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Construction Project Manager [Midrand]
POSTED BY: Development Bank of Southern Africa
REF:DBSA 2072
Date Published:Tuesday, November 26, 2024
Date of Expiration:Sunday, May 25, 2025
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| LOCATION OF THIS JOB |
 South Africa | MIDRAND in South Africa |
| INDUSTRY |
| DEVELOPMENT FINANCE INSTITUTIONS
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| JOB TYPE |
| Full-Time |
| MAIN JOB DESCRIPTION |
Closing Date 2024/12/09
Reference Number DBS241121-1
Job Grade 16
Job Type Classification Permanent
Location - Town / City Midrand
Location - Province Gauteng
Location - Country South Africa
JOB DESCRIPTION PURPOSE OF THIS JOB
The Construction Project Manager is responsible for a broad span of construction functions, covering all areas of project management including planning, cost and time management, quality management contract administration and safety management in accordance with best practise project management methodologies.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Construction Project Management Functions
Responsible for the project management of assigned Infrastructure Delivery projects which include the following:
Project initiation, planning, monitoring
1. Develop project charters and execution plans in line with the project requirements.
2. Coordinate and manage deliverables from key role players in including professional service providers and consultants.
3. Draft, review and update the project schedule and work plans incorporating the project milestones, activities, and deliverables.
4. Manage the planning, execution, monitoring and control and closure of the project.
5. Identify and implement expediting measures to prevent and mitigate project delays
Project coordination and team management
1. Serve as a key link with the Programme Manager and client’s representative and review the deliverables prepared by the team before submission to the client.
2. Co-ordinate the efforts of all parties involved in the project, including professional service providers (consultants), contractors, sub-contractors and labour.
3. Develop team spirit and ensure that staff involved in the project are committed to the same goal.
4. Identify and negotiate assignment of resources to ensure efficient utilisation of resources.
5. Implement the project office framework with objectives and goals of the team members and assign individual responsibilities.
Project control on cost, time and quality
1. Ensure that control measures for cost, time and quality are in place.
2. Conduct regular status meetings with the principal agent teams.
3. Conduct periodic inspection visits at project construction site(s).
4. Ensure that construction activities follow the predetermined schedule and critically monitor project milestones.
5. Oversee project accounting including budget management, approval of progress payments, tracking of team expenses and minimising the exposure to risk.
6. Ensure invoices/claims submitted by contractors and/or professional service providers are checked, verified and forwarded to the Programme Manager.
7. Maintain strict adherence to the budgetary guidelines as well as project management, quality and safety standards.
8. Complete projects within time, budget and quality.
Project communication and reporting
1. Ensure an effective communication system is in place to provide timely feedback for management, client and customer.
2. Issue site meeting minutes and action plans.
3. Compile monthly and weekly project progress reports for stakeholders.
4. Conduct project close out reviews.
5. Manage project communication in line with agreed communication channels and timelines.
Contract management
1. Manage contracts in accordance with the provisions of the agreement, including monitoring and tracking of performance and timelines.
2. Identify areas of concern, escalate with legal, technical and finance and provide resolutions in line with contractual obligations.
3. Measure progress against the contract’s performance and ensure adherence to the contract conditions and timelines.
4. Issue contract instructions in accordance with the conditions of the contract (in consultation with the
Legal Expert).
Project commissioning
1. Confirm the commissioning and transfer of new assets.
2. Confirm the availability of all site handover documentation.
3. Facilitate the submission of as built drawings and user specifications where applicable.
4. Manage the commissioning, hand over and sign-off by client.
Programme health, safety and environmental quality
1. Ensure the implementation of Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) Act and any recommendations from audits carried out within the
2. project environment.
3. Monitor and enforce compliance to the project Environmental Approval (EA) conditions.
4. Instil a culture of health and safety within the project environment by promoting the aims and benefits of proactive safety and health interventions.
5. Conduct effective control, management and follow up of incidents.
6. Advise and evaluate contractors on compliance to the approved safety plan.
Stakeholder Management
1. Develop project stakeholder management plans and map critical stakeholders that are instrument / critical to achieving project plans and objectives.
2. Manage relationships at various levels with the relevant project stakeholders and partners, in accordance with the project’s development objectives.
3. Manage stakeholder expectations for project deliverables, communications and implementing effective systems of project governance, within the team and with strategic partners, both internally and externally.
Key Measurements of Outputs
1. Successful project finalisation within the project quality standard, budget and timelines.
2. Projects completed within specified costs.
3. Compliance to Health & Safety legislation and protocols.
4. Implementation of effective project management governance and compliance structures.
5. Quality of presentations and reports.
6. Clean audit.
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| REQUIREMENTS FOR THIS JOB |
EXPERTISE & TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES
Qualifications and Experience
Minimum Requirements
1. Bachelor’s Degree in the built environment (Engineering, Architecture; Building Science; Construction Management or Quantity Surveying).
2. A minimum of 8 years’ experience in infrastructure project management or advisory service or consulting experience working within a project management environment.
3. Professional Registration with the Built Environment professional bodies such as Engineering Council of South Africa (ECSA), South African Council for the Architectural Profession (SACAP).
4. Registration as a Pr.CPM with South African Council for the Project and Construction Management Professions (SACPCMP) is a pre-requisite.
5. Proven track record in the design, construction, monitoring and evaluation of civil engineering and building infrastructure projects in high value and performance environments.
