Randburg, South Africa
Project Manager
Job Description:
Our client, a global leader in the FMCG and industrial manufacturing sector, is seeking an experienced Project Manager to lead complex engineering and plant projects within a fast-paced international environment. The successful candidate will be responsible for driving project execution, managing cross-functional teams, and ensuring the successful delivery of projects across cost, quality, safety, and timeline objectives.
Responsibilities & Duties:
- Execution of basic- and detail engineering with internal and external sources
- To support and control the installation and start-up process
- To ensure the readiness for installation and start up
- Support and preparation of quotations/offers
- Execution of smaller or one big offer or FF-project
- Subscribes correspondence within the scope the Operative Competence Diagram (OCD/ORD) – OCD level 1
- Ensures that the project schedule baseline is signed by the involved parties at the start of the project
- Manage and lead the project team in order to achieve and further improve the cost, schedule, quality and EHS targets
- Perform proper risk and opportunity management
- Ensure proper deviation management within the project. Assess, approve and expedite technical aspects of change orders and define effective claim strategies towards clients, partners, subcontractors, etc.
- Prepare and perform Project Reviews as requested, report according Company Project Management process
- Responsible for the site briefing meeting; Ensures that all site relevant documents are handed over to site personnel.
- Liaise with the Project Management Office to establish, implement and maintain operating standards to ensure quality project results and customer satisfaction
- Develop and maintain corresponding relationships with clients, partners and main subcontractors to ensure smooth operation of projects and smooth dispute resolution
- Establish, implement and maintain operating standards to ensure quality project results and customer satisfaction
- Capture return of experience and best practice, apply lessons learned. Organizes and accomplish a debriefing meeting
- Supervise, support and coach the Project Team Members, provide input to project people performance reviews to functions
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in Engineering
- PMI Certification (Is advantageous, must as a minimum meet all the criteria to apply and obtain accreditation)
- Multilingual
- Extensive knowledge of The Plant principles and complex projects experience
- Planning, organising and coordinating skills in an international environment.
- Proven ability to build relationships with clients, suppliers and contractors.
- Minimum 5 years of relevant work experience
- Basic commercial knowledge for assessing business risks and opportunities to undertake commercial negotiations.
- Strong planning, organising and priority setting skills, with a proven ability to manage teams
Personal Competency:
- Project management skills
- Teamwork and leadership skills
- Customer focus
- Strong planning and organizing skills.
- Sound judgment and decision-making skills.
- Ability to anticipate, identify and manage risk.
- Interpersonal and teamwork skills
- Ability to work in a matrix organization.
- Problem-solving skills.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills, including the ability to interface effectively with people inside and outside of the company.
- Industry, as well as general business and financial knowledge
- Ability to be detail oriented without losing sight of the big picture.
- Comfortable working on multiple projects at one time.
- Able to plan and organize work in order to meet project dates and objectives