• Participate in the development of project plans to determine scope, budget, and timeframes to ensure quality and successful project execution

• Produce detailed work plans with appropriate timelines and budgets, matching resources against project priorities

• Execute in support of business strategy and objectives

• Coordinate and manage the delivery of multiple, large-scale, complex projects to successful completion in accordance with scope, budget (including Earned Value Analysis), timeframe, and service level agreements

• Resolve issues, conflicts, dependencies, and critical path deliverables; escalate to programme and management as required

• Track and report on project/programme status and performance

• Monitor adherence to budget, project deliverables, dependencies, and timeframes

• Identify and manage project risks; devise suitable mitigation and minimisation plans to ensure successful and on-time project delivery

• Document project management processes including minutes of meetings, progress reports, and appropriate information collection and storage

• Contribute to process improvement initiatives to improve project delivery

• Lead project teams and promote a culture of performance excellence, employee engagement, innovation, and transformation

• Ensure utilisation of project management toolsets available within SCJ, including:

  • Mavenlink: Creation and monitoring of projects (scheduling, resource allocation, progress monitoring, tasks, weekly stand-up meetings, status reports)

  • Mavenlink Task Scheduler & Resource Planner: Monitoring of time spent by the project team

  • Budget Tracking: Maintaining detailed project budget tracking including Earned Value Reporting

  • Project Plan: Maintaining and updating the detailed project plan against the approved project baseline

• Provide assistance to SCJ management and sales teams when required or requested

• Contribute to long-term project delivery strategies that allow SCJ to consistently improve services and offerings

• Maintain good stakeholder relations by ensuring all stakeholders are updated regularly and provided with a professional service

• Complete timesheets accurately and timely in accordance with tasks completed

• Timesheet Submissions: Ensure all timesheets are reviewed and accurate prior to final submission to management on or before the weekly due date

• Internal Systems Compliance: Ensure all internal SCJ systems are utilised in the most appropriate manner

• Provide good customer service by answering queries and questions from customers timeously

• Consider, assist, and recommend initiatives that can improve the way SCJ operates internally or within its customer base

• Identify, develop, and drive initiatives to bring in additional revenue opportunities for the SCJ team

• Be an enthusiastic self-starter constantly looking for ways to improve your skillsets in relation to improving our customers' and internal team's experience and delivery

• Pro-actively support and mentor project team members

• Review and provide input to assist in improving the deliverables of fellow team members where required
  

• Minimum: NQF 6 qualification (preferably in Engineering, IT, Commerce, or Business)

• Preferred: NQF 7 qualification (preferably in Engineering, IT, Commerce, or Business)

• Recognised Project Management qualification such as:

  • CAPM / PMP

  • Prince 2

  • Tertiary Project Management qualification

Technical Skills

• Experience in the use of:

  • MS Project

  • MS Visio

  • MS Office

Industry Experience

• Experience in ERP / Warehouse Management Systems implementations

• Experience in a consulting business environment

• Strong understanding of:

  • Utilisation

  • Billable and non-billable hours