Senior Project Manager

Senior Project Manager (Engineering & Construction) - Umhlanga Office

Main Responsibilities:

• Manage complex, multi-disciplinary building projects from inception to completion, leading diverse technical teams
• Execute building projects successfully by meeting stakeholder expectations, maintaining commercial excellence, achieving quality outputs and driving team cohesion and satisfaction.
• Execute cross border building projects & manage cross border teams.
• Budgetary and financial responsibility for building projects.
• Project tendering and preparation.
• Project resource management, including management of project resources over multiple locations.
• Client relationship management during project execution.
• Business development and client liaison at project level.
• Growing market position within new and existing client groups through quality project execution.
• Engage clients, determining their needs, qualify opportunities, developing custom solutions and compiling proposal documents.
• Negotiating and concluding new assignments with Clients.
• Developing, reviewing and executing project contract documents.
• Contribute to strategic growth of the Industry Advisory Group Project Management Team.
• Other project and operational support as required.

Minimum qualifications, skills and experience:

• Mechanical/Electrical/Civil Engineering/Architecture Degree.
• Post Graduate Project Management Qualification is beneficial.
• A minimum of 8 years post graduate experience managing multi-disciplinary building projects as a consultant and preferably in the private sector.
• Professional registration with a relevant body (SACPCMP / PMI / ECSA / SACAP) is required.
• Demonstrable experience on multidisciplinary design coordination, preferably on industrial / data centre building projects.
• Fundamental knowledge and experience in greenfield and brownfield industrial building / data centre building projects.
• Good understanding of industry practices, trends, processes and standards as well as their impact on project activities.
• Ability to liaise with relevant stakeholders on all levels and through-out the life cycle of the project.
• Commercial/design/project management competencies/experience, comfortable with playing central role in both project acquisition, design and execution, with excellent communication skills.
• Practical management experience having led a project team.
• Competent report writing skills and excellent communication ability.
• Computer literacy in MS Office and Project, Common Data Environments & other platforms at an advanced level i.e. ACC, ASITE, Revizto, etc.
• Consulting background/knowledge/skills.

Behavioral competencies:

• An energetic and enthusiastic team-player who is prepared to work across business units in the company.
• Commercially astute with a strong marketing, growth and profit orientation.
• Results orientated and target driven.
• Ability to meet multiple deadlines and handle pressure.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication and management skills.
• Client centric approach.

In line with our Employment Equity policy, preference will be given to applicants from designated groups and suitable internal candidates.