2 Plumbing Engineer jobs in South Africa

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Job Title: Professional Content Designer
Location: Remote
Employment Type:
Full-time

RIB North America is seeking an individual who is committed to writing exceptional master specifications to meet the project and information needs of our subscribers, customers, and clients and is highly organized with substantial attention to detail. The Content Team works together collaboratively and with other departments, using their knowledge of project delivery, construction documents, and materials to provide a wide range of master specification sections for use by design professionals, building product manufacturers, owners, and other project stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Prepare RIB SpecLink master guide specification sections in accordance with internal standards, including maintenance of existing content and creation of new content.
• Coordinate with sales department for vetting of potential listings for building product manufacturers (BPMs) and their products in RIB SpecLink master guide specification sections .
• Develop and maintain proprietary specification sections for BPMs.
• Research and analyze manufacturers, products, reference standards, and codes to develop accurate and relevant content with options applicable to a wide variety of facility types.
• Develop master notes to educate and assist specifiers in editing sections.

Required Skills

• 5 years of recent design experience producing construction documents for facility mechanical and plumbing systems including drawings and specifications.
• Bachelor's degree in engineering or related field or combination of technical training and related experience.
• Working knowledge of CSI construction document principles including application of CSI MasterFormat and SectionFormat.
• Strong critical thinking and organizational skills, creativity, passion for learning and conveying knowledge to others.
• Proficiency with MS Office, especially MS Word and MS Excel.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with facility fire protection systems and/or integrated automation.
• Experience maintaining specifications for office masters.
• Construction Specifications Institute (CSI) Construction Document Technologist (CDT) certification.
• Membership and participation in CSI.
• Professional engineering registration.
• Project management or construction contract administration experience.

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