Head: Engineering and Technology Development

Responsible for strategic leadership and managerial oversight of the Engineering and Technology direction with the objective of enabling the organization to deliver on its primary mandate.
- Drives staff retention and employment equity through targeted recruitment, succession planning and career progression planning for Engineering and Technology Development.

**Outputs**:

- Responsible for the long-term planning (timescale of years/decades) and is therefore responsible for the structure and development of the engineering division.
- Engineering and Technology Development Head is required to ensure that programs are effectively planned/structured and that projects are effectively executed from inception through to fully functional handover to operations and are therefore required to set quality and professional standards and manage service delivery - i.e. portfolio management.
- Programs managed are of strategic importance to the organization for an expected timescale of 20 or more years.
- Responsible for developing and delivering the strategic plans for the engineering division and will be accountable for ensuring that the organisation meets key performance indicators related to the entire engineering division and roll-out of projects.
- Work will include significant professional expertise and/or experience to develop and implement revised or new administrative/technical/ professional policies and processes in order to effectively manage the engineering division.
- Liaise with international SKA on issues related to SKA roll-out in these and impact on internal programs associated with SKA Mid.
- Implementation and management of activities in support of agreed to processes and procedures (including providing inputs to and approval of Project Management Plans; System Engineering Management Plans, Quality Assurance Management Plans, Integrated Logistics Support Plans)

**Qualifications**:

- M. Eng. or PhD in an engineering discipline, coupled with 10+ years’ experience in leading and managing complex engineering and large scale high-technology projects with a proven record of delivery or BSc (Eng.) with 15+ years’ experience in leading and managing complex engineering and large scale high-technology projects with a proven record of delivery
- PMP (or equivalent) or PrEng. registration**
***Experience**:

- Broad domain understanding of technologies and methodologies relevant to Radio Astronomy (Mechanical Structures, Digital Electronics, Digital Signal Processing, Radio Frequency Electronics, Cryogenic and Vacuum systems, Digital Data Networks, High Performance Computing, Telecommunications, Electromagnetic Compatibility, Metrology, Civil Construction, Systems Engineering, Configuration Management, Integrated Logistics Systems, Quality Assurance).
- Extensive domain knowledge of at least one of the technologies that is fundamental to Radio Astronomy (Mechanical Structures, Digital Electronics, Digital Signal Processing, Radio Frequency Electronics, High Performance Computing).
- Working in a multi-national science or engineering project environment
- Systems Engineering/ Product development processes
- Configuration Management and Maintenance of Product Configuration
- Development and implementation of operational plans
- Project management (extensive)
- Writing technical proposals/documents
- Participate and oversee in PDR/CDRs on programs/projects in the engineering division
- Team management Structure of more than 100 engineers and technicians that will be able to and engage strategically and technically with stakeholders internally and externally
- Monitor and report on financial, schedule and technical status of projects
- Manage budgeting process, monitor and control of expenditure against allocated budgets