Statutory Control Officer Roads Pietermaritzburg

VACANCY

STATUTORY CONTROL OFFICER

PIETERMARITZBURG

What will you be responsible for?

• Managing, at region level, all statutory and related aspects impacting the National Road Network in accordance to the relevant Act

• Protection of all national road infrastructures by ensuring compliance of all applications for work inside and/or developments affecting national routes

• Including management of survey / commercial development application related matters

What minimum requirements do we need to read about in your cv?

• The incumbent must have a National Diploma in Civil Engineering or equivalent

• BTech in Transportation

• Min 3 Years relevant working experience on Traffic Impact Assessment / and development engineering. Further relevant working experience in a statutory control / development environment is required.

• Experience on GIS will be advantageous

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills;

• Knowledge of GIS or similar system

• Interpretation of Engineering drawings, investigations and providing solutions

• Traffic impact assessments

Some inherent requirements of this position:

• Ad hoc travel;

• Attend cluster meetings as and when required;

• Driver’s License;

• Work is normally performed in a typical office environment, including site visits as and when required.

What will you be responsible for?

• Traffic and Transportation Support:

• Provide support to Regional Traffic/Transportation Specialist;

• Tracking implementation of conditions of development applications;

• Liaison with Project Managers to ensure that conditions of development applications are considered in the project design process;

• Liaise with Municipal planners to ensure that the client’s interests are taken into account in the development of statutory documents such as SDF, LAP and IDP;

• Liaison with  stakeholders regarding traffic impact assessment issues;

• Liaison with Regions and Head Office regarding traffic and transportation issues and attend cluster / focus group meetings (Traffic & Transportation);

• Negotiate effectively with developers with regards to alternate solutions to ensure compliance with the Client’s Traffic and Transportation Handbook  and Client’s policy;

Statutory Control Administration;

• Manage statutory control applications in terms of the South African National Roads Agency Limited and National Roads Acts (Act No. 7 of 1998);

• Coordination of approval of service crossing/parallel to National Road (Encroachments); Electronic communication service providers/Water/Electricity/Sewer/Gas and others;

• Management of sub-division of land in rural and urban areas affecting National Roads and imposition of title deed conditions;

• Coordinate and manage applications for advertising on National roads and removal of illegal advertisements;

• Manage and coordinate trading/illegal trading alongside National roads;

• Management of applications and approvals of brown facility signs;

• Assist Project Managers/ Route Managers with statutory control information, regulations, guidelines and road reserve information & declarations;

• Assess impact of developments on National Roads;

• Deal with developments requiring direct access to National Roads (Direct Access Service Centers);

• Liaise with local authorities in terms of SPLUMA applications

Land Matters:

• Research on Land Ownership;

• Ensure timely attendance to public queries on maintenance of CLIENT land outside road reserves;

• Attend Regional land matters meetings and National managements meetings between Property Service Providers and the Region;

• Advise and give input on sale of CLIENT land;

• Manage land portfolio including land acquisition on all construction projects and survey requirements on projects

Liaison & Risk Management:

• Liaison with external service providers and stakeholders with regard to statutory control issues;

• Liaison with Regions and Head Office with regards to statutory control issues and attend cluster / focus group meetings (Statutory Control, Land Administration and Survey);

• Negotiate effectively with applications with regard to alternate solutions to ensure that it is in line with statutory requirements and CLIENT’s policy;

• Public liaison regarding land issues

• Identify, assess and manage Regional risks with regard to statutory control, land and survey issues;

• Adhere to procedural guidelines related to mitigation of risks.

 Recruitment Process:

• Communication will only be with shortlisted candidates

• CV:  word format including skills matrix

• Copies:  ID, Payslip and certs

• Consultant:  ****@*****.***

Ref: CT000443/GS