# Civil Engineer: Pavements

**Company**: WSP
**Location**: Cape Town, Western Cape
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

WSP is seeking a Civil Engineer with specialisation in pavement engineering to join their Transport & Infrastructure business in Cape Town. The successful candidate will work on roads, highways, and pavements projects, including investigations, design, construction support, and client-facing project delivery.

Responsibilities:

- Carry out pavement investigations, condition assessments, surveys, pavement design, engineering calculations, technical reporting, working drawings, and cost estimates

- Undertake pavement engineering tasks as part of project design development for roads, highways, municipal roads, and related transport infrastructure projects

- Apply pavement and materials engineering knowledge to pavement rehabilitation, surfacing selection, pavement layer design, and construction methodology reviews

- Review technical submissions, design reports, drawings, specifications, materials information, and contractor documentation for compliance with project requirements

- Perform construction supervision and delegated construction contract administration duties on civil and pavement works where required

- Provide technical input on SANRAL, provincial, municipal, and private sector roads and pavement projects, including materials, specifications, quality, and performance requirements

- Liaise with clients, contractors, project managers, and multidisciplinary teams to support effective project delivery and technical decision-making

- Assist with preparation of proposals, tenders, project budgets, resource estimates, and technical inputs for new project opportunities

- Support the growth and development of the pavement engineering capability by sharing technical knowledge and mentoring junior team members where required

Qualifications:

- BEng or BSc degree in Civil Engineering

- Professional registration with ECSA as a Pr Eng

- 5+ years' experience in civil engineering with strong exposure to pavements, roads, highways, materials engineering, or pavement rehabilitation projects

- Experience working on large roads infrastructure projects, preferably including SANRAL, provincial, municipal, or transport infrastructure projects

- Experience in pavement design, pavement analysis, materials investigations, construction monitoring, and technical reporting

- Knowledge of relevant South African roads specifications and pavement design practices, including COTO/COLTO, SANRAL, and applicable client requirements

- Working knowledge of relevant engineering software and tools such as Civil 3D, AutoCAD, pavement design or analysis tools, Microsoft Project, Word, and Excel will be advantageous

Benefits:

- Competitive pay

- First-class medical cover

- Generous annual leave

- Paid professional subscriptions

- Flexible working arrangements

## Skills

### Required
- Civil Engineering
- Pavement Engineering
- Roads Design
- Materials Engineering
- Construction Monitoring
- Technical Reporting
- Civil 3D
- AutoCAD
- Microsoft Project
- Excel

### Nice to have
- Pavement Design
- Pavement Analysis
- Materials Investigations
- SANRAL
- COTO/COLTO

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