Project Engineering Manager

Recruiter:

Keystone Project Recruitment

Job Ref:

JHB001788/JHD

Date posted:

Friday, March 18, 2022

Location:

Johannesburg, South Africa

JOB SUMMARY:
Project Engineering Manager (Permanent) with extensive experience in the mining and minerals industry on large capital projects, including projects in remote locations and other countries, in particular third world countries

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Job Objective:

Management and coordination of engineering disciplines on various projects and studies
Manage the engineering design basis for projects and studies, including requirements engineering, technical decisions, trade offs, design risks and safety by design.
Manage the engineering execution basis for projects and studies, including setup, execution, controlling and close-out of systems, process workflows and engineering deliverables.
Manage the interfaces between multidisciplinary engineering team, and between engineering and supply chain or construction management.

Key Accountabilities & Responsibilities:

Assure the inherent safety and integrity of our design, analyses and technical deliverables through the application of sound engineering & technical principles, data and information management, standards, reviews systems and controls.
Ensure Wood engineering and technical execution strategies, standards and procedures are applied as applicable to assure technical hazard identification and risk assessment, integrity, major incident prevention, human factors, inherent safety and environmental sustainability in delivery.
Ensure engineering and design work complies with regulatory, licenses and permits, industry standard and customer engineering and technical requirements. Ensure appropriate codes and standards are specified for the intended application when Wood is the design authority.
Experienced and responsible for the management of the design of all phases of a project or study and execution programming of the project/study.
Ensure that engineering and design risks are identified, analysed, evaluated, resolved and communicated
Ensure that technical solutions embody agreed design for safety, operability, maintainability and constructability objectives
Ensure that design changes, technical decisions, deviations and concessions are managed according to project-defined processes and approvals and their impact assessed prior to implementation.
Ensure the engineering and design deliverables are defined, planned, monitored and controlled throughout all pertinent project life-cycle stages.
Ensure that engineering resourcing and competency levels are planned, monitored, controlled and reported for assigned studies and projects.
Ensure that design assurance activities are planned and implemented on assigned studies and projects, including checking, design reviews, peer reviews, and stage-gate technical reviews.
Ensure that engineering work packages are produced and delivered to support supply chain and construction management
Ensure that technical problems and issues are resolved within agreed timeframes, including technical site queries, non-conformances and preventative actions
Assists the Technical Director with the responsibility for the management of the engineering personnel within the business unit
Assists the Technical Director with the responsibility for planning of resource allocations per project
Responsible for the forecasting, control and management of the engineering manhour budget.
Accountable for the project / study engineering schedule.

Qualifications:

BSc Mechanical Engineering undergraduate degree
Registered as a professional engineer with ECSA

Knowledge, skills and experience:

Minimum of 15 years general engineering experience with at least 10 years in the mining and minerals
processing area in the design office and in the field
Familiar with the project lifecycle of products and systems, from need identification through
conceptualization, requirements engineering, detail design, manufacturing, testing, commissioning and
handover

Personal attributes:

A pro-active attitude
Personal integrity and trustworthiness
Natural leader of people with willingness to further develop leadership skills
Strong client relationship and networking ability
Ability to coach and mentor through empowerment
A common sense approach to everyday life
A willingness to treat all people with respect, integrity and consistency
High levels of initiative and “get up and go” to manage own work flow to meet objectives
A capacity for persistence and resilience and patience in a sometimes challenging environment
Willingness to learn
An appreciation of the value of team work and willingness to work as part of a team, providing support for other team members as required
Interpersonal and relationship skills

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