Principal Consultant

2 weeks ago


Midrand, Gauteng, South Africa WSP Africa Full time

Company Description
WSP is one of the most diverse consulting firms in Africa.

To further our strategic business execution plan, we are seeking leaders that share our guiding principles - we value our people and our reputation; we are locally dedicated with international scale; we are future focused and challenge the status quo; we foster collaboration in everything we do and we have an empowering culture and hold ourselves accountable.

We are committed to the achievement and maintenance of diversity and equity in employment.


WSP is seeking an experienced individual to appoint as principal consultant, to play a strategic project management role in the Mine Closure Planning and Closure Costing Team for its South African operations.

The position is based in Midrand and reports to the Mine Closure Team Director, within the Earth and Environment Business Unit.


  • Actively managing mine rehabilitation and closure, next land use, and postmining economy planning projects, while ensuring that execution is in line with uptodate closure related legislation, and which requires innovative thinking and problemsolving abilities, specifically in respect of addressing latent environmental impacts
  • Leading closure project teams consisting of junior closure team members as well as other internal and external specialists
  • Consulting and collaborating with other specialists to develop appropriate technical solutions to specific aspects of closure planning, for example devising closure criteria for waste residue facilities and contaminated land, surface rehabilitation, or treatment of excess mine water make
  • Conceptualising appropriate, feasible solutions to address complex closure related challenges and clearly articulating these using reports, spread sheets and drawings, and integrating into a final product
  • Develop mine closure strategies, plans, policies and procedures
  • Interpreting site observations to conceptualise closure scenarios and articulating these to be site specific
  • Interpreting aerial imagery, engineering drawings and general arrangement drawings to accurately measure and calculate quantities and capturing these in the closure costing Bills of Quantity in a consistent and accurate manner
  • Utilising a working knowledge of AutoCAD, QGIS Google Earth PRO and related software packages to compile reference maps that comply with the relevant regulatory and/or internal company standards
  • Developing closure planning reports and costing spreadsheets, as well as reviewing deliverables produced by other closure team members and specialists
  • Ensuring that deliverables meet the requisite quality, executed, and delivered within the agreedto timeframes, and completed within the project budget
  • Develop and implement mine closure plans in consultation with the client to guide successful implementation
  • Liaison with clients and financial auditors to address queries and finalise reports
  • Build and maintain relationship with internal and external stakeholders

Competencies:
experience base in the mining and industrial sectors in South Africa and Africa. Core competencies must include the

following:

  • Leadership and independence with execution and completion of work
  • Numeracy and the ability to deal with multiplelevel costs worksheets
  • Strong technical writing capability
  • Diligence and judgment in decision making that has risk and / or financial consequences
  • Skills to integrate technical input for the completion of multidisciplinary reports and documents
  • Physical rehabilitation techniques, mine closure strategies/plans and land use planning
  • Ability to devise new/novel ideas towards improving the closure planning and costing service offering
  • Understands and can manage project scope, tasks, and budgets to effectively execute the complete project life cycle
  • Ability to develop strong, loyal relationships both internally and externally
  • Mentoring, skills competency and experience transfer and development of junior team members
  • Understanding and practical implementation of applicable legislation and international mine closure guidelines, best practices and industry norms and standards

Attributes:

  • Ownership attitude
  • Will to succeed
  • Positive client relationship development and actively builds a wide and effective internal and external network
  • Client focused
  • Good communication skill
  • Innovative
  • Adaptable, with ability to prioritize
  • Can work independently and as part of a team
  • High level of accuracy and attention to detail
  • Willingness to travel in Southern, Central and Western Africa

Health and Safety:

  • Role model standards for SHEQ performance and behaviour consistent with the company's health, safety,
- environmental and quality vision and policies by influencing those around you.

  • Contributing to the identification of SHEQ risks and driving processes to achieve Zero Harm
  • Embracing, displaying and promoting the company values and ensuring a safe working environment is mai

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