Project Director

2 weeks ago

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa Cape Town Labour Consultants (Pty) Ltd Full time

Activities:


During development phase, Project Manager is responsible and accountable for the overall Technical Workstream of its portfolio of solar, BESS (battery) and HV works, with the aim to reach Final Investment Decision (FID) as per the development plan.

With his/her project team, he/she is responsible to perform all the relevant feasibility assessments, design, schedule and price optimizations pre-construction with a specific focus on:

  • Assessing appropriately the Business/Project needs.
  • Managing site surveys and technical studies performed by Third Parties (geotechnical, hydrological, topographical).
  • Assessing performance.
  • Performing preliminary designs accordingly and optimizing them (Generation/storage Plant and interconnection), in compliance with local regulations, to achieve the optimum in terms of LCOE.
  • Assessing CAPEX and OPEX, performing LCOE analysis and optimizations.
  • Defining the project schedule.
  • Managing Technical Due Diligences, with internal and/or external support, when needs be.
In direct contact with the Business Development leader in charge, he/she contributes also to business and economics aspects, with a focus on:

  • Managing RFP, reviewing, clarifying, and challenging EPC/BOS Contractors offers
  • Managing RFP, reviewing, clarifying, and challenging main equipment vendors' offers
  • Confirming technical inputs to be included in business models to justify investment decision and/or to convince partners.
  • Preparing and negotiating the procurement/supply contracts with contractors and equipment suppliers
  • Preparing project's execution strategy and setup
  • Reporting to Organisation and JVs relevant committees.


He/she contributes then to the investment decision, which will be based Organisation governance and thus may require attendance to the relevant committees.


During project execution, he/she is responsible and accountable for the overall coordination of construction of the project, with the main aim of completing the work on time, within budget, as per project requirements, and without any major HSE incidents.


He/she will pay specific attention to:

  • Overall management of the EPC contractors. Interact with the Contracts Manager to ensure any potential contractual issues are proactively addressed.
  • Guide the Employers' Construction manager in his/her work on site
  • Placing a constant and strong emphasis on HSE
  • Being fully informed about the site work by, amongst others, regular site visits
  • Identify potential risks and opportunities throughout the execution period
  • Acting as a key point of contact with stakeholders, including the ESKOM, the local communities
  • Liaise with the ED Manager to ensure that the overall ED targets are achieved
  • Ensure that the O&M Contractor is ready and in place to take over at COD
  • Reporting to Organisation and JVs relevant committees provides technical support to the execution teams, in order to deliver the projects on time, on budget and as per project requirements, from NTP through COD until EPC Contract Final Acceptance.


During asset operation, he/she provides technical support to the Asset Management / O&M teams with a focus on technical scope.

He/she directly contributes also to building and improving solar PV, BESS and HV works, with a focus on:

  • Developing innovative solutions (products, processes, projects schemes).
  • Ensuring standardization of processes/procedures/templates related to his/her scope.
  • Managing Lessons Learned and keep uptodate dedicated registers related to his/her scope.
  • Developing and managing KPIs and continuous improvement activities related to his/her scope.
  • Training and coaching more junior staff.
Those are the essential duties and responsibilities; other duties may be assigned.

Context and environment:
He/she is reporting to the Director of Projects. He/she must interact with business, technical, execution, legal, financing and management teams from various locations. He/she must interact with various teams within Organisation, to deliver the projects. Finally, he/she is in direct contact with 3rd parties, like Partners, Contractors, Advisors (Technical, Legal etc.), Lenders.

This role may require business travels.

Accountability:
The Project Manager supports Organisation Renewables' growth and profitability while being responsible and accountable to:

  • manage the overall Technical Workstream of its portfolio of projects.
- successful preparation and execution of those projects, in terms of HSE, budget, time schedule and performance criteria, quality, client satisfaction, risk and opportunities.

This role requires thus autonomy and accountability.

Qualification experience required:
Education

  • Graduate Degree in Engineering.
  • Experience, knowledge & skills.
  • Minimum 10 years of experience within the solar PV and HV works and/or battery storage industry, working for an EPC Contractor, Technical Advisor, Owner Engineer, or wellknown IPP/Project Developer.
  • Robust

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