JOHANNESBURG ROADS AGENCY (JRA) VACANCIES

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EXTERNAL POSITIONS
 
VACANCY CIRCULAR NO. 02/2025
 
NOTE: THIS IS THE INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL CIRCULAR
 
Applications requirements: 

• Complete the online job application form and attach all relevant and updated documents (6 Months Certified Qualification/s/Certificates, ID, and CV). 
• Applicants should take note that they can be required to provide proof of original documents during the selection process. 
• You will be requested to provide a brief description of your work experience relating to the vacancy. 
• Applicants with membership to professional bodies need to provide a membership number and expiry date. 
• If you are an internal applicant, your employee number will be required. 
• Applicants are advised to use Google Chrome when applying for JRA positions.

 
“JRA, its employees or representatives never ask for a fee from job seekers. Any such requests are fraudulent. Please report any suspicious activities in this regard to the JRA anti-fraud line on 0800 002 587” 
 
CLOSING DATE: 07 SEPTEMBER 2025
 
JRA IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY COMPANY AND COMMITTED TO EE PRINCIPLES: Please note that should you not be contacted thirty days after the closing date, consider your application unsuccessful. The Johannesburg Roads Agency reserves the right not to appoint. By submitting your application for a position, you acknowledge that the information is required for the purpose of processing and adjudicating your job application against requirements of the position and you consent to the processing and archiving of the said information.

​OPERATIONS MANAGER: FINANCE (OFFICE OF THE CFO) – (REF: 02/2025/06) 
SALARY: 1, 659, 069.16 – 2, 448, 828.18 PER ANNUM TCTC 
 
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES 
• Assess statistical and accounting information to appraise operating results in terms of costs, budgets, operations, policies, trends and increasing profit possibilities.
• Maintain, review, revise and monitor accounting information to support business operations.
• Review and analyse consolidated reports for all finance units.
• Support the external audit function to ensure compliance with accounting standards, law and internal controls.
• Ensure the evaluation of capital projects, protection of capital and safeguarding of assets by mitigation of risks including commercial, financial and regulatory.
• Drive the development of the JRA business strategy and the Service Delivery Budget Implementation Plan (SDBIP) as part of the Executive Management Team (EMT) to ensure alignment with the City of Johannesburg’s Growth and Development Strategy (GDS) and strategic priorities.
• Provide input to the JRA business plan and budget from the business unit’s perspective.
• Monitor adherence to an organisational structure that will support strategy implementation.
• Enforce legislative compliance from a business unit perspective.
• Provide management reports so that internal and external stakeholders are informed of performance progress and relevant issues of the business unit.
• Develop and implement mitigating measures for the unit.
• Ensure that assessments of the quality of the assurance are conducted through interaction with the assurance recipients, for the unit.
• Support the CFO in the implementation of effective and equitable human resource management strategies and policies for the finance team.
• Facilitate compliance with the Municipal Finance Management Act (MFMA).
• Provide relevant stakeholder information that will contribute to the stakeholder analysis exercise.
• Provide the HOD with critical information/feedback that will facilitate management decisions.
 
REQUIREMENTS AND SELECTION CRITERIA
• Bachelor’s degree in financial management, or relevant NQF level 7 equivalent.
• 10 years’ experience in financial management, inclusive of 5 years in a managerial position of which one must be at senior management level.
 
 
The JRA is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer, and all appointments will be made in accordance with the Company’s Employment Equity Plan to promote its representativity (race, gender, and disability).
 
Please take note that only online applications will be considered. Please apply by using the following link below:
https://share-eu1.hsforms.com/1G17_uiz-QoWJ_KgUunl1jQew554
 
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
 
“All suitably qualified candidates are encouraged to apply and will be considered. The Johannesburg Roads Agency applies the principles of employment equity as per National legislation and policy guidelines and will consider designated groups in line with these requirements. Preference will be given to previously disadvantaged groups including those with disabilities. Appointments will be made in accordance with the approved Employment Equity Plan to promote its equitable representation in terms of race, gender, and disability.” Please note that should you not be contacted within thirty days after the closing date, please consider your application unsuccessful. Johannesburg Roads Agency reserves the right not to appoint. 
 
Closing Date: 07 September 2025.

​DEPOT MANAGER: REGIONAL OPERATIONS – (REF: 02/2025/07) 
SALARY: 1, 368, 877.33 – 2, 013, 540.43 PER ANNUM TCTC 
 
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES 
• Implement the Region’s Operational Plan with oversight from the Operations Manager.
• Monitor and report on progress and incorporate new delivery requirements into operational planning.
• Ensure effective delivery against the Region’s Operational Plan in terms of routine road infrastructure maintenance.
• Oversee the implementation of the road signs and markings objectives for the region.
• Oversee the provision of monitoring and compliance services that ensure adherence to regulations and civil construction standards when damage is repaired, or alterations are made to roads infrastructure.
• Ensure that internal stakeholders (staff, managers, union and other maintenance managers and JRA officials) are informed and included in issues relevant to them.
• Analyse and leverage production statistics to maximise production output.
• Manage and work proactively to improve depot staff work ethic and deal quickly and decisively with failure to meet reasonable work targets and other disciplinary matters.
• Guide the implementation of the approved operational plan.
• Translate operational feedback into strategic recommendations.
• Guide the implementation of the approved operational plan.
• Identify, update and manage the strategic and operational risks of the unit and make inputs to the Operational Risk Register.
• Ensure that assessments of the quality of the assurance are conducted through interaction with the assurance recipients, for the unit.
• Drive talent management for the reporting line in terms of recruitment, development and retention.
• Prepare monthly expenditure reports on the budget.
• Provide the Operations Manager with critical information/feedback that will facilitate management decisions.
 
REQUIREMENTS AND SELECTION CRITERIA
• BSc degree in Civil Engineering or relevant NQF level 7 equivalent.
• 8 years’ Civil Engineering experience, inclusive 5 years in a middle management position.
 
 
The JRA is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer, and all appointments will be made in accordance with the Company’s Employment Equity Plan to promote its representativity (race, gender, and disability).
 
Please take note that only online applications will be considered. Please apply by using the following link below:
https://share-eu1.hsforms.com/1rV3C7efxRA2eNT6XKLLTtQew554
 
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
 
“All suitably qualified candidates are encouraged to apply and will be considered. The Johannesburg Roads Agency applies the principles of employment equity as per National legislation and policy guidelines and will consider designated groups in line with these requirements. Preference will be given to previously disadvantaged groups including those with disabilities. Appointments will be made in accordance with the approved Employment Equity Plan to promote its equitable representation in terms of race, gender, and disability.” Please note that should you not be contacted within thirty days after the closing date, please consider your application unsuccessful. Johannesburg Roads Agency reserves the right not to appoint. 
 
Closing Date: 07 September 2025.