The Senior Manager Projects is responsible for project management, engineering management and construction planning support, as well as coordinating all Sasol internal activities during front end loading and execution for Green H2 projects within Global Market H2 Development.
The Senior Manager Projects will be responsible for delivering within cost, schedule and quality all deliverables associated with a particular Work Package. The role includes leading a multi-discipline team within a matrix structure, delivering outputs through Engineering Contractors and Consultants as well stakeholder engagements with communities, NGOs and provincial and government bodies.
Recruitment Description / Key Accountabilities
Key accountabilities for the role include:
- Leading the designated Work Package within the Global Market H2 Development function.
- Developing and agreeing project support and assurance plans.
- Aligning plans and quality requirements.
- Coordinating all Sasol internal project activities from gate 1 to gate 7.
- Overseeing project execution by others.
- Leveraging lessons learnt and international best practices to provide input and optimization of project execution plans and methodologies.
- Support and liaison with internal business partners, equity partners, licensees, other licensors, as well as engineering and construction contractors.
- Drive the development and implementation of systems and tools to continuously improve the execution of Sasol internal activities.
- Project development agreement input.
- Project benchmarking for cost and schedule performance for end of job and phase estimates.
- Manage contractor delivery for Sasol managed scope.
- Manage Sasol risks responses on projects.
- Support and guide the digital and agile execution of projects.
- Responsible for project safety culture.
- Line supervision of assigned project staff including development and mentoring of direct reports.
University Bachelor's Degree in Engineering
Min Experience
12 or more years relevant experience
a. Petrochemical capital projects (green fields development), with knowledge in the disciplines of Engineering Management and Project Management across full project life cycle and particular in front end loading.
b. Knowledge base related to other engineering disciplines, procurement and contracting, construction, safety, risk management, quality management and project controls.
c. Good understanding of the power to liquids and similar value chain flowsheets
d. External partner relationship building and management
Competencies:
Agility: Way of planning and doing work in which it is understood that making changes as they are needed is an important part of the job and that small but continuous improvement with a comprehensive view delivered frequently is more important than a final deliverable at end state which potential could be late or not meet the customer expectation.
Flexibility: Characterized by a ready capability to adapt to new, different, or changing requirements.
Mobility: Willingness to travel for business (sometimes extensively for a period to conclude specific assignments)
Collaboration: Collaboration is a working practice whereby individuals work together for a common purpose to achieve business benefit. Collaboration enables individuals to work together to achieve a defined and common business purpose.
Business Acumen: An intuitive and applicable understanding of how a company or unit makes money. Displays a thorough understanding of what drives profitability. Maintains a market-focused approach to business. Keeps an overall big picture understanding of the business and its interrelationships enabling a person to make better business decisions. The ability to make good business judgments and quick decisions in a manner that is likely to lead to a good outcome.
Customer Focus: A continuing focus on the needs and requirements of customers and clients, anticipating their needs, remaining sensitive to customers while performing services for them, responsive to customer needs.
Facilitation: The means of expediting a process or operation quickly and efficiently. Particular focus is on meetings but can include other processes such as the delivery of products and services where others are involved, and their participation is critical to success.
Negotiating: The ability to compromise in a cooperative effort to reach mutually satisfactory conclusions and results.
Problem Solving: Is a step-by-step process of defining a problem, searching for information, and testing a series of solutions until the problem is solved. In involves critical thinking, analysis and persistence.
Self-Mastery: Takes accountability for driving own growth through developing self-awareness, reflecting, seeking feedback and self-correcting while also displaying emotional intelligence.
Location: Sandton Based but other geographical locations will be considered.
