Having overall responsibility for effectively managing the plant, labor and equipment to achieve maximum efficiency and cost effectiveness. Making preparations before work begins on site including communicating with the public, and engineers. Also in charge of keeping track of progress and ensuring that projects are on time and to budget. Duties: • In charge of the site activities, materials, manpower & maintaining accurate billing records. • Obtain all necessary permits. • Daily management of project staff and multiple sub-contractors. • Ensuring that all quality control, environmental and health and safety requirements are met. • Managed daily operations, and planned the use of materials and human resources. • Planning site activities in detail, setting targets and accurately forecasting completion dates. • Accurately estimate material, construction and labor costs as well as project timescales. • Directing and supervising workers. Projects Sand Bypass Project Durban – R 175 b The project consisted of a sand – hopper 96m. in diameter with a pre-filter bay and pump station, with a control office. the sand hopper has a capacity of 11000 m3 of sea sand. This was built to do sand replacement onto the main beach and the surrounding beaches. I managed all construction activities on site as well as a site engineer 3 foreman and 108 workers, all planning and costing, reporting to the contracts manager. Kibali Gold Mine Project, Democratic Republic of the Congo - $125m The contract scope of work was to construct a new mine for the client – Rand Gold including a 1.5 megawatt hydroelectric power station in the Nzoro river. I managed the construction of the hydroelectric power station, from earth works to completion, reporting to the contracts director on site. Douglas Mining Optimization Project Witbank - R550m The project scope of works was to upgrade the mines capacity from 5000 t to 9000 t daily production , and included a 1000t coal silo a 42 m high north tip , and 30 km of conveyor to carry the coal to the processing plant and new workshops ,a waste water treatment plant , 4 new ablution blocks , and the upgrading of 2 existing ones , I managed all construction activities on the civil side ( concrete , and wet trades as well as the commissioning of the water treatment plant , I had 6 site engineers , 3 General foreman and 42 senior foreman with 450 labor on site reporting to the senior contract manager . Gauteng Freeway Improvement - R250billion I managed the construction of all the median walls, the elands interchange tunnels, and the surfacing of the tunnels. I reported to the contracts manager, and had a team consisting of sub-contractors a site agent, 3 engineers and 6 foremen with their teams. All programming and costing on these sections was part of my daily duties.