Project Engineer at Royal HaskoningDHV South Africa

Main Responsibilities:

• Manage complex, multi-disciplinary building projects from inception to completion, leading diverse technical teams
• Execute building projects successfully by meeting stakeholder expectations, maintaining commercial excellence, achieving quality outputs and driving team cohesion and satisfaction.
• Execute cross border building projects & manage cross border teams.
• Budgetary and financial responsibility for building projects.
• Project tendering and preparation.
• Project resource management, including management of project resources over multiple locations.
• Client relationship management during project execution.
• Business development and client liaison at project level.
• Growing market position within existing client groups through quality project execution.
• Growing and managing new and existing client relationships through quality project execution.
• Engage clients, determining their needs, qualify opportunities, developing custom solutions and compiling proposal documents.
• Negotiating and concluding new assignments with Clients.
• Developing, reviewing and executing project contract documents.
• Contribute to strategic growth of the Industry AG PM Team.
• Contribute to the skills development of the PM Team in wider South Africa.
• Other project and operational support as required.

 Minimum qualifications, skills and experience:

• Mechanical/Electrical Engineering Degree.
• Post Graduate Project Management Qualification is beneficial.
• A minimum of 5 – 10+ years post graduate experience managing multi-disciplinary building projects as a consultant and preferably in the private sector.
• Demonstrable experience on multidisciplinary design coordination, preferably on industrial building projects with process interfaces in markets such as Consumer Goods, Food & Beverage, Automotive and Pharmaceuticals.
• Professional registration with a relevant body required (ECSA and/or PMI).
• Fundamental knowledge and experience in greenfield and brownfield industrial building projects.
• Good understanding of industry practices, trends, processes and standards as well as their impact on project activities.
• Ability to liaise with relevant stakeholders on all levels and through-out the life cycle of the project.
• Commercial/design/project management competencies/experience, comfortable with playing central role in both project acquisition, design and execution, with excellent communication skills.
• Practical management experience having led a team.
• Competent report writing skills and excellent communication ability.
• Computer literacy in MS Office and Project, Common Data Environments & other platforms at an advanced level.
• Understanding and preferably experience with information management principles aligned to ISO19650.
• Consulting background/knowledge/skills.

 Behavioral competencies:

• An energetic and enthusiastic team-player who is prepared to work across business units in the company.
• Strategic and innovative thinker with a focus on quality of output.
• Commercially astute with a strong marketing, growth and profit orientation.
• Results orientated and target driven.
• Ability to meet multiple deadlines and handle pressure.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication and management skills.
• Client centric approach.