OMF Architectural Technologist

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Job Description

The successful candidate need to come from a background in Retail and Commercial design with a strong understanding of SANS regulations in respect to these types of designs. With a good understanding of Council submission requirements.

This role is accountable for planning and implementing space management layouts and construction drawings/plans compliant with relevant regulations and requirements through own efforts, within a Retail and Commercial environment.

This role sits in Properties management team, within Old Mutual Finance, the unsecured lending arm of Old Mutual.

As a properties team with provide a full turnkey solution to Old mutual Finance and some external Old Mutual Group business units (referred to as private clients)

We manage 360+ Retail stores for Old Mutual Finance across the country where we sit in Large Regional malls, Major Metros or in the high streets in small towns like Lusikisiki for example. We dont own any buildings but are on the tenant side of the properties world. Size range from 50m to 450m

We also manage 200+ private clients commercial offices across the county also in Major metros or Rural towns. From High end Wealth clients to lower scale standard commercial offices. Size range from 50m to 2000m. We again here sit on the tenant side and do not own or manage buildings.

We provide the following full turnkey solutions

• Leasing
• Properties Legal
• Properties Procurement with our own OMF procurement policies and group of Properties vendors with an annual spend of +- R500 mil
• Projects (Construct of new premises, Relocations, Closures, Upgrades, ATM installations, UPS installations, Water tank installations and Marketing or signage faade upgrades to name a few)
• Max 2 months on site on a commercial site and max 1 month on a retail site
• We do roughly about 200+ projects a year ranging from scale from R500k to R10mil per fit out
• Repairs and maintenance of managed premises via call center agents and Maintenance officer teams
• Design team managing all NBR requirements and managing of client specific corporate images
• Projects Co-Ordination managing all spends related to projects and some Adhoc FM services. Tracking of Budgets and managing of Ledgers to name a few of the services.

This role is responsible for:

• Produce and submit council plans to relevant authorities
• 90+ Retail store plans per year
• 30 + Commercial office plans per year
• Produce and Design and Facilitate Space planning layouts for Retail Banking Branches and Interior office fit outs.
• Ensure produced layouts in terms of SANS & NBR regulations and ensure all plans comply with statutory regulations.
• Prepare internal branding matrix drawings with the use of Adobe Indesign
• Maintain a Cost effective relationship with local authority and plan runners
• Liaise internally with project managers and leasing agents to ensure correct layouts are produced
• Measure accurately SAPOA measurements.
• Be required from time to time do to site surveys in order to issue and check SAPOA Measurements.
Generic KRAs:

• Personal Effectiveness
• Accountable for service delivery through own efforts. Individually accountable for managing own time, tasks and output quality.
• Collaborates effectively with others to achieve personal results.
• Accepts and lives the company values.

Job specific KRAs:

• Good communicator who keeps line manager and other internal role players up to date on progress of designs and submissions.
• Individually responsible to interoperate Headcount documents and produce working designs.
• Travelling, own transport, to do Site surveys
• Cost Conscience to reduce cost to submit plans to council via 3rd party vendors.
• Interaction with internal project managers and Leasing/Legal teams.
• Computer proficient: Revit, Autocad, Indesign, Excel, MS Word, Adobe programs
• Reporting to OMF Senior Project Architect
• Knowledge of the SANS, National Building Regulations and Occupational Health & Safety Act experience, an understanding.
• Candidate must be a hard-working, hands-on, go getter and team player, ready to join an established Properties team
• Retail Store and Commercial Office design experience

Minimum requirements:

• Matric
• Must have at least 2 years experience as an Architectural Technologist in retail Store or commercial office designs (Interiors)
• Registered with SACAP as Architectural Technologist (Professional)
• Aligning Performance For Success
• Building Relationships
• Decision Making
• Information Monitoring
• Ownership
• Technical Knowledge
• Must have own transport (involves high volumes of travelling)
• Must have a valid drivers license
• Retail Store Design Experience
• Commercial Office interior Space Experience
• SAPOA Measurement
• SANS 10400 Regulations
• Council submission process
• Some experience in Town planning laws advantageous

All applications are welcome; however, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups as defined in the Employment Equity Act.

Skills

Education

Closing Date

29 April 2023

Old Mutual Limited is pro-vaccination and encourages its workforce to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19.

All prospective employees are required to disclose their vaccination status as part of the recruitment process.

Please refer to the Old Mutuals Covid-19 vaccination policy for further detail. Kindly note that Old Mutual reserves the right to reinstate the requirement to vaccinate at any point if it is of the view that it is imperative to do so.