Project Manager Complex Projects Infrastructure at Eskom Communications

Area of Speacialization : 

To manage the activities and resources allocated to complex projects into a cohesive, efficient manner as well as to administer and execute infrastructure projects (including control plant) within cost, quality and time.

Minimum Requirements

Qualification(s):

• B-Degree / B Tech in Built Environment / Commerce / Human Sciences at NQF 7 with 360 Credits

Experience:

• 5 years experience in Infrastructure Project Management and Construction
• Professional Registration Body: Registered with the South African Council of Project and Construction Management Professionals (SACPCMP) as a Professional Construction Project Manager (Pr.CPM).

Skills and Competencies

Behavioural:

• Resilience and flexibility
• Dealing with complexity
• Influencing and persuading
• Interpersonal skills
• Decision making
• Working with authority
• Providing direction through change
• Strategic thinking
• Building/development teams
• Building cross boundary relationships

Leadership:

• Strategy generation and alignment
• Change leadership
• Stakeholder mobilisation management
• Represents Eskom
• Judgement and decision making
• Embraces diversity
• Emotional maturity
• Integrity and values
• Negotiation and conflict resolution
• Business acumen

Knowledge:

• Knowledge of the scheduling tool
• Knowledge of business integration
• Eskom financial systems
• Communication and stakeholder management at executive level
• Knowledge of Eskom Project Life Cycle Model (PLCM)
• Knowledge of contracts management
• Knowledge of Occupational Health and Safety Act (OHS) Act
• Knowledge of areas of the Project Management Book of Knowledge (PMBOK)
• Project integration
• Project scope management
• Project time/schedule management
• Project cost management
• Project quality management
• Project human resource management
• Project communications management
• Project risk management
• Project procurement management
• Project stakeholder management

Skill:

• Client focus
• Analytical & problem solving skills
• People management skills
• Computer literacy in Microsoft applications, SAP and project management systems and tools

Attributes:

• Technical/system background
• Accredited as responsible person in terms of Operating Regulations for Plant and/or High Voltage Systems (ORHVS)

Key Responsibilities

• Project control on cost, time and quality.
• Project planning.
• Project communication and reporting.
• Project coordination and team management.
• Programme safety, health, environmental, risk and quality (SHERQ).
• Project contract management.
• Project commissioning.