Project Engineer at Tharisa

Purpose of Role:

Coordination of engineering disciplines on various projects and studies. Ensuring the designs, engineering design basis for projects and studies, including requirements engineering, technical decisions, trade-offs, design risks and safety by design are covered. Manage the engineering execution basis for projects and studies, including setup, execution, controlling and close-out of systems, process workflows and engineering deliverables. Manage the interfaces between multidisciplinary engineering team, and between engineering and supply chain or construction management. Ensure adherence to legislation, policies, and procedures. Identify and drive technical and process improvement. Drive safety, engineering, quality, and cost drivers. Ensure Continuous Improvement through Operational Excellence. Adhere to all MHSA regulations, SHEQ regulations and Company policies and procedures.

Role Context:

• Organisation and planning of the project work into integrated, cross-functional.
• Assist in organizing the work into manageable activity clusters (phases)
• Determines an effective approach to completing the work.
• Managing and controlling execution phase of projects
• Assists in preparing the project plan
• Assist in creating project charter with the team, including the definition of completion criteria.
• Assists in determining prioritised activities in a project
• Assists in the effectively coordinating the activities of the team to meet project milestones.
• Proactively identifies changes in work scope and ensure appropriate planning measures are taken with internal and external clients to reassess and amend the scope of work requirement, budget, and timeline.
• Assist with design reviews on project
• Ensuring all changes follow the Management of change (MOC) process.
• Assists in compiling a complete and accurate estimate of a project.
• Provides inputs when analysing the actual performance against the plan and make adjustments consistent with plan objectives.
• Management of relevant stakeholders in the execution phase of project
• Assist in providing support in resolving issues related to client relations, governmental relations, project quality, and project risk and project safety.
• Assist in generating project reports

Requirements

Qualifications:

• Grade 12
• Technical 3-year degree/advanced diploma (NQF level 7) is essential.
• Qualification in Engineering essential
• Registration with the ECSA and SACPCMP will be advantageous.

Job specific experience:

• At least 8-10 years heavy industry construction management experience is essential.
• Experience in Environment authorization related projects is advantageous.
• Previous experience in working with Government agencies.
• Managing internal and external stakeholders is essential.
• Multi-disciplinary engineering experience is essential.
• Significant exposure to MHSA regulations, SHEQ regulations is essential.
• Mining industry experience is advantageous.
• Experience in the Management of Change (MOC).
• Coordination of design technical review meetings.

Inherent requirements;

Must be medically fit.