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SOUTH AFRICAN WEATHER SERVICE (SAWS) VACANCIES
SOUTH AFRICAN WEATHER SERVICE (SAWS)
Private Bag X097, Pretoria, 0001 • Tel: + 27 (0) 12 367 6000 • www.weathersa.co.za • USSD: *120*7297#
The South African Weather Service (SAWS) is a Section 3(a) public entity under the Ministry of Environment, Forestry and Fisheries (DEFF) and is governed by a Board. The organisation is an authoritative voice for weather and climate related services in South Africa and is a member of the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) to fulfil a range of international obligations of the government. South African Weather Service (SAWS) strives to be a Weather and Climate Centre of Excellence providing innovative solutions to ensure a weather-smart region, sustainable development and economic growth.
The South African Weather Service (SAWS) is therefore seeking to appoint an efficient and enthusiastic person to undertake the role of:
METEOROLOGICAL TECHNICIAN
Salary: R202 964 – R299 114
Centre: Calvania
(Ref: WS02/092025)
Job summary: The Meteorological Technician provides essential services to ensure the optimal delivery of the office’s outputs by delivering high-quality climate data and analysis, ensuring compliance with national and international standards, verifying and maintaining remote automatic stations.
Observation:
Internal and External Customer Relations:
Total Quality Management
Minimum Requirements and Attributes:
Please Note:
Enquiries for the above-mentioned positions must be directed to: Ms. Portia Takalani, at Tel. (012) 367 6148.
Register as user on our website using this link: https://www.weathersa.co.za/home/vacancies to apply for the above position and upload your (Comprehensive CV with certified copies of qualifications).
Closing Date: 30 September 2025
Note: Recruitment Agency applicant submissions will not be considered
This is an EE position and preference will be given to African Male/Female and Coloured Males/Females. Correspondence will be limited to short listed candidates only. Candidates who have not been contacted within 3 months after the closing date of this advertisement, please accept that your application was unsuccessful. The organisation reserves the right not to fill this position. The South African Weather Service is an equal opportunity employer.
Record Reference HCM-ADVERT-MT WS02/092025
The South African Weather Service (SAWS) is therefore seeking to appoint an efficient and enthusiastic person to undertake the role of:
METEOROLOGICAL TECHNICIAN
Salary: R202 964 – R299 114
Centre: Calvania
(Ref: WS02/092025)
Job summary: The Meteorological Technician provides essential services to ensure the optimal delivery of the office’s outputs by delivering high-quality climate data and analysis, ensuring compliance with national and international standards, verifying and maintaining remote automatic stations.
Observation:
- Perform routine weather observation duties that include: - Visual weather observation and compile routine reports,
- Providing special reports for changes in weather.
- Providing observation reports timeously as per schedule or as per the timeliness of the client’s requests
- Downloading of remote observation station data
- Collection and quality control of manual rainfall station
- Quality control of AWS and ARS data and transmission thereof to central data base
- Perform routine and adhoc maintenance of SAWS Observations infrastructure (Thorough understanding of Automatic Weather Stations is required)
Internal and External Customer Relations:
- Liaise with clients as per office plan.
- Represent SAWS at Stakeholder meetings as per plan.
Total Quality Management
- Apply prevention and corrective action procedures on all findings related to weather observation.
- Promote a quality culture amongst the staff within the office.
- Promote the SAWS Quality Policy and intergrade it into the day-to-day activities of the office
- Provide assistance during audits of the regional office as required.
- Perform regular inspections to ensure all work done is according to documented requirements.
- Ensure that the work environment complies with legislative requirements relations to OHS.
Minimum Requirements and Attributes:
- A Grade 12 Certificate with Maths and Science.
- Weather Observers certificate.
- Ability to obtain a competent Aviation Meteorological Observation (AMO) certificate within 6 months of employment.
- Ability to read, analyse and interpret written request for weather data and information.
- Knowledge of international standards such as WMO and ICAO. Advanced knowledge of observation tools.
- A valid code 08 driver’s license or be in a position to obtain a valid driver’s license within 3 months of employment.
Please Note:
Enquiries for the above-mentioned positions must be directed to: Ms. Portia Takalani, at Tel. (012) 367 6148.
Register as user on our website using this link: https://www.weathersa.co.za/home/vacancies to apply for the above position and upload your (Comprehensive CV with certified copies of qualifications).
Closing Date: 30 September 2025
Note: Recruitment Agency applicant submissions will not be considered
This is an EE position and preference will be given to African Male/Female and Coloured Males/Females. Correspondence will be limited to short listed candidates only. Candidates who have not been contacted within 3 months after the closing date of this advertisement, please accept that your application was unsuccessful. The organisation reserves the right not to fill this position. The South African Weather Service is an equal opportunity employer.
Record Reference HCM-ADVERT-MT WS02/092025
The South African Weather Service (SAWS) is therefore seeking to appoint an efficient and enthusiastic person to undertake the role of:
METEOROLOGICAL TECHNICIAN
Salary: R202 964 – R299 114
Centre: Upington
(Ref: WS04/092025)
Job summary: The Meteorological Technician provides essential services to ensure the optimal delivery of the office’s outputs by delivering high-quality climate data and analysis, ensuring compliance with national and international standards, verifying and maintaining remote automatic stations.
