Manager, Projects at Exxaro Resources

PURPOSE:

• To direct and manage medium to large project development and execution plans and risk for duration of project phase whilst ensuring adherence to Project Management and business performance standards.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Management Development Programme (Essential/Minimum)
• Certificate Project Management (Essential/Minimum)
• B Eng (Relevant) (Essential/Minimum)
• Gov Cert of Competence: Engineering (Recommended/Desirable)

EXPERIENCE: 

• 6-8 years  Relevant experience within a heavy industry, mining or production environment. Project Management experience as a Project Manager from feasibility to ramp-up or part of a large project.(Essential/Minimum)Operational

REQUIREMENTS: 

• Project Management Professional (Recommended/Desirable)
• Certificate of Fitness (Essential/Minimum) (To be conducted by Exxaro)
• Engineering Council of SA (PrEng) (Recommended/Desirable)
• Psychometric Assessment (Essential/Minimum) (To be conducted by Exxaro)

Duties & Responsibilities    
The incumbent will inter alia be responsible for the following:

Compliance, Governance and Assurance  

•  Ensure statutory compliance of new projects
• Assess and communicate impact of legal developments on project strategies
• Ensure legal compliance within project by implementing appropriate systems
• Participate in and implement governance systems for small to medium sized projects
• Conduct assurance reviews
• Ensure contract compliance, administration, finance, cost control and client and contractor project coordination
• Ensure services from Project support services and insourced providers adhere to Corporate Governance with regards to processes, systems, guidelines and templates
• Establish project management protocols in area of responsibility
• Implement Safety Health and Environmental (SHE) management and quality management systems to ensure delivery of high quality projects within budget

Customer, Stakeholder and Client Relationship Management

•  Support core business by ensuring appropriate stakeholder relationships toward enhancing corporate profile
• Manage internal and external relations within corporate, service providers, applicable Business Unit's (BU) and other functions responsible to ensure that business needs are met
• Manage project interfaces within project environment and with clients
• Maintain internal and external professional networks

Functional Excellence  

• Develop project strategy and systems to efficiently implement, manage and coordinate BU projects
• Ensure proper prioritisation process in place at BU for all projects
• Ensure proper monitoring and control of all BU projects on site
• Manages projects with a broad impact across Business Units, which can lead to paradigm shifts in changes of strategic direction of Commodity
• Develop and implement risk management processes to mitigate high level risk, in alignment with corporate practices and requirements
• Coordinate optimal utilisation of resources for project
• Act as the "intelligent buyer" of outside competencies, skills and technology to fulfil required deliverables if and when required
• Identify and solve tactical and strategic problems across disciplines
• Support implementation of appropriate knowledge management for projects in line with business needs
• Benchmark best practice and ensure application of appropriate technology on projects
• Participate in best practice development with Corporate Project function and ensure selection and application of appropriate methodology, processes, technology for medium to large projects
• Provide expert advice and guidance

People Management  

• Culture/functional climate: Embody, translate and entrench culture and values in function, address behaviours that undermine values. Foster effective teamwork and unity. Manage functional climate in which diversity is appreciated, high performance thrives, people are involved, energised, committed, motivated and recognised. Demonstrate and encourage collaboration including cross-functionally and create culture of collaboration. Create an environment in which people are inspired to perform and a high-performance culture
• Talent development: Actively manage talent (including insourced) through regular assessment of employees’ strengths, development needs and development progress. Provide ongoing mentoring, coaching and development feedback to employees. Promote culture of continuous learning. Encourage and empower team to make decisions. Direct professional development, succession planning, staffing, outsourcing, Competent Person (CP) development, graduates and Professionals in Training (PIT's)
• Change leadership: Provide direction, guidance and support to people having to adapt to change, keep them committed throughout. Actively support, advocate for and embrace functional and organisational change and reinforce and role model the change. Address resistance, beliefs, mind-sets, behaviours and emotions to help people adapt to change
• Communication & engagement: Encourage open expression of ideas and opinions and foster dialogue. Seek out different opinions. Inform people of decisions, changes and other relevant information. Proactively address conflicts, initiate difficult conversations

Project Management  

• Develop, direct, coordinate and integrate implementation of medium to large projects across BU's
• Manage interdependency of deadlines on multiple projects and reserve integrity of deadlines and overall project progress
• Implement project management principles and practices for planning, design and implementation of project outcomes
• Conduct complex analysis of project systems and processes
• Select, design, integrate and commission new technology impacting on entire BU
• Take comprehensive approach to identifying problems, understanding implications and creating solutions that support overall project progress and success

Project Performance and Operations 

• Conduct audits and reviews of projects in various phases, with specialist input from Manager, Project Governance and Compliance and team where required
• Lead investigation of project management problems and develop solutions toward optimising and assuring project delivery
• Communicate project plans and outcomes with senior management, other disciplines and within project
• Provide project consulting regarding capital improvement and innovation projects including project review, planning, cost assessment, design, bid award process, scheduling and construction

Safe and Healthy Work Environment 

• Maintain and ensure a healthy environment, safe operations and practices
• Ensure compliance with applicable SHE policies and procedures in line with set standards
• Encourage a culture that focuses on safety in operations

Behavioural Alignment  

 Demonstrates the following:

• Creativity, collaboration, sociable and awareness to the ecosystem
• Stewardship, accountability, ability to develop trust, safety conscious and ethical
• Ability to respond quickly to business needs/agility, flexibility, continuous learning, innovation and proven ability to experiment on creative business solutions
• Ability to be inclusive, eagerness for multiple skills, embraces multiple cultures, accepts different approaches and be human-centric/empathetic
• Results oriented, quality driven, excellence, entrepreneurial abilities, efficient and effective

Closing Date: 9th, May 2022