Area Construction Manager

**Requisition ID**:76949

**Job Category**:Construction

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

With over six decades of business and technical experience in the mining, energy, and infrastructure sectors, we see challenges evolving in every industry. We respond quickly with solutions that are smarter, more efficient, and innovative. We draw upon our 9,000 staff, with experience in over 150 countries, to challenge the status quo and create positive change for our clients, our employees, and the communities we serve.

Our Project Delivery Group (PDG) helps clients with world-class project delivery from studies to building assets, operating the assets, and developing efficiencies through 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.

Looking to take the next step in your career? Hatch is currently seeking a highly motivated **Area Construction Manager **to join our Project Delivery Group (PDG) for a role based in **Zimbabwe.**

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
- be responsible for the overall planning, direction, organization, and budgeting of all construction on the project to the highest safety and quality levels within time and costs constraints. The Construction Manager participates in the conceptual development of a construction project and oversees organization, scheduling and implementation strategy.

**You bring to the role**:

- Responsible for all safety planning associated with the project construction execution methods selection, with support of the Project Manager and Site Health and Safety Manager
- Responsible through the constructability coordinator to set up and oversee the constructability process
- Coordinate with the client, project management, and project services in identifying required reporting procedures and formats for client and Hatch management needs
- Establishes project field procedures and objectives within corporate policies and procedures as necessitated by jobsite conditions
- Review and approve construction estimates, budgets, forecasts and schedules
- Review construction/erection drawings and specifications, develop strategies for erection interfaces, determine appropriate construction methods and pre-empt problem areas
- Ensure the necessary permits and licenses (notice of project, insurance certificates, workers compensation, environmental permits etc.) are identified and obtained prior to the start of construction activities on site
- Liaises with the Project Manager and the project core team of design engineers, procurement, planning and scheduling and other personnel and other personnel as required in setting priorities to ensure timely construction performance
- Liaises with Client team, Engineers and Contractors to deliver the project in a safe manner, on time and within budget
- Liaison between Contractor and Engineers to resolve field engineering queries
- Develop site organization and staffing requirements required to execute construction activities within project schedule and acceptable costs
- Direct, monitor and motivate subordinate construction specialists in performance and direct activities as necessary to ensure project requirements are achieved
- Ensure adherence to all local regulations and statutory requirements in site activities planning
- Assist the procurement team to review contractual agreements with clients, suppliers, and contractors
- Liaise with client representatives as required to ensure shutdowns, relocations, tie ins, etc. are planned safely and in a timely manner with minimum disruption
- Recommend requirements for construction resources and strategies to meet the schedule in each area
- Participates in the labor studies, manpower sourcing exercise and the establishment of the industrial relations strategy
- Work with Contract Administrator to ensure contractors adhere to the requirements of their contracts
- Assist with management of Contractor claims
- Chair Contractor progress, cost and safety meetings

**Qualifications and Experience**
- National Diploma/Degree in Engineering
- Minimum of 12 to 15 years’ experience in construction of which 5 to 7 years should be Constr