes setting goals, coordinating tasks, and ensuring that projects are delivered on time and to a high standard.
• Communication skills: You will be an excellent communicator, able to clearly articulate technical and non-technical requirements.

Experience

• Minimum of 7 Years of Experience: You should have at least seven, preferably ten, years of professional experience in front-end development, with a significant portion focused on building complex, high-quality, scalable web applications.
• Proficiency in React and TypeScript: You must have demonstrable experience developing front-end solutions using React and TypeScript, which is essential. You should leverage modern design patterns and approaches to create efficient, maintainable, scalable applications. 
• Experience with 3D canvas technologies, such as three.js, will be highly advantageous