South Africa: Project Manager posted by IX Engineers

Areas of Responsibilities

1. 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

1. 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.

1. 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.

1. 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.

1. 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.

1. 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.

1. 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