Position Title: Project Manager
Responsibilities:
- Project Execution & Coordination: Responsible for the definition, documentation, and safe execution of small to medium-scale projects. Actively participates in all phases of the project, identifying, assessing, and managing risks to ensure project success.
- Project Estimation & Planning: Estimate project costs, timescales, and resource requirements for successful delivery, ensuring adherence to agreed terms of reference.
- Tracking & Reporting: Ensure that realistic project and quality plans are prepared, maintained, and followed. Track activities against the plan, providing regular and accurate reports to stakeholders.
- Leadership & Team Management: Provide leadership to the project team, ensuring motivation, skill development, and performance expectations are met. Conduct structured reviews of work and take appropriate action if performance deviates from agreed tolerances.
- Resource Management & Development: Arrange for resource requests, training, and oversee the development of team members to enhance their skills.
- Change Management: Manage the change control procedure to ensure deliverables are met within planned cost, time, and resource budgets. Gain agreement for revisions to the project from project sponsors.
- Compliance & Configuration Management: Ensure that change management and configuration management procedures are periodically reviewed, collaborating with operations management as necessary.
- Project Closure & Review: Ensure formal closure of projects, with appropriate reviews and documentation of lessons learned. Produce necessary documentation for closure and reviews.
- Business Readiness & Engagement: Report on progress regarding business readiness targets, business engagement activities, training design and deployment, key operational metrics, and return to productivity measures.
- Quality Assurance & Progress Monitoring: Monitor and report on the progress of systems development projects using quality assurance processes to ensure compliance with the organization's agreed standards and methods.
- Business Continuity & Compliance: Develop and maintain project business continuity plans. Monitor and ensure compliance with business continuity and organizational processes.
Experience:
- Typically 12-15 years in a multi-disciplinary environment, specifically on major projects.
- Five to ten years of experience in cross-functional leadership roles in project/operations environments.
Qualifications:
- Educational Qualification: Postgraduate or Graduate in an Engineering discipline.
- Certifications: Professional Project Management Certification (preferably from PMI).
