Senior Specialist, Project Estimation

1 week ago

Pretoria, South Africa Exxaro Recruitment Full time

**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
- 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 (includi

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