Project Manager - Civil Infrastructure

PRIMARY OBJECTIVES

• To plan, co-ordinate and manage the design, procurement, construction and commissioning of assigned projects, including taking a leadership role in the preparation of proposals.
• To ensure clear agreement of client objectives and that these are met or exceeded.
• To achieve or better the budgeted gross margin.
• To provide strong HSE leadership

SPECIFIC ACCOUNTABILITIES

The following apply as appropriate for the project scope:

HSE Management:

• Ensure that HSE requirements are documented and understood by all project participants
• Compliance with HSE procedures
• Maintain HSE focus for project duration

Client Relationships:

• Identify, document and communicate the client requirements
• Effectively manage 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.

Commercial Management:

• Effectively manage the Company-Client contract, including delivery of the budget gross margin.

Scope Management:

• Manages an effective handover from Business Development Group
• Clearly defines scope
• Compliance with requirements of the contract
• Effective change control process application
• Manage and monitor project performance on an basis to ongoing basis to identify issues and opportunities early and take pre-emptive action.
• Effectively manages project interfaces, including use of High Value Engineering centres.

Time Management:

• Manage the planning of all scope elements of the project.
• Develop resource & financial requirements from the project plan.
• Manage the design, procurement and construction activities to meet the project schedule
• Project Manage the project schedule
• Routinely monitor the key reports and development of corrective action plans
• Timely and effective documentation turnover and project close-out.

Cost Control:

• Plan and prepare accurate project estimates.
• Establish cost report for control of projects.
• Monitor and control all cost aspects of the project including forecasting costs, obtaining approvals, identifying trends, taking action to avoid cost overruns and identifying opportunities
• Assess performance of cost control system & personnel.

Quality Management:

• Define the project quality requirements.
• Ensure the right systems are in place and that these are applied on the project.
• Develop a project schedule which allows work to be executed in a logical sequence.
• Compliance with Company policies and procedures.
• Implement lessons learned system

Team Management:

• 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

Communications Management

• Effective communications with the project team.
• Documented communication requirements.
• Accurate, timely & effective progress reporting to the Client and internally to Company management.
• Ongoing monitoring of the communication network between project staff, the client and third parties and introduction of changes where required.

Risk Management:

• Identify project risks and opportunities.
• Monitor closure of all identified risks and opportunities.
• Maintain the risk management focus throughout the project duration.

Design Management:

• 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.

Procurement/Subcontracts Management:

• Set clear objectives for the procurement and subcontracts team.
• Assess procurement process throughout the project to ensure goods meet specification, are delivered on time and are within budget.

Construction Management:

• Set clear objectives for the Construction team.
• Monitor the Construction Management function to ensure safe delivery of the project within cost and schedule objectives.

ESSENTIAL SKILLS/EXPERIENCE

• Demonstrable commitment to HSE Management in a project environment
• Excellent leadership and communication skills
• High level of customer focus, with proven ability to engage with Client in representational basis.
• Proven ability in leading multidiscipline activities.
• Previous experience as a project engineer on projects of up to US$5M to US$10M in total value.
• Must have significant relevant direct experience in mining infrastructure projects.
• Experience in water resources, supply and wastewater treatment and disposal, with particular application to mining or industrial sites necessary.
• Must demonstrate a thorough appreciation of critical appraisal of infrastructure required to support mining and mineral processing operations
• Must demonstrate a comprehensive appreciation of key Client drivers in establishing and managing project performance criteria.
• Must demonstrate skill and first hand experience in preparing economic and technical feasibility reports for project definition
• Must demonstrate skill and experience in managing and execution of detail design of integrated civil infrastructure.
• As a senior management role, will also assist CSG Manager in coordinating Infrastructure support to regional office based project teams
• Will assist CSG Manager in identification of resource requirements and recruitment process.

MATCHING INDICATORS

• Relevant degree or equivalent qualification (Chartered Engineer preferable) and a minimum of 12 years industry experience, with at least 4 years experience in project engineering
• Eligible for AIPM Level 5 (Registered Project Manager) certification or equivalent.

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