Job Description

Qualifications and Registrations:

• BSc Quantity Surveying or equivalent.
• Registration with South African Council of the Quantity Surveying Profession (SACQSP).
• Registration with South African Council for the Projects and Construction Management Profession (SACPCMP).
• PMP (Project Management Professional) with PMI (Project Management Institute) or equivalent.

Required Experience:

• Minimum 5 years - Project Management & Quantity Surveying experience
• Supervisory or management experience.
• Experience within the Pulp & Paper industry will be beneficial.
• Experience working with SAP, Microsoft Projects, Primavera P6 or other Project Management software advantageous.

Responsibilities:

• Safety, Risk, Environment & Community: Zero harm, respect the environment and the community by ensuring compliance to SHEQ systems, standards, and legislative requirements for annual Shuts
• Relationship development: delivering the annual shutdown outcomes in a safe manner, on time, in cost budget and with agreed quality requirements by working cross-functionally between all the plants, and across all the engineering disciplines (i.e., Mechanical, Electrical, Instrument, Process).
• Manage annual shut cost and risks (including cash flows, variance, invoices, etc) and drive cost reduction
• Provide support in developing a 10 year annual shut cost view
• Estimate annual shut cost, align cost forecasts and adjudicate quotations: Ensuring costs reflect scope & verifying contractor rates with industry established norms; considering vendor inputs, site instructions, claim forecasts, tariff increases and volume increases
• Working with procurement to select the best contracting strategy for each job to minimize cost and maximize productivity (within the constraints of safety, environment, cost, duration, scope, quality, risks, and available resources)
• Verifying Invoices: Ensuring that we pay for actual work done when using cost re-measurable contracts
• Ensure that the best contractors are selected in conjunction with Project, Senior & Plant engineers and in line with Procurement practice (ensure alignment of contractor rates between Maintenance, Annual Shut, and projects / Capex)
• Assist with preparation of Annual Shut Audits & cost reports per contractor (daily, weekly, monthly, close-out reports)
• Apply PMBok best practices
• Lead and develop a team

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