Project Control Managers

**Requisition ID**:87522

**Job Category**:Project Controls

**Location**:Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

Join a company that is passionately committed to the pursuit of a better world through positive change. With more than 65 years of business and technical expertise in mining, energy, and infrastructure, our 10,000 colleagues in 150 countries tirelessly work toward bettering the industries in which we operate. With practical solutions that are safe, innovative and sustainable, we think globally while acting locally.

Join our Project Delivery Group (PDG), a dynamic team of professionals passionately committed to world-class project delivery across the globe. With expertise in sustainable studies, asset building and operations, and industry-leading efficiencies, our best-in-class team leverages methodologies, governance and systems that are unparalleled in the engineering space. Are you looking for an opportunity to join a diverse group of professionals who are committed to remaining exceptional? We look forward to hearing from you.

Looking to take the next step in your career? Hatch is currently seeking a highly motivated **Project Controls Manager **to join our Project Delivery Group (PDG) in Johannesburg.

PDG helps clients reach their business goals through a range of strong technical capabilities. We ensure world-class project delivery through the skills of our people, methodologies, governance, and systems. Our engineering and project management and construction disciplines ensure safe, efficient, and sustainable delivery of projects globally across the metals and mining, infrastructure, and energy sectors.

We manage our clients’ entire project lifecycle from studies to building assets, operating the assets, and developing efficiencies. Join our team and become part of a community that strives for positive change-providing the best solutions for our clients’ toughest challenges

**Project Control Manager** to be based in Johannesburg. In this role you will be assigned to a project leading a team of planning engineers, cost engineers and estimators. You will be responsible for all project control functions through a project from the prefeasibility to execution phase.
- Studying and understanding all relevant project documents and conditions.
- Establishing and defining job orientated project control procedures and reporting requirements
- Prepare set-up plan, assign project controls staff, conduct project controls kick-off meetings and commence set-up
- Establish project controls baselines, project coding, project controls systems set-up and reporting verification
- Review and approve the definitive capital cost estimate plans (as developed by the Estimator)
- Work with client to establish project accounting requirements including approvals, payment and funding processes and reporting requirements
- Using confirmed prime contract scope, owner's cost, staffing plan and definitive cost estimate; analyze EPCM performance and prepare detailed forecast of remaining work
- Confirm project authority delegation matrix and once approved by Project Manager, distribute via document control as per distribution matrix
- Defining primary job objectives clearly at project and departmental management levels by highlighting schedule and cost requirements
- Organising and directing the activities of the project control team
- Establishing and implementing document management and control processes
- Confirm periodic reporting and meeting requirements including the content, format and frequency. Publish the project reporting calendar showing cut-off dates, submission due dates and issues dates.
- Ensuring the maintenance of both time and cost trend performance indicators and statistics
- Analysing and comparing both schedule and cost information and relating conclusions such that management control action is alerted at the right time
- Undergo project progress measurement and earned value
- Develop project KPI monitoring and reporting
- Reviewing overall job status with cost/planning engineers and management and recommending corrective action where necessary
- Reviewing actual progress against planned progress, particularly with regard to manpower levels, productivity, performance metrics and payment
- Liaising with other team leaders at all meetings relative to project operations, to ensure that information affecting schedule and cost is continually up-dated
- Co-ordination of the final job statistics and analysis of the effectiveness of procedures for possible improvement on future projects
- Providing feedback on key project issues to key stakeholder on a timely basis

**Skills / Qualifications / Experience**:
**Essential**:

- Tertiary qualifications in engineering or other relevant discipline or substituted project experience.
- 5 - 10 years relevant post graduate experience in managerial position and a minimum of 10 years’ experience in a project environment with detailed knowledge of Estimating, Cos