Graduate / Candidate Engineer

A water resilience consultancy based in Pretoria is seeking a Graduate / Candidate Engineer: Civil, Mechanical, Chemical or Environmental / 0-4 yrs / ECSA Candidate pathway.

The role:

Candidate starts where every strong consulting engineer should: on real sites, with real data, inside a structured review pyramid.

Candidate's First Year:

• Execute water-audit fieldwork to our minimum standard — after supervised passes — with capture-error rates measured and falling.
• Draft structured report sections that survive review with diminishing red pen.
• Support design work: drawings coordination, calculations under supervision, site inspections and progress meetings.
• Register as an ECSA Candidate Engineer (if not already) with your logbook current from month one and quarterly mentor reviews on record.
• Own one improvement to the capture workflow — a validation rule, a checklist, a schema suggestion that makes the data better.

Must Have:

• Engineering degree. BEng / BSc in Civil, Mechanical, Chemical or Environmental Engineering from a recognised institution.
• ECSA pathway. Candidate Engineer registered or immediately eligible.
• 0–4 years' experience in a consulting or infrastructure environment — strong vacation and practical work counts.
• Structured technical writing. A report, thesis chapter or practical write-up you authored and can share.
• Strong academic record. Expected at this level; any repeated subjects declared upfront with context - declared repeats are considered, undeclared ones are disqualifying.
• Systems curiosity. You want to understand water infrastructure at systems level, not just the component in front of you.
• Driver's licence and own transport. Site travel across Gauteng and nationally is part of the role.

Strongly preferred:

• Water or treatment exposure (labs, plants, projects); CAD/Revit basics; spreadsheet or scripting ability (Excel to pivot level, Python a plus).
• A genuine, articulable interest in water in South Africa.

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