Senior Engineering Project Manager

Pri; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Prime Response, Inc. is seeking a Senior Engineering Project Manager for a large data center project in Johannesburg, South Africa. The role focuses on governance across cross-functional teams, managing scope, budgets, and schedules while aligning with program objectives across multiple time zones.

You will drive planning sessions, identify risks, and mentor project teams to deliver measurable business outcomes, ensuring documentation is complete and stakeholders are informed of progress.

Qualifications

• College or university degree is required.
• Willingness to work across time zones and manage complex programs.
• Strong understanding of project management fundamentals and governance.

Responsibilities

• Leads multiple cross-functional projects from inception to completion.
• Facilitates project planning sessions with stakeholders to define scope and objectives.
• Partners with business to set project performance goals.
• Designs plans, timelines, milestones, and tracks performance against goals.
• In large programs, defines measurable business outcomes and leads delivery.
• Identifies and resolves project issues; monitors status and budget.
• Contributes to risk management, quality tools, and alternative solutions.
• Mentors team members and coaches other project managers.

Skills

Financial acumen

Business insight

Communicates effectively

Customer focus

Manages complexity

Manages conflict

Plans and aligns

Project Issue and Risk Management

Project Resource Management

Project Schedule Management

Project Scope Management

Values differences

Education

College, university, or equivalent degree required.

Job description

Overview

Our client is looking for a Senior Engineering Project Manager familiar with yellow tag permits, GC operations, and baseline programs for a large data center project in Johannesburg, South Africa. The role requires working across various time zones with late afternoon meetings.

Responsibilities

• Leads multiple cross-functional projects that may comprise a program from inception to completion
  Facilitates project planning sessions with internal stakeholders to determine the scope and objectives of each project
• Works with business stakeholders to establish project performance goals
• Designs project plan, develops timeline, identifies project milestones, and tracks performance against performance goals and timeline.
• In very large programs this role could include the responsibility to work with business and functional leaders to define tangible and measurable business outcomes and to lead the program achieving those business outcomes.
  
• Identifies, tracks, and works with others to resolve project issues.
  Monitors and communicates project status to project team.
  Plans and monitors project budget conducts research and analysis
• Provides input into the design and development of project plans and timelines.
  Manages project risk
• Uses quality tools to identify areas of risk
• Identifies alternatives or solutions
• Applies motivational techniques to broad-based organization change issues.
• Leverages experience of cross-functional resources and resources external to the project team
• Documents and shares team learning's with other teams; draws on other project team experiences to enhance the success of the project.
• Ensures that project documentation is complete
• Monitors measures and communicates with Project Sponsor and other stakeholders on status of specific projects and assignments.
• Identifies and assigns appropriate resources to accomplish various project tasks
• Guides and coaches team members through various stages of the project; provides developmental feedback to team members; coaches other Project Managers in managing teams.

Requirements

• Financial acumen - Interpreting and applying understanding of key financial indicators to make better business decisions.
• Business insight - Applying knowledge of business and the marketplace to advance the
  organization's goals.
• Communicates effectively - Developing and delivering multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences.
• Customer focus - Building strong customer relationships and delivering customer-centric solutions.
• Manages complexity - Making sense of complex, high quantity, and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems.
• Manages conflict - Handling conflict situations effectively, with a minimum of noise.
• Plans and aligns - Planning and prioritizing work to meet commitments aligned with organizational goals.
• Project Issue and Risk Management - Manages the process to identify, assess and prioritize issues and risks using recommended tools and disciplines. Drives actions to minimize, monitor and control risks and issues and to maximize the most positive outcomes possible.
• Project Resource Management - Develops resource (expense and headcount) plans using recommended project management tools and processes to manage resources effectively.
• Project Schedule Management - Manages the planned schedule using the recommended schedule management tools and processes to drive completion within the agreed timeline.
• Project Scope Management - Manages a list of project deliverables (scope) using the recommended project management tools and processes to ensure that the project includes all the work required and only the work required to complete the project successfully.
• Values differences - Recognizing the value that different perspectives and cultures bring to an organization.

Education, Licenses and Certifications

• College, university, or equivalent degree required.
  
• This position may require licensing for compliance with export controls or sanctions regulations.

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