6. Sound knowledge of the Joint Building Contracts Committee (JBCC), New Engineering Contracts (NEC), Government Certificate of Competency (GCC) and other relevant building contracts.
7. In depth understanding of the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK).
8. Knowledge of relevant legislation and regulations regarding infrastructure development.
9. Understanding of infrastructure markets.
10. Understanding of government priorities, systems and processes at national and provincial level.
Desirable Requirements
1. Post graduate degree in Engineering, Quantity Surveying, Architecture or Construction Management will be added advantage.
2. Professional Registration with Project Management Institute (PMI) or Projects in Controlled Environments (PRINCE)
3. Post graduate qualification in Project Management.
4. Qualifications in health and safety.
Key Internal Liaison Relationships
1. Group Executive: IDD
2. Head: Construction and Maintenance
3. Programme Manager
Key External Liaison Relationships
1. Service Providers (as appointed)
2. DBSA stakeholders (as required)
Technical Competencies
Project Management
1. Defines, plans and manages large and/or strategic projects, including those with a high degree of technical complexity, with impacts across the organisation and/or with national implications.
2. Assembles and leads diverse and multi-disciplinary teams, ensuring maximum effective resource utilisation.
3. Successfully manages substantial project budgets and reports directly to senior managers on the progress and results of projects.
4. Identifies complex issues that need escalation and proposes appropriate corrective actions.
Detailed Oriented
1. Quickly identifies relevant and irrelevant information to support accurate decision making.
2. Maps out all the logistics and details of a situation to ensure smooth and flawless implementation.
3. Consistently identifies all relevant details that are not obvious in complex situations.
4. Requires the highest standards for accuracy and quality for their work.
5. Establishes processes to ensure accuracy and quality of services delivered by the team.
Planning & Organizing
1. Coaches’ others on advanced planning and organising skills.
2. Plays a role in transferring advanced planning and organising skills and knowledge to others.
3. Identifies and acts on opportunities to partner with other units in the department to achieve desired results.
4. Develops partnership agreements that ensure win-win outcomes for all parties. Develops integrated plans for the work unit and others that interfaces with the function’s budget.
Reporting & Communication
1. Designs, reviews and improves reporting processes and provides guidance.
2. Leads production of complex environment reports, takes an editorial role, determines content and level of detail, and ensures consistent messaging and branding.
3. Is relied on by others to help them write complex technical and non-technical documents and briefs.
4. Can determine which aspects of this knowledge area need to be transferred to others to achieve organisational goals.
5. Coaches’ others and transfers communication skills and knowledge to others.
6. Able to communicate complex problems or concepts, by making them simple and understandable for others.
7. Adapts language to the level of the audience to ensure that the message has a positive impact and is interesting to the audience.
8. Is articulate, demonstrates a wide range of vocabulary, and is confident when talking to large/high level audiences.
Presentation Skills
1. Knows how to deliver arguments persuasively by employing a range of advanced presentation techniques (e.g., the appropriate use of body language, how to close a presentation so that the audience continues to think about the subject matter etc.).
2. Has knowledge of various feedback mechanisms to check levels of audience understanding.
Written communication
1. Understands that different writing styles are required for different documents or audiences.
2. Write effective correspondence, prepares questions and reports, statements of circumstance and briefing notes.
3. Reviews others’ documents for clarity and impact.
4. Has a solid mastery of writing principles such as grammar, sentence construction etc.
Verbal communication
1. Able to present a theme in writing in an ordered, intelligible manner with well-structured and relevant supporting detail.
2. Able to understand topic switches and use vocabulary of attitude.
3. Reasonably fluent in speaking
REQUIRED PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES
BEHAVIOURAL COMPETENCIES
Teamwork & Cooperation
1. Acts to promote a friendly climate and good morale and resolves conflicts.
2. Creates opportunities for cross-functional working.
3. Encourages others to network outside of their own team/department and learn from their experience.
Driving delivery of results
1. Identifies and implements a business opportunity that will have a long-term impact on the business (which may include the organisation’s reputation or brand image). Monitors progress and adapts the plan, if necessary, to ensure optimal benefit to the business.
2. Makes decisions, sets priorities, or chooses goals based on inputs and outputs: makes explicit considerations of potential profit, return on investment, or cost benefit analysis.
3. Based on the cost-benefit analysis, makes decisions of entrepreneurial risk nature.
Achievement orientation
1. Undertakes challenging assignment and strives to complete them.
2. Sets priorities and chooses goals on the basis of calculated costs, anticipated benefits and improvement of performance.
3. Aims at exceptional performance, setting out to achieve a unique standard.
4. Constantly analysis outcomes to ensure the achievements of business goal.
5. Identifies short-term opportunity or potential problems aiming to achieve better outcomes.
Customer Orientation
1. Tries to understand the underlying needs of customers and match these needs to available or customized products and service.
2. Adapts processes and procedures to meet on-going customer needs.
3. Utilises the feedback received from customers, in order to develop new and / or improving existing services / products that relates to their on-going needs.
4. Thinks of new ways to align DBSA’s offering with future customer needs.
Integrity
1. Is willing to end a business relationship because it was associated with unethical business practice.
2. Is capable of challenging senior management (in an appropriate and respectable manner) in order to act on espoused values.
Self-awareness & self-control
1. Withholds effects of strong emotions in difficult situations.
2. Keeps functioning or responds constructively despite stress.
3. May apply special techniques or plan ahead of time to manage emotions or stress
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