Project Manager: Engineer Ref: HDA PMENW002 at Housing Development Agency (HDA)

Key Performance Areas:

Strategic Management

• Contributing as a Project Manager to the overall effective functioning of the HDA assigned projects in the province.
• Ensuring integration of the different project function within the Provincial Office to ensure optimal delivery of the HDAs mandate.
• Ensure the alignment of projects to the broader HDA strategy and strategic intention.

Project Development

• Develop and maintain a project programme.
• Interpret engineering services report during Land Use Management
• Align programme to HDA strategic direction, policy, and plans.
• Take into account and accommodate sector development and changes in the programme approach and strategy tailored for specific service offering to organs of state.

Programme support and services to clients

• Develop project plans to ensure achievement of agreed services.
• Define project feasibility factors, resourcing requirements and project deliverables and time frames.
• Develop project plans in line with HDA project service offering.
• Develop appropriate terms of reference for appointment of project resources.
• Implement appropriate procurement practices to ensure appointment of required project resources in line with project timeframes.
• Reporting in terms of service to client.
• Accommodate any changes and/or specific related client request as part of programme offering.

Programme Resource Management and alignment

• Procure required project resources by meeting the requirements of HDA SCM policy.
• Monitor performance and provide feedback to identified resources on performance.
• Ensure alignment of external resources to project, regional and internal capacity support on the programme.

Programme Budgeting and Financial Management

• Develop project/programme budgets in line with agreed feasibilities and available funding.
• Monitor project expenditure against budget and project deliverables.
• Address any project budget variance.
• Provide feedback and input to overall HDA budget.

Develop support tools, products, lessons learnt and Best Practice

• Identify project design, planning, implementation, management and monitoring best practices that emerge from HDA projects and programmes interventions.
• Identify and develop possible support tools and product and opportunities.
• Identify and develop opportunities to enhance and improve any existing support tools and products.
• Review best practices developed and amend to accurately reflect lesson learnt.
• Integrate lessons learnt into new project design, planning, implementation, management, and monitoring methodologies.

Project Planning

• Planning engineering projects to be implemented (bulk infrastructure and internal reticulation).
• Conceptualise engineering infrastructure projects.
• Estimate costs and timelines of conceptualised engineering infrastructure projects.
• Provide engineering infrastructure risks along with mitigation approaches.
• Prepare engineering layouts.
• Interpret maps, drawings, geotechnical, drawing and other technical studies reports.

Qualifications & Experience

• Registration with relevant accredited councils within the built environment and/ or project management discipline is required.
• Civil Engineering Degree or equivalent qualification is required.
• Project and programme management qualifications added advantage.
• A minimum of 8 years of experience in the built environment is required.
• Excellent understanding and at least 5 years’ working experience in a PFMA/MFMA and public entities environment
• A minimum of 3 years’ experience must be in a large scale and/ or a low-cost housing construction environment or engineering services or infrastructure development (bulk pipelines, water, sanitation, roads &/ or storm water).
• Demonstrate previous project management capabilities in managing various built environment service providers (PRT and/or consultants and/ or contractors).
• Valid Driver’s license is required.
• Computer literacy in AUTOCAD, MS Project, Civil Engineer and/ or Microsoft is required.
• Willing to travel extensively