Sa - Construction Project Manager

2 weeks ago


Cape Town, South Africa Mainstream Renewable Power Full time

**Summary of Role**:
As the Construction Project Manager, you will be responsible for managing the project teams and activities during pre-construction and construction phases to final completion and handover to the customer.

**What you will do**:
The Construction Project Manager will have the following key responsibilities and deliverables:
**General Management**
- Manage and take accountability for deliverables of all aspects of the project. P roject management in accordance with Mainstreams Construction Project Management guidelines and procedures.
- Define realistic project goals and objectives with individual team members and other stakeholders.
- Project tracking and review - monitor, track and control outcomes, identify and manage risks, resolve conflicts, identify essential dependencies and ensure delivery of critical path activities
- Develop and execute a communication strategy for all the different project stakeholders, including reporting on ( inter alia) project status, progress, safety metrics, project risks, environmental compliance and community engagement. The responsibility also includes providing feedback, advice, and encouragement to team members.
- Provide leadership by building and training project teams to expand their capabilities by means of establishing best practices, policies, risk management, quality assurance and control tools, techniques and templates.
- Analyse monthly construction contractor CPM schedule updates; develop progress payments based on schedule milestone(s) achieved; assist with recovery schedules.
- Prepare and manage detailed project budgets and cashflows per Financial Model / plan.
- Identify risks early and present well thought out corrective action plans.
- Track information needed to manage projects and use this information as a basis for corporate, investment and ad-hoc reporting - as required
- Consistently meet deadlines, which may require additional hours beyond a standard workday
- Engaging and managing technical and engineering consultants throughout the project stages
- Planning & coordination of the projects preliminary engineering during the preconstruction phase
- Contract Procurement, structuring, negotiation and execution
- Liaise and cooperate with other functional and regional teams within Mainstream-, GIS, engineering, development, finance, ED, and commercial
- Liaise and cooperate with external parties - independent engineers, contractors, government bodies etc.
- Significant autonomy in work, but a strong reporting and approval process using Mainstream’s Procurement and Project Delivery procedures and process (this is based on PMI® PMBOK®). Participate in company knowledge sharing groups which focus on sharing expertise globally

**What we require:
**Education and Experience**
- Degree or Diploma in Engineering or the built environment (electrical, mechanical, civil, construction management or quantity surveying) - PMP, SACPCMP (CPM\CM) and/or ECSA registration a bonus
- 5 years (+) previous project management experience, ideally in the renewable environment.
- Strong project management skill set required including contract management, contract administration, scheduling, planning, financial control and management
- Extensive working knowledge of the following disciplines and associated systems - HSE, project risk management, quality assurance and control
- Well versed in South African contract/commercial law, environmental requirements and legislation and OHSSA Act
- Ability to develop strong working relationships with the NSP (Eskom), general contractor personnel, subcontractors, OEM’s, consultants, inspectors, auditors, land owners and other project related parties
- Project managers are required to be advocates/champions of continuous learning, process improvement, and project management methodologies within Mainstream
- Detail orientated with the ability to execute at a high level with significant independence
- Superior negotiating skills and a personable negotiator Strong verbal, presentation and report writing skills

**What we offer**:
We offer you the opportunity to work in a dynamic and entrepreneurial organisation, to be part of a diverse workplace with regards to gender, age and cultural background in the most exciting industry in the world today. You will receive a very competitive total benefits package including an excellent base salary, bonus scheme and share options.

**Career development**
- Excellent training (an average 54 hours a year)
- Secondment and relocation opportunities
- Career progression (16% promotions across the Group in 2021) Self-paced online learning portal for micro courses across a range of functional and inter personal skills

**Shared financial success**
- A competitive, industry benchmarked and cost-of-living linked salary, reviewed annually
- Annual bonus
- Share options Salary contribution to your pension fund

**Work/life balance**
- WFH in a hybrid working arrangement
- Generous annual le



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