Senior Project Manager

With offices in Southern Africa, Australia, Africa, Canada, Peru and the Philippines, Lycopodium proudly delivers high quality professional engineering and project delivery services globally, across the resources, infrastructure and industrial processes sectors. By joining our global team and learning from renowned subject matter experts, we can offer you a diverse career that could take you anywhere in the world.

The tasks you'll perform

• Manage the timeliness and accuracy of the project controls (reporting, costs, schedule, trends, change management) in terms of both direct and indirect costs in accordance with Company, Client and project requirements.
• Develop and maintain the various project specific procedures, work practices, plans, systems and protocols to enable the project team to work efficiently and maintain a consistent approach and high standard of work.
• Drive the projects under your control to achieve contractual KPI’s and exceed Client expectation.
• Ensure commercial compliance to Company, Client, and statutory requirements.
• Implement and coordinate auditing of policies, procedures, standards and plans applicable to the Group in order to improve the quality and professionalism of services.
• Ensure safety, environmental, community and industrial relations and quality procedures and plans adhered to on all sites.
• Drive business development activities through engaging and maintaining Client relationships and key prospect development.
• Work in conjunction with a range of internal and external stakeholders to meet project design criteria and deliverables.
• Contribute to engineers in trainings professional development by providing consistent mentoring and identify avenues of development.

The expertise you'll bring

• Recognised Tertiary Qualification in Mechanical, Civil, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent
• 15+ years of experience in mineral processing and/or related industries.
• 5+ years of experience in EPCM Project Management, preferably leading large-scale mining projects.
• South African Citizen or Permanent Resident
• Cape Town based
• Experience in progressively responsible positions within mining or heavy industrial capacity.
• End to end project delivery in greenfield and brownfield projects.
• A strong track record of delivering projects on time, within scope, and under budget.
• Understanding of open-pit or underground mining methods.
• Proficiency in using or reviewing tools like Primavera P6 or MS Project.
• Strong Financial acumen: CAPEC/OPEX planning, cost tracking, cash flow forecasting.
• Coordinate long lead items, construction timelines, and resource management.
• Familiarity with mineral processing, exploration and geotechnical engineering.
• Experience managing full project life cycles; feasibility, FEED, detailed engineering design, procurement, construction, commissioning and handover.
• Knowledge of EPCM/EPC contract and delivery methods.
• Experience working with multidisciplinary engineering teams. 
• Extremely well-developed written and verbal communication skills.
• Build and sustain positive relationships with all stakeholders, including clients, vendors and co-workers.
• Display the core values and ethos of the business.
• Solid technical aptitude, analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Provide mentoring and identify avenues of professional development and succession planning for personnel within your business unit.

The benefits we'll provide

Lycopodium has a strong company culture focused on career progression and technical skill development. You can expect to be involved in a wide range of large projects whilst working amongst a team of highly skilled professionals.

We recognise that everyone is different and needs may change over the course of your career. That’s why we :

• Invest in our people for the long-term, building a diverse and rewarding career, mentored by the best in the industry.
• Allow our people to balance work with other commitments, like family or study, offering flexible work arrangements.
• Provide employees with a variety of additional benefits such as coverage for professional memberships, discount and rewards programs, and much more.   

Lycopodium is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering diversity and maintaining a discrimination free workplace, guided by our core values of Respect, Integrity and Diligence. 

As part of our commitment to providing the best possible care and service to you the candidate, we commit to respond to every applicant.

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