General Manger: Planning and Design at Roads Agency Limpopo SOC (RAL)

Job Details

The incumbent will be responsible to provide planning, design and control of roads and bridges falling under the Agency’s assets.
 
REQUIREMENTS

•  Master of Science in Engineering (Msc Eng) or Master of Engineering (MEng).
•  Registered as a Professional Engineer/ Technologist with ECSA.
•  10 years relevant experience (roads, structure, project management), five (5) years of which are at a senior managerial level.
•  Knowledge and understanding of legislation pertaining engineering, i.e. Colto.
•  Project planning and managerial skills, especially PMBOK.
•  Financial and Business Management skills.
•  Critical and analytical thinking skills.
•  Ability to formulate policies and strategies.
•  Strong management skills.

KEY PERFORMANCE AREAS AND MAIN TASKS (BUT NOT LIMITED TO)

•  Coordinating, presenting and motivating the divisional business plan and budget.
•  Presenting and motivating capex proposals for large expense items.
•  Developing and assessing new standards and methodologies relating to SHE and road safety in accordance with business plan and yearly budget.
•  Developing objectives for the departmental risks, which satisfy the safety criteria and guidelines.
•  Managing health, safety and environmental risk reduction projects.
•  Actively participate in EXCO to provide inputs to the business plan.
•  Mainly planning and designing provincial roads network (PRN).
•  Developing strategic plans for PRN in accordance with plans, designs and budgets.
•  Aligning plans with provincial economic development strategy/ addressing issues of mining, agriculture, tourism and accessibility/mobility of the public.
•  Set up short, medium and long-term plans (for 3 yrs, 5 yrs & 10 yrs).
•  Plan and design in accordance with budget and MTEF.
•  Capital expenditure project plans and programmes.
•  Maintain assets, gather information to establish needs and consider predictions.
•  Ensure compliance regarding environment during planning & design and plan for relocations of affected properties.
•  Monitor actual performance against budgets, forecasts and projects.
•  Review forecasting figures and review budgets if required.
•  Recommend changes to the divisional organisation structure to meet strategic needs.
•  Ensure the right mix of skills and staff is appointed and ensure efficient reporting structures are in place.
•  Approve and implements reporting and control systems.
•  Evaluate and monitor the existing processes to optimise staff, equipment and process efficiency and reliability.
•  Ensure relevant and timeous recording of information and ensure efficient reporting management structures are in place.
•  Ensure staff capacity planning to produce sufficient outputs to meet programmes in the most cost effective and professional way.
•  Develop and manage RAMS by ensuring availability of the systems for intended use.
•  Manage drawings and documents by ensuring availability of same.
•  Ensure meetings on internal communication take place in the section.
•  Communicate with and inform own staff of relevant information including policy, finance and business.
•  Liaise with appropriate internal and external stakeholders.
•  Develop a team-based culture and develop staff plans and empower staff by ensuring training and development takes place.
•  Review staff performance against objectives and determine further training needs.
•  Ensure control systems are in place to measure most relevant activities and processes.
•  Set performance standards for: Report/Assessment Output, Quality, Safety and People.
•  Regularly measure and correlate performance against standards.
•  Manage performance correction when required.
•  Manage all statutory control activities.
•  Respond to applications, queries and complaints.
•  Submit list of projects and consultants to the Board.
•  Ensure that designs are done according to requirements in terms of standards and specs/guidelines (COTO, TRH, and TMH).
•  Attend to any other relevant and reasonable task as and when required.
•  Extensive travel required, nationally and internationally.

 
SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES

•  Strong analytical, innovative and reasoning skills
•  Strong computer skills
•  Task oriented and focused
•  Integrity
•  Transparency
•  Good presentation and communication skills (verbal and written)
•  Strong leadership, interpersonal and negotiating skills
•  Strong problem-solving skills and results driven