Observation:
Internal and External Customer Relations:
Total Quality Management
Minimum Requirements and Attributes:
Please Note:
Enquiries for the above-mentioned positions must be directed to: Ms. Portia Takalani, at Tel. (012) 367 6148.
Register as user on our website using this link: https://www.weathersa.co.za/home/vacancies to apply for the above position and upload your (Comprehensive CV with certified copies of qualifications).
Closing Date: 30 September 2025
Note: Recruitment Agency applicant submissions will not be considered
This is an EE position and preference will be given to African Male/Female and Coloured Males/Females. Correspondence will be limited to short listed candidates only. Candidates who have not been contacted within 3 months after the closing date of this advertisement, please accept that your application was unsuccessful. The organisation reserves the right not to fill this position. The South African Weather Service is an equal opportunity employer.
Record Reference HCM-ADVERT-MT WS04/092025
The South African Weather Service (SAWS) is therefore seeking to appoint an efficient and enthusiastic person to undertake the role of:
METEOROLOGICAL TECHNICIAN
Salary: R202 964 – R299 114
Centre: Upington
(Ref: WS04/092025)
Job summary: The Meteorological Technician provides essential services to ensure the optimal delivery of the office’s outputs by delivering high-quality climate data and analysis, ensuring compliance with national and international standards, verifying and maintaining remote automatic stations.
Observation:
- Perform routine weather observation duties that include: - Visual weather observation and compile routine reports,
- Providing special reports for changes in weather.
- Providing observation reports timeously as per schedule or as per the timeliness of the client’s requests
- Downloading of remote observation station data
- Collection and quality control of manual rainfall station
- Quality control of AWS and ARS data and transmission thereof to central data base
- Perform routine and adhoc maintenance of SAWS Observations infrastructure (Thorough understanding of Automatic Weather Stations is required)
Internal and External Customer Relations:
- Liaise with clients as per office plan.
- Represent SAWS at Stakeholder meetings as per plan.
Total Quality Management
- Apply prevention and corrective action procedures on all findings related to weather observation.
- Promote a quality culture amongst the staff within the office.
- Promote the SAWS Quality Policy and intergrade it into the day-to-day activities of the office
- Provide assistance during audits of the regional office as required.
- Perform regular inspections to ensure all work done is according to documented requirements.
- Ensure that the work environment complies with legislative requirements relations to OHS.
Minimum Requirements and Attributes:
- A Grade 12 Certificate with Maths and Science.
- Weather Observers certificate.
- Ability to obtain a competent Aviation Meteorological Observation (AMO) certificate within 6 months of employment.
- Ability to read, analyse and interpret written request for weather data and information.
- Knowledge of international standards such as WMO and ICAO. Advanced knowledge of observation tools.
- A valid code 08 driver’s license or be in a position to obtain a valid driver’s license within 3 months of employment.
Please Note:
Enquiries for the above-mentioned positions must be directed to: Ms. Portia Takalani, at Tel. (012) 367 6148.
Register as user on our website using this link: https://www.weathersa.co.za/home/vacancies to apply for the above position and upload your (Comprehensive CV with certified copies of qualifications).
Closing Date: 30 September 2025
Note: Recruitment Agency applicant submissions will not be considered
This is an EE position and preference will be given to African Male/Female and Coloured Males/Females. Correspondence will be limited to short listed candidates only. Candidates who have not been contacted within 3 months after the closing date of this advertisement, please accept that your application was unsuccessful. The organisation reserves the right not to fill this position. The South African Weather Service is an equal opportunity employer.
Record Reference HCM-ADVERT-MT WS04/092025
The South African Weather Service (SAWS) is therefore seeking to appoint an efficient and enthusiastic person to undertake the role of:
METEOROLOGICAL TECHNICIAN
Salary: R202 964 – R299 114
Centre: Cape Town
(Ref: WS03/092025)
Job summary: The Meteorological Technician provides essential services to ensure the optimal delivery of the office’s outputs by delivering high-quality climate data and analysis, ensuring compliance with national and international standards, verifying and maintaining remote automatic stations.
Observation:
- Perform routine weather observation duties that include: - Visual weather observation and compile routine reports,
- Providing special reports for changes in weather.
- Providing observation reports timeously as per schedule or as per the timeliness of the client’s requests
- Downloading of remote observation station data
- Collection and quality control of manual rainfall station
- Quality control of AWS and ARS data and transmission thereof to central data base
- Perform routine and adhoc maintenance of SAWS Observations infrastructure (Thorough understanding of Automatic Weather Stations is required)
Internal and External Customer Relations:
- Liaise with clients as per office plan.
- Represent SAWS at Stakeholder meetings as per plan.
Total Quality Management
- Apply prevention and corrective action procedures on all findings related to weather observation.
- Promote a quality culture amongst the staff within the office.
- Promote the SAWS Quality Policy and intergrade it into the day-to-day activities of the office
- Provide assistance during audits of the regional office as required.
- Perform regular inspections to ensure all work done is according to documented requirements.
