Project Manager

WSP in Africa; Midrand; On-site; ZAR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consulting firm in Africa seeks a Project Manager to lead projects through their life cycle, ensuring successful delivery and stakeholder engagement. Candidates should have experience in engineering or environmental consulting, with strong project management skills and a focus on team coordination. The role offers a chance to be part of an empowering culture that values work-life balance.

Benefits

Flexible working hours

Work-from-home options

Supportive work-life balance

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years work experience, including 2 years in consulting/project management.
• Experience in risk identification and mitigation.
• Proficiency in project planning and numerical tracking.

Responsibilities

• Manage project phases including initiation, planning, execution, and closure.
• Assemble and coordinate project teams.
• Monitor project progress and ensure timely completion.

Skills

Project Planning

Risk Management

Budgeting

Client Management

Team Leadership

Education

Undergraduate degree or Diploma in Engineering, Science, Environmental, Business

Tools

MS Excel

MS Project

Job description

Company Description

WSP is one of the most diverse consulting firms in Africa. To further our strategic business execution plan, we are seeking leaders that share our guiding principles – we value our people and our reputation; we are locally dedicated with international scale; we are future focused and challenge the status quo; we foster collaboration in everything we do and we have an empowering culture and hold ourselves accountable. We are committed to the achievement and maintenance of diversity and equity in employment.

Job Description

The Project Manager will be involved in all stages of a project’s life cycle (i.e. Initiation, Planning, Execution, Monitoring and Control, and Closure) for consulting specific projects. Most components of this role will relate to engineering, science, and/or environmental consulting. Scope of this role will be focused on areas such as mine engineering design, permitting, field investigations, desktop analyses, numerical modeling, permitting, studies, research, etc. This role will work closely with technical leads and ensure the correct delivery of projects within the assigned business. Oversees a small project or phases of a larger project.

Responsible for assembling project team, assigning individual responsibilities, identifying appropriate resources needed, developing schedules to ensure timely completion of project and monitoring progress against plan. Must be familiar with the project scope and objectives, as well as the role and function of each team member in order to effectively co-ordinate the activities of the team.

AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY & KEY SUCCESS METRICS

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES/ACCOUNTABILITIES, AREAS OF FOCUS & METRICS

GENERAL

• Can manage a lowcomplexity project without reporting to another Project Manager, or a phase of a larger project with oversight of another Project Manager of functional leadership
• Must be familiar with the project scope and objectives, as well as the role and function of each team member in order to effectively co-ordinate the activities of the team.
• Works for a known client who understands most of the project risk. Actively seeks support when a risk outside of their understanding has been identified.
• The project is undertaken under a master service agreement (MSA) or WSP standard Terms and Conditions with some minor clauses added by the client.

CONSULTATION

• Act as primary (or secondary) client contact, depending on the needs of the project.
• Provide timely guidance and communication to entire project team on related project level issues.
• Liaise regularly with project Technical Managers/Project Director, technical teams, internal accounting teams, and external clients for low-complexity projects or the Project Manager for a more complex project.
• Addresses the quality management of the project and the product/deliverable with Discipline Reviewers as well as the Approved Reviewer.
• Considers stakeholder quality requirements in the project.

INTEGRATION

• Occupies a key position in development of proposals that can include the development of the GNG. This will be carried out in collaboration with Technical Leads
• Setting up and managing the project
• Planning the execution of the project and monitoring performance according to the project execution plan and the contract terms and conditions.
• Managing project closure aspects ensuring correct project documentation, facilitating lessons learned workshops, and obtaining client feedback, sub-consultant/contractors evaluations and project experience profiles.

SCOPE AND SCHEDULE

• Demonstrates good judgement in the collection of requirements, definition of scope, development of work breakdown structure and the management of scope variations to meet the project requirements.
• Responsible for the development of the project scope statement and Work Breakdown Structure of low complexity.
• Identification and implementation of necessary controls to manage and supervise project scope variations to meet the project requirements. Identifies opportunities to increase scope when it is in the best interests of the business.
• Responsible for the development of the project schedule
• Ensuring the project is following the schedule baseline and producing new baselines, and recovery plans as required

COST

• Responsible for project budgets and expenditures, including forecasting, typically for scopes of less than $USD 250,000
• Typically manages a time and material project budget structure, or small, simple lump sum in BWO, manages project billing requirements and payment terms.
• Can skillfully respond to budget amendments.

PROCUREMENT

• Responsible forproject contracts and other documentation for sub-consultants, contractors and vendors.
• Actively managing procurement contracts and eliminating/reducing risk to WSP for a small number of subcontractors, vendors and suppliers.
• Managing internal work carried out under Intercompany Work Agreements (ICAs).
• Limited procurement activities with approved suppliers and subcontractors. Understands and ensures compliance with the Golder contract terms and conditions.
• Timely review, approval (or resolution) of vendor/subcontractor invoices.

CAREER PATH OPPORTUNITIES

1. Project Manager II / III; Project Director

Qualifications

EDUCATION, CERTIFICATIONS, & ESSENTIAL EXPERIENCE REQUIRED FOR THE JOB

This section includes the MINIMUM level of knowledge, skills and certifications required to successfully perform the job. All qualifications must comply with local human rights legislation.

• Required: Undergraduate degree or Diploma in Engineering, Science, Environmental, Business or related discipline
• Required: minimum of five (5) years or work experience, including two (2) years of consulting and/or project management experience
• Required: understanding and adherence to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMI)
• Required: experience in identifying and mitigating against project risks and developing risk registers.
• Required: expertise in project planning, numerical tracking and analysis (e.g., using MS Excel or similar programs)
• Required: highly organized, adaptable, a developing leader, and calm under pressure
• Desirable: PMI Project Management Professional or equivalent.
• Desirable: experience in managing multi-discipline teams
• Desirable: proven focus on the management of clients and subcontractors
• Desirable: experience in the use of MS Project and/or P6 Primavera

Additional information

What's in it for you?

What if we can have work-life balance? What if we can be rewarded in ways that support our individual needs? What if we can be accepted for who we are? Here at WSP – we can!

WSP recognizes that work is only one part of our lives and making time for the other things in our life is important – be that our families, our friends or ourselves. So, if working from home, working part-time or having flexible start and finish time will help with this let us know as part of your application.