Project Manager at Omnia (Pty) LTD

ROLE IMPACT

• The Senior Project Manager will be responsible for the delivery of key business projects within BME that are important to operational performance and strategic outcomes, deployment/roll-out of new technology and/or software.

These projects typically operate in environments where:

• Accountability is diffused or unclear.
• Teams are delivery‑capable but not naturally goal‑driven.
• Strong functional leadership is inconsistent or absent.
• Progress depends on influence, structure, and follow‑through rather than authority.
• The role exists to create momentum, clarity, and ownership where it does not naturally exist, ensuring projects move from intent to execution and deliver tangible outcomes.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Project Delivery & Execution

• Take full accountability for end‑to‑end delivery of assigned BME projects, from initiation through to closure.
• Convert broad or poorly defined objectives into clear scope, milestones, deliverables, and success measures.
• Establish realistic project plans, governance rhythms, and reporting that support delivery rather than bureaucracy.
• Actively manage risks, dependencies, and constraints in environments with limited escalation paths.
• Ensure projects achieve practical business outcomes, not just task completion.

Working in Low‑Ownership Environments

• Operate effectively in teams that are not naturally goal‑orientated or delivery‑driven.
• Proactively create clarity around roles, expectations, and ownership without relying on positional authority.
• Identify gaps in accountability and close them through facilitation, structure, and persistence.
• Coach and support team members to move from passive participation to active ownership.
• Maintain progress and delivery discipline even when teams lack strong internal leadership.

Stakeholder & Communication Management

• Act as the central point of coordination and communication for assigned projects.
• Provide clear, concise, and honest updates on progress, risks, and decisions required.
• Manage expectations effectively in environments where priorities frequently shift.
• Escalate issues constructively, with solutions and options rather than problems alone.

Cross‑Functional & Cross‑Team Leadership

• Lead delivery across multiple functions, teams, and stakeholders with differing priorities and incentives.
• Build working relationships across BME and adjacent functions to enable cooperation and decision‑making.
• Navigate organisational complexity and ambiguity with a pragmatic, solution‑focused approach.
• Align stakeholders around shared outcomes where formal alignment mechanisms are weak or absent.

Delivery Discipline & Continuous Improvement

• Introduce fit‑for‑purpose delivery practices appropriate to the scale and complexity of each project.
• Ensure lessons learned are captured and applied to future work.
• Maintain a strong bias toward action, progress, and outcomes over process for its own sake.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

Qualifications

• Relevant tertiary qualification in Business, Engineering, IT, or a related field
• Demonstrated practical experience will be weighted more heavily than certification

Certifications

• Formal Project Management certification (PMP, PRINCE2, Agile) is advantageous but not mandatory

Experience

• Extensive experience managing projects in complex, ambiguous organisational environments
• Proven ability to deliver where teams lack maturity in ownership, accountability, or goal orientation
• Strong influencing skills, with the ability to lead without formal authority
• High emotional intelligence and resilience when dealing with resistance, inertia, or ambiguity
• Practical, hands‑on delivery capability rather than reliance on formal methodologies alone
• Confidence working across multiple functions where leadership strength varies significantly

Advantageous

• Modern digital or technology‑enabled transformation initiatives
• Process improvement or operational change projects
• Working alongside IT, data, or digital teams in delivery environments
• Understanding of maintenance-, asset management processes within the mining sector would be advantageous.

Key Competencies

• Business Process maps, process interactions and dependencies, etc.
• IT processes
• A more detailed understanding of D365 workflows, datasets and other capabilities, is beneficial to the role.
• Strong stakeholder management capability.
• Working with various roles, across function and at various levels.
• Firm understanding of Project Management tooling, processes and reporting standards.