2786 Lecturer: Civil Engineering

**2786 Lecturer: Civil Engineering**
**FACULTY OF ENGINEERING, BUILT ENVIRONMENT AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (FEBIT) Department of Civil Engineering**

**Main purpose of the job**

**Main tasks**
- Teaching, learning, and assessment
- Research
- Community engagement
- Student Evaluation
- Administration and leadership
- Control and Organisation

**Nature of appointment**: Permanent Academic

**Minimum salary scale (Total Cost to Company)**: R 777 297 per annum

**Minimum Qualification Knowledge and/or Experience**
- A relevant Bachelor’s degree (BEng, BScEng, BEngTech Hons, or equivalent) at NQF Level 8 in Civil Engineering.
- Registration as a PrEng or PrTechEng (Civil Engineering) with ECSA.
- Evidence of progress towards a Master’s degree in Civil Engineering.

**OR**
- A relevant Master’s degree (MEng, MScEng, MTech, or equivalent) at NQF Level 9 in Civil Engineering.
- Site investigations, soil and rock logging, foundation design, slope stability, retaining structures, and soil improvement techniques at well-defined, broadly-defined, and complex levels.
- Environmental assessments related to geotechnical engineering and soil conditions.
- Design, construction, and management of foundations, embankments, earthworks, retaining walls, and soil stabilisation in civil engineering projects.
- Design codes/legislation/international technical standards:

- SANS 10400-H, G & B (Foundations, excavations & structural design).
- SANS 10161 (Design of foundations for buildings).
- SANS 2001-CM2 (Construction works for various foundation types).
- SANS 633 (Soil profiling & rotary percussion borehole logging on dolomite land).
- SANS 634 (Geotechnical investigations for township development).
- SANS 1936-1 to 4 (Development of dolomite land).
- SANS 207/SANS 8006 (Earthworks & reinforced fill structures).
- SANS 10160-5 (Basis of structural design & actions for geotechnical design).
- SABS 1200F (Piling).
- SAICE (Geotechnical Division: Site investigation code of practice).
- SAICE/SAIEG/AEG (Guidelines for soil and rock logging in South Africa).
- SANRAL (Standard specifications for subsurface investigations).
- NHBRC (Building design codes).
- ISSMGE Technical Standards (TC98 SC06 Geotechnical design & TC212 Deep foundations)

**AND/OR**
- Transportation engineering, transportation planning, traffic engineering and modelling, and pavement design at well-defined, broadly-defined, and complex levels.
- Environmental assessments related to transportation engineering.
- Design, construction, and management of pavements in road related projects.
- Design codes: SANS1200 A-N (Civil Eng. Works), SAPEM CH10 (Pavement Design), TG2-2020 (Bitumen Stabilised Materials), COTO Standard and Specifications 2020 (Road and Bridge Works), TRH26 (South African Road Classification and Access Management Manual), TMH16 (Traffic Impact and Site Traffic Assessments), TRH4 (Structural Design of Flexible Pavements for Interurban and Rural Roads), TRH14 (Classification System for Granular Materials, Gravels, and Soils in South Africa), TRH17 (Geometric Design of Rural Roads), and the UTG (Urban Transport Guidelines) Series.

**Desired Qualification, Knowledge and/or Experience**
- Master’s degree at NQF Level 9 in Civil Engineering plus PrEng/PrTechEng (Civil Eng.) registration with ECSA if in possession of an NQF 8 qualification.
- Evidence of progress towards a Doctorate degree in Civil Engineering if in possession of a Master’s degree.
- Evidence of experience in research and associated outputs.
- Community engagement services in the profession, e.g., consultancies and professional activities.

CLOSING DATE FOR APPLICATIONS -** 25 July 2025