Job Advert Summary
PURPOSE:
To provide expert knowledge and management of project estimation as a function across all Exxaro large and mega projects.
To set standards and to ensure that sound practices are applied across all projects, adding maximum value for business of today/tomorrow.
Minimum Requirements
QUALIFICATIONS:
- BSc (Hons) Quantity Surveying (Essential/Minimum)
- Certificate Project Management (Recommended/Desirable)
- Management Development Programme (Recommended/Desirable)
EXPERIENCE:
6-8 years Experience in project management methodologies, Project Management Body of Knowledge, project evaluation and improvement, exposure to projects in heavy industry, project management principles and practices for planning and estimating. Relevant engineering management exposure, problem solving and optimisation. Must have broad engineering exposure on projects. Must have worked as an estimator on large/mega projects. Must have proven experience in resolving estimating issues and contractual claims. (Essential/Minimum) Operational
REQUIREMENTS:
- Psychometric Assessment (Essential/Minimum) (To be conducted by Exxaro)
- Certificate of Fitness (Essential/Minimum) (To be conducted by Exxaro)
- Competence: SAP Position Specific Module (Essential/Minimum)
- Competence: MS Office Relevant Package (Essential/Minimum)
Duties & Responsibilities
Compliance, Governance and Assurance
- Set project estimation guidelines and standards in conjunction with relevant stakeholders
- Ensure compliance and governance across all projects
- Ensure the Group Capital Expenditure (capex) estimating procedure is adhere to by all parties involved in generating the project estimate
- Ensure appropriate capex accuracy is achieved at the different stages of the project (conceptual, pre-feasibility and bankable)
- Ensure capital cost estimate is done with the appropriate accuracy in line with the stage of the project, project scope and risk profile
- Ensure that all appropriate capex is reflected in the official financial model
- Ensure the proper process steps are followed in preparation of every capital estimate
- Ensure the correct estimating software package is being used
- Ensure compliance with recognised estimating methodologies and the use of basic estimating information sources, commensurate the accurate requirements of each stage
- Ensure all sources of information used for factoring, quantification, pricing, escalation, contingency and Preliminaries and Generals (P&G’s) are in line with acceptable standards
- Ensure contingencies are assessed and calculated at the lowest practical level of estimate detail and compiled accordingly to the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
- Review and confirm the basis estimate document, the serviceability and fit for purpose of all sources of information to be used for estimating
- Assure capital estimates are prepared with complete objectivity and are not negatively influence by any party
- Ensure alignment of all estimation (by third party insourced resources) to Group standards across all large and mega projects
Functional Excellence
- Standardise, simplify and speed-up project estimation processes and eliminate duplication/bureaucracy
- Develop and apply project estimation best practices and promote sharing of best practices/knowledge between centres
- Drive and execute functional excellence initiatives
- Contribute to project estimation functional/cross-functional alignment with other project and functional disciplines
- Contribute to effective reporting to ensure safety and operational excellence. Provide high level expert technical assurance to project teams/individuals. Increase awareness of technology advancements/innovations to ensure access to appropriate outputs to meet business deliverables
- Identify, report and manage critical functional risks through appropriate mitigation plans and actions
- Governance: Ensure function adheres to governance, policies, standards, statutory and legal compliance. Entrench a culture of discipline
- Act as the "intelligent buyer" of outside competencies, skills and technology to fulfil required deliverables if and when required
Functional Management
Financial management: Support cost management and forecasts
- Performance management: Contributes to the functional strategic plan implementation through disciplined execution processes, track implementation and provide status (success and failure) feedback to Manager, Project Compliance and Governance for integrated functional management approach. Set and maintain high performance standards. Track and drive targets/goals and hold project estimation team members responsible for achieving results. Remove obstacles that interfere with reaching objectives and manage performance problems
- Continuous improvement and functional change: Identify, advocate for and lead project estimation improvement and change. Create a culture of continuous improvement and change agility in function
- Engagement/communication: Communicate and engage project estimation employees (including insourced resources). Engage with operations and cross-functionally with peers
- Develop and build strategic partnerships with suppliers in order to ensure effective and efficient execution of all types of projects
Knowledge Management and Continuous Improvement
- Knowledge sharing across business units and projects
- Project estimation community of practice (with all insourced resources)
- Knowledge sharing, investigation on Group related issues and guidance and coordination of actions to reduce estimation risks
- Ensure lessons learned are fed back into project reviews and methods are improved as part of project assurance and optimisation workshops
Safe and Healthy Work Environment
- Adhere to all health/safety practices and promote good housekeeping on an ongoing basis
- Address all unsafe practices and potential hazardous situations and rectify/report to superior
- Comply with Safety Health Environment and Community (SHEC)/technical requirements.
- Comply with safety pre-cautionary measures
Technical Support
- Provide guidance on the estimation of capital cost during the different steps of a capital project
- Check and validate project cost estimates (logical method for the calculating and forecasting of capex for capital projects)
- Provide the necessary guidance and support upfront to ensure compliance to estimating standards
- Clarify the estimating roles and responsibilities on all projects
- Confirm the estimate accuracy criteria
- Provide expert guidance and support on estimation where required
Behavioural Alignment
Demonstrates the following:
- Creativity, collaboration, sociable and awareness to the ecosystem
- Stewardship, accountability, ability to develop trust, safety conscious and ethical
- Ability to respond quickly to business needs/agility, flexibility, continuous learning, innovation and proven ability to experiment on creative business solutions
- Ability to be inclusive, eagerness for multiple skills, embraces multiple cultures, accepts different approaches and be human-centric/empathetic
- Results oriented, quality driven, excellence, entrepreneurial abilities, efficient and effective
The appointment will be made in accordance with Exxaro’s Employment Equity policy.
If you have not been contacted within 28 days of the closing date of this advertisement, please accept that your application was unsuccessful.
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