Overview
Project Manager Jobs in Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa at GEA Group
Title: Project Manager
Company: GEA Group
Location: Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
Responsibilities / Tasks
- Manage & Complete own Refrigeration Projects from receipt of order through commissioning and hand-over to the client, whilst controlling and mitigating risks and quality
- Ensure quality, on-time delivery, cost management and upkeep of GEA HSE policies and procedures.
- Assist Proposal Engineers and Project Sales Manager with costings pertaining to the installation requirements.
- Provides feedback to the Proposal Engineer and Project Sales Manager with regards to the financial status and client feedback of each project handed over.
- Support the service and service projects organization regarding refrigeration projects.
- Provide Project overview reports and assist with POC forecast to team leader.
- Manage and develop sub-contractors and suppliers to keep to GEA QHSE standards.
- Ensure sub-contractors SLA’s are in place and current for each project loaded.
- Flag priority creditor payments and cash flow forecasts as required to your team leader.
- Ensure projects comply with GEA QHSE regulations and policies and where possible exceed industry standards.
- Participate and provide input for HSE to compile risk assessment & method statements.
- Compile Gantt charts and shutdown plans for projects.
- Transfer and apply learning experience from completed to current and future projects using standardization and transfer of knowledge.
- Transfer technical process knowledge to stakeholders within the organization for development and innovation.
- Safeguard knowledge by guiding and coaching colleagues within the project teams and the engineering departments.
- Ensure that all project requests are assigned for maximum efficiency and shortest completion time.
- Engage staff within the Project Engineering & Realization team, i.e. Project Managers, Engineering, Controller, Purchasing & Logistics.
- Ensure that all variation orders on projects are collected.
- Ensure that projects are completed within the relevant budgets and provide recost reports and monthly job costings to team leader.
- Ensure that timesheets are completed weekly for overhead recovery purposes.
- Ensure that regular meetings take place with team leader.
- Recharge as many billable realization hours as possible.
- Ensure that the monthly invoicing on all projects are completed and submitted to the clients.
- Ensure that all invoice payments are followed up and flag upcoming payments with customers to ensure a “Current” Debtors book.
- Ensure that projects are ‘closed’ off and costed to meet financial targets (POC Sales & Margin).
- Support that all completed projects are ‘Admin Closed 100%’ in accordance with the Finance Department requirements.
- Conduct close-out /lesson’s learned feedback sessions with team leader and report for business improvements.
- Prepare formal agenda’s and minute all discussions to ensure responsibility and timeous completion of tasks.
- Use the latest and standardized Project Management templates as prescribed.
- Attend to client queries & complaints to promote satisfaction levels.
- Perform Quality inspections on project sites.
- Identify training needs to head of projects engineering & realization
- Ensure personal HSE certification is always up to date.
- Coordinate overall Responsibility for project essential activities incl.: Project programming, Engineering, Ordering, Expediting, Installation, Commissioning, Drawings, Cost Control & Reporting.
- Document all project progress meetings held.
- Actively report to the engineering team regarding engineering related issues.
- Actively report to team lead regarding work related issues
- Ensure project documentation is finalized, signed-off and archived in the prescribed locations.
- Other duties may be assigned from time to time.
Your Profile / Qualifications
- Minimum Tertiary Qualification in Engineering – Mechanical Diploma
- Project management qualification.
- 5 years working experience.
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