This vacancy is for a Project Engineer on a mining development project with specific experience in materials handling, crushing, screening, conveyors etc. The Business is based in Century City Cape Town and the Project is in Lesotho. If your application is successful you will need to fly to Lesotho, but most work will be done from Cape Town.
Position Details/Job Description:
Management Responsibilities:
- Manage all engineering work and resources on the project including:
- Technical acceptability of the work.
- Schedule of the work.
- Engineering input to keep capital cost within budget.
- Man-hour efficiency and cost.
- Inter-discipline co-ordination.
- Ensure that the technical integrity and work scope definition is maintained through the Procurement and Construction activities, by maintaining close co-operation with those functions and advising the Project Manager if corrective action is needed.
- Issue progress, efficiency and technical overview reports to the Project Manager as required by project procedures.
- Ensure that the project work scope and quality requirements are clearly defined and agreed by the Client, and that change control procedures are adhered to. Maintain adequate communication with the Client on technical matters.
- Interface with Engineering Functional Managers on resource planning, allocation, demobilisation and appraisal, to achieve project and company resource management objectives.
- Close out engineering work according to procedures, and disseminate and archive useful information gained and lessons learnt.
Administrative Responsibilities:
Ensure that all project engineering documentation and drawings are adequately prepared, filed, secured and transmitted. Refer to applicable procedures for detailed responsibility.
Technical Responsibilities:
- Establish and maintain a thorough knowledge of the scope of engineering work and quality requirements for all engineering disciplines.
- Ensure that specified technical requirements are met, in general by personal review and by ensuring that each discipline’s work is adequately reviewed and checked by Discipline Functional Managers or approved specialists.
- Obtain all approvals of engineering work required by Clients and any relevant statutory bodies.
- Ensure that there is good co-ordination between all technical disciplines, with special reference to:
- Overall plant layout to achieve operability, maintainability and required ergonomic standards and safety
- Avoidance of clashes.
- Defined and recorded inter-discipline interfaces.
Key Performance Areas:
- Define, maintain and work to a project scope of work and general plant design criteria (Project Job Book).
- Create, maintain and work to a realistic and sufficiently detailed schedule for engineering work.
- Create, maintain and work to a realistic and detailed budget for engineering work.
- Obtain adequate and balanced engineering resources with functional management support.
- Control the flow of technical information from/to Client and the Discipline Lead Engineers, and ensure quick and effective communication and record.
- Control engineering work by weekly review meetings for progress, co-ordination, problem solving and efficiency review, backed by discipline rolling horizons and discipline needs lists.
- Organise adequate multi-discipline design reviews in time to minimise any abortive work.
- Institute and finalise rapid and effective change control.
- Ensure that all engineering decisions take into account the consequences to capital cost, project schedule and effect on all other disciplines as well as technical issues.
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