Senior T&I Project Manager - Vredenburg, South Africa - Tronox

Description

Senior T&I Project Manager role at Tronox's Namakwa Sands Northern Operations in South Africa, responsible for managing projects across their life cycle, ensuring delivery within approved scope, time, and budget.

Tronox is a vertically integrated producer of titanium dioxide and inorganic chemicals, with operations across six continents. The company mines and processes titanium ore, zircon, and other materials, producing products that add brightness and durability to paints, plastics, paper, and other everyday products.

The ideal candidate will have a strong background in project management, with a minimum of 5 years' experience in a heavy industry or mining environment. A B. Eng or BSc. Eng degree is mandatory, and a project management qualification is advantageous.

Key responsibilities include:

• Managing projects across their life cycle, ensuring delivery within approved scope, time, and budget
• Defining project scopes and objectives, and developing project business cases with stakeholders
• Developing comprehensive scopes of work and controlling scope changes to minimize project delays
• Developing detailed work breakdown structures, project plans, and budgets, and revising accordingly to meet changing project needs
• Performing project cost control, ensuring monthly cash-flow forecasts comply with accuracy requirements
• Performing quality assurance, planning, and control to ensure projects align with quality policies, procedures, strategies, and objectives
• Tracking project performance against baselines, applying corrective action techniques to manage poor project performance, and compiling monthly progress reports
• Performing risk management to identify, analyze, respond, monitor, and control project risks, limiting project performance impacts
• Compiling and presenting project approval documentation in line with IIP Project Management Methodology across all project phases
• Ensuring project documents and drawings are maintained and stored in the Projects Portfolio Database
• Developing presentations and facilitating projects and progress meetings with stakeholders and committees
• Effectively managing project stakeholders, contractors, external consultants, and service providers to enhance synergies and limit disruptions during the project
• Defining project resource requirements to execute the projects portfolio, managing and developing project resources and teams to achieve project outcomes
• Performing SHE management in line with Site procedures, policies, and strategies to ensure projects are executed safely
• Attending site visits, adjudicating tenders, and compiling/process tender approval documentation
• Ensuring designs and installations comply with relevant engineering codes and site-approved standards to support compliance and consistent, safe, and effectively implemented projects
• Performing supervision activities, managing construction activities, and resolving conflict/disputes
• Conducting value engineering during project phases to ensure project constraints are accommodated and to seek alignment with business strategies
• Continuously improving project methodologies by incorporating value-adding lessons learned and adopting best practices
• Assisting with the 5-year capital plan, capital budgeting process, and prioritization of the project's portfolio with Site, T&I, Maintenance, and Operations Management
• Providing project management assistance to Site and T&I teams to enhance collaboration and achieve strategic objectives
• Providing support to Project Leader to ensure departmental objectives, outcomes, and strategies are achieved
• Coordinating processes to ensure project equipment/assets are placed onto the site maintenance programs and the organization's fixed asset register

Key qualifications and experience include:

• B. Eng or BSc. Eng degree (mandatory)
• Minimum 5 years' role-specific experience in a heavy industry or mining environment (mandatory)
• Minimum 5 years' management/supervisory experience (mandatory)
• Project management qualification (advantageous)

Key knowledge and skills include:

• Working knowledge of a project management methodology (Agile, PMBOK, etc.)
• Working knowledge of engineering disciplines (civil, mechanical, electrical, etc.) and standards
• Working knowledge of the Construction Regulations (OHS Act and Regulations)
• Change management skills
• Leadership skills
• Conflict resolution skills
• Risk management skills
• Performance management skills
• Good planning and organizational skills
• Attention to detail
• Ability to manage multiple projects and elements simultaneously
• Ability to work under pressure
• Ability to interpret medium to long-term production requirements
• Ability to set, monitor, evaluate, and achieve project objectives/targets
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills
• Facilitation of meetings
• Working knowledge of SAP, MS Office, etc.
• Working knowledge of capital budgeting and management processes
• Working knowledge of a Projects Portfolio Database (EPPM, Planview, etc.)
• Working knowledge of supply chain and contract management process

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