Mid to Senior Project Manager

Participate in the development of project plans to determine scope budget and timeframes to ensure quality and successful project execution

Produce detailed work plans with appropriate timelines and budgets matching resources against project priorities

Execute in support of business strategy and objectives

Coordinate and manage the delivery of multiple large-scale complex projects to successful completion in accordance with scope budget (including Earned Value Analysis) timeframe and service level agreements

Resolve issues conflicts dependencies and critical path deliverables; escalate to programme and management as required

Track and report on project/programme status and performance

Monitor adherence to budget project deliverables dependencies and timeframes

Identify and manage project risks; devise suitable mitigation and minimisation plans to ensure successful and on-time project delivery

Document project management processes including minutes of meetings progress reports and appropriate information collection and storage

Contribute to process improvement initiatives to improve project delivery

Lead project teams and promote a culture of performance excellence employee engagement innovation and transformation

Ensure utilisation of project management toolsets available within SCJ including:

• Mavenlink: Creation and monitoring of projects (scheduling resource allocation progress monitoring tasks weekly stand-up meetings status reports)

• Mavenlink Task Scheduler and Resource Planner: Monitoring of time spent by the project team

• Budget Tracking: Maintaining detailed project budget tracking including Earned Value Reporting

• Project Plan: Maintaining and updating the detailed project plan against the approved project baseline

Provide assistance to SCJ management and sales teams when required or requested

Contribute to long-term project delivery strategies that allow SCJ to consistently improve services and offerings

Maintain good stakeholder relations by ensuring all stakeholders are updated regularly and provided with a professional service

Complete timesheets accurately and timely in accordance with tasks completed

Timesheet Submissions: Ensure all timesheets are reviewed and accurate prior to final submission to management on or before the weekly due date

Internal Systems Compliance: Ensure all internal SCJ systems are utilised in the most appropriate manner

Provide good customer service by answering queries and questions from customers timeously

Consider assist and recommend initiatives that can improve the way SCJ operates internally or within its customer base

Identify develop and drive initiatives to bring in additional revenue opportunities for the SCJ team

Be an enthusiastic self-starter constantly looking for ways to improve your skillsets in relation to improving our customers and internal teams experience and delivery

Pro-actively support and mentor project team members

Review and provide input to assist in improving the deliverables of fellow team members where required

Minimum: NQF 6 qualification (preferably in Engineering IT Commerce or Business)

Preferred: NQF 7 qualification (preferably in Engineering IT Commerce or Business)

Recognised Project Management qualification such as:

• CAPM / PMP

• Prince 2

• Tertiary Project Management qualification

Experience in the use of:

• MS Project

• MS Visio

• MS Office

Experience in ERP / Warehouse Management Systems implementations

Experience in a consulting business environment

Strong understanding of:

• Utilisation

• Billable and non-billable hours