- Ensure that the work environment complies with legislative requirements relations to OHS.
Minimum Requirements and Attributes:
- A Grade 12 Certificate with Maths and Science.
- Weather Observers certificate.
- Ability to obtain a competent Aviation Meteorological Observation (AMO) certificate within 6 months of employment.
- Ability to read, analyse and interpret written request for weather data and information.
- Knowledge of international standards such as WMO and ICAO. Advanced knowledge of observation tools.
- A valid code 08 driver’s license or be in a position to obtain a valid driver’s license within 3 months of employment.
Please Note:
Enquiries for the above-mentioned positions must be directed to: Ms. Portia Takalani, at Tel. (012) 367 6148.
Register as user on our website using this link: https://www.weathersa.co.za/home/vacancies to apply for the above position and upload your (Comprehensive CV with certified copies of qualifications).
Closing Date: 30 September 2025
Note: Recruitment Agency applicant submissions will not be considered
This is an EE position and preference will be given to African Male/Female and Coloured Males/Females. Correspondence will be limited to short listed candidates only. Candidates who have not been contacted within 3 months after the closing date of this advertisement, please accept that your application was unsuccessful. The organisation reserves the right not to fill this position. The South African Weather Service is an equal opportunity employer.
Record Reference HCM-ADVERT-MT WS03/092025
The South African Weather Service (SAWS) is therefore seeking to appoint an efficient and enthusiastic person to undertake the role of:
SENIOR METEOROLOGICAL TECHNICIAN
TCTC Salary range: R245 434.00 - R356 709.00
Centre: Cape Town Weather Office
(Ref. WS01/092025)
Job Summary:
The Senior Meteorological Technician provides technical expertise as an Aeronautical Meteorological Observer, as well as maintenance of meteorological instruments assigned to the Cape Town Weather Office.
Key Performance Areas:
Products, Services Delivery / Infrastructure maintenance
- Perform timely visual weather Observations as determined by the relevant Weather Office.
- Collect Meteorological and climate data and submit reports to the relevant stakeholders.
- Install, maintain, and where possible, repair as well as assist with upgrades of weather observation equipment.
- Continuously monitor the performance of equipment and perform routine and non-routine maintenance, including for Air Quality monitoring stations.
- Perform quality control of meteorological data before submitting to SAWS database
Innovation, Process Improvement & Revenue Generation
- Analysis of available meteorological and climatological data.
- Suggest measures to improve data quality and or availability.
Administration, Governance, Risk & Compliance
- Perform routine office administration practices including lodging claims, leave processing, completion of attendance registers, transport administration, periodic reporting, administration of registers, etc.
- Compliance with designated national and international standards.
- Maintain the SHEQ (Safety, Health Environment and Quality) system.
- Monitor the Risk Register and ensure the implementation of identified risks mitigation actions.
- Participate in various o office and regional audits and ensure that all audit findings are addressed.
- Manage roster rotations and duty sheets.
- Minimal supervisory duties over junior Meteorological Technicians
- Assist in developing and implementing SOPs for departmental operations.
- Assist with supervising the performance in the absence of Chief Met Tech.
People, Culture and Values
- Promote a culture and practices that reflect the SAWS values
- Takes ownership of own development activities to ensure performance against agreed standards.
- Contributes to team success by contribution and commitment to the team.
- Assist with induction, mentoring and training of new employees
- Training, Development and Knowledge Management
Stakeholder Management
- Collaborate with the other regional Team in an effort to deliver the SAWS mandate
- Implement public awareness programmes for the local communities. (Office outreach activities).
Required Minimum Education/Training:
- NQF Level 4 or Senior Certificate (with Mathematics and Physical Science) and Weather Observers Certificate (NQF Level 5)
- ICAO AMO competency certificate
- WMO BIP-T requirements
Required Minimum Knowledge
Required Minimum Work Experience:
- At least 3 years’ experience within the Meteorological Environment
- A code 8 driver’s license
Technical and Behavioural Competencies Required Technical
- Organisational performance measurement (strategic, operational, and financial)
- Budgeting
- Leadership and management skills
- Governance and Risk Management
- Business Continuity Management
Behavioural
- Networking, Influencing and Negotiation Skills
- Results driven
- Excellent Communication skills (written and verbal/ presentation skills)
- Resilience
- Emotional Intelligence
- Ability to work in a team
- Maintaining confidentiality
- Ability to work under pressure
Please Note:
Register as user on our website using this link: https://www.weathersa.co.za/home/vacancies to apply for the above position and upload your (Comprehensive CV with certified copies of qualifications).
Enquiries for the above-mentioned positions must be directed to: Ms Portia Takalani, at Tel. (012) 367 6148.
Closing Date: 24 September 2025
Preference will be given to People living with disabilities in line with SAWS EE targets. This is an EE position and preference will be given to females, Africans, Indians and Coloureds (AIC). Correspondence will be limited to short listed candidates only. Candidates who have not been contacted within 3 months after the closing date of this advertisement, please accept that your application was unsuccessful. The South African Weather Service is an equal opportunity employer.
Record Reference: HCM-ADVERT- SNR- MET- TECH