Resident Engineer

Arup’s purpose, shared values and collaborative approach has set us apart for over 80 years, guiding how we shape a better world.

Africa faces unprecedented population growth alongside increasing urbanisation and climate volatility. These pressures demand integrated, future-focused civil engineering solutions that balance technical rigour with environmental stewardship and social impact. In response, Arup are broadening our agile, digitally enabled Civil Engineering capability in South Africa, connected to Arup’s global expertise and grounded in local context.

We exist to shape a better world – and we do so by bringing together imagination, technical excellence, and a deep sense of responsibility to people and planet.

We are an independent firm of designers, planners, engineers, architects, consultants, and technical specialists, working across every aspect of the built environment. In South Africa and across the African continent, civil engineering sits at the heart of society’s most urgent challenges – from resilient infrastructure and sustainable water systems to climate adaptation, urban growth, and social equity.

With offices in Cape Town (est.
1965), Durban (est.
1958) and Johannesburg (est.
1954), you will work alongside established multidisciplinary teams with diverse industry knowledge, united by a shared commitment to people, excellence, influence, digital innovation, and sustainability. We are excited about the energy, perspectives, skills, and leadership you could bring.

We are seeking Resident Engineers from experienced site-based engineering professionals to support the delivery of a confidential data centre project in Gauteng. These opportunities will be based on site in Centurion and are expected to be offered on a three-year contract basis.

You will play a key role in providing engineering oversight during construction, testing, commissioning and handover to ensure compliance with design intent, quality requirements, statutory regulations and client expectations.

Working closely with clients, contractors, commissioning teams and multidisciplinary project teams, you will help ensure that works are delivered safely, to the required quality standards, and in accordance with approved designs and project requirements.

We would like to hear from professionals with strong construction monitoring, site supervision, quality assurance, technical coordination and risk management experience, particularly within data centre, mission-critical, industrial or large-scale infrastructure environments. Data centre experience is preferred, while hyperscale data centre experience would be highly advantageous.

The professional should be well established in technical leadership, construction monitoring, quality management, risk management, client engagement, commercial awareness, multidisciplinary coordination and report writing.

We are seeking expressions of interest across the following Resident Engineer disciplines:

• Resident Engineering Manager - The Resident Engineering Manager provides leadership and coordination of the multidisciplinary Resident Engineering team, ensuring consistent construction assurance, quality oversight, risk management, commissioning readiness, stakeholder engagement across all engineering disciplines to support the safe and successful delivery of the data centre project. The key focus will be technical governance, team leadership, multidisciplinary coordination, client interface, risk management, quality assurance, and delivery of construction, testing, commissioning, and handover activities.

• Candidates with experience spanning multiple disciplines or multidisciplinary site environments are encouraged to apply.
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