Senior Engineering Project Manager

Prime Response, Inc.; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 1,200,000 - 1,600,000; Full time

Job summary

Prime Response, Inc. seeks a Senior Engineering Project Manager for a large data center project in Johannesburg, South Africa. The role requires guiding multi-disciplinary teams across time zones with late afternoon meetings to align on scope and milestones.

You will lead planning, risk management, budgeting, and stakeholder communications, ensuring timely delivery and measurable business outcomes. Strong financial acumen and leadership in complex programs are essential for success.

Qualifications

• Financial acumen to interpret key financial indicators for decision making
• Understanding of business and market to advance organizational goals
• Clear multi-mode communication tailored to audiences
• Strong customer relationship and solution delivery orientation
• Ability to manage complex, high-volume information
• Effective conflict management with minimal disruption
• Ability to plan and prioritize work to meet commitments
• Experience managing issues and risks using PM tools and disciplines
• Develops resource plans (expense and headcount) for project execution
• Manages project schedules using standard tools and processes
• Keeps scope lists up to date with required deliverables
• Values diverse perspectives and cultures in the organization

Responsibilities

• Lead multiple cross-functional projects from inception to completion
• Facilitate project planning with stakeholders to determine scope and objectives
• Establish performance goals with business stakeholders
• Design project plans, timelines and milestones; track performance
• Coordinate with leaders to define measurable business outcomes
• Identify, track and resolve project issues; monitor status with sponsors
• Input into design and development of project plans and timelines
• Manage project risk with quality tools; identify alternatives or solutions
• Apply organizational change techniques to drive adoption
• Leverage cross-functional and external resources for project success
• Document and share lessons learned; reuse team experience
• Ensure project documentation is complete and accessible
• Monitor status with sponsors and stakeholders; communicate progress
• Assign resources to tasks and guide team members through stages

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 degree or equivalent

Export controls licensing (may be required)

Job description

Overview

Our client is looking for a Senior Engineering Project Manager familiar withyellow tag permits, GC operations, and baseline programsfor 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 objectivesof each project


• Works with business stakeholders to establish project performance goals


• Designsproject plan, develops timeline, identifies project milestones, and tracks performance againstperformance goals and timeline.


• In very large programs this role could include the responsibility to work with business and functionalleaders to define tangible and measurable business outcomes and to lead the program achievingthose 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 designand 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 experiencesto enhance the success of the project.


• Ensures that project documentation is complete


• Monitors measures and communicates with ProjectSponsor and other stakeholders on status of specific projects and assignments.


• Identifies and assigns appropriate resources to accomplish various project tasks


• Guides andcoaches team members through various stages of the project; provides developmental feedback toteam members; coaches other Project Managers in managing teams.

Requirements

• Financial acumen - Interpreting and applying understanding of key financial indicators to makebetter 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 aclear 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 contradictoryinformation 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 organizationalgoals.


• Project Issue and Risk Management - Manages the process to identify, assess and prioritize issuesand risks using recommended tools and disciplines. Drives actions to minimize, monitor and controlrisks and issues and to maximize the most positive outcomes possible.


• Project Resource Management - Develops resource (expense and headcount) plans usingrecommended project management tools and processes to manage resources effectively.


• Project Schedule Management - Manages the planned schedule using the recommended schedulemanagement tools and processes to drive completion within the agreed timeline.


• Project Scope Management - Manages a list of project deliverables (scope) using the recommendedproject management tools and processes to ensure that the project includes all the work requiredand only the work required to complete the project successfully.


• Values differences - Recognizing the value that different perspectives and cultures bring to anorganization.

Education, Licenses and Certifications

• College, university, or equivalent degree required.
  


• This position may require licensing for compliance with export controls or sanctions regulations.