Director Project Implementation at City of Tshwane

Job Purpose

• Providing technical and operational expertise in project planning, procurement, contract management and execution for human settlements infrastructure projects in the development of options for the provision of infrastructure such as bulk services, reticulation of services (water and sewerage), roads and storm water drainage and construction of houses to the Divisional Head: Human Settlements Provision and assuring operations.

ApplicationRequirements:
Appointment requirements 

• An appropriate three-year career-related tertiary qualification (degree or national diploma) in Civil Engineering, Structural Engineering or Construction Studies.
• Registration with the Engineering Council of South Africa as PrEng, PrTechEng or PrTechniEng in terms of the Engineering Profession Act, 2000 (Act 46 of 2000) or the South African
• Council for the Project and Construction Management Professions (SACPCMP) will be an added advantage.
• At least five years’ relevant experience in a civil, structural and construction engineering and project management environment, of which at least three years should be at management level.
• Valid Code B driving licence.
• Computer literacy and good working knowledge of Microsoft Office.
• Willingness to work after hours and over weekends, when required.
• Being ethical; good communication skills; good interpersonal

Personal Attributes/ Competencies:

• relations; 
• ability to be a good team member; 
• ability to pay attention to detail; 
• ability to be professional at all times; 
• ability to work independently at a strategic level; 
• integrity; ability to work under pressure; flexibility; 
• ability to meet given deadlines; 
• exceptional and dynamic creativity to improve the functioning of the section; 
• administrative skills; 
• organising and coordination skills;
• financial management skills; 
• project management skills; 
• analytical skills; 
• presentation skills

Primary Fuctions : 

• Ensuring project auditing.
• Conducting individual research interviews with project stakeholders, project managers and project team members to identify past, current and future issues, concerns, challenges and opportunities.
• Conducting individual research interviews with stakeholders, including vendors, suppliers, contractors, other internal and external project resources and selected customers.
• Assessing the issues, challenges and concerns in more depth to get to the root causes of problems.
• Reviewing all historical and current documentation related to the project, including team structure, scope statement, business requirements, project plan, contract, milestone report, meeting minutes, action items, risk logs, issue logs and change logs.
• Overseeing complex civil and construction program from conceptualisation, design, procurement, contract management, quality assurance and compliance and ensuring their proper integration to the plans of the City (Integrated Development
• Plan, Service Delivery and Budget Implementation Plan and
• Municipal Sustainable Human Settlements Plan).
• Interviewing selected stakeholders to identify and determine what their expectations of the project were and to identify to what extent their expectations have been met.
• Reviewing project quality management and product quality management to identify issues, concerns and challenges in the overall management of the project and to identify the opportunities that can be realised through improvements to the attention paid to project and product quality.
• Identifying lessons learnt that can improve the performance of other future projects within the organisation.
• Overseeing risk and issue management by ensuring risk identification, risk quantification, risk response and risk monitoring and control.
• Ensuring impact and change management.
• Ensuring project impact analysis to support the evaluation and tracking of a suggested modification to a project's scope.
• Measuring and setting standards regarding project change management of time (the deadline of the project), resources available (people and money needed) and output (the form of the deliverables).
• Ensuring project communication.
• Designing and implementing communication plan formats for constant and effective communication among all project stakeholders.
• Ensuring that the right information gets to the right project stakeholder at the right time.
• Managing the communication plan.
• Ensuring the timely and appropriate generation, collection, distribution, storage, retrieval and ultimate disposal of project information.
• Providing the critical links among people and information that are necessary for successful communication.
• Guiding the project manager, project team, stakeholders, customers, sponsors and everyone involved in the project to
• understand how communication affects the project as a whole.
• Including guidelines for project status meetings, project team meetings, virtual meetings and emails.
• Identifying and defining immediate, short- and long-term objectives.
• Keeping abreast of the trends, theories and practices that underlie the rendering of services.
• Implementing the department’s business and strategic plans and associated short- and long-term performance and service delivery plans.
• Monitoring the progress of specific key performance indicators and measures.
• Ensuring that performance indicators are identified, objectives are aligned, and appropriate procedures are developed and implemented.
• Analysing and aligning requirements with operating capacity and capability.
• Ensuring a climate conducive to promoting and sustaining motivational levels, productivity, and performance by directing and controlling the outcomes associated with the use, productivity and performance of personnel within the section.
• Defining and adjusting the key performance indicators and job profiles of personnel against service delivery requirements.
• Evaluating the capability of prospective applicants and leading the interview and final selection sessions.
• Conducting appraisals to measure performance and objectives against agreed targets and setting new objectives.
• Identifying professional and technical skill gaps and completing developmental plans for existing personnel with clearly defined career paths and job-enrichment opportunities.
• Monitoring the adequacy of current training interventions and reporting on impacts after training.
• Implementing human resources policies and procedures to control and regulate workplace conflict and/or instituting corrective measures.
• Analysing staff attendance, absenteeism, overtime and lost time, and implementing and monitoring specific remedial measures aimed at improving productivity and reducing personnel-related costs.
• Ensuring compliance with occupational health and safety policies.
• Ensuring compliance with the skills development plan for the section.
• Ensuring compliance with the employment equity policy and plans for the section.
• Monitoring and controlling the section’s budget so that income and expenditure are in line with Council requirements.
• Preparing and submitting the capital and operational budget.
• Managing the capital and operational budget.
• Managing the assets of the department.
• Reporting on the Human Settlements Development Grant to the provincial government and on the Urban Settlements Development Grant and Informal Settlements Upgrading Partnership Grant (ISUPG) to the national Department of Human Settlements.