Project Engineer: Mine Closure & Rehabilitation at Mintek

Construction Supervision:

• Client representative on site for the projects
• Responsible for the on-site quality assurance and conformance to designs and specifications
• Ensuring compliance to statutory requirements as well as Mine Health and Safety Act requirements
• Verify the measurement and calculation of quantities for payment certificate.
• Address any on-site deviations to the scope, designs and specifications.
• Monitoring and tracking of all construction activities and programme of works and ensuring the contractor complies with all agreed policies and procedures
• Witness onsite quality tests and approve procured material.
• Compile daily diaries and progress report.
• Attend Progress Meetings and arrange and facilitate technical/coordination meetings.

Project Coordination

• Coordinate the execution of projects to ensure that the outputs / outcomes are in line with Mintek’s strategies and goals.
• Manage and assess all project documents submitted by contractors, including scoping documents, bills of quantity, and budgets. 
• Proactively manage tasks and activities to ensure that problems and delays are identified early and remedial action is instituted to minimise consequences.
• Interact with key stakeholders to understand, anticipate and manage their expectations
• Compile weekly project progress and financial reports.
• Timely compilation of weekly and monthly project progress and financial reports.

Design and Documentation

• Prepare detailed mine rehabilitation designs including the production of construction drawings.
• Compile tender documents, including specifications for all applicable works ensuring that all documents accurately capture the nature, size and scope of the project. 
• Manage and assess all project documents submitted by contractors, including scoping documents, bills of quantity, and budgets. 
• Project initiation including desktop studies and site investigations to produce scoping reports.
• Conducting pre-feasibility studies and community engagement
• Manage specialist sub-consultants like geotechnical specialists, surveyors etc.

Stakeholder Management

• Interact with key stakeholders to understand, anticipate and manage their expectations.
• Interact and attend key meetings with law enforcement authorities and private security service providers.
• Manage relations between the contractors and mining communities, ensuring that potential areas are managed or escalated to the client accordingly.
• Security and team management for shafts installations
• Prepare audit and finding reports for D&O programme
• Budgeting and estimates for projects
• Tender and technical evaluations
• Statistical management of projects and costing. 

 SHEQ management

• Ensure that effective SHEQ procedures are in place so that contractors and workers operate in a safe and healthy environment. 
• Ensure compliance with applicable legislation at all sites where Mintek is operating including Mine Health and Safety Act.
• Undertake risk assessments for own projects and review and approve contractor’s monthly SHEQ reports
• Preparation of SOPs and review thereof
• Preparation of standard management forms, letters, minutes templates etc
• Contribution to the standardisation of tender documents, evaluation criteria and other key MCR documents and processes. 

JOB KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE:

• MEng or/and MSc in Earth Sciences and related fields or relevant, ideal PhD in related fields.
• Extensive knowledge of the mining industry or public sector, mining communities. 
• 10 years’ experience in the project management of either mine closure and rehabilitation programme, civil engineering, concrete works and earthworks.