Snr Manager Project Controls Subs & Well Delivery at Sasol

Short Description / Purpose of Job

• Provide a comprehensive project controls service to subsurface and well delivery, supporting the VP Project Controls and Project Managers and acts as a central point of accountability and communication for all project controls activities.
• Manage the people, processes and tools used to plan, manage and mitigate cost and schedule issues and any risk and change events that may impact the project.
• Integrate activities between the various project controls disciplines including cost estimating, cost controlling and planning and ensuring that accurate and timely project controls are maintained

Recruitment Description / Key Accountabilities

• Lead the project controls team to ensure accurate and timely project controls. Review teams plans frequently to lend assurance to the delivery of intended project objectives. Manage deliverables and milestones of the team and align both to established project controls and standards.
• Establish relationships with all internal stakeholders, with contractors and with service provider personnel.
• Responsible for the development and implementation of appropriate project controls manuals for the PPA projects and ensures adherence to the policies, standards, procedures and governance requirements contained therein.
• Prepare projects controls requirements for gate reviews and ensure adherence thereto.
• Integrate activities between the various project controls disciplines including cost estimating, cost controlling and planning. Oversee the integration with the financial and commercial requirements.
• Establishes and monitors performance against integrated control base (covering cost, schedule and scope). Maintain integrity of the control base by ensuring that commitments remain within the approved control base and that appropriate change management processes are timeously applied. Timeously indicate deviations from the control base.
• Measures performance of the project and of contractors against key metrics. Implement corrective controls for deviations and escalate deviations when necessary.
• Ensure reporting on the project that is accurate, timeous and transparent.
• Compile forecasts and review forecasted data based on the latest data, received.
• Consolidate, report, and provide accurate feedback on project progress by liaising with project planners and managers.
• Track and report on risks and on remaining project contingencies and risk allowance.
• Support the project management and commercial teams with appropriate project controls inputs into RFQ documents and in assessing bids and awarding contracts.
• Gather information, track, report and support any required claims and disputes against suppliers, vendors and work contractors.
• Implement corrective controls for project control deviations when necessary.
• Ensure the implementation of all Steering Committee / Board decisions regarding cost and schedules and oversee their implementation and compliance.
• Ensure that necessary health checks are performed to provide assurance on delivery of intended objectives.

Formal Education

Degree /University Bachelor's Degree

Post Graduate Honours Degree would be an advantage

Min Experience

12+ relevant years

Certification & Professional Membership

None

Competencies

1. Analytics: The systematic computational analysis of data or statistics
2. Business Leadership: Demonstrates commercial acumen, a global mind-set and exercises sound judgement. Achieves results through others and holds them accountable.
3. Critical reasoning: The action of critically thinking about something in a logical, sensible way and taking all factors into consideration.
4. Data Management: Knowledgeable of the theory, purpose, architecture and design of the management, administration and relationships of the organization's data.
5. Financial Management: Demonstrated knowledge and application of Financial Management, the strategic and functional management of the set of processes, customs, policies, laws, and institutions affecting the way the company's finances are directed, administered, and controlled.
6. Integration: The consolidated view with various parts, circumstances, legislation, landscapes or aspects linked or coordinated.
7. Negotiating: The ability to compromise in a cooperative effort to reach mutually satisfactory conclusions and results.
8. Partnership Leadership: Persuades and influences stakeholders; builds relationships and partnerships for win-win outcomes. Builds teams and creates synergies through working across boundaries.
9. People Leadership: Authentically and inclusively engages people to follow; leads culture transformation. Builds capability and leverages diversity for competitive advantage.
10. Problem Solving: Is a step-by-step process of defining a problem, searching for information, and testing a series of solutions until the problem is solved. In involves critical thinking, analysis and persistence.
11. Project Coordination: Knowledge and experience with Project Coordination is planning, organizing, and managing tasks and resources to accomplish an objective this include an administrative, liaison and support role that supports one or more projects. Usually used during smaller non capital projects.
12. Project Management: The process of planning, organizing, and managing tasks and resources to accomplish a well-defined objective, usually within constraints of time, resources, and cost.
13. Reporting: The ability to access information from databases, forms, and other sources, and prepare reports according to requirements.
14. Risk Management: The process of measuring or assessing risk and then developing strategies to manage the risk.  Strategies employed may include transferring the risk to another party, avoiding the risk, reducing the negative effect of the risk, and accepting some or all the consequences of a particular risk.
15. Self-Mastery: Takes accountability for driving own growth through developing self-awareness, reflecting, seeking feedback and self-correcting
16. Strategic Leadership: Provides vision and direction aligned to One Sasol. Leads organisational change, innovation and sustainability.
17. Verbal Communications: Any exchange of words, either written or spoken, used to transmit information
18. Written Communications: Sending of messages, orders or instructions in writing through letters, circulars, manuals, reports, telegrams, office memos, bulletins, etc. It is a formal method of communication and is less flexible

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