Senior Project Manager

Job Duties

• Technical Expertise:
  • Strong technical background in a key mining discipline
• Integration and Coordination: Exceptional ability to integrate and synthesize work from diverse technical teams to produce a cohesive and consistent final product.
• Leadership and Communication: Strong leadership skills to direct consultant teams and excellent communication skills to report to the Project Manager and engage with stakeholders.
• Risk Management: Experience in identifying, assessing, and developing mitigation strategies for risks
• Compliance and Governance: A solid understanding of South African mining legislation, particularly the Mine Health and Safety Act (MHSA), and the ability to ensure consultants comply with all statutory and governance requirements.

Typical responsibilities

• Project management and execution
• Develop Scopes of Work: Draft, define, and manage the technical scopes of work for all external consultants and sub-contractors participating in the project.
• Team Leadership: Lead and manage the multi-disciplinary project team, providing clear direction and ensuring alignment with project goals.
• Manage Consultants and Sub-contracts: Oversee the performance of all external parties, ensuring they deliver on their contractual obligations for scope, schedule, and quality. This includes managing deliverables, reviewing progress, and ensuring technical consistency.
• Schedule and Budget Monitoring: Work with the Project Manager to develop and monitor the projectschedule and budget, providing regular progress updates and forecasting.
• Technical integration and quality assurance
• Deliverable Integration: Integrate the outputs from all disciplines (e.g., geology, mining, processing, infrastructure, environment, community) into a cohesive project report.
• Technical Review: Conduct and coordinate technical reviews of all consultant deliverables to ensure accuracy, quality, and consistency.
• Stakeholder engagement and reporting
• Reporting: Assist the Project Manager in the preparation and delivery of regular status reports and presentations to senior management and key stakeholders.
• Information Dissemination: Ensure effective communication and information flow between the consultants, the project team, and key internal stakeholders.
• Stakeholder Workshops: Lead technical workshops and review meetings with the project team and client representatives.
• Compliance, health, safety, and environment (HSE)
• Legal Compliance: Ensure the execution methodology and outcomes adhere to all relevant South African legislation, including the MHSA, the National Environmental Management Act (NEMA), and SAMREC/SAMVAL codes.
• HSE Integration: Ensure that HSE considerations are effectively integrated into all technical work streams and design criteria during the execution phase.
• Risk management
• Maintain Risk Register: Assist the Project Manager in the ongoing development and management of the project risk register.
• Mitigation Strategies: Develop and track the implementation of risk mitigation plans for technical and execution risks identified during the execution.

Required Qualifications:

• Mechanical or Civil Engineering Degree
• PMP

Experience:

• 10 Years experience as a Senior Project Manager
• Skilled in Stay in business projects in the mining industry