Contract: Manager Project Controls at Transnet

• To manage a Project Controls team, to operate and deliver all Project Controls functions on the programme/ large project.
• This is to be in accordance with best practice standards, corporate governances, policies, processes, systems and controls implemented within Transnet Group and Transnet Pipelines (TPL), including but not necessarily limited to: project reporting, planning & schedule management, cost & change control, estimating/quantity surveying, document control. Other functional areas that report into the Project Controls Manager (PCM) on the project are Contracts Management and Risk & Opportunity Management.
• The PCM will provide management and guidance across the above multiple disciplines on the programme/ project and ensure that the team functions and delivers the project in line with the Project Director/ Principal Project Manager expectations and to the governance requirements set by the Senior Manager Projects Controls.
• The PCM will assist and partake in the continuous improvement of best practices and initiatives, as part of the effective and efficient functioning of projects controls on programmes/ large projects being overseen by the Programme Management Office (PMO) in TPL.

Position outputs:

• Providing primary point of contact to the Senior Manager Project Controls in the TPL PMO for all matters relating to project controls process, data, and reporting in support of the work in TPL 3.2 Providing line management and leadership duties to all key leads within the project controls team on a programme/ large project, ensuring that the projects controls tea is functioning and delivering to a high standard, that accuracy is achieved at all times, that real time and integrated reporting reflects actual current status of the project
• Ensures that resourcing gaps within the team and on the project are identified and filled appropriately and timeously with suitably qualified persons
• Communicating and rolling out the strategic level programme controls approach provided by the senior manager Projects Controls, including documentation of programme controls procedures that supports the approach, as set out by the PMO
• Ensuring best practice programme controls principles and toolsets are adopted on the project in support of practices and shared learning from other OD PMOs and industries
• Promote the implementation of the controls principles through support and training for the project management and operational community as required by the PMO
• Ensure in conjunction with the Senior Manager Projects Controls that all key staff members within the project controls team have current and relevant training in support of the PMO tools and processes being adopted
• Responsible for the audit, governance and assurance on the project, and in particular where significant interest or risk is identified to the PMO
• Supports and implements any client specific process as identified by the PMO, the OD and Transnet Group
• Ensures that all work undertaken by the Project Controls Team is executed safely and meets or exceeds safety goals and policies and is in accordance with Transnet Governance.
• To provide the communication links to the respective Project Director/ Principal Project Manager, and the Senior Manager Projects Controls
• Working with the PMO Senior Manager Projects Controls to establish an integrated project controls management framework for all aspects of control and reporting across TPL
• Provide central co-ordination and decision-making within the programme/ project, and create project support culture.

Key deliverables would include, but not necessarily limited to:

• Delivery of Project Controls Strategy or Plan in support of the programme/ project to be delivered to meet the project objectives and in line with the PLP and gateway processes
• Successful management and implementation of the programme/ project controls strategy or plan per project (reporting, cost control, change management, schedule management, document control, risk and opportunity management etc)
• Delivery of all best practice controls process and procedure in support of the programme
• Delivery against the reporting cycles as agreed for the project and the PMO
• Sets and manages project team targets in support of the PMO expectations
• To adhere to governance, audit and assurance processes at all times

Qualifications & Experience:

• Incumbent needs to have a minimum of a bachelor’s degree in any projects controls field or a business degree
• A minimum of 8 years’ experience in the projects controls field with a minimum of 3 years leading large projects Project Controls team.

OR

• A higher national diploma in the projects controls field or a business NHD supported by a minimum of 10 years’ experience in projects controls with minimum 3 years relevant post graduate experience in a project controls managerial position on a large project,
• Professional registration in project controls discipline (e.g. PrQS/ CO/ PMISP/ CRMP).
• PMI or equivalent will be an added advantage
• Experience in major transformation and change management initiatives.

Competencies:

• Knowledge and previous work experience in managing high-valued, large, multidiscipline, green-/brown-/red-field, complex infrastructure programmes and projects from inception through to completion & close out.
• Experience in running projects controls on hydrocarbon/ petrochemical projects is preferred