Job Summary
Areas of Responsibilities
- 1. SHERQ Management
- Ensure that HSE requirements are documented and understood by all project participants
- Compliance with HSE procedures
- Maintain HSE focus for project duration
- Identify project risks and opportunities.
- Monitor closure of all identified risks and opportunities.
- Maintain the risk management focus throughout the project duration.
- Define the project quality requirements.
- Ensure the right systems are in place and that these are applied on the project.
- Compliance with iX engineers’ policies and procedures.
- Implement lessons learned system
- 2. Scope Management
- Effective handover from Business Development Group
- Clear definition of scope
- Compliance with requirements of the contract
- Effective change control process application
- Manage and monitor project performance on an ongoing basis to identify issues and opportunities early and take pre-emptive action.
- Effectively manages project interfaces
- Set clear objectives for the design team.
- Ensures design team aware of, and complying with, client’s Basis of Design and applicable regulations and codes.
- Monitor design activities, interdisciplinary data flow and communications.
- 3. Time Management
- Manage the planning of all scope elements of the project.
- Development of a project schedule which allows work to be executed in a logical sequence.
- Develop resource & financial requirements from the project plan.
- Manage the design, procurement and construction activities to meet the project schedule
- Project Manager ownership of the project schedule
- Routine monitoring of the key reports and development of corrective action plans.
- Timely and effective documentation turnover and project close-out.
- 4. Cost control
- Plan and prepare accurate project estimates.
- Establish cost report for control of projects.
- Monitoring and control of all cost aspects of the project to forecast costs, obtain approvals, identify trends and take action to avoid cost overruns and take advantage of opportunities
- Assess performance of cost control system & personnel.
- Monthly updates of project budgets
- Maintain or improve "as sold" Gross Margin
- Accuracy of forecasting within 10% variance
- Ensure regular project invoicing, maintain and manage 90% debtor collections below 30 days and 10% below 60 days.
- 5. Communications and Stakeholder Management
- Identify, document and communicate the client requirements
- Effective management of multiple stakeholders
- Maintain and build healthy client relationships throughout the project and post completion.
- Proactively resolve performance, scope, cost and schedule issues with the Client as they arise.
- Provide clear and focussed leadership for the project team to create a vision for project success and a strategy to fit that vision.
- Define roles and responsibilities
- Focus team on achievement of milestones and other key project objectives.
- Listen to the team, discuss the issues, resolve problems and direct activities to remove roadblocks and achieve objectives.
- Provide mentoring and participate in staff performance evaluations.
- Identify and implement training requirements
- Effective communications with the project team.
- Documented communication requirements.
- Accurate, timely & effective progress reporting to the Client and internally to
iX engineers’ management.
- Ongoing monitoring of the communication network between project staff, the client and third parties and introduction of changes where required.
- 6. Commercial, Procurement/Subcontracts Management
- Effective management of iX engineers /Client contract, including delivery of the budget gross margin.
- Set clear objectives for the procurement and subcontracts team.
- Assess procurement process throughout the project to ensure goods and services meet specification, are delivered on time and are within budget.
- 7. Construction Management
- Set clear objectives for the Construction team.
- Monitor the Construction Management/Monitoring function to ensure safe delivery of the project within cost and schedule
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Education, Language & Qualifications |
- Relevant Bachelor’s degree, National Diploma or equivalent qualification in Engineering/Project Management/Quantity Surveying (Professional Engineer preferred)
- A relevant Masters’ degree is a prerequisite
- Certification as PMP with PMI, or Pr. CPM with SACPCMP is preferred
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Experience |
- Previous experience as a project manager on projects of up to R150 mil total value
- Minimum of 10 years industry experience
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Knowledge |
- Demonstrable commitment to HSE Management in a project environment
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Skills |
- Excellent leadership and communication skills
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Personal Attributes |
- High level of customer focus
- Proven ability in leading multidiscipline activities